Predator Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]
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Developed by Source Ltd. and published by Activision in 1988
As one of the best 80's action films ever, Predator should need no introduction. A license tie--in was sure to follow and, sure enough, here it is.
What is very interesting is that there are multiple versions of this game, which I didn't know about. According to info on the net, there are "slow" and "fast" versions of the game.
The "fast" version, as the title suggests, runs much faster than the slow version, but is really a run-and-gun shooter that follows the plot of the film. This was the version that I owned on my C64 back in the day and also the version that I tried to complete a longplay for initially. Unfortunately, I'm not sure it can be completed (see reason why later).
The "slow" version is visually and sonically identical to the "fast" version, but the gameplay is much slower, probably too slow and might explain why the separate "fast" version exists; I'm guessing either the developer or publisher thought the slowness would be a turn-off for gamers.
In the "slow" version, the predator appears by leaping out of the air and decloaking in dramatic fashion. In the "fast" version, he simply walks in from the right of the screen.
The "slow" version has an inventory at the top of the screen and it's possible to loot caches for extra items. Caches can contain extra ammo, bullet-proof vests and other items; these can be used by pressing the corresponding function key. The "fast" version has no inventory and no caches.
In the final scene of the game, you have to kill the predator using the log suspended from a tree, just like the film. In the "slow" version, you stand next to the rope and pull down on the joystick and Arnie hoists the log up. You hit the predator (or avoid it) and when it appears on the right side of the screen, pull down on the joystick next to the log and spring the trap. Time it correctly and it will hit the predator and you can exit to the right. In the "fast" version, you can't pull on the rope and you can't exit to the right without killing the predator first. I think you might have to punch it to death, but didn't have the health to have a stand up fight with it.
This longplay was recorded using the "slow" version.
There's an interesting scene in the penultimate level where you're crossing the muddy swamp and the predator's 3 red dots appear. If you pull down on the joystick, you crouch in the mud and Arnie's sprite visibly darkens as he gets caked in mud. If you stop moving, the red dots move away as the predator can't see you. Unfortunately, you take damage from standing in the swamp and are likely to be worse off than just taking the hit from the predator.
In terms of pure gameplay, it has problems. It's difficult not to get hit by enemy bullets as they can fire up and down the playfield and the controls are clunky, particular when considering that you'd need to operate a joystick AND keyboard. All this makes it too damn hard to try and play it for real.
However, it is actually quite exceptional considering the fact it follows the film plot closely, with all the memorable scenes recognisable and, for all its faults, playable.
Enjoy!
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Back in the day when the best looking part of a game was the picture on the box that it came in lol
Actually this game is alot better than the nes version
So THAT'S what the end of this looked like...
God, I wasted so much time on this game as a kid!
Dave MacDonald it wasn't wasted!
@shingoukieh HOW WE PULL THE DAMN TREE ROPE ??? Controls ?
@@markhamilton3215 According to the video description: "pull down on the joystick".
Very lame ending.
@@danield.7359 It's C64 era, man. what do you expect? ^^
In 1988 the reward for beating a game was to see the graphics turn static and to have the honor of putting your name in as "Ass" in the high score record.
hahahahahaha
Count yourself lucky to even have THAT much, some games back then would just hurl you back to the title screen!
Given that high score lists were generally three-letter lists so that people would not put in any of those pesky four-letter words in -- congrats for finding a pesky three-letter word!!
In the UK it's "arse", so with only three letters available we had to settle for "Poo"
This game promised much more than it delivered.
Some things never change in the gaming world lol
Lol
Limited hardware only goes so far lol
@Aero01
That's not a good job at all, compare these visuals to games like Antiriad, Last Ninja or Barbarian, they all came out the same year or earlier and are worlds ahead graphically.
It's a c64 not a ps5
Arnie and the Predator giving each other a series of little slaps. What an anticlimax.
lololol
This brings back memories. I can't count how many C64 games were truly garbage but yet I still enjoyed playing them.
I had a C64 but the only games I enjoyed were the AD&D games and the Gold Box games.
It was probably due to the fact that we didn't have a choice - these were the only games available to us, so we persevered with them, despite them being rubbish!
The graphics are unreal, can’t wait for the release date
Don't forget that awesome sound track 🤣
Developers announced a delay
@@ASHEN_ONE_GAMES, Long tall sally
@@bruceli9558, Stick around
@@brocklesnar3802 she's built sweet she's got everything just like the Chinese
I don't remember there being a bouncing poop monster in the film.
