Why are these classic games so much better than most nowadays games? They have a soul, character, and personality - plus they're humble !! Not photorealistic than modern games and that's great! C64 rules!
Back in the day, game developers only had 64K available to program games, and what a fantastic job they made. I totally was into Maniac Mansion, one of the first point'n'click adventure games. Good old days :-)
It worked. We went to big stores and talked to the employee in the "Computer-Corner". He took the games and went with us in the HiFi Floor and we copied the games. But we had to buy the empty cassettes before... :) Good old times.
Good video, there are very strong games here and I assume it was very difficult to decide which games you should include! Ghostbusters was one of my favourite when I was a child (I found it in a collection that a friend of my brother's lent us); Revenge of the Mutant Camels is one of the silliest games I've ever played! I'm looking forward to watching the next years' episodes, so keep up the good work!!!
What we lost with the 64?: Precision design. It is a fairly normal affair on the 64 to be able to time program and event launch down to the microsecond, to detect on character-graphics to the single pixel and for nearly every single major product released to synchronize at the full video frame rate without ever dropping one. You just don't get that kind of precision and consistency on the PC, on typical 3D games, or even really at all today. Vivre la 64! And esp. Albert Charpentier the designer.
Today I'm sorry putting all the old computer stuff (C128, Atari, Amstrad.....) into the dustbin. But not my C64. They are all still there in the cellar.
I was also confident that I had most c64 games back in the days when I had around 1000. Now when I check game databases I feel more humble about my old collection :) There was a legend going around back in the days that you could copy original cassettes with dual deck stereos. Tried it several times with different stereos, but it never worked.
@rainstorm1977 Indeed, 1984 was an especially good year for c64 games, but I also didn't have a chance to see all famous games from that year such as Summer Games for example. One great game was Spy vs Spy which was awesomely fun to play with a friend, but wasn't equally engaging in 1p mode. I bought a re-release of Ghostbusters, it loaded with a Space Invaders minigame and used "One Man and His Droid" by Hubbard as BG music. Never played the original OMaHD. Thanks for commenting :)
Hum, my cousin used to do that but as I understood it it worked some of the time and other times now. I am totally going to try it if I can find my only game (Ghosts'n Goblins) and a tape. Also there are programs for PC that convert tape-files to tape audio. Of course nowadays nothing beats the MMC Replay with a 2GB mmc card. :)
yeap played all those :O and then some man i had a briefcase filled with tapes ! and a full case of discs, think i had most games, thank you to my preowner that had pirated everything except the underrated Motor Massacre :) what a game cover that was. fun fact: Did you know you used to pirate over the radio by recording games, they used to announce for you to be ready to record and let you grap that game instantly ^^ yea what you think about them apples, true story.
My choices would be rather different, Summer games instead of Decathlon. And replace Slamball, BC quest 2, Adept for other games. Black Hawk, Guardian, Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory, Mr Do's castle, Orc Attack, Popeye, Tapper, Basketball are some of my favorite games. But it would be interesting with other games like simulations, adventure or strategic.
Can someone explain me one thing? I´ve never understood this part of Bruce lee @ 10:27 where you have to choose between three elevators. Only one let you continue your journey while other two always crashed my game and i had to reload it. Is it bug in my game, feature in game or copy protection of some sort. I don´t get it :). One of my favorite games when i was a kid!
'94? 92-94 was the period the commercial market for the '64 died but people didn't stop working with it: They till do with about five demo releases per month. 'Jim Slim' the game, out in 2011 (c64scene dot nl). Biggest landmark demo of the last several years is this from 2008: /watch?v=bzvMYE3PUn4
Never really liked Grog's Revenge much. Especially, after the bad guy got the last laugh once you completed the game. The ending was shit. The original B.C. Quest for Tires was MUCH better
I have fond memories with QfT, it has more adventurous feel to it. In the sequel there's more freedom though as you can choose which paths to take. However, it gets more repetitive with the content after a while of playing, but the concept is more original than the first game. Anyways, what games in the list are best is open for debate, hard to be definitive with so many good games :)
This was a great year for games. Brings back memories. I have played most of the games in the video. In fact I still have them and play them somtimes.
