Haven't even watched this yet but absolutely loving this series. Discovering all kinds of great C64 games that I never even knew about back in the day.
Great video. I was missing my favorite Accolade game, though; Ace of Aces. Flying the Mosquito on different missions. That game was the main reason I started flying the Mosquito in DCS World.
You like your shout out at the end patsfan 4life? I thank you because you requesting this has made me see that i have missed quite a lot of software houses in the original series
One time only, I got to an ending where the hired gun doesn't shoot you. Don't remember how the entire conversation went, but he then said, "What, you don't know who I am?" My reply line was, "No, and I don't care. Have a nice day!" To my astonishment, his last line was, "Well well well... Thanks, Sheriff."
Played Beach Head a lot when I was young, then I remember my Dad buying Power at Sea and I barely touched Beach Head after that. I remember being disappointed that when you land troops you just get a cutscene, but the rest of the game made up for that. Lots of fond memories there.
I remember both Beach-Head 1 and 2. If you can believe it, I never even heard about Power At Sea until just now. Guess I’ll have to fire up the old emulator and make some new memories!
It’s amazing that the graphs and frame rate in Train and Grand Prix Circuit rocks on C64, compared to 16-bit PCs of that era. Smashing vid, once again!
I remember drooling over the magazine ads for Test Drive, Law of the west, Hardball etc. I had a Atari at the time and seeing the C64 ads I just had to have one! Played a good few on this list, some great memories. I knew The Train would be at the top spot! Nice one :)
I remember GPC very fondly, on both PC and C=64. Of course computer racing games have evolved immensely since then, but some memories stay forever. As a matter of fact, I even remember Car & Driver Magazine reviewing a bunch of PC racing titles and giving GPC a high grade.
Mini-Putt and Leaderboard were by far my favorite Golf games even to this era - Mario Golf Advance is up there as well, but something as simple yet challenging and unique as Mini-Putt is a real gem. One of my Top 10 favorite games on the system as a whole, at least when playing with friends.
PSI-5 Trading Company is one of my favorite C64 games ever. Takes a bit of time to learn, though, one of the keys of succeeding in the game is learning to prioritize things correctly, especially in Engineering. Law of the West was hilarious, also a very unique game. I think I also had Hardball but didn't play it much since I didn't understand anything about American Baseball.
I had the literal board game version of Stratego. I missed out never havin the C64 Version, which I didn't know existed to this day... Apollo 18, I did have, & holy hell it was hard... it took me literal years for me to ever manage to beat it even ONE TIME... then I never did manage it again...
I played 4th and Inches more than just about any C64 game....except maybe GBA Basketball and Project: Space Station. I played the hell out of Hardball! as well...great game.
There's one game I'm trying to find that I used to enjoy as a kid I can't remember it's name...but you were on a space station you looked down on your character who wore a red jump suit..and you would talk to various characters and aliens and you could attack them and you would see the cloud of smoke while scrapping and there was various creatures in the corridors that looked like a big ball..it was definitely like an RPG.
Wow. Synchronicity. I just found Accolade's Mini Putt a mere day ago. Fantastic c64 game. We spent a lot of time playing Hardball II and Ace of Aces which I am a bit surprised that I didn't see. As a flight game I found that the cockpit and bombing variations kept it fresh and the gameplay itself was addictive (and good controls). I didn't feel that way again about a flying game until Wings on the A500, which in my opinion is one of the most stellar examples of an all around perfect game (controls, story, graphics, replay value). Ahhh Cinemaware... If you haven't done a Cinemaware video yet... *wink wink*
Most of Accolade's sports games were head and shoulders above the rest and the only exceptions I can think of are the SportTime games...Hockey and horse racing if I remember right :) 💯🙏
Test Drive 1 & 2, Grand Prix Circuit, and Hardball were definitely my jams for Accolade. I hadn't found out about 4th and Inches or The Train: Escape to Normandy until after I moved on to the Sega Genesis for gaming.