Poop Monster : I don't remember you either. 😂
U kidding? The rest of’m all wound up in the sewers of LA.
I can't think of a single other C64 game that used the foreground like that. I thought it was the coolest thing ever
I remember being so excited about buying this game back in the day (the European version). Not only was it insanely difficult, at least to my childhood years, but the game was nothing short of awful underneath. Just found nothing to enjoy in this one.
That being said - well played on beating this and revealing that I wouldn't have been able to beat the European version either way. Glad I didn't try too hard back then when I heard that. Great to see the ending to this one all these years later.
My pleasure ;) In fact, doing these longplays it's actually quite irritating to learn that the publishers/developers were ripping us off by selling us games that couldn't be completed. I had the "fast" version as part of an 8-game multipack collection, but I have no idea who sold the "slow" version or how you could possibly tell from the packaging as to which version it was.
It remids me TMNT for MS-DOS and its impossible jump.
It was an awful nasty horrible game!
One hour later .. Arnold manges to advance 10 meters
those are some hardcore graphics for c64. never played this
This game came bundled with a few other Activision games together with my c64. I played it so much, I was always pissed off that my Highscore wasn't saved, until I learned more about the technology and I found out that the Disk was write protected 🤦🏻♂️
I had the PAL release and got stuck at the end. Couldn't lift the log after so many attempts and now 35yrs later I stumbled on this. Even though it's a massive anticlimax, thanks for going through the trouble of uploading it..👍
Yes...only non PAL version Is finishable🤷
The Predator looks like a deep sea diver. It's nice to see the ending regardless. Yet another c64 game that I never finished.
Yep, a deep sea diver covered in poop! LOL
Thank you very much for your upload. I always wanted to see the "end". I used to play the fast version, but did not know what to do against the final enemy. The game had terrific grafics for it's time and the atmosphere was great. Unfortunately I watched the movie after playing the game, but played again thereafter. Thanks again for the upload!
I thought this was pretty atmospheric and neat little shooter, although too difficult for me - and the opening intro got me excited when I first saw it.
Get to the choppa!
Piotr K 🎼If it bleeds, we can kill it🎵
Imagine the insane coding to produce this. I remember only having an air baloon to fly over the screen was a tedious process, that took forever to write. Also the limited color palette of 16 main colors in different brightness made the programmers to come up with things like "dithering" and interlacing to replicate a bigger color scheme. Back in those days you had to use your imagination to understand what you actually saw on the screen. 😆
wow those predator's heat vision moments... so creepy!
Defeated dudes just rollin' into the bushes ❤️
I was probably a smart kid, because after 15 minutes with this game, I never came back to it xD
I could never beat this game. Pretty sure I had the bugged version where it was literally impossible to kill the Predator
David Cole Thanks to the internet i realised years later i had a bugged version. Could never figure out how to finish the game. Talk about frustration. LOL
I think the "Fast" version had a proper ending screen...but you would never see it since you can't kill the Predator in that version ;D
I'd love to know who this aaaaaa guy is, he always gets the high score on 80s games.
Thanks, I suppose the time has finally arrived for me to step forward.
I'm here! Kill me, I'm here!
I never knew what to do after going in the mud lol I always only had a little bit of life left but never knew how to finish the game, remember when it used to take about 20 mins to load? haha
Thank you, I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.
All of those hours as a kid, and I never figured out the rope and log looking thing to finish it.
Movie....
They should’ve called this, “jungle jog”
Can't help but to think this would be loads better if it was a bit more like Airborne Ranger. Gosh, I loved that game. This one doesn't look nearly as fun, but the concept of being hunted by the Predator while going about otherwise standard military operations is a neat one.
Oh wow, there actually was an ending of sorts! We just got a “game over” on the Atari ST and no way to kill the predator!
As a kid I never realized the log was controlled at the other end of the screen! I just got there and died every time.
same
Same...and if your shot the predator he killed you with one hit lol
This game blew my mind when i was a kid i was convinced there will never by a better game than this 😮
I could always get to the final battle and then had no idea what to do. Really good graphics for a game with no real ending. They should’ve had the explosion and show the “choppa” taking off.
