Comments on: Commodore 64

By: Ant

Ant — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:44:52 +0000

you know jeff minter is still going – went to a party of his once and we played all his games on modified arcade consoles all night long (there were rumors of odd substances being circulated which no doubt helped with Psychodelia – the fore runner to iTunes stuff perhaps). Hovver Bovver and Sheep in Space were two special favourites for me and my old c64. Which I still have somewhere!

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:30:50 +0000

My favourites would have to be:
Raid over Moscow
Paradroid
Rick Dangerous
Pitfall
and of course Defender

By: Brent D

Brent D — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:24:32 +0000

What about paradroid by Andrew Brabrock or his marvellous hight speed shoot-em up uridium? Man I loved those two. Oh oh and what about Wizball?

Oh the good old days…

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:23:42 +0000

Ahh the good old 64, truly the Volkswagen of personal computers. It still sits proudly next to the, g5, Intel q9450 hackintosh, Core2duo e8400 WinTel gamer Box, miggy a2000 “T-72 Tank”, a1200 protracker setup, and the two a500 “sensi soccer/Speedball 2″ miggies.

Too many groundbreaking games on the good old Beige Breadbin style c64. Hard to pick but lately pixel pounding away on ..

Andy Braybrooks multi-scrolling ShEmUp Paradroid.
Jeff “the Yak” minters classic attack of the mutant camels.
Melbourne House’s Last Ninja 2.
Banging out Epyx’s Olympic wrist-aching Summer games I and II with the lads (i hate the that cycling event, ouch!).
Martech’s blastfest, Mega Apocalypse, set the Rob Hubbards frantic melodies.

not only is ye olde breadbin the biggest selling pc model in history but it featured an amazing waveform chip in mos 6581 Sound Inerface Device (SID). Artist from kraftwork and Maniac’s of noise to Zombie Nation used it then and now. The machine SID was also in Byte Mags top 10 chips of alltime along with its elder sister the Amiga’s custom co-processors paula, denise and agnes.

Pity CBM was good at revolutionary new h/ware & so crap at management or we’d have Commodore Minimigs and i64s ;-)

checkout slayradio,org for remixes of the classic c64 sounds if your old school enough by the way

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:29:24 +0000

Rhys, I remember Barbarian — such a great two player game!

You could be receiving the beating of your life from your younger brother, but… if you expertly timed the special move, then BAM you could easily behead him…ahhh blisss

By: Hamish Stevenson

Hamish Stevenson — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:21:49 +0000

Fellas… what about Paperboy…!?

Pure C64 gold!

Hours of my youth were wasted on that game. Yet with such waste, comes many happy memories…

By: Allan

Allan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:11:51 +0000

Rhys,
I’ll definitely have to check those out. I haven’t heard of most of the ones you’ve mentioned there.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:09:38 +0000

I loved the Commodore 64! It was my first computer and I had Flimbo’s Quest, Klax, Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top O’Fun! (another game with a exclamation mark at the end of it) and International Soccer, but soon expanded my collection.

I’d recommend Creatures, Creatures II, Mayhem in Monsterland, Barbarian, The Detective Game, The Dizzy Games and Flimbo’s Quest to expand your collection (if you haven’t already). Though you have reminded me about Pirates!, I ADORED that game (even if I didn’t know what I was doing half the time!)

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:48:02 +0000

My top C64 games of all time (in order)

1. F19 Stealth fighter
2. Sk8 or Die!
3. Up Periscope
4. Raid on Bungling Bay
5. Rampage