The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/04/2009:16 PM
I never even heard of some of these, although that's understandable as there was a vast library of games, including in some cases what I suspect were unlicensed variants.
You can probably easily add another 25 or 30 choices to the list.
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/04/2010:39 PM
Sweet!
The only pic of my C64, next to TV/stereo (that was 1989, unpacking first Atlanta apartment after living with brother for 6 months while waiting for wife to finish college in Baton Rouge)...
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/04/2011:40 PM
I wanted an Atari 5200 so badly! I loved the sleek design and Defender port (awesome compared with the 2600...not saying much).
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I was horrified the first time I saw this 1983 video on MTV, before Prince corrupted her (I love 80's chicks). Skip to 2:20. You don't do that to a man, you batshit crazy woman!
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/05/2012:53 AM
I bought a Commodore 64 so early in it's existence that there weren't any games for it. I held onto it for about 6 months, and then sold it and bought an Atari 800. I still have that Atari 800 in the garage.
"The old Commodore 64 originally cost $595..." "The new system, which also starts at $595..."
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I think I'll first check Walmart for the ~$50.00 Mini version, then later consider the full-sized version depending on price and reviews.
Always loved the mechanical keyboard action of the original Commodores (both of mine were pre-owned, BTW).
If I understand it right, the "maxi" full size version is in the $120 to $150 range with the joystick included. US launch hasn't hit yet, I think, just Europe? There are YouTube reviews of that full size version from some UK posters. IMO generally seems worth the price for my interests, kinda.
And yes... save to USB! Somehow my inner 10 year-old-BASIC-programming-self wants to do this.
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/05/2005:48 AM
Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
I was too poor to have a Commodore 64 so hence the only gaming system I had for most of the 80's was the Atari 2600.
I feel ya, PM.
I was lucky to have a hard working 5-year older brother who passed down some of his toys (before the internet and ebay made it easy to sell stuff). IIRC, he gave me the VIC-20 and my brother-in-law the C64 (or vice versa). Like always, I was years behind the times (still gaming on a 2600 w/13" B&W TV while listening to 8-tracks in 1985). Just look at that TV (upgraded to color) and those glasses...dam!
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/05/2005:55 AM
Originally Posted by adlabs6
And yes... save to USB! Somehow my inner 10 year-old-BASIC-programming-self wants to do this.
Lol. Dude, I recently covered QBASIC just for the nostalgia (although you can still do some nifty BASIC-like command-line batch file programming). I'd have fun with this and will look into it, especially for ~$150.00.
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/05/2006:34 AM
A Boomer moment (although technically I'm Gen X)...
I've always felt that I grew up in the right era, partly with experiencing the mainstream transition to a digital world. So much technology was completely new and fascinating, our minds being constantly blown!
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/05/2012:22 PM
Here is my list, based off the ones I remember playing the most:
Beach Head Beach Head 2 Impossible Mission Red Storm Rising Airborne Ranger Gyruss (sp?) Dig Dug Blue Max Silent Running Zaxon Ducktales Forbidden Forest Maniac Mansion Raid Over Moscow Commando River Raid
Thats about all I can think of, but I had hundreds of games and can't remember them all. Still have the C64, lots of great memories playing it!
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/05/2003:34 PM
My parents offered to buy me a C64 in 1985 from a neighbor, but when we were over there and I realized it only had a tape deck to play games and no disk drives I vehemently said "no." The thought of rewinding and fast forwarding just to play something--naive I was, seemed nightmarish. In retrospect, maybe I should have said "yes" and upgraded to a disk drive.
A year and a half later, though, we got a Tandy 1000 TX, and two years after that, our first Adlib sound card, followed by VGA. So that wasn't so bad.
Only had an Atari 2600 all 80s though; mooched off friends for their NES and around 1992 I used my grass cutting money to buy my own Super Nintendo. We had a 386 by then, also, but the SNES was awesome for playing while I downloaded stuff from BBSs at 2400 bps.
