My father used to play it while the whole family watched... it was hypnotic... i have such good memories from this game, it brings me back to my childhood
Ahhhhh the ruthless days of the C64. Games were so hard they scared you. These sound effects just remind me of how difficult games used to be. Good times.
I was a bit later, so had a master system and then a Mega drive, I only played the c64 a bit at my cousin's house, but even then in my era there were all these cheats every game had. It was so fun messing around with the cheats, not just to make beating a game easier necessarily, but often it just made fun experiments to play with. Especially then later on in the PS1 era, cheats were often for unlockable new game modes or costumes. Even for the c64 weren't there a bunch of "trainers" to make every game easier and change parameters of things? I distinctly remember seeing LGR do a video I think on this very game, boulder dash, and he used a trainer. Like the precursor to the cheat engine on modern PCs in a way. But nowadays, all of that stuff is locked behind microstransactions. I feel sorry for the kids these days, they can't just do say something like the cheats to start riots and give everyone rocket launchers in a GTA game, they've gotta pay a subscription fee to play the online mode for it or something. Unlockables are all behind pay walls. I can't be bothered with all that. More and more I seem to be regressing and going back to the earliest games, the simplest games, because they're the only fun things that don't bore me. Emulating a c64 and playing boulder dash is significantly more fun to me than most modern games, and it's not a nostalgia thing as I never played this as a kid. I can't put into words or even thoughts what makes it so addictive. It just is
@@loljustice31 I had no siblings and I could play the games better than my friends so it was always up to me. I remember that some games were so hard that you had to let go and come back a few years later to try again. That way you could beat almost all the games.
Oh, man! Has it been 30 years already? Man, how time flies. Remember it like it was yesterday. Well... maybe not yesterday, but not such a long time ago.
It has been almost 20 years since I've bought 2Ghz Northwood P4 with 1GB RAM and GeForce 4200Ti 128MB VRAM to play Quake 3 Arena OPC and later CPMA mods. So yeah, it must have been a long time ago since we have played Boulder Dash on C64 with 38911 bytes of free memory
I was ultra-hooked on this game in 1989! DerSchmu played it in the same ways I did in a lot of them, and some were completely different, but I was nowhere near as slick. It's fascinating to see how someone else solved the same problems I did, and it brings back some surprisingly easily recollected memories.
That was one of the best runs I've seen, reminds me of my good old young days as a kid, used to play it a lot, a very addictive game indeed, but it still remains one of my favorites of all time!
My favourite game on C64 ever. I loved my 64, I got it for christmas. My dad bought it second hand from some guy advertised in the paper, with over 660 games. All on copied cassette tape of course :) All those years I wasted playing that thing, and I never got to try all the games, because I would spend most of my time wasting months at a time on great games like this one
I remember long ago, through the mists of time, playing this around my friend Robin Tyler's house after school! I thought it was the nuts! He had a Commodore 64 while I only had a Spectrum 128k +2. MAN, what treasure this brings forth from my old memory banks!!! What a great game! Thanks Robin (and your mum for making me tea!)
Some of the tricks I figured out back then but others eluded me until I watched these walk throughs. And my favorite boards were the ones with the slime.
I once spent an entire summer playing this game, and I don’t think I got anywhere close to this amazing run. On my best ever day I doubt I managed to get through a third of the levels you completed in this video.
The main thing that always stuck happy with me was the amazing sound tracks and the immediate playability of the C64 games a lot of it down to having a joy stick with only one button and total fun and original games that had you hooked straight away.
Oh my god, I played this game sooo much when I was like 4 to 6½. I always had fun replaying it. I'd come up with challenges like making myself kill all the Fireflys (Square Enemies) and collect all the diamonds. I loved the sound effects.
First 2 games in my life River Ride and Boulderdash and i dont remeber which one was first. I was hooked up on games heavily for next 10 years. Settlers, Diablo, Lotus 3, Vroom, XJ220, NFS1, Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, Half-Life, Command&Conquer, Starcraft, Syndicate, K240, Incubation....eh memories....
Classic game with so many clones that followed. I later remember Boulder Dash: Construction Kit, I spent many hours designing complex caves for my friends to play.
