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To those who had a Commodore 64

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Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: NuclearNed
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.
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I have never heard of Stealth. What was the idea of the game?
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It was similar to an old game called "Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom". It was (for that time) a 3D game where your perspective was from behind your spaceship as it skimmed along the surface of a planet. In the distance there was a large dark tower; the ultimate goal of the game was to get close enough to the tower to shoot it a single time, thus destroying it. Along the way the forces of evil (tanks, other fighters, heat-seeking missiles, etc.) tried to prevent you from advancing. It was one of the fastest-paced and most difficult games I can remember on the C64.

Stealth
 
marked for Sunday reading **

my faves for the C=64 were Satan's Hollow, the Epyx "~ Games" games, Skate or Die... wow... too many to remember.

Looking forward to checking out this thread after the weekend. Good post!
 
When I first had a Commodore 64, I think I was 6 or 7 years old - and I didn't play games on it, instead I coded my own.

Then at some point I had a VIC20, which was much more limited than the 64, and I did have a casette with the game Blue Meanines from Outer Space. I got bored with that so I decided to recode the graphics so the meanies looked like something else. 🙂
 
I used to play a game called Cosmic Balance, which was an SSI game based on the "Starfleet Battles" board game. 1/2 text, 1/2 crappy graphics based...TONS o' FUN! Up to 4 people could play, and it would take up to 6 hours depending on how long each turn would take. I'd have friends over and we'd put movies on, then each take a turn every 20 minutes or so. Ah....good times, good times 🙂
 
We were too poor for a commodore 64.
I had an old texas instruments ti88 or something like that. I never saw a floppy until 8th grade.
 
some of the games I used to rock on the C-64:

Bard's Tale series
Raid Over Moscow
Space Harrier
Batman: The Caped Crusader
Street Sports Basketball
Hardball!
Maniac Mansion
4th & Inches!
Test Drive
Master of Lamps
Karateka
Master of Magic
Spider-Man & Captain America vs. Doctor Doom
Firetrap
Montezuma's Revenge
Yie-Ar Kung Fu
Spy vs. Spy
Donald Duck (a.k.a. 'Bonald Buck' - don't ask why)
Lazy Jones (best..... soundtrack.... evar!)
Double Dragon II (yes, there was a Double Dragon on C-64! it was teh suck.)
Miami Vice
WWF Wrestling: Hulk Hogan vs. Randy "Macho Man" Savage

oh.... and Epyx????

Summer Games
California Games
Winter Games
World Games
Summer Games II

man, the Commodore was the gateway drug towards video gaming... period.
 
thanks, I had a few cousins who had the C-64 too, so we traded games like mad over the years.

Anyone remember this online service for the C-64 called "Quantum Link", or better yet, their stab at a Microsoft Windows like app. called "Geos"? Geos had Geowrite, Geopaint, Geoword, man-- those were the old days.
 
How'd you all get your games? Pirated? The only games I remember getting legitimately were some of bards tale series.
 
Originally posted by: KK
How'd you all get your games? Pirated? The only games I remember getting legitimately were some of bards tale series.
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hellz yeah. I still have many of them, but alas, my 64 didn't make it to the millennium.
 
there's a C-64 emulator online somewheres.... I remember grabbin and installin like a year ago, barely use it. the amount of games for it is still staggering.
 
Considering I was growing up in Saudi at the time, *everything* was pirated but that meant I could afford more games 🙂
 
I just remember typing in programs that were in the backs of magazines. Then they did nothing really special.

But, I was easily amused at the time.

 
My memories of C64: Waiting 30 minutes to load Who Framed Roger Rabbit game. Those were painful times, especially for an eager child.
 
Originally posted by: spiderrasmon
thanks, I had a few cousins who had the C-64 too, so we traded games like mad over the years.

Anyone remember this online service for the C-64 called "Quantum Link", or better yet, their stab at a Microsoft Windows like app. called "Geos"? Geos had Geowrite, Geopaint, Geoword, man-- those were the old days.
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I loved Geos. I still own a real copy.

Originally posted by: spiderrasmon
there's a C-64 emulator online somewheres.... I remember grabbin and installin like a year ago, barely use it. the amount of games for it is still staggering.
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http://www.zophar.net/c64.html
 
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