Boulderdash, HERO and Bruce Lee, played the crap out of those!
Man, Boulder Dash has caused many home works to be undone back in those magical days. :)
Same here!
6:50 Up ‘n’ Down was one of two C64 games we had on cartridges instead of floppies while I was growing up. The other was JumpMan Junior.
Thanks for bringing back so many great memories!
Why are these classic games so much better than most nowadays games? They have a soul, character, and personality - plus they're humble !! Not photorealistic than modern games and that's great! C64 rules!
Back in the day, game developers only had 64K available to program games, and what a fantastic job they made. I totally was into Maniac Mansion, one of the first point'n'click adventure games. Good old days :-)
More like about 40KB, excluding the kernel parts... indeed amazing.
I had a C64 growing up I miss my C64
Great video, great games and some really good comments by the uploader and others. Nice and all too rare to see :)
Best c-64 compilation ever thx
This was basically my 1984, had all these on tape. Only one missing was Choplifter. oh and Jumpman!
I really miss those times...
Very relaxing and reassuring to watch somehow.
It worked. We went to big stores and talked to the employee in the "Computer-Corner". He took the games and went with us in the HiFi Floor and we copied the games. But we had to buy the empty cassettes before... :) Good old times.
the greatest sound ever....harry nabbing more gold...and the pitfall II song getting fast again!
Good video, there are very strong games here and I assume it was very difficult to decide which games you should include! Ghostbusters was one of my favourite when I was a child (I found it in a collection that a friend of my brother's lent us); Revenge of the Mutant Camels is one of the silliest games I've ever played! I'm looking forward to watching the next years' episodes, so keep up the good work!!!
Wow. This was some of the best years concerning c64 games. I remember I was astounished with graphics of Pitstop II and possiblity to play multiplayer
What we lost with the 64?: Precision design. It is a fairly normal affair on the 64 to be able to time program and event launch down to the microsecond, to detect on character-graphics to the single pixel and for nearly every single major product released to synchronize at the full video frame rate without ever dropping one. You just don't get that kind of precision and consistency on the PC, on typical 3D games, or even really at all today. Vivre la 64! And esp. Albert Charpentier the designer.
Today I'm sorry putting all the old computer stuff (C128, Atari, Amstrad.....) into the dustbin. But not my C64. They are all still there in the cellar.
The Commodore 64 spanned from 1982 to 1994 longer than any home computer ever.
wow, those games where the real pieces of art. very surreal
One of those games I didn't have back then. Looks quite complex for such an old game. Propably influenced Pirates! also.
Nice choice of 1984 games!
7:10 - that's a cute game! :) I've never seen it before.
I have no idea why (slower, blocky gfx and so on) but I had way more fun back with my C64 then I have now :)
Oh yes, great days.. Hours with my little screwdriver !
I was also confident that I had most c64 games back in the days when I had around 1000. Now when I check game databases I feel more humble about my old collection :)
There was a legend going around back in the days that you could copy original cassettes with dual deck stereos. Tried it several times with different stereos, but it never worked.
It was abit hit an miss with hifi's the best way was two c64 tape decks with a special adaptor box to connect them that was epic
You mean like Adam Sandlers kids in Grown Ups when they ask him what kind of a giant box is on the back of the television ^^
And speaking of consoles the ATARI 2600 or VCS takes the cake with a life span from 1977 to ca 1992, suck on that you youngsters!
Aww, the sad music @ pitfall II when you die.
Archon: One of the most revolutionary and cool games ever. It would be a great game (remake) nowadays.
@rainstorm1977 Indeed, 1984 was an especially good year for c64 games, but I also didn't have a chance to see all famous games from that year such as Summer Games for example. One great game was Spy vs Spy which was awesomely fun to play with a friend, but wasn't equally engaging in 1p mode.
