@@patsfan4life i guess you never played the last ninja series ? I am going to sue the developers, they are the reason i went into adulthood with no hair !
I remember most of the early games on this video. I also remember the bus ride to town, going to a shop, choosing a game with the most exciting cover and reading it on my way home. Then waiting for it to load. The whole adventure from leaving home to playing my new game could be two hours! Thanks for this, it bought back good memories of a much slower time.
The contrast in quality between those early ones like Choplifter (which looks like it was coded in BASIC) and the superb Creatures and Mayhem games which came around a decade later is vast. But anyway, thanks for uploading this video, it really brought me back in time!
When my father bought his C64, he gave me his Vic20 and a tape drive. He bought a lot of Commodore books and I read most of them. I eventually coded a game and recorded it to the drive "now lost". I eventually got his C64. I will never forget how 100% certain he was about the future of computers. He would tell me "computers are the future" and "soon there will be computers everywhere". His advice was for me to learn everything I could so that I could get a job working on them. He figured a computer tech job would pay well and there would be an endless supply of those jobs. He was a smart man.
Missing "Impossible Misson - EPYX) in this compilation. Now, that's a game nobody can forget. :) Great compilation. I remember almost all of the games.
This almost brings tears to my eyes! The Commodore 64 is the most awesome computer and gaming console ever built, no doubt! I've played nearly 20 of the games shown here, almost every game in this compilation until 1987 when I sold my beloved C=64 and bought an AMIGA (a decision I've come to regret many times). I also played the AMIGA version of a lot of the remaining games shown here. There are so many more awesome games I remember. Most notably Impossible Mission, Zaxxon, Uridium, Sanxion, Delta, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Way of the Exploding Fist, Rambo, Sacred Armour of Antiriad, WizzBall, Arkanoid and Last Ninja. Such a great era in gaming history!
Silent Service was probably one of the greatest (including modern games of that genre) submarine combat simulations I've ever played. I have very fond memories of that particular game
I played almost every single one of these games. I believe that the magic back in those days was that we actually had to use our imagination a lot to make up for the pixel based graphics. What we could not get out of the game we created with our own mind and it somewhat made it more immersive.
That's wrong. First Video racing game with splitscreen was Drag Race von Kee Games (1977) Developed for the Atari 2600 "Dragster" from Activision for the Atari 2600 (1980) also had a split screen.
Nebulus always blew my mind when I was younger. I was only 6 when this came out and it was jaw-dropping -- hell, even today you look back and marvel on how the humble 6510 was able to pull off that incredible tower rotation and the multi-layer parallax scrolling too.
I was one of those households that grew up with a Commodore 64, and an Atari. The commodore always had the newest and freshest games with graphics and sound rivaling the NES. If not crushing the NES in terms of quality. I really miss a lot of the old titles. So many memories. Glad there's audio in this. This video alone is firing up old synapses in my brain. Cool shit.
Beh non mi sono accorto che fossi italiano se non dopo aver letto la descrizione, ma solo dopo la fine del clip. Sai cosa? Sarò anche un nostalgico, un malinconico, ma... questa è per me "la grande bellezza". Per quanto siano magnificenti spettacolari ultradettagliati ed elaborati i giochi di questi tempi... non si può non pensare che tutto sia nato proprio da lì. Evviva il c=64... Leggendario, resta nel mio cuore come un amore immortale.
Per i nati a cavallo degli anni '70/'80 (appassionati di video giochi) il Commodore 64 ha rappresentato una vera e propria icona... a tal riguardo sono molto curioso di vedere come sarà il RetroGames "theC64mini" in uscita per fine marzo 2018 ! ;)
+Gab1975ita Thats a really great video, much appreciated for all the memories. I remember all of these from way back and still drag my C64 out now and then for a play of the good stuff and listen to the music. Well done, you've brought back a lot of very happy childhood memories from the good old days when games/music/imagination meant a lot more than it does today! :)
We went from this to the awesome capabilities of the Amiga. Up to the early '90s, it really looked like Commodore was going to lead the way in graphic and sound capabilities. It's really sad how the company crashed and burned.
I just fired up my c64 last night for some retro fun. I can't believe all my games on my floppy disks still work. Pogo joe was a really cool qbert clone. The qbert along with alot of arcade ports were really good on the c64. Great machine for it's time.