Wow, I missed the cockpit view racers back in the day, I would have been totally enthralled by those. That space sim looks a bold, intelligent game as well.
Was a huge fan of The Train as well. Very unique simulation imo. Accolade was really solid and really shows a lot of genre range if you stop to look at the list of games they put out. They pushed that machine to the limits in terms of graphics and depth of play.
They did far less on the zx spectrum but with the exception of Grand Prix Circuit they pretty much nailed it there too (I really liked Test Drive II on the 128) but yeah. The c64 is where they shone Hardball was the one which I spnt an obscene amount of time on
@@oldstylegaming that's true also, produced by Artech Digital and published by both accolade and us gold (had to look it up). I feit it was a typical accolade game with big screens you know. Anyway it's awesome, u think we can agree on that ;)
Man! The memories! Accolade Comics is often slept on but it is one of my favorite Commodore 64 games! I like that you can choose different outcomes and the mini games are great! I never played Fast Break to my recollection, but that's pretty impressive that they got 4 x 4 action going! Test Drive was my childhood! Felt proud telling my classmates I drove a Lamborghini today! 😂 Mini-Putt Challenge was another game I played the hell out of! I'd often play levels over and over again to get the eagle or birdie! I had the Jack Nicklaus golf on my Amiga 500!! I'd make a new course every weekend and have friends come over and try it out! Such an awesome game!!
Accolade always looked a solid publishing house who looked like they put effort in their releases. A couple misses but here and there but what software doesn’t.
I did not play 4th and Inches in the 80s when I had my c64 as a youngster. I played it a few weeks ago for the first time and really liked it. I loved sports games such as Emlyn Hughes and Graham Gooch Cricket so would have enjoyed the game back then. I loved John Madden on the Amiga. I used to play Hardball. There were some great baseball games and it is a shame there were not more decent cricket games. It is probably because the baseball games were made by US companies for the US market. I played Rack Em a few months ago for the first time too. I had never heard of it before!
Psi 5 Trading Company Truly a top game Super Hectic Haven’t played it since the day Law of the West Huge Graphics for the 64 Not a long term player But amazing when it came out
Bubble Ghost is actually a pretty good game on the Atari ST because you can use the mouse to control the ghost. The controls in the C64 version leave a lot to be desired however
Wow. A few gems in there. I used to play Hard Ball for hours on end. Still got an original copy of Killed Until dead on cassette, might go fire it up 😁👍
I bought one of the super console x that you reviewed, can you give me any tips on how to get the best out of the c64 games? Or point me in the direction of where to best find answers? Cheers mate.
@@oldstylegaming, I've struggled with most of the commodore games to even get them to work/control properly, plus they still seem to have a loader (though obviously it's not like the old days), but I've seen videos over the years that get old games running like you always dreamed they would.
@@fearlessjoebanzai so i would say that the keyboard is essential for c64 amiga etc especially c64 as most games require a keyboard key to be pressed to exit the cracktros etc.
@@fearlessjoebanzai Give me a list of what you are struggling with and ill fire mine up. Most C64 games need the joystick in the right port so maybe thats your issue...anyway give me at least one game that you are struggling with so i can replicate it on my xcube.
Killed Until Dead, Power at Sea and Psi 5 Trading Company are all in my Top 20 C64 games! Accolade are the company most represented in it! Loved almost everything the company released. They are just pipped at the post, for me, with Microprose.
What site do you download from, I have the c64 mini, I miss the orginal c64 and the c128 I had two disk drives and tape drive and an awesome commodore colour monitor and dot matrix printer and over 700 games ( all orginal, lol )
I loved grand prix circuit back in the day, I played it a lot till the arrive of f1 gran prix from the great geoff crammond. As a kid I considered accolade games stuff for grown ups mostly, anyway I see that time hasn't been much gentle with them.