I hope to play this on a Ps5! I hope i have one in time! Spectacular graphic!
Lookin' great if played on UA-cam at x2 speed
The loading of the cassette version of this game took about 30 minutes, and then every time you died in the game, you had to watch the entire loading sequence again before a new try. This made it the most tedious game ever to play. Also, why no music in-game?
@michael dent Makes sense, I suppose that’s why he lost 2.
i wish this game were a tad easier. lots of fun but just too hard :(
Man oh man, the title screen artwork is incredible!
I had the C64 and it was my first console/PC... i wanted the NES, but my father (like many others at the time) showed up at home (i remeber it was Christmas) with this weird thing... in that moment i felt very excited (i seem to still remember the classic smell of new electronics, which bumped out of the box just opened)... anyway, i already thought at the time, but today i ask myself even more: how disgusting were the games of the C64!?!?!?!? Disgusting musics and sounds (especially for a child), graphics at the limits of decency and in some cases a source of epileptic attacks, gameplay that bring you to blaspheme in 99.9% of cases, all crowned by a vomit controller: the Quickshot II (i can only imagine what was supposed to be the 1 version)... i spent more time repairing it than playing with it... without to forget the spits to those vapids suckers, with the useless hope of keeping it firmly on the table top... however i have to thank C64 for making me a fan (and diy capable) of electronics, programming, PC and technology in general (maybe if i had a NES, it would not have been so)...
i never saw the end,nice play!
I bought this game when I was 11 years old. I could never figure out the last level. I spent hours and hours jumping around and pressing every freaking button on my keyboard and never realized that there was a rope and that the tree trunk came down on the predator. There was no google, no internet, absolutely nothing to help me.
Same here! Apparently some versions are bugged and you can't use the rope so you can never finish it!
Should have introduced the Predator to the current generation of gaming and Tea-Bagged him.
The way the dead zipperheads barrelroll out of the screen is kinda hilarious.
Those are the exact words I use when I choose to play some of these really impossible old games :D I'm also a goddamn sexual Tyrannosaurus, but that's really too much information ;)
Gra jest ładna, niema jak stare wspomnienia na c64
Pozdrawiam
There was a glitch in this game where if you had the mud camo and the mini gun when you encountered the predator that first time, you could keep shooting and he couldn't go off in the trees. You killed it and the game froze.
I assume the 50fps in the title refers to the character's movement speed of 50 feet per season. You start the game in March and it's Christmas by the time you're on level 3.
This was a quality game for the 80's.
Maybe for the early 80s but this was published late 80s.
@@vanderslagmulders
Haha, yeah, I never came across it back then but it looks like a rather crappy one, visuals and gameplay, they just had the big name license ...and such games usually sucked.
Poor Arnie, forced to run around in chunky pixels and in slow motion.
This video should come with a sound warning for those who are wearing headphones lol
WHAT?
Another kickass c64 soundtrack!
Thnxs for the upload ig never knew they had a predator game
This was more entertaining watching w the playback speed all the way up.. the good ol days..
I may have missed it in your playthrough, but I seem to remember a flame thrower which would get the predator to leave you alone- I could never figure out what to do at the end, though...
Cute little game. I had Aliens, Predator and Die Hard from the same development house, I think - and beat them all. They did a reasonable job with the cinematics and atmosphere on all three.
This is how Crysis ran when it first came out.
Stick around.
I'm afraid the answers are all consigned to the past - we'll never know. I'd guess that someone did a hatchet job on the "slow" version to speed it up and package it up for the European market and probably assumed that they wouldn't have broken something as important as the ability to kill the Predator...
My most horrible childhood memories from this game was the fact on the c64 if you died...you couldn't just hit the start button!...nope you had to restart the game from scratch...ie load the game again which took approximately 45 minutes! The game unfortunately got chucked out of my bedroom window and smashed lol
The tone and atmosphere of this game was fantastic although I always found the gameplay rather stale. Like my fellow gamers, I only had the "fast" version which couldn't be completed - god knows how many times I tried! Didn't developers thoroughly check their games back then??!!
As much as I enjoyed games back then, movie tie-ins we’re just about making money off the movie and very little care or thought was taken to produce quality games. Not all were bad but most were.
0:00 Why Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like Jean Claude Van Damme 😂
Same hairdresser.