"These days, 'creative technology' is almost commonplace, but, back in the day, it seemed relatively rare. Boulder Dash was one of the first times in my life when I was able to draw on both my artistic-creative and technical- mathematical sides. It was as if separate poles had merged into a single whole. I wrote the original version for the Atari 400/800, and it was then ported to other platforms by various developers. The C64 conversion was by far the most faithful to the original." -- Peter Liepa, original designer [Boulder Dash - C64]
When I was in college, somebody ported this game to the VAX/VMS systems, and it was being run on a VT320 terminal. I modified the font set so it would run on the VT100. AMAZING that somebody was able to get this to work on what was basically a phone line on a dial up modem.
O m g thanks for uploading this. I played the windows 98 version of this as child and always thought i would never see it again because i didn't knew the name. But this is it. K remember the diamonds. Wow the nostalgia 😍
I used to be able to do these levels from muscle memory. You're actually using very similar run paths I use to use ... lol ... amazing. Love this game.
I remember when my friends would come over after school we'd play boulder dash, we played other things like harrier attack and Gilligan's gold, but boulder dash was our favourite.
Sigh...... game of my early childhood. good times! This game is oddly satisfying to watch when done correctly. I hate though in this video how the player defiantly travels down directly under a falling boulder rather than a simple left or right would of been sufficient. I get it player, your very good. Thanks for posting and revising my very distant memories of this game. I think its awesome how you can youtube things in the past and relive them.
At here 10:33 that would not be me going back for them, he already did enough to clear the level, he played this level to perfection in the way he dug the earth out, well done. 13:10 the computer finally figured a way of killing the little bast***! Well played ARNO I really enjoyed taking a visit to my treasured past, when I remember those days it almost makes a tear roll down, loved them and will always treasure them. We should all appreciate the 1st days of gaming and in 100s of years time the 1970s, and 80s will always be remembered as the time it all started, and we were there!
Classic game and awesome player! You really nailed these levels, i liked how you prepared level N/1., there were a few levels i couldn't get through. Thanks for sharing.
fantastic - thanks for taking me down memory lane. And whoever is playing - if it is a human - well played. I remember that it often took several tries to get the timing exactly right to not be caught by the spiders, or to take the lagging into account when moving the joystick at the right time to not get crushed by a falling stone 🙂
Das war mein erstes Game für den C-64. Was haben wir als Kinder irre viel Zeit mit dem Construction-Kit verbracht, um unsere eigenen fiesen Levels zu erstellen. Ja, Boulder Dash gehört mit zu den sehr schönen Kindheitserinnerungen und C-64 Kult !
Player this a lot when i was a kid, damn how time flies. Comparing to the majority of games these days, the gameplay back then was so much better. Wish someone would make this availeble for the PS4 as a classic 😁
Had "Super Boulderdash" for the PCjr - it collected 1 and 2 and on PCjr had enhanced graphics and sound! definitely remember each and every one of these levels to some extent..
One of the first games I ever played. I had this on cartridge and another gaem which I can't quite remember the name. It had blob like aliens on the cover if I remember rightly.
This evening I got the idea that maybe someone had put on line Boulder Dash . It's one of the funniest game I've ever played. Thank you DerSchmu. The sound is terrific and the ennemies are just minimalisticaly horrible ! :)
Id say this was probably the finest Commodore 64 series of games there ever was. Theres a cave in Boulderdash 3 that I used to play over and over again even though id succesfully completed it just because it was so entertaining. That is the rare mark of a good game.
![[TAS] NES Boulder Dash by CtrlAltDestroy in 18:31.82](/img/n.gif)
It's been 25 years and I still remember the levels like it was yesterday.
I think more than that, more likely 35 years
Exactly, I forgot lots of stuff over time .... but some tricky ways to get diamonds are still there.
Omg...I played this game back in the 80`s....
Rather 40 years 😅
And in these 25 years, you got 38 years older.
My father used to play it while the whole family watched... it was hypnotic... i have such good memories from this game, it brings me back to my childhood
Among the greatest games ever made. By humans.
I am not man, I am Devo
the sound is programmed in my dna.
I don't even remember the name of PC copycat with scissors, but still remember these levels.
U alive?
My most favourite game 30 years ago. I spent hours playing boulder dash back in the 1980s!!!!
me too, I was so addicted! XD
Уже 38 !
This is a very very good designed and executed game, a true work of art, a masterpiece in its making.
my father was addict to this game, i watched him hours playing this when i was a child...
This game was one of the most pleasant surprises in my C64 days. Super fun.