4:34, lol one of my favourit :) grog. after that pitstop, I hope aztec challange will come and giana sisters, barbarian, elite, impossible missions, exploding fists, bmx, summer/winter games, raid over moscow, and many more :) thank you bob, you made my day
Impressive to see how games developed overtime from when independent bedroom programmers started working as part of a team with other members working specifically on other areas of the game I.e. Graphics and Sound. Before this, the game concepts were still impressive, but you could tell if the programmer sped through the music or design because they only had a basic inclination to want to develop further in the areas. The C64 remains a machine that challenges developers to squeeze everything they can out the 64k limit of resources available, and its great to see that there is still a very active development scene still going on today, it’s clear to see that people want to push the computer further and further 👍
Genial el recopilatorio;había grandísimos juegos para esta super máquina,yo tuve el Spectrum que era algo inferior......Juegos como Rimrunner eran impresionantes!!
I liked Paradroid, but I felt that it was somewhat overrated...especially by Zzap. I agree with the rest of the games on your list though, although I like IK+ better than the original, and Last Ninja 2 was my favorite of the three LN games, well technically 4, if your count Last Ninja Remix.
Thanks so much for this upload! Brings back lots of memories of me going over to my cousin's house, playing computer games, smoking weed and watching porn......Ahhh, the good old days.
The "sleeker" design" also had a lot of problems, particularly with the SID chip. I know, I had both models. The only reason why I had to get the C64C (the one that looked like the C128) was because my first one got damaged in a flood
Any list of C64 games is simply incomplete without The Last Ninja games, in particular The Last Ninja 3. Possibly the greatest technical achievement of the system. One of my most cherished gaming memories was owning this game legit when 99% of my games (as a 6-7 year old) were pirated...... Amazing game.
The C64 rocks!!! Even today the c64 is as popular as it was in the 80's The gfx and sound and the games are so playable with nice scrolling. Also new hardware being developed for the machine keeps its strength!
I remember playing some of these when I was a kid. Never played Burning Rubber though....gotta say: what an ODD song selection for a car game soundtrack. LOL!
oo man when i was a little kid i played nebulus allot all the sounds bring back good memories a wel we had over 150 floppies if it wasnt more and a but loads of cassette tapes
I remember playing a car racing game at my friends house, with the steering wheel and gas pedal, I forget the name of the game, it must have been pit stop, wow does this bring back great memories.
30yrs on and I still love this computer...Great gaming memories..
if only there was this much love for current gen stuff, there's a reason the c64 is still the best selling computer of all time, ppl just love it!
Memories of a better, simpler time.
dennis neo with simpler games, games that you could just pick up and play for 20 minutes then move on with your life....
@@patsfan4life i guess you never played the last ninja series ? I am going to sue the developers, they are the reason i went into adulthood with no hair !
Much better now.
Games back then were much better!
quanti pomeriggi passati a giocare a questi giochi... cari vecchi tempi andati
I remember most of the early games on this video. I also remember the bus ride to town, going to a shop, choosing a game with the most exciting cover and reading it on my way home. Then waiting for it to load. The whole adventure from leaving home to playing my new game could be two hours!
Thanks for this, it bought back good memories of a much slower time.
The contrast in quality between those early ones like Choplifter (which looks like it was coded in BASIC) and the superb Creatures and Mayhem games which came around a decade later is vast.
But anyway, thanks for uploading this video, it really brought me back in time!
When my father bought his C64, he gave me his Vic20 and a tape drive. He bought a lot of Commodore books and I read most of them. I eventually coded a game and recorded it to the drive "now lost". I eventually got his C64. I will never forget how 100% certain he was about the future of computers. He would tell me "computers are the future" and "soon there will be computers everywhere". His advice was for me to learn everything I could so that I could get a job working on them. He figured a computer tech job would pay well and there would be an endless supply of those jobs. He was a smart man.
Can't believe how many of these I played when I was a boy. Thanks for the happy memories! :)
what a blast from the past. Thank you for putting this together.
Sei riuscito a farmi piangere facendomi ricordare quegli anni...i migliori!
+Marco Giocarolli nostalgico!!! :-P
It really gaves me some smiles in my face.... fade back to youth. Amazing :-) I played all of them ...
Missing "Impossible Misson - EPYX) in this compilation. Now, that's a game nobody can forget. :) Great compilation. I remember almost all of the games.
