FinnishRetroGuy's Commodore 64 Zone
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Daley Thompson's Decathlon CHOOSE EVENTS & SET COLORS on C64!
Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Ocean, 1984, Commodore 64 version
This video presents a fantastic sports game which I had to avoid for years to protect my joysticks. After finding out I can skip the running events I have been playing this again for some time now. This video shows how to do that, among other tricks.
Another beautiful multi-event sports game, Summer Olympiad. My video here:
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Winter Games, one of the very best multi-event sports games, my video:
ua-cam.com/video/804nawyyAU0/v-deo.html
One of the very best basketball games ever, Street Sports Basketball:
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Probably the weirdest multi-event sports game ever, It's a Knock Out:
ua-cam.com/video/jIYJc0e0Q0M/v-deo.html
The ONLY judo game ever for Commodore 64, Uchi Mata. My video here:
ua-cam.com/video/2u1Svip8F30/v-deo.html
If you like funny reset pokes, this video presents quite an interesting modification for Rygar:
ua-cam.com/video/ODGQVDCo30M/v-deo.html
Many players got nowhere in Tin Tin on the Moon. My video helps you through the first tough level:
ua-cam.com/video/6qc09120yOk/v-deo.html
Nemesis on C64, but known as Gradius on many other platforms. My video shows some tricks and cheats you can try with the C64 version:
ua-cam.com/video/oXauq5aaCbo/v-deo.html
My videos include cheat POKEs for the games. POKEs require a reset switch. If you don't have a reset switch in your Commodore 64, you may be interested checking my instruction video, how to build one:
ua-cam.com/video/MSjNiZEv3Hs/v-deo.html
My channel:
youtube.com/@finnishretroguy9952/videos
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Crystal Castles TWO C64-games LEVELS comparison & Cheat POKES!
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Crystal Castles, TWO Commodore 64 versions On this video, my favorite levels of both Crystal Castles games on C64 are compared: 1) Crystal Castles, Thundervision, 1984 2) Crystal Castles, US Gold/Atari Inc, 1986 Both are very fast paced games with colorful graphics. Liked this video? On Commodore 64, there were many colorful platform games. One of my favorites is somewhat less known game named ...
Wonderboy in Monsterland C64 & Sega Master System versions!
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This video makes a short comparison between two great games: 1) Wonderboy in Monsterland, Commodore 64 version 1989 from Activision, also known as Super Wonderboy 2) Wonderboy in Monsterland, Sega Master System version 1988 from Sega Did you like the first Wonderboy game? Here is my video with cheats: ua-cam.com/video/DrdcC_scirc/v-deo.html Everyone knows Mario Bros from modern game consoles, b...
Shadow of the Beast (C64) ALL LEVELS, ENEMIES & CHEAT MODE!
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Shadow of the Beast, Ocean, 1990, Commodore 64 version Here is a game most remember from Amiga. However, this video takes a look at the Commodore 64 version, which is also very good! Did you like this video? One of the enemies in Shadow of the Beast actually looks like CATABALL...! Take a look at my Cataball video: ua-cam.com/video/TH-6JL7FLLM/v-deo.html Remember Duet? No? How about Commando 86...
Train Robbers: a Wild West Action game for C64 with POKES!
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Train Robbers, Firebird, 1987, Commodore 64 version This is another interesting wild west action game, in which your job is to rob trains. Prefer being a sheriff instead? OK, here is another video, this game is named Highnoon: ua-cam.com/video/mpZ5v0_9hWc/v-deo.html In this wild west game you are a bounty hunter. Name of this one is Outlaws: ua-cam.com/video/tnKxEbafvt4/v-deo.html One more wild...
Wizard Willy Colorful platform game on C64 LEVELS, ENDING & POKES!
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Wizard Willy, Codemasters, 1990, Commodore 64 version Many may not remember this game, and of those who do remember, some gave up after trying the difficult first levels. However, this is a game well worth exploring, thanks to the last two colorful levels with beautiful graphics. Also I like the title music here a lot. Also in Octapolis, you can find very clever use of Commodore 64 colors. A be...
Mario Bros: Both TWO C64-games with POKES +1 MORE!
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Mario Bros. 1984 Atarisoft AND Mario Bros. 1987 Ocean, Commodore 64 This video takes a look at both TWO Mario Bros games on Commodore 64, one from Atarisoft and another one from Ocean. Additionally, there is one more interesting Mario-related C64-game presented on this video. Mario-fans probably find Super Pipeline quite interesting as well. My Super Pipeline video here: ua-cam.com/video/n7jA1t...