"Test Drive II" was the only one of those that we had. Most of the rest of the games in our collection were MicroProse (which kicked massive amounts of ass on the C-64/128), a lot of the Infocom game library, a few by Electronic Arts (back before they became a bunch of a-holes) and a lot of cheap-arsed bargain bin indy type games.
rack em is a nightmare until you realise that to hit the ball straight you need to press the button when the cue is as close to the cue ball as possible ....
Stratego - I never played the C64 version, but I played the Amiga version once. After getting over my disappointment with the graphics, which looked nothing like the beautiful screenshots of the VGA version, I read the rules, set up the board, started a game against the computer and promptly quit when it became obvious that the computer was cheating. I had set up traps, but the computer avoided every single one of them and made a beeline straight for my flag. I loved The Train and Apollo 18, also Ace of Aces. Never cared for the Jack Nicklaus golf games, mostly because of the graphics. I much preferred Leaderboard's cleaner visual style.
Ahhhhh Sam Fox poker and them pixelated boobies they was the days haha. Few games on this list i was not a fan of but many i was bubble ghost, mini putt and ofc The Train. Man the time i spent on this game was unreal and i loved it. Great stuff as always buddy and hey look at me catching your vid not long after it has come out, keep up the great work and roll on the next one.
Sam Fox was only famous because of the time she decided to take her clothes off...she wouldnt even be noticed in this world now when its a common thing to be naked
@@oldstylegaming Jakki Degg and Leilani Dowding still got it imo but the GOAT has to be Jo Guest in her prime shame so got ill. But hey as am here i had to watch the video again haha.
Could you actually ‘play’ microleague baseball? I had that on my Apple2 and was only a simulation of being a coach? Could of been me being a kid. But can you play; hit, pitch, run etc. ?
Oh yeah. Accolade, man. I have strong memories of playing Test Drive and Power At Sea. I loved Steel Thunder. I have a couple of Accolade titles in my library and I have to say I really love having a copy of T.K.O. Oh. Let those puny Nintendo dorks have their tiny boxing games. C64 had TKO and man it's good.
Nr. 1: Grand Prix Circuit. Nr. 1b: Test Drive. Played both forever. Would have loved to get my hands on TD2 The Duel! Never played it much, but The Cycles is GPC on motorcycles, also very good. Why is it not in the top 20? Bubble Ghost is a really nice game, was even ported to Game Boy. Jack Nicklaus has the same slow build up of the grapics. But it looks ugly! I mean, look at 1:40. And it's from 1989! I liked Leaderboard, but JL may be worth a try, nontheless. I think i played Law of the West, but not very often. Don't know why. It's one of not too many wild west games on C64. Should give it another try! Fast Break: every soccer/basketball/ice hockey/tennis/volleyball game is worth a try, i think. Accolade Comics has an interesting look and concept. The Train seems to be very intresting! And Killed until dead too. I like detective/gangster games, although i'm not into adventures.
Dang, honestly makes me sad that the only thing Accolade will ever be known for these days is Bubsy. Not even Star Control is that well known compared to the annoying bobcat. They have these many great games yet the bobcat managed to put them all into dead obscurity. Like, seriously, Michael Berlyn should've known that they were dealing with PROS & that he wasn't one.
Love the list. I don't play sim games, but it's a quality education to learn what was possible from those who do. And some, like your number one pick, speak for themselves. With that said, and keeping in mind this is coming from a Yank who actually does know how football is played....I don't get the placement of 4th and inches. At all. "Sort of enjoy it"? Is this your list or your audience's? You didn't offer a single reason why it ranked higher than Law of the West, for example. And that slow motion action doesn't look inviting. I had to do some independent research to find out why anyone liked it at all.