Ahhhhh the ruthless days of the C64. Games were so hard they scared you. These sound effects just remind me of how difficult games used to be. Good times.
and no video walkthroughs on youtube
aguyandhiscomputer
Hahaha, exactly! If you were stuck, you were all on your own. Kids these days have it easy.
lol, if you were stuck you had to get your brother to do the hard part for you! And if you had no older sibling... well, you were basically fucked XD
I was a bit later, so had a master system and then a Mega drive, I only played the c64 a bit at my cousin's house, but even then in my era there were all these cheats every game had. It was so fun messing around with the cheats, not just to make beating a game easier necessarily, but often it just made fun experiments to play with. Especially then later on in the PS1 era, cheats were often for unlockable new game modes or costumes. Even for the c64 weren't there a bunch of "trainers" to make every game easier and change parameters of things? I distinctly remember seeing LGR do a video I think on this very game, boulder dash, and he used a trainer. Like the precursor to the cheat engine on modern PCs in a way.
But nowadays, all of that stuff is locked behind microstransactions. I feel sorry for the kids these days, they can't just do say something like the cheats to start riots and give everyone rocket launchers in a GTA game, they've gotta pay a subscription fee to play the online mode for it or something. Unlockables are all behind pay walls.
I can't be bothered with all that. More and more I seem to be regressing and going back to the earliest games, the simplest games, because they're the only fun things that don't bore me. Emulating a c64 and playing boulder dash is significantly more fun to me than most modern games, and it's not a nostalgia thing as I never played this as a kid. I can't put into words or even thoughts what makes it so addictive. It just is
@@loljustice31 I had no siblings and I could play the games better than my friends so it was always up to me. I remember that some games were so hard that you had to let go and come back a few years later to try again. That way you could beat almost all the games.
Oh, man! Has it been 30 years already?
Man, how time flies.
Remember it like it was yesterday.
Well... maybe not yesterday, but not such a long time ago.
I know, it's insane... the music and opening screen are so nostalgic to me!!
1984 wasn't 30 years ago, try 35 years ago, well 33 when you first commented this
unless of clourse you're speaking of when you first played it
It has been almost 20 years since I've bought 2Ghz Northwood P4 with 1GB RAM and GeForce 4200Ti 128MB VRAM to play Quake 3 Arena OPC and later CPMA mods.
So yeah, it must have been a long time ago since we have played Boulder Dash on C64 with 38911 bytes of free memory
Tell me about it.
I was ultra-hooked on this game in 1989! DerSchmu played it in the same ways I did in a lot of them, and some were completely different, but I was nowhere near as slick. It's fascinating to see how someone else solved the same problems I did, and it brings back some surprisingly easily recollected memories.
That was one of the best runs I've seen, reminds me of my good old young days as a kid, used to play it a lot, a very addictive game indeed, but it still remains one of my favorites of all time!
My favourite game on C64 ever.
I loved my 64, I got it for christmas. My dad bought it second hand from some guy advertised in the paper, with over 660 games. All on copied cassette tape of course :)
All those years I wasted playing that thing, and I never got to try all the games, because I would spend most of my time wasting months at a time on great games like this one
💜
ah all mine were floppy
Coming soon on evercade 🤫
Best c64 game I ever played.
My first game i ever played on a computer.
It was on a commodore 64.
Great memories..
I remember long ago, through the mists of time, playing this around my friend Robin Tyler's house after school! I thought it was the nuts! He had a Commodore 64 while I only had a Spectrum 128k +2. MAN, what treasure this brings forth from my old memory banks!!! What a great game! Thanks Robin (and your mum for making me tea!)
12 years after this video was posted it appears in my feed. I played Boulderdash and Boulderdash 2 forever on the Commodore 64.
Oh man, this takes me WAY back
Some of the tricks I figured out back then but others eluded me until I watched these walk throughs.
And my favorite boards were the ones with the slime.
Absolutely brilliant game! Great memories, this guy however appears to have played it before! ;-)
lol, i remember those diamonds looking like real diamonds
+Heli look for Dot Valley.
Totally agree. On a CRT TV they WERE f*cking real diamonds... I got completely hypnotized as a kid...
すごい
Rockford: one of the coolest characters ever to grace the 64 in one of my all time favorite puzzle games.
I once spent an entire summer playing this game, and I don’t think I got anywhere close to this amazing run. On my best ever day I doubt I managed to get through a third of the levels you completed in this video.