Bionic Commando history: TWO 1988 C64-games ALL LEVELS, POKES!
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Bionic Commando, 1988, Go! and Capcom USA, for Commodore 64 On this video we take a look at TWO Bionic Commando games for Commodore 64, both released 1988. Liked this video? Quite similar video of TWO Street Fighter games from 1988: ua-cam.com/video/BOPSiW5RjaA/v-deo.html Like platform games? Everyone likes Ghosts'n Goblins? Here is my video: ua-cam.com/video/n_Zx798XL7I/v-deo.html Octapolis, a...
Suicide Strike: 1984 FIGHTER PLANE game on C64 ALL ENEMIES & POKES!
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Suicide Strike: 1984 FIGHTER PLANE game on C64 ALL ENEMIES & POKES!
It's a Knockout! A strange MULTI-EVENT game for 1-6 PLAYERS on Commodore 64
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It's a Knockout! A strange MULTI-EVENT game for 1-6 PLAYERS on Commodore 64
Super Tank Simulator on C64 ALL LEVELS, funny POKES and more!
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Super Tank Simulator on C64 ALL LEVELS, funny POKES and more!
Street Sports Basketball: The BEST BASKETBALL on Commodore 64?!?
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Street Sports Basketball: The BEST BASKETBALL on Commodore 64?!?
FOUR Missile Command inspired games on C64!
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FOUR Missile Command inspired games on C64!
Commando 86 and DUET on C64: Any difference at all? Video with many POKES!
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Commando 86 and DUET on C64: Any difference at all? Video with many POKES!
Uchi-Mata: THE ONLY judo-game ever on C64? Video with fun POKE tricks!
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Uchi-Mata: THE ONLY judo-game ever on C64? Video with fun POKE tricks!
Street Fighter history: TWO 1988 C64-games ALL FIGHTERS, LEVELS, POKES!
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Street Fighter history: TWO 1988 C64-games ALL FIGHTERS, LEVELS, POKES!
Commodore 1541 disk drive: The common READ-PROBLEMO and HOW TO FIX IT!
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Commodore 1541 disk drive: The common READ-PROBLEMO and HOW TO FIX IT!
Agent X 2 (C64) ALL 3 SUBGAMES with BIG graphics & other POKES!
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Agent X 2 (C64) ALL 3 SUBGAMES with BIG graphics & other POKES!
DRJ Nice looking C64-action game teaching me Dutch language!
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DRJ Nice looking C64-action game teaching me Dutch language!
Zone Ranger action filled space shooter game for C64 WITH POKES!
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Zone Ranger action filled space shooter game for C64 WITH POKES!
Vikings (C64 game) Islands 1 and 2 guide and POKES!
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Vikings (C64 game) Islands 1 and 2 guide and POKES!
Mega Phoenix LEVELS, WEAPONS and POKES! Commodore 64 version
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Mega Phoenix LEVELS, WEAPONS and POKES! Commodore 64 version
Flyer Fox a talking arcade shooter game from 1984 for Commodore 64
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Flyer Fox a talking arcade shooter game from 1984 for Commodore 64
Octapolis Nice Colorful C64-game LAST LEVELS & POKES!
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Octapolis Nice Colorful C64-game LAST LEVELS & POKES!
Fred's Back! An excellent 1993 platform game for C64 WITH POKES!
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Fred's Back! An excellent 1993 platform game for C64 WITH POKES!
Orpheus in the Underworld a game for Pitfall fans on C64 WITH POKES!
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Orpheus in the Underworld a game for Pitfall fans on C64 WITH POKES!
West Bank another great wild west game for C64 WITH POKES!
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West Bank another great wild west game for C64 WITH POKES!
Breakdance 4 event dance & music game on C64 WITH POKES!
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Breakdance 4 event dance & music game on C64 WITH POKES!
Killer Ring (K-Ring) an ADDICTIVE shoot'em up game on Commodore 64!
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Killer Ring (K-Ring) an ADDICTIVE shoot'em up game on Commodore 64!
Painterboy a very enjoyable Finnish painting game for Commodore 64
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Painterboy a very enjoyable Finnish painting game for Commodore 64

