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To those who had a Commodore 64

DainBramaged

DainBramaged

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I was just looking through my old collection of C64 disks and remembered these favorites:

Raid On Bungling Bay - Helicoptor game where you had to bomb the factories and the battleship. That game RULED!!

Little Computer People - Type in commands and watch the computer do sh!t around the house. Had a very limited parser if I remember correctly.

Hotwheels - One of my favorites as a kid. I remember building the cars, painting them, tuning them up, putting the fire out and all that stuff. That game was cool too.

Pirates! - The original. Pretty much speaks for itself.

Pole Position - Cheese racing game I used to play with my dad.

Test Drive - The original game. I used to get so mad at that game.


Wow, that brought back a pleathora of memories. Good times.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I played Test Drive.

C64 had some awesome games. EPYX Destroyer, Boulderdash, F19, Hunt for Red October...
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Oh sh!t! I had Red Storm Rising too. That game was hard but really cool. I loved trying to stalk the enemy subs. Pretty realistic for what I remember too.
 
I still play "Below The Root" sometimes. Fond childhood memores

'Pool of Radiance' was much better on C64 than PC
 
I remember one flying game that was impossible to land. I must have tried 1000+ times and crashed every time. Silent Flight or something like that. Edit- it was solo flight, I think.
 
I still have a working C64 with like 5 boxes of games on 5 1/2" floppies...

:Q

Edit:

And I used to love "Impossible Mission"

"Stay awhile....STAY FOREVER!!!!!! *evil laughter*"
 
The Commodore 64. 🙂

Oh the memories...

My grandma was a member of a game-happy user group down in Florida. She set up with our first C64. Then she'd mail us disk after disk, at least monthly, for many years before she passed.

Only one of those I remember was Little Computer People, which neither me, nor my sister, played more than a few times each.

Classics for me:
Lode Runner (played for 100's of hours, loved the level editor; made a lot of my own levels; could fit like 150 on a single disk).
Jumpman
Wizards
Uh, lots of other I can't remember because I should probably be sleeping right now.

Played a lot of Leaderboard golf (from Epyx, maybe?). Decent game play, didn't mind the load times back in the day (though they'd be painful today), not too bad looking for a 16 color display on a good 19 inch TV (or the too small, but excellent quality 13" Comodore monitors).

One the later games to come out for the C64 was a space-shooter called Leviathan (don't know who made it). It was one of the better looking games on the C64. Gameplay was quasi-3D because the backgrounds and sprites were all drawn in perspective, and the ships flipped around when they maneuvered or got hit.

Did anybody have the Epyx FastLoad cartridge? That thing really worked, when it worked, if you know what I mean (a few software conflicts). The disk command shortcuts were nice. Anybody know what it did to actually speed things up? (Like data caching, or overriding the built-in DOS?)
 
I can't even remember the names of the games I had for C64. I had quite a few on floppy, I even had a few on tape!!
 
Originally posted by: trmiv
I can't even remember the names of the games I had for C64. I had quite a few on floppy, I even had a few on tape!!
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The Datasette recorders! Golly, were those slow! That's all we had when we first got our 64. The cassette drive was all my grandma could give us at the time. We were stuck on tape for what I remember as a long time (maybe it wasn't--I was a little kid) before my mom bought a 1541 Diskette drive.


LOAD"MY DAMN GAME"

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

SEARCHING FOR MY DAMN GAME

. . .

If you did a good job labeling the counter position and cueing it up, the SEARCHING FOR stage wasn't too bad The worst part was. . .

LOADING

Oh, man, go play with something else for awhile. Five, six, seven minutes later, your game might be loaded.
 
I was like 5 when I played on it and can't really remember much.

But I liked this one game (was even two player) where you could walk as a spaceman around in this maze type thing, (very packman style) and shoot these aliens.

Anybody know the name?
 
Start talking the Sinclair Spectrum and you have got me. The C64 and it were dead on rivals in the UK. I had the Spectrum. 😛

Dug out my old Amiga the other day. A 500+ Might flog it on Ebay. Happy days!
 
Loderunner was an awesome game.
There was some game that had elevators and a secret agent (something like that).
Bolderdash was great as well.
I used to play a lot of RPG's. I had Ultima I, II, III, and IV.
I also played the text games like Zork and Sorceror.
 
I seem to recall spending lots of time playing the following...

Karateka
Demon Stalkers
Autoduel
Pools of Radiance
Pirates!
Mission Impossibe 2
Gunship
Some soccer and hockey game whose name escapes me, but you had seasons and stats, which was rare in sports games back then.

 
Fond memories of skipping school to play:

Pirates!
Pools of Radiance
Phantasie
Loderunner

and a few more that I dont remember anymore.

Pirates! was so good that I got it again for my roomie's mac freshman year in college. Forget nostalgia, it was still better than newer games.
 
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I was just looking through my old collection of C64 disks and remembered these favorites:

Raid On Bungling Bay - Helicoptor game where you had to bomb the factories and the battleship. That game RULED!!

Little Computer People - Type in commands and watch the computer do sh!t around the house. Had a very limited parser if I remember correctly.

Hotwheels - One of my favorites as a kid. I remember building the cars, painting them, tuning them up, putting the fire out and all that stuff. That game was cool too.

Pirates! - The original. Pretty much speaks for itself.

Pole Position - Cheese racing game I used to play with my dad.

Test Drive - The original game. I used to get so mad at that game.


Wow, that brought back a pleathora of memories. Good times.
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Raid on Bungeling Bay is, in my opinion, still one of the best and most difficult games ever made.

And I played Pole Position some.

Did you ever play "Stealth"? It was released by Broderbund. I haven't played that game in years, but for some reason I've wanted to all week.
 
I had Pole Position and Test Drive, but Test Drive really wasn't an original commodore game. Pole Position was closer to an original.
 
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