😂😂😂. The chopper sound: it sounds like a someone banging on a aluminum can
I thought that the Predator would go ka-boom in the end and a helicopter would come to the major's rescue, that said, it looks like it was an awesome game for its time.
2x speed and 480p looks good to me.
Brutal! Very creative ! 🤘
Played this when I was 12! I had seen the posters and knew the general idea, but predator's sudden three red dots scared the hell out of me! Was a good 4 years before I saw the awesome movie and by then I'd kinda forgottent this game (same with platoon, come to think of it!)
Duke dies 30 seconds into the game by a giant Predator hand. These guys did their homework.
This jungle has the gravity of the moon.
Amazing the shit we settled for back then. Even with the 64, something FAR more imaginative could've been made. Cool vid tho mate, thanks.
+Nick Taylor Glad you enjoyed it 😁
I think I got it in 1990. It took me several hours to load and copy the game because the tape was damaged or something. I loved the movie, but I hardly played the game because it was so bad! :)
....I missed that part from the movie when Dutch killed single handedly the hole rebel compound...according to the game developers he did that and after that have 3 grade encounters with the Predator ....cojones. I miss so much the eighties....
I never completed this game back in the day, due to fear of dying of old age if i tried..
Finally seen how to finish the ending! Would always get to end and just would die by never ending spawn of predators! Never figured out tree!!
Yep remember this well 30 mins loading time and the same again when your character died oh the memories
"Everyone get back to the chopper"!
Good lord, that sound track....
Game Over Predator(TM).
The Predator IR-tracking scenes are the only good thing about this game.
The fact the Contra released to the NES shortly after this, and was good as it was on a supposedly less powerful platform, means there was no excuse for how bad this game was.
I like the part where Dutch ran through the jungle in slo-mo.
I forgot how the guys would roll off the screen after you shot them. 😂
Glad I didn’t 39.99$ this one in 87, yikes
I also played it as a kid... the movie was better.
This movie was awful, the updated movie remake owns the original!
CheapJabroni
Hard drugs are very, VERY bad...
Hahahahaha!
Twat.
CheapJabroni Guessing you didn’t see it when it came out then.
@@amightyatom I'm kind of confused as to what CheapJabroni is referring to. He wrote that reply in 2015. That leaves only Predator 2 and Predators that he could possibly be referring to. Oh and "Aliens vs. Predator" and "Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem". So not really sure what "updated movie remake" he is referring to.
well, looks better than the NES version...
Well put. I’m laughin’ at the flying saucer of the predator space craft. 😂.
In a way this game was good. Many times I got frustrated and said 'fuck this, I'm going outside'
This game Rocks!
Hey Billy, the other day my girlfriend said she’d like a fast paced action packed game…
I had this game back in the day and the disk must have been damaged because I couldn't get the log to work. Never did finish it.
Oh I was mixing this up with platoon. I never played this but I played platoon
This game should be called "Just keep running to the right". How in the world did this shit pile get green-lighted?
JW3HH
Lots of shit games back then, just like now.
It's hard to imagine that this was gaming in the 80s 🤣🤣🤣
😆
Well, it's a really bad example ...but of course there were loads of those.
Arnold's little shimmy is so funny
Right?! 😂😂😂
6:22
@@vanderslagmulders best part!
@@rynesherman9099 by far 😄
I'm gonna have me some fun tonight, I'm gonna have some fun tonight. whoo wooo baby! I where's Mac, and Jesse the body ventura.
I wonder how many people bought this due to the cool looking box art - then played it and were like 😳😳😳😳
This game is pitiful 😂😂
game starts 01:54
This is the US version, right? Correct me if I am wrong but isn't there also european version with slightly different graphics and intro? I think that I heard that european version had a bug which made lifting the log in the end impossible and therefore finishing the game impossible too. Was there ever a working european version? Maybe cracked+fixed one?
KarpowSCX Check out the video description - I put most of the info in there :) To answer your question though, yes, this is the US "slow" version. The "fast" European version cannot be completed because you simply can't lift the log (which I discovered only after playing it to the end...). I'm not sure if there is a cracked/fixed Euro version - I'll have a look at some point.
Al82 Ah, right. Thanks. :)
I was 6 when this POS came out
I can't believe this counts as a game. I started with Nintendo. This is Scarry bad
With scarry I suppose u mean so bad it leaves scars… Yeah…