From the sound i know i played this 40 years ago. The sounds of the C64 were amazing. They are all still in my head.
The instant recognition of this game is unbelievable. The sounds, the levels, the graphics. it's like i played it yesterday.
C64 games were the nuts - so basic and so immediately playable - for hours n hours n days n days - reminds me why i done almost no homework!
The main thing that always stuck happy with me was the amazing sound tracks and the immediate playability of the C64 games a lot of it down to having a joy stick with only one button and total fun and original games that had you hooked straight away.
Probably one of the most addictive games I played in the 80's
Rarely sign in to give a thumbs up, however on this occasion it must be done. I remember this game being so hard!
THIS WAS ONE OF MY FAV GAMES WHEN I WAS YOUNG
havent played this one since 1987 oh the sweet memories missed this great game for so very long thank you for posting this
Spent hours playing this in the 80’s-90’s they need to bring this game back!! I want it for my PS.
Oh my god, I played this game sooo much when I was like 4 to 6½. I always had fun replaying it. I'd come up with challenges like making myself kill all the Fireflys (Square Enemies) and collect all the diamonds. I loved the sound effects.
Remember the long wait for it to load up bring so worth it, hours of fun 😂
Haha yes 😭😂
can't belive that after at least 15 years I still remember some of these levels...
First 2 games in my life River Ride and Boulderdash and i dont remeber which one was first. I was hooked up on games heavily for next 10 years. Settlers, Diablo, Lotus 3, Vroom, XJ220, NFS1, Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, Half-Life, Command&Conquer, Starcraft, Syndicate, K240, Incubation....eh memories....
one of the best videogame ever created !!!
Classic game with so many clones that followed. I later remember Boulder Dash: Construction Kit, I spent many hours designing complex caves for my friends to play.
I remember the "M" cave, with the thing that would grow and blow up the "Butterflies"
I remember regularly staying up till 4 in the morning with my mates trying to get through this game.
"These days, 'creative technology'
is almost commonplace, but, back in the
day, it seemed relatively rare. Boulder
Dash was one of the first times in my
life when I was able to draw on both
my artistic-creative and technical-
mathematical sides. It was as if separate
poles had merged into a single whole.
I wrote the original version for the
Atari 400/800, and it was then ported
to other platforms by various developers.
The C64 conversion was by far the
most faithful to the original."
-- Peter Liepa, original designer [Boulder Dash - C64]
My mother was/is completely technologically inept except for when she played this game; she was an absolute beast at it.
I had a ZX Spectrum, my cousin had a C64 and I don't think I ever envied anybody more. We spent countless hours playing Boulder Dash.
I don't know if Boulder Dash skills can get a person laid... But you stunned the pants off of me! Amazing performance!! :D
Another good thing about this game was it didn't take too long to load off the cassette tape :)
best game ever, together with lemmings. i loved it
oh shit that intro tune is still awesome :)
Second that! :)
5:20 I LOVED the levels with that goo-stuff
When I was in college, somebody ported this game to the VAX/VMS systems, and it was being run on a VT320 terminal. I modified the font set so it would run on the VT100. AMAZING that somebody was able to get this to work on what was basically a phone line on a dial up modem.
Looooooved this game! This and Jumpman :)
Jumpman, me too, crazy.
O m g thanks for uploading this. I played the windows 98 version of this as child and always thought i would never see it again because i didn't knew the name. But this is it. K remember the diamonds. Wow the nostalgia 😍
wow! how many hours i spent playing this bloody awesome game! i used to think that blobby green stuff was andromeda..
I used to be able to do these levels from muscle memory. You're actually using very similar run paths I use to use ... lol ... amazing. Love this game.
13:07
still best "bonus stage".
such a downer... "Hey! look at those diamonds.... what's that amoeba thing? Oh crap!"
oh my god the memories of me asking my auntie to load boulder dash on the commodore 64 when i was like 6 years old and being so stoked to play
Only for the truly epic and hardcore of gamers.
Oh the memories ❤️
This brought back memories long since forgotten. Thank you.
One of my favorite games on my Atari 800.
I remember when my friends would come over after school we'd play boulder dash, we played other things like harrier attack and Gilligan's gold, but boulder dash was our favourite.