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @majorwinters73
    @majorwinters73 16 годин тому

    Good old times... 😅

  • @robertwallner8658
    @robertwallner8658 День тому

    Da musst du noch viel üben, das du meine Rekorde schlägst. Biathlon unter einer Minute.

  • @marcuswallrath4255
    @marcuswallrath4255 2 дні тому

    I love it.....❤

  • @randomstuff797
    @randomstuff797 2 дні тому

    Hit the nostalgic bone with this one buddy

  • @Ansett214
    @Ansett214 2 дні тому

    Winter games, world games and summer games were sooooo good

  • @gregfoster7532
    @gregfoster7532 2 дні тому

    Hours spent playing this in my youth along with California games..and one id like to see reviewed called caveman Olympics also on Commodore 64

  • @camptube7621
    @camptube7621 2 дні тому

    When I was 16, this was a PS5. 😂

  • @00wrongun
    @00wrongun 3 дні тому

    Biathlon was my favourite event, great game from the past 🏅

  • @Ebutuoymaii
    @Ebutuoymaii 4 дні тому

    That was a blast from my childhood! Haven’t heard the word “poke” in donkeys years 😂

  • @karstenhanel8481
    @karstenhanel8481 5 днів тому

    Still a great game in my opinion

  • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
    @edmundblackaddercoc8522 6 днів тому

    Ahhh 1 hourto load 10seconds to crash, good times.

  • @hollieboptv2996
    @hollieboptv2996 8 днів тому

    the games in my day were lame compared to todays , manic miner vs red dead 2

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 8 днів тому

      Development in games has been amazing. I feel people my age are lucky to have seen it from the very beginning from early classics (first Pac Man, Centipede, Defender and such) all the way to the modern games we see today.

    • @periair8874
      @periair8874 3 дні тому

      @finnishretroguy9952but those Epyx Games are Milestones in the Game History. There was never ever a Sports Game after those Games who where so good. Not on PC , not on Mobile and not on Console.

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 3 дні тому

      Yes, for sure. There is something very special in these Epyx sports games, which keeps you trying again and again, even after so many years. I believe one of the things is playing together with up to 8 friends in the same room, the social gathering of it. With modern online gaming, yes, you play against many other people through the net, but still typically sit alone in your room.

    • @periair8874
      @periair8874 3 дні тому

      @finnishretroguy9952 yeah in the past we 4-6 friends would meet in a home everybody with his PC. We order Pizza 🍕 and Coke and play Games in LAN-Partys like Tiger Woods Golf, Battlefield, Medal of Honor and other Games for a Weekend.

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 2 дні тому

      We also used to have such game meetings. Despite of carrying plenty of desktop-PCs and monitors around the town, those were good times! Unfortunately, today's online gaming is missing this side of the fun.

  • @martinlewis967
    @martinlewis967 10 днів тому

    Was it not return and space bar (4 fast heli) maybe joystick as well?

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 10 днів тому

      Holding return with joystick direction will launch "turbo copter".

  • @montypythonish
    @montypythonish 10 днів тому

    $h1t I'm 17 again! What a memory jog. Just the intro tune took me back. I dread to think how many joysticks I got through back then, cos with those games it was so about the wiggle.

  • @jasondeaver2117
    @jasondeaver2117 11 днів тому

    Hours of my childhood

    • @mazchen
      @mazchen День тому

      Fond memories, eh?

  • @Emulous79
    @Emulous79 13 днів тому

    Armourdillo, Sector 90, Metranaut, Morpheus, Rapid Fire, Round the Bend, On the Tiles.

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 12 днів тому

      All others correct, except Morpheus is wrong. Well done. I thought these are difficult ones.

  • @foodfromforest
    @foodfromforest 16 днів тому

    Cool! The tricks I tried seem to work here. Thanks!

  • @CORNSYUMMY
    @CORNSYUMMY 19 днів тому

    3:22 wasn't this a official port of jr Pac-Man?

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 19 днів тому

      Yes it is. Jr. Pac Man.

    • @CORNSYUMMY
      @CORNSYUMMY 18 днів тому

      ​@finnishretroguy9952also, why is super Pac-Man, ms Pac-Man, and Pac-Man here?, they aren't knock-offs.

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 18 днів тому

      Yes, you are right. Maybe I should think of a better title for this video. Now it's a bit misleading I guess.

  • @lurkerrekrul
    @lurkerrekrul 24 дні тому

    Something I'll never understand: The game is set in the American west, but the train in the game is European. The cover art correctly depicts an American train, but then you get into the game and it's a European train. I understand that the developers were either from the UK or Europe, but why set the game in America, and then not use American trains? This seems to have been a common thing with all UK/European developers. If I were making a game that was set in Europe, I would try to make everything in the game look as appropriate to the setting as possible. I wouldn't stock the game world with recognizably American things. It's not as if it was hard to find pictures of railroads from other countries back in the 80s.