I understand that you have to get the ball over the line, its kind of like rugby although we arent allowed to throw it forward. I do understand the principles of the game just not all the tactics and plays. I can win games in 4th n inches. The reason its higher than law of the west is although i loved it back in the day, once youve played it a few times youve seen it all...with 4th n inches no 2 games are the same as with most sports games making the longevity of the game better
Objectively Accolade didn't make a single really bad game, but subjectively most didn't appeal to me. Test Drive I & II are awesome, and Law of the west is lots of fun, but is just multiple choice and has a terrible replay value (eg compare Activision's incredible Alter Ego). Mini-Putt is fun too, but not better than comparable minigolf games (eg by Capcom or Magic Bytes). Psi 5, Killed until dead, The rain and to a lesser degree Stratego and Card Sharks are also nice, but also no Ubergame and the rest just didn't appeal to me. Nothing wrong with the games, just not my cup of tea. Microprose, Epyx, Synapse, Broderbund, EA, Sirius, SSI or Hewson's games just had more appeal to me. Eg EA's Archon blows Stratego just out of the water (given that's not Accolade's fault, as the port of the boardgame is pretty good, and the only one I'm aware of, on any system).
Haven't even watched this yet but absolutely loving this series. Discovering all kinds of great C64 games that I never even knew about back in the day.
Great video.
I was missing my favorite Accolade game, though; Ace of Aces. Flying the Mosquito on different missions. That game was the main reason I started flying the Mosquito in DCS World.
Difficult to choose between Ace of Aces and The Train as No 1. I loved both. A definite oversight by OSG.
Law of The West was so creative, innovative and above all, hilarious and engaging & so easy to pick up & just play
+Patsfan 4life
I was hoping he was going to shoot the broad! 😆
You like your shout out at the end patsfan 4life? I thank you because you requesting this has made me see that i have missed quite a lot of software houses in the original series
@@oldstylegaming Awesome 😎
One time only, I got to an ending where the hired gun doesn't shoot you.
Don't remember how the entire conversation went, but he then said, "What, you don't know who I am?"
My reply line was, "No, and I don't care. Have a nice day!"
To my astonishment, his last line was, "Well well well... Thanks, Sheriff."
these guys really raised the standard - love them, always looked fwd to a new release from them
Power at Sea, The Train, Test Drive, 4th and Inches, Killed Until Dead all time favorite games !! Awesome video.
Hardball is one of my all-time favourites; still revisit it today.
Law Of The West 😍
"Up yours, sheriff!"
The Train , Law of the West and Hardball , many happy hours of gaming. Nice vid :)
Hardball was a game I used to love to play yet I couldn't stand baseball lol
Train to Normandy is something I intend to play, looks brilliant.
It is brilliant mate. Who would have thought putting coal in a fire could be entertaining
Played Beach Head a lot when I was young, then I remember my Dad buying Power at Sea and I barely touched Beach Head after that. I remember being disappointed that when you land troops you just get a cutscene, but the rest of the game made up for that. Lots of fond memories there.
I remember both Beach-Head 1 and 2. If you can believe it, I never even heard about Power At Sea until just now. Guess I’ll have to fire up the old emulator and make some new memories!
I only knew Beach Head. We used pirate versions, illegal cracked copies in the communist regime XD
They made some great title screens. My favourite was law of the west. Actually played on the anniversary last week..
Had 4th & Inches and the Team Construction Set that allowed you to create leagues on it. Many, many fun times were had with that.
It’s amazing that the graphs and frame rate in Train and Grand Prix Circuit rocks on C64, compared to 16-bit PCs of that era.
Smashing vid, once again!
I remember drooling over the magazine ads for Test Drive, Law of the west, Hardball etc. I had a Atari at the time and seeing the C64 ads I just had to have one! Played a good few on this list, some great memories. I knew The Train would be at the top spot! Nice one :)
Great video, thanks a lot! My favourite three Accolade games are: The Train, Grand Prix Circuit and Test Drive. 👍
I remember GPC very fondly, on both PC and C=64. Of course computer racing games have evolved immensely since then, but some memories stay forever. As a matter of fact, I even remember Car & Driver Magazine reviewing a bunch of PC racing titles and giving GPC a high grade.