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/05/2005:50 PM
My first computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer with a whopping 16K and tape drive, it was handy because our computer lab in high school used Tandy Model IIIs and 4s so other than making a few changes for the display size I could test all my homework at home and even print stuff out on my 4 or 5 inch thermal printer.
Before too long I upgraded to an Atari 600XL (16K) and from there to an 800XL (64K but only about 36K was actually usable.) I still had a tape drive but I did get an Epson dot-matrix printer. Then I got a 5.25” floppy drive for it, back then they held 90K (single density) or 180K (dual density), except for Atari. They used an “enhanced density” format that was about 125K IIRC.
After I went in the army my parents gave my computer away, so I ended up with a C64 & disk drive that I bought cheap from a friend of my brother. That’s the one I gamed the most with, the games I remember most are F19 Stealth Fighter, F16 Combat Pilot, Strike Aces, and Tomcat. The 800XL was a more advanced computer but there was a lot more available for the C64. I got rid of that before being sent to Germany in Dec 92, and while there I bought an AST 486SX25. Which is a subject for another thread LOL
Used the sound shaper audio input on my C64 with my guitar and eventually got a Z80 module for it but there was a problem in that the particular model of C64 I had could not use the Z80 pack and I wanted to run CP/M programs so the 64 was sent off to Commodore but came back like they had tried to stuff the Commodore Elephant under the keyboard, the shop let me trade the C64 in for a BBC B and with that I used a Z80 add on to run CP/M.
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/06/2001:26 AM
F-15 Strike Eagle was my first real sim, although I admittedly didn't really think much of the primitive flight sims of that time.
The first sim that I actually enjoyed playing was Steel Thunder, a lite tank sim released in 1988. I think of it as sort of a spiritual predecessor to Steel Beasts.
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/06/2007:20 AM
Originally Posted by Crane Hunter
F-15 Strike Eagle was my first real sim, although I admittedly didn't really think much of the primitive flight sims of that time.
The first sim that I actually enjoyed playing was Steel Thunder, a lite tank sim released in 1988. I think of it as sort of a spiritual predecessor to Steel Beasts.
I remember Steel Thunder! Loved that game. I recall staying up late one night as a kid mowing down lines of infantry and my parents were not happy but I did not care. Awesome.
But my first sim was the original Gunship, and earning the congressional medal of honor was a huge deal. I guess I can't count Star Raiders as a sim, although even though it was an Atari 2600 game, it utilized the keypad peripheral for extra features.
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/06/2007:00 PM
Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
I remember Steel Thunder! Loved that game. I recall staying up late one night as a kid mowing down lines of infantry and my parents were not happy but I did not care. Awesome.
But my first sim was the original Gunship, and earning the congressional medal of honor was a huge deal. I guess I can't count Star Raiders as a sim, although even though it was an Atari 2600 game, it utilized the keypad peripheral for extra features.
Here are some popular "cracktros:"
We had them on the PC scene, too.
Bonus: see 49:30 for some C64 Airwolf theme!
Wow, what a find!
I'm afraid I don't recognize a single one however, I wonder if the crackers of that day were largely regional?
"...Yar's Revenge,...Star Raiders, Warlords, Defender, Centipede - the list goes on with almost any game you care to name. The idea was always that the landfill contained just E.T. cartridges. Now we can see it was, in reality, Atari's grave too."
Re: The 75 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever - 01/07/2007:34 PM
Originally Posted by MarkG
"...Yar's Revenge,...Star Raiders, Warlords, Defender, Centipede - the list goes on with almost any game you care to name. The idea was always that the landfill contained just E.T. cartridges. Now we can see it was, in reality, Atari's grave too."
Apparently the ET game was rushed into development and it was coded in something like 5 weeks in order for it to be released soon after the release of the film. Crazy! It really was the single gamble that broke Atari's back.