Great video. Really illustrates the impressive technical advances made in C64 development.
This almost brings tears to my eyes! The Commodore 64 is the most awesome computer and gaming console ever built, no doubt! I've played nearly 20 of the games shown here, almost every game in this compilation until 1987 when I sold my beloved C=64 and bought an AMIGA (a decision I've come to regret many times). I also played the AMIGA version of a lot of the remaining games shown here. There are so many more awesome games I remember. Most notably Impossible Mission, Zaxxon, Uridium, Sanxion, Delta, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Way of the Exploding Fist, Rambo, Sacred Armour of Antiriad, WizzBall, Arkanoid and Last Ninja. Such a great era in gaming history!
Awesome, you should do a whole series of these. I like that you actually show enough of the games to see how they actually play.
Awesome compilation, thanks for putting it together, miss those days so much
Good collection you made in this video.
Some games i still play today.
Merita davvero tanto come computer.
è il migliore e rimarrà per sempre nella storia!
Silent Service was probably one of the greatest (including modern games of that genre) submarine combat simulations I've ever played. I have very fond memories of that particular game
Even though I have hundreds of C64 video's myself, I still watch these video's! :)
che ricordi,regalato da mio papà quando avevo circa 13 anni,periodo d'oro per chi e cresciuto in quegli anni, quanti ricordi
... gli anni '80 sono stati la decade madre per l'era degli home computer... felice anche io di averli vissuti in pieno! ;)
Great job! And you play them better than I ever did!
Almost my entire childhood in a near 26 min video... Thank god for emulators.
@FuckYouGoogle you're lucky, my father convinced me to give it away, many years ago, and I regret it bitterly! 😭
I played almost every single one of these games. I believe that the magic back in those days was that we actually had to use our imagination a lot to make up for the pixel based graphics. What we could not get out of the game we created with our own mind and it somewhat made it more immersive.
Pit Stop II was notorious for being the first racing game to have a split-screen
That's wrong. First Video racing game with splitscreen was Drag Race von Kee Games (1977)
Developed for the Atari 2600
"Dragster" from Activision for the Atari 2600 (1980) also had a split screen.
Nebulus always blew my mind when I was younger. I was only 6 when this came out and it was jaw-dropping -- hell, even today you look back and marvel on how the humble 6510 was able to pull off that incredible tower rotation and the multi-layer parallax scrolling too.
Thanx for that. So many memories of my School Time. :-)
... a boy of 80s! ;)
The Commodore 64 was good for it's Time.
Commodore 64 is on mobile I have it on my phone I wish I was born in your time those are some good games
@@rafal8560 how do I get it
@@benignasiak3015 using a emulator
Fantastic - great memories!
Fantastic - great memories!!!!!!!!!!best
that little white ball on the ghostbusters title screen was simply an awesome idea :) you would bounce along with it to the beat
Brilliant ! The memories....
I was one of those households that grew up with a Commodore 64, and an Atari. The commodore always had the newest and freshest games with graphics and sound rivaling the NES. If not crushing the NES in terms of quality. I really miss a lot of the old titles. So many memories. Glad there's audio in this. This video alone is firing up old synapses in my brain. Cool shit.
Beh non mi sono accorto che fossi italiano se non dopo aver letto la descrizione, ma solo dopo la fine del clip.
Sai cosa? Sarò anche un nostalgico, un malinconico, ma... questa è per me "la grande bellezza".
Per quanto siano magnificenti spettacolari ultradettagliati ed elaborati i giochi di questi tempi... non si può non pensare che tutto sia nato proprio da lì.
Evviva il c=64... Leggendario, resta nel mio cuore come un amore immortale.
Per i nati a cavallo degli anni '70/'80 (appassionati di video giochi) il Commodore 64 ha rappresentato una vera e propria icona... a tal riguardo sono molto curioso di vedere come sarà il RetroGames "theC64mini" in uscita per fine marzo 2018 ! ;)
man these were sick games.. choplifter, cybernoid, pitstop, mayhem :D ..I loved these games 20+ years ago..
+Gab1975ita Thats a really great video, much appreciated for all the memories. I remember all of these from way back and still drag my C64 out now and then for a play of the good stuff and listen to the music. Well done, you've brought back a lot of very happy childhood memories from the good old days when games/music/imagination meant a lot more than it does today! :)
Ty for the great compilation!