Mini-Putt and Leaderboard were by far my favorite Golf games even to this era - Mario Golf Advance is up there as well, but something as simple yet challenging and unique as Mini-Putt is a real gem. One of my Top 10 favorite games on the system as a whole, at least when playing with friends.
Played Hardball and Psi 5 for hours back in the day....great times.
A lot of great ones here. With Accolade you knew you were getting your money's worth.
Law of the West was my favourite Accolade game back in the day.
PSI-5 Trading Company is one of my favorite C64 games ever. Takes a bit of time to learn, though, one of the keys of succeeding in the game is learning to prioritize things correctly, especially in Engineering.
Law of the West was hilarious, also a very unique game.
I think I also had Hardball but didn't play it much since I didn't understand anything about American Baseball.
I had the literal board game version of Stratego. I missed out never havin the C64 Version, which I didn't know existed to this day...
Apollo 18, I did have, & holy hell it was hard... it took me literal years for me to ever manage to beat it even ONE TIME... then I never did manage it again...
PSI5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been looking for that for years. I remember playing it on DOS many years ago.
great game
Law of the West is a top 3 game for me, just brings back such great memories.
I played 4th and Inches more than just about any C64 game....except maybe GBA Basketball and Project: Space Station. I played the hell out of Hardball! as well...great game.
There's one game I'm trying to find that I used to enjoy as a kid I can't remember it's name...but you were on a space station you looked down on your character who wore a red jump suit..and you would talk to various characters and aliens and you could attack them and you would see the cloud of smoke while scrapping and there was various creatures in the corridors that looked like a big ball..it was definitely like an RPG.
Escape from the planet of the robot monsters?
The Train and Power At Sea are amazing. Such good graphics and they fit on one disc side.
The Train is awesome. Non stop action and fun in that game. Great list OSG!!!
I clearly remember how much I drooled on the Law of the West >paper< screenshots, back in the day.
I liked the tune on hardball ,
Wow. Synchronicity. I just found Accolade's Mini Putt a mere day ago. Fantastic c64 game.
We spent a lot of time playing Hardball II and Ace of Aces which I am a bit surprised that I didn't see. As a flight game I found that the cockpit and bombing variations kept it fresh and the gameplay itself was addictive (and good controls). I didn't feel that way again about a flying game until Wings on the A500, which in my opinion is one of the most stellar examples of an all around perfect game (controls, story, graphics, replay value).
Ahhh Cinemaware... If you haven't done a Cinemaware video yet... *wink wink*
Ahhhhhhh.... NVM. Going to watch it now. 😀
Awesome nostalgia 👊🏻😁🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺
awesome games - trying to catch up with your older videos like this
thanks a lot
You missed ace of aces! That's an accolade game and I would put that on even par with the train from Normandy
Most of Accolade's sports games were head and shoulders above the rest and the only exceptions I can think of are the SportTime games...Hockey and horse racing if I remember right :) 💯🙏
Test Drive 1 & 2, Grand Prix Circuit, and Hardball were definitely my jams for Accolade. I hadn't found out about 4th and Inches or The Train: Escape to Normandy until after I moved on to the Sega Genesis for gaming.
Wow, I missed the cockpit view racers back in the day, I would have been totally enthralled by those. That space sim looks a bold, intelligent game as well.
Was a huge fan of The Train as well. Very unique simulation imo. Accolade was really solid and really shows a lot of genre range if you stop to look at the list of games they put out. They pushed that machine to the limits in terms of graphics and depth of play.
Think all that's left is a nice microprose episode 👍
They did far less on the zx spectrum but with the exception of Grand Prix Circuit they pretty much nailed it there too (I really liked Test Drive II on the 128) but yeah. The c64 is where they shone Hardball was the one which I spnt an obscene amount of time on
Same for me, regarding Hardball
Another good video OSG. I loved Law Of The West and still play it occasionally. Used to love Hardball too. Great graphics in both games.
That music from Grand Prix Circuit is incredible.
PSI-5 is a trully masterpiece. Great Acco_Compilation.
Ace of aces stands out in absence here. My hands down accolade favourite...
I thought ace of aces was us gold
@@oldstylegaming that's true also, produced by Artech Digital and published by both accolade and us gold (had to look it up).
I feit it was a typical accolade game with big screens you know. Anyway it's awesome, u think we can agree on that ;)
@@daison2002 yeah i loved ace of aces i would have had it maybe in 2nd after train
Superb Accolade games. Killed until dead one of the funniest and most original C64 games ever. Just brilliant.
Thanks, I didn't know many of these. I spent a lot of time with GPC.
Awesome list. I'd forgotten some of those.
Psi 5, best of the bunch but I really enjoyed Killed Until Dead, I think I bought it because of the hilarious title.
What a list, so many I’ve not played but will now, awesome yet again
Thank you for the review!
Man! The memories! Accolade Comics is often slept on but it is one of my favorite Commodore 64 games! I like that you can choose different outcomes and the mini games are great!
I never played Fast Break to my recollection, but that's pretty impressive that they got 4 x 4 action going!
Test Drive was my childhood! Felt proud telling my classmates I drove a Lamborghini today! 😂
Mini-Putt Challenge was another game I played the hell out of! I'd often play levels over and over again to get the eagle or birdie!
I had the Jack Nicklaus golf on my Amiga 500!! I'd make a new course every weekend and have friends come over and try it out! Such an awesome game!!
I remember playing Mini-Putt for ages. Such a great Game!
Fantastic video man. Love this series concept. Keep it up!
Accolade always looked a solid publishing house who looked like they put effort in their releases. A couple misses but here and there but what software doesn’t.
true i dont think that 20 good to great games out of 25 is bad...certainly better than the likes of US Gold which i might cover soon
oh man Hardball. I played that heaps and had forgotten about it.
Loving your channel. Been watching you for the past few nights. You from Sunderland?
Yeah well just outside of Sunderland
@@oldstylegaming yeah we thought you sounded local and when you mentioned being in the North East too.
@@JustJamie1983 im from Houghton
@@oldstylegaming I've heard of it. I'm a Bristolian but now in the NE. My missus likely knows where that is. We are in Redcar.
I did not play 4th and Inches in the 80s when I had my c64 as a youngster. I played it a few weeks ago for the first time and really liked it. I loved sports games such as Emlyn Hughes and Graham Gooch Cricket so would have enjoyed the game back then. I loved John Madden on the Amiga. I used to play Hardball. There were some great baseball games and it is a shame there were not more decent cricket games. It is probably because the baseball games were made by US companies for the US market. I played Rack Em a few months ago for the first time too. I had never heard of it before!
Psi 5 Trading Company
Truly a top game
Super Hectic
Haven’t played it since the day
Law of the West
Huge Graphics for the 64
Not a long term player
But amazing when it came out
Love these videos!
Great video again.
Bubble Ghost is actually a pretty good game on the Atari ST because you can use the mouse to control the ghost. The controls in the C64 version leave a lot to be desired however
Wow. A few gems in there. I used to play Hard Ball for hours on end. Still got an original copy of Killed Until dead on cassette, might go fire it up 😁👍
I got my c64 in 1995 or 96, my grandparents found it at a flea market. I played the heck out of Rambo
Bubble Ghost was from Infogrames / Ere Informatique, France. Accolade just published in the US I guess.
yeah well publishing is what i go off. loads of games were actually developed by other teams like with the EA list.
I bought one of the super console x that you reviewed, can you give me any tips on how to get the best out of the c64 games? Or point me in the direction of where to best find answers?
Cheers mate.
What you mean get the best out of them?
@@oldstylegaming, I've struggled with most of the commodore games to even get them to work/control properly, plus they still seem to have a loader (though obviously it's not like the old days), but I've seen videos over the years that get old games running like you always dreamed they would.
@@oldstylegaming, admittedly I've not tried that many, I have got a usb keyboard now that I haven't tried yet.
@@fearlessjoebanzai so i would say that the keyboard is essential for c64 amiga etc especially c64 as most games require a keyboard key to be pressed to exit the cracktros etc.
@@fearlessjoebanzai Give me a list of what you are struggling with and ill fire mine up. Most C64 games need the joystick in the right port so maybe thats your issue...anyway give me at least one game that you are struggling with so i can replicate it on my xcube.
"Accolade Presents..." that digitized voice before many of their games. Oh man, you knew you were getting a good game.
Bubble ghost has a surprisingly good game boy port
Killed Until Dead, Power at Sea and Psi 5 Trading Company are all in my Top 20 C64 games! Accolade are the company most represented in it! Loved almost everything the company released. They are just pipped at the post, for me, with Microprose.
Very nice, cheers!
What site do you download from, I have the c64 mini, I miss the orginal c64 and the c128 I had two disk drives and tape drive and an awesome commodore colour monitor and dot matrix printer and over 700 games ( all orginal, lol )
I have the majority of the games, but if i have to download its normally from wowroms
i spent many a day and hours on the 64 and wow what a machine it was ............
Steel Thunder is the best tank game on the C64!
This series is great. Do an *EPYX* video next. :)
I loved grand prix circuit back in the day, I played it a lot till the arrive of f1 gran prix from the great geoff crammond. As a kid I considered accolade games stuff for grown ups mostly, anyway I see that time hasn't been much gentle with them.
Ah just one thing, you should have put in the vid the iconic c64 saying "accolade presentes"
yeah i was gonna clip that from the start of apollo 18
Dude "Ace of Aces" must play
I REALLY LOVE MY C64 👍🥂🎩
wow some classic games on that list
"Test Drive II" was the only one of those that we had. Most of the rest of the games in our collection were MicroProse (which kicked massive amounts of ass on the C-64/128), a lot of the Infocom game library, a few by Electronic Arts (back before they became a bunch of a-holes) and a lot of cheap-arsed bargain bin indy type games.
Had Rack’em as a kid. I remember that I felt very sophisticated playing it 😆
rack em is a nightmare until you realise that to hit the ball straight you need to press the button when the cue is as close to the cue ball as possible ....
If only they had made jack nicklaus Gorf
Stratego - I never played the C64 version, but I played the Amiga version once. After getting over my disappointment with the graphics, which looked nothing like the beautiful screenshots of the VGA version, I read the rules, set up the board, started a game against the computer and promptly quit when it became obvious that the computer was cheating. I had set up traps, but the computer avoided every single one of them and made a beeline straight for my flag.
I loved The Train and Apollo 18, also Ace of Aces. Never cared for the Jack Nicklaus golf games, mostly because of the graphics. I much preferred Leaderboard's cleaner visual style.
Ahhhhh Sam Fox poker and them pixelated boobies they was the days haha. Few games on this list i was not a fan of but many i was bubble ghost, mini putt and ofc The Train. Man the time i spent on this game was unreal and i loved it. Great stuff as always buddy and hey look at me catching your vid not long after it has come out, keep up the great work and roll on the next one.
Sam Fox was only famous because of the time she decided to take her clothes off...she wouldnt even be noticed in this world now when its a common thing to be naked
@@oldstylegaming This is true
@@oldstylegaming Not sure about that, looking back she's still smashing.
I dont think so compared to whats around now. Maria Whittaker however still stands the test of time for me
@@oldstylegaming Jakki Degg and Leilani Dowding still got it imo but the GOAT has to be Jo Guest in her prime shame so got ill. But hey as am here i had to watch the video again haha.
Bubble Ghost is a great game!!
Hey OSG . What do you run these games on?
I have a real c64 but mostly i run them on vice on my laptop
@@oldstylegaming I'm looking to emulate systems on a pi400 I just purchased
Killed until dead used to be a guilty pleasure of mine, haha.