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 24 дні тому

      This is one of the C64-games from Firebird, which was a software house in the UK.

  • @lurkerrekrul
    @lurkerrekrul 28 днів тому

    I always liked the graphics in the Thundervision version better, as the graphics in the US Gold version always looked a little squished to me. It's interesting that both versions replaced the arcade version's skeleton enemy with a ghost on the raised portion of the Doomdome level. The Thundervision version had at least two more level skips, copied from the arcade. One was on like 5th or 7th level, you had to grab the hat, then go to the back corner and jump before the hat wore off. It was fairly hard to do with the twitchy controls. Sadly the Thundervision version seems to have a bug where it crashes on the level level. It draws it in, then goes to a black screen. At least the pirated version does. I never saw an original. In fact, it may have been unreleased, so there may not be an "original". Unless some programmer can look at it and figure out why it crashes, we'll never be able to play it to the end. Not that I'm good enough to get that far. I had to use unlimited lives to discover that it crashes.

  • @NorthWay_no
    @NorthWay_no Місяць тому

    Thundervision has 3 built-in cheats IIRC. All from the coin-op version.

  • @xOduk1988
    @xOduk1988 Місяць тому

    Звук бомба временная 😊

  • @fradd182
    @fradd182 Місяць тому

    Just one important difference i could spot - enemies in the second version move more smoothly. Thats about it.

  • @AppliedCryogenics
    @AppliedCryogenics Місяць тому

    Cool comparison! This was the second-best game at the skating rink in 1984! (They had a sit-down Atari Star Wars.)

  • @jeffrey44
    @jeffrey44 Місяць тому

    When I was at school, I was always taught to plug a joystick in to port 1 and wiggle it to make the creatures dance.

  • @MrQuuze
    @MrQuuze Місяць тому

    both have points but even i am C64 human i say SMS looked generally better only few things i disagree.

  • @foodfromforest
    @foodfromforest Місяць тому

    Caverns of Sillahc ?

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 Місяць тому

      Yes, correct! Good work. Sillahc is backwards the name of the game programmer: A. CHALLIS. The speech synth in the end of the video tries to reveal the game name, but is somewhat unclear. As an additional puzzle, I changed the map from horizontal to vertical on the video. Caverns of Sillahc is the game here!

  • @IgoSplashman
    @IgoSplashman Місяць тому

    I fell in love with this game when I played the C64 conversion way back when. Very hard but still a very faithful port. The SMS version looks and plays very nice, but sadly it's missing half of the Arcade soundtrack (it has only 8 out of 15 tracks).

  • @fradd182
    @fradd182 Місяць тому

    Almost similar in level design, SMS has much more vibrant color pallete, and thats about it. Very good conversion for the C64

  • @foodfromforest
    @foodfromforest Місяць тому

    This game looks so similar to Fort Apocalypse, but clearly it's not that one.

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 Місяць тому

      No, it is not Fort Apocalypse. The video leads you to the correct game name if you watch closely.

  • @Kobold666
    @Kobold666 Місяць тому

    0:29 Pysgnosis. They didn't even take the time to spell-check the intro.

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 Місяць тому

      Yes, that is interesting. Funnily I never noticed that, until now when I was editing this video...

  • @Halligen1972
    @Halligen1972 2 місяці тому

    I know this one from AMIGA, but never played it on C-64. Thanx for the upload.

  • @andrewlee7228
    @andrewlee7228 2 місяці тому

    god I'm so confused - got reminded of this game from a Facebook marketplace advert and recognised the box art. Then looked up the game but had no memory of ever playing it and chalked it off to it perhaps being one of many games I owned that never loaded - but now that I see gameplay video I vaguely remember the faces at the bottom with the orbs around them, but still don't recognise the gameplay

  • @jonzmoviebar7580
    @jonzmoviebar7580 2 місяці тому

    I did the same thing as a kid. I drew parts on a paper, then recreated them in a painting software like Koala Painter. Much less detailed as here but it was on a much smaller scale, and I was able to print it on two pages matrix papers

  • @fradd182
    @fradd182 2 місяці тому

    Very nice games in technical terms. They are using complex sprite multiplexers to get those large monster figures and many other characters in addition to, instead of lame option of using sprite doubling.