I bought a re-release of Ghostbusters, it loaded with a Space Invaders minigame and used "One Man and His Droid" by Hubbard as BG music. Never played the original OMaHD.
Thanks for commenting :)
Hum, my cousin used to do that but as I understood it it worked some of the time and other times now. I am totally going to try it if I can find my only game (Ghosts'n Goblins) and a tape. Also there are programs for PC that convert tape-files to tape audio. Of course nowadays nothing beats the MMC Replay with a 2GB mmc card. :)
C64's Spirit of the game!!! Yes!!! Dude has got it RIGHT!!!
yeap played all those :O and then some man i had a briefcase filled with tapes ! and a full case of discs, think i had most games, thank you to my preowner that had pirated everything except the underrated Motor Massacre :) what a game cover that was.
fun fact: Did you know you used to pirate over the radio by recording games, they used to announce for you to be ready to record and let you grap that game instantly ^^ yea what you think about them apples, true story.
As this time the c64 was easily the best home machine for gaming (although Bruce Lee was arguably better on the Spectrum)
Slamball - the ball is high on drugs, haha!
what was that kp skips bike game called? I freakin loved that!
My choices would be rather different, Summer games instead of Decathlon. And replace Slamball, BC quest 2, Adept for other games. Black Hawk, Guardian, Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory, Mr Do's castle, Orc Attack, Popeye, Tapper, Basketball are some of my favorite games. But it would be interesting with other games like simulations, adventure or strategic.
Can someone explain me one thing? I´ve never understood this part of Bruce lee @ 10:27 where you have to choose between three elevators. Only one let you continue your journey while other two always crashed my game and i had to reload it.
Is it bug in my game, feature in game or copy protection of some sort. I don´t get it :).
One of my favorite games when i was a kid!
I believe it's a bug caused by a bad crack. I probably had the same version that would crash back in the days.
most likely yes. Thanks for answer.
the c64 was the only 8 bit computer that could do speech synthesis you could actually understand
3:44 sounds liek a load of flies dying.
'94? 92-94 was the period the commercial market for the '64 died but people didn't stop working with it: They till do with about five demo releases per month. 'Jim Slim' the game, out in 2011 (c64scene dot nl). Biggest landmark demo of the last several years is this from 2008: /watch?v=bzvMYE3PUn4
5:05 great name XD
5:34 Attack of the mutant mutant camels? As opposed to Attack of the non-mutant mutant camels?
AH, yes... Invade-A-Load. yes the music was used with permission.
Somewhere around @6m10s until, well, the rest of it all is just such a big WTF JUST HAPPENED I DON'T EVEN
GHOSTBUSTERS!!!
A CAVEMAN ON A UNICYCLE???7
WTF!!!!1111
Classic :D
Unless it was just because I was a Speccy user...
Muistoja, muistoja :)
😍
5:14 What.. the.. hell..
Bruce Lee: Spoiler alert!
;-)
5:14 W.T.F.
I think I remember playing this game. Yup... I played this. Fun as hell as a kid before I discovered masturbation.
The Archon games were the shit (well, except for that shitty fangame Archon III which was total crap).
Never really liked Grog's Revenge much. Especially, after the bad guy got the last laugh once you completed the game. The ending was shit. The original B.C. Quest for Tires was MUCH better
I have fond memories with QfT, it has more adventurous feel to it. In the sequel there's more freedom though as you can choose which paths to take. However, it gets more repetitive with the content after a while of playing, but the concept is more original than the first game. Anyways, what games in the list are best is open for debate, hard to be definitive with so many good games :)
GHOST BUSTERS!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Sorry but these are some bad games that represent the C64. It was a decent machine but these don't show that.
Pitfall was shit.
I successfully copied tape games with a Fisher double deck! It had a turbo copy function, but those copy never worked. At regular speed, no problems!