Sigh...... game of my early childhood. good times! This game is oddly satisfying to watch when done correctly. I hate though in this video how the player defiantly travels down directly under a falling boulder rather than a simple left or right would of been sufficient. I get it player, your very good. Thanks for posting and revising my very distant memories of this game. I think its awesome how you can youtube things in the past and relive them.
1991, I am 11 years old. After school, I stuck to it in the store or watched others play (which was more often)
A fantastic game. Tough as hell but still addicting.
It really has an almost Souls-like level of difficulty as you progress.
OH..!! Such a FAVOURITE game..!!! LOVED IT..!!
Way ahead of its time, man. This and Lode Runner in a class of their own.
Oh man... back when I was a kid I played this game every day, it's fantastic. And this music!
This is bringing me back this is great
This takes me back... Wonderful childhood memories.
this was amazinh for the time.
At here 10:33 that would not be me going back for them, he already did enough to clear the level, he played this level to perfection in the way he dug the earth out, well done.
13:10 the computer finally figured a way of killing the little bast***!
Well played ARNO I really enjoyed taking a visit to my treasured past, when I remember those days it almost makes a tear roll down, loved them and will always treasure them.
We should all appreciate the 1st days of gaming and in 100s of years time the 1970s, and 80s will always be remembered as the time it all started, and we were there!
Classic game and awesome player! You really nailed these levels, i liked how you prepared level N/1., there were a few levels i couldn't get through. Thanks for sharing.
Great memory here
Im just listening to this gameplay here, while enjoying my morning Coffee ☕ very relaxing for me. Take care all.
Such a great game, kept me entertained for hours
Wow, this brings back memories. I used to play this at my friend's house in grade school.
fantastic - thanks for taking me down memory lane. And whoever is playing - if it is a human - well played. I remember that it often took several tries to get the timing exactly right to not be caught by the spiders, or to take the lagging into account when moving the joystick at the right time to not get crushed by a falling stone 🙂
Super impressive run. Thanks for sharing
Mate. You must be the king of boulder dash!
Das war mein erstes Game für den C-64. Was haben wir als Kinder irre viel Zeit mit dem Construction-Kit verbracht, um unsere eigenen fiesen Levels zu erstellen. Ja, Boulder Dash gehört mit zu den sehr schönen Kindheitserinnerungen und C-64 Kult !
I really miss those days. I clearly remember the fir3st time. I thought what a boring game. Few mounths after that...WOW. I got addicted
I had also this game! Awsome you put it here!
this was before my time (born in 1993) but i saw this game in a video and thought it looked awesome lol. had to look it up cause i love this old stuff
I can listening this open music for ever!!! 💙💙💙
wow! nearly to perfection! it was my favorite game as I was 12 in 1984 ;-)
Player this a lot when i was a kid, damn how time flies. Comparing to the majority of games these days, the gameplay back then was so much better. Wish someone would make this availeble for the PS4 as a classic 😁
Had "Super Boulderdash" for the PCjr - it collected 1 and 2 and on PCjr had enhanced graphics and sound! definitely remember each and every one of these levels to some extent..
this game is absolutely amazing...C64 had some crazy games.
One of the first games I ever played. I had this on cartridge and another gaem which I can't quite remember the name. It had blob like aliens on the cover if I remember rightly.
My favorite
Loved this game…
Thé only video game that I was playing with my mom, and she loved it. 😂😂😂
It was all about Boulderdash Construction Set...
+supahdupahguy81
I'm pretty sure it was called Boulder Dash Construction Kit.
:)
I remember playing this game as a kid, it was a great experience.
This evening I got the idea that maybe someone had put on line Boulder Dash . It's one of the funniest game I've ever played. Thank you DerSchmu. The sound is terrific and the ennemies are just minimalisticaly horrible !
:)
ah, the good old times. never had su much fun playing this games like i was a kid!
A classic hard to beat these days :)
Great video, now I see what the next levels look like, I can't even pass level two on my own. :D Those old games are incredibly hard without cheating.
I think the last time I played this was back in late 80s. Good gem picking and boulder avoiding skills btw ;)
Id say this was probably the finest Commodore 64 series of games there ever was.
Theres a cave in Boulderdash 3 that I used to play over and over again even though id succesfully completed it just because it was so entertaining. That is the rare mark of a good game.
Love it. The cave editor was the best thing :D
awww, rembering some beter times, when i was a kid... life been so good
Amazing game playing skills! Thank you for sharing :-)
Life is beautiful ❤