  • @PaulJaros
    @PaulJaros 2 місяці тому

    "off course" -> "of course"

  • @patton72010
    @patton72010 2 місяці тому

    I would love to see an explanation on how they coded levels like 9:25 , with parallax scrolling and all. Also music is great on later levels.

    • @craigix
      @craigix 2 місяці тому

      It's just sprites and varying the speed certain parts of the screen scroll at.

    • @IsaacKuo
      @IsaacKuo 2 місяці тому

      Basically, the overworld graphics are composed of sprites on top of multicolor character graphics, except for a band where the sprites are underneath character graphics (the tree tops where the trees are characters and the clouds are sprites). On any given scanline, there are only two layers of parallax - the sprite layer and the character layer. In theory, you can have up to 8 different sprite layers, but these will individually be as narrow as a sprite (which can be up to 6 characters wide, when X doubled). The sprite shared multi-colors are medium grey and white, except at the bottom band where they're black and light grey (I think). The character shared colors are black, brown, and light green, with foreground colors being green at the top band, yellow for the middle band, and I'm not sure about the bottom band. Most of the raster interrupt effects are for different X scroll offsets and sprite multiplexing (only 8 sprites, but you can reuse them multiple times as the raster scans down the screen). One annoying limitation is that X-scroll is limited to only 8 pixels. If you want to scroll further than that, then you must scroll the actual characters in memory. This practically means that each character row must have the same scroll speed. You can't easily split a character row into more than one parallax scrolling speed.

    • @patton72010
      @patton72010 2 місяці тому

      @@IsaacKuo thank you for the explanation.

  • @IsaacKuo
    @IsaacKuo 2 місяці тому

    Looks fantastic! If only the gameplay were more enjoyable. It's telling that the Beast games gave you progressively more and more attack range.

  • @IdentityCrisis1581
    @IdentityCrisis1581 2 місяці тому

    I am on the fence about which looks better, the Amiga version, or the TurboGrafx CD version. Unfortunately looking nice is all the game has going for it. Once you figure out where all the items you need are at. You can literally beat the game in 5 minutes.

  • @brei2670
    @brei2670 2 місяці тому

    Damn that looks good for C64. Good performance, too. Must be the limited color palette making it possible or something. Also yeah it looks really difficult.

    • @d-one-and-only
      @d-one-and-only 2 місяці тому

      has nothing to do with the palette ..... it only sported 16 colours in total

    • @brei2670
      @brei2670 2 місяці тому

      @d-one-and-only it's clearly not making use of those in most scenes I have seen. But that might be coincidence, sure.

  • @carlopepi
    @carlopepi 2 місяці тому

    Good graphics rubbish game

  • @fradd182
    @fradd182 2 місяці тому

    Looks fantastic but its too hard, i dont think anybody can play it without a cheat.

  • @IsaacKuo
    @IsaacKuo 2 місяці тому

    Hmm ... I recognize Skyfox, and the weird game with the bouncing leg and ball, but I don't remember the name of the latter. I'm pretty sure the only one of these I've actually played is Skyfox (original NTSC version).

  • @fradd182
    @fradd182 2 місяці тому

    Not a bad idea, but the gameplay feels disconnected. I mean, you move for like 2 seconds and then wait another 10 to get from the tunnel, then repeat it.

  • @properjob2311
    @properjob2311 2 місяці тому

    what a rubbish game

  • @foodfromforest
    @foodfromforest 2 місяці тому

    I had forgotten all about these two turtle games. Thanks for the video!

  • @alicedeeper
    @alicedeeper 2 місяці тому

    I frequently found myself going for a round of Supacatchatroopa throughout all the years I had the C64. It had this eery vibe of being part of a much larger world with the pterosaurs in there 👌

  • @fradd182
    @fradd182 2 місяці тому

    A superb graphics design with parallax layers, obviously late c64 game.

  • @fradd182
    @fradd182 2 місяці тому

    Pretty similar 2 games, not sure why was 87 version needed, it doesnt seem to bring anything new to the gameplay or design. But, are there more levels or just this one?

    • @finnishretroguy9952
      @finnishretroguy9952 2 місяці тому

      There are more levels, but still quite similar they are. In Atari version you can select from which level to start. In Ocean version you go to the beginning after game over.

  • @foodfromforest
    @foodfromforest 2 місяці тому

    Another very entertaining video of classic video games. Thanks!