What an excellent list, Sir! I completely forgot the title of "Quest for tires" and I was looking for this game a long time.
Frantic freddie was one of the best games not just on the c64 but ever! the music alone was worthy of an award!.
Great games, great soundtracks, great times, great memories..
brings back memories....
thank you
We went from this to the awesome capabilities of the Amiga. Up to the early '90s, it really looked like Commodore was going to lead the way in graphic and sound capabilities. It's really sad how the company crashed and burned.
All those memories :)
THankX! great memories.
Awesome vid. Thanks!
Rob Hubbard's music - so many emotions in me.
really cool to see all these classic games I played, and also the progression of quality as people learned to use C64 to its full potential
Great games, thanks for sharing!
Nice list, alot of my faves in there too.
Wow these are bringing back a few memories
My personal favourite of this lot was Creatures 2. Honestly, back in the days no other C64 game made such huge impression on me. Still love it :).
Slaughtered teddy bears ;)
Have yourself a glass of blood of the innocent ;)
It's 40 now! Time is running so fast! I love the C64!
quanto vorrei tornare indietro nel tempo
creatures, flimbos quest, the graphics on these games back then blew me away, the music on most games was so satisfying,
I just fired up my c64 last night for some retro fun. I can't believe all my games on my floppy disks still work. Pogo joe was a really cool qbert clone. The qbert along with alot of arcade ports were really good on the c64. Great machine for it's time.
4:34, lol one of my favourit :) grog. after that pitstop, I hope aztec challange will come
and giana sisters, barbarian, elite, impossible missions, exploding fists, bmx, summer/winter games, raid over moscow,
and many more :) thank you bob, you made my day
Super Review of best Computer ever!!
Impressive to see how games developed overtime from when independent bedroom programmers started working as part of a team with other members working specifically on other areas of the game I.e. Graphics and Sound. Before this, the game concepts were still impressive, but you could tell if the programmer sped through the music or design because they only had a basic inclination to want to develop further in the areas. The C64 remains a machine that challenges developers to squeeze everything they can out the 64k limit of resources available, and its great to see that there is still a very active development scene still going on today, it’s clear to see that people want to push the computer further and further 👍
Probabilmente la console più divertente di tutti i tempi. Altro che le mille console di oggi con effetti e grafica supermegawow
class 1980 present, with some tears on the face; epic time for information technology last decades
I know there were too many games to show, but the awesome music in the Rambo game needs to be heard.
I forgot how good Stormlord looked, amazing.
Some of these pieces are still pure brillance in terms of gameplay.
Pirates! I dont see this.. The best game in my c64!
tiges Yes Indeed. The original Sid Meier's Pirates was simply brilliant. One of the best games ever made.
complimenti bel video :-) ci ho giocato con il C-64 tantissimo anche io..... Fantastico
Genial el recopilatorio;había grandísimos juegos para esta super máquina,yo tuve el Spectrum que era algo inferior......Juegos como Rimrunner eran impresionantes!!
My favourite C64 games:
-Elite
-International karate
-Impossible mission
-Paradroid
-Lode runner
-The last ninja
-Street rod
-Sentinel
-Rambo
-Stunt car racer
Stunt car racer was brilliant! Great memories 👌
I liked Paradroid, but I felt that it was somewhat overrated...especially by Zzap. I agree with the rest of the games on your list though, although I like IK+ better than the original, and Last Ninja 2 was my favorite of the three LN games, well technically 4, if your count Last Ninja Remix.
In 1982 a graphic like that seemed almost magic...
This list misses a few games but.....memories,in the corner of my mind....
Oh great, now I have that theme from Bubble Bubble stuck in head again.
Yeah, don't you just hate that!
so am i... took me years to get rid of ít
You are not alone 😂
Gotta love the music on Ghost and Goblins.
Very nice choice of representative games.
Simply AMAZING - the good ol' times!!!
Thanks so much for this upload! Brings back lots of memories of me going over to my cousin's house, playing computer games, smoking weed and watching porn......Ahhh, the good old days.
Ich habe nie einen C64 besessen nur mal leihweise , warum spielt ihr das Video so schnell ab ???
Pitstop 2 was really good
p cha indycar racer 2 was awesome on x86
in hind sight areton sennas game on the master system was pretty brutal
So was Super Cycle
Also buggy boy, and grand prix circuit.
I had