Hardly played any of these as a kid. Seems I missed a lot of games
Could you actually ‘play’ microleague baseball? I had that on my Apple2 and was only a simulation of being a coach? Could of been me being a kid. But can you play; hit, pitch, run etc. ?
Nah thats the game mate its not an action game , but its a great game. For action lovers hardball is better
Oh yeah. Accolade, man. I have strong memories of playing Test Drive and Power At Sea. I loved Steel Thunder. I have a couple of Accolade titles in my library and I have to say I really love having a copy of T.K.O. Oh. Let those puny Nintendo dorks have their tiny boxing games. C64 had TKO and man it's good.
Nr. 1: Grand Prix Circuit. Nr. 1b: Test Drive. Played both forever. Would have loved to get my hands on TD2 The Duel! Never played it much, but The Cycles is GPC on motorcycles, also very good. Why is it not in the top 20?
Bubble Ghost is a really nice game, was even ported to Game Boy.
Jack Nicklaus has the same slow build up of the grapics. But it looks ugly! I mean, look at 1:40. And it's from 1989! I liked Leaderboard, but JL may be worth a try, nontheless.
I think i played Law of the West, but not very often. Don't know why. It's one of not too many wild west games on C64. Should give it another try!
Fast Break: every soccer/basketball/ice hockey/tennis/volleyball game is worth a try, i think.
Accolade Comics has an interesting look and concept.
The Train seems to be very intresting!
And Killed until dead too. I like detective/gangster games, although i'm not into adventures.
Love Law of the west! Alway killed the annoying kid lol
The Cycles and Ace of Aces weren't from accolade?
3:31 made me sea sick (blergh!)
Cool games 👍
Accolade certainly had the best graphics overall.
Oh. Grand Prix Circuit. I played the s*it out of it on a IBM CGA PC with a friend. Amazingly fun. I even remember all the names of the ai drivers.
They should make a well... remake of Psi-5 for PC.
Dang, honestly makes me sad that the only thing Accolade will ever be known for these days is Bubsy. Not even Star Control is that well known compared to the annoying bobcat. They have these many great games yet the bobcat managed to put them all into dead obscurity. Like, seriously, Michael Berlyn should've known that they were dealing with PROS & that he wasn't one.
Love the list. I don't play sim games, but it's a quality education to learn what was possible from those who do. And some, like your number one pick, speak for themselves.
With that said, and keeping in mind this is coming from a Yank who actually does know how football is played....I don't get the placement of 4th and inches. At all. "Sort of enjoy it"? Is this your list or your audience's? You didn't offer a single reason why it ranked higher than Law of the West, for example. And that slow motion action doesn't look inviting.
I had to do some independent research to find out why anyone liked it at all.
I understand that you have to get the ball over the line, its kind of like rugby although we arent allowed to throw it forward. I do understand the principles of the game just not all the tactics and plays. I can win games in 4th n inches. The reason its higher than law of the west is although i loved it back in the day, once youve played it a few times youve seen it all...with 4th n inches no 2 games are the same as with most sports games making the longevity of the game better
the game boy bubble ghost was best
Objectively Accolade didn't make a single really bad game, but subjectively most didn't appeal to me. Test Drive I & II are awesome, and Law of the west is lots of fun, but is just multiple choice and has a terrible replay value (eg compare Activision's incredible Alter Ego). Mini-Putt is fun too, but not better than comparable minigolf games (eg by Capcom or Magic Bytes). Psi 5, Killed until dead, The rain and to a lesser degree Stratego and Card Sharks are also nice, but also no Ubergame and the rest just didn't appeal to me. Nothing wrong with the games, just not my cup of tea. Microprose, Epyx, Synapse, Broderbund, EA, Sirius, SSI or Hewson's games just had more appeal to me. Eg EA's Archon blows Stratego just out of the water (given that's not Accolade's fault, as the port of the boardgame is pretty good, and the only one I'm aware of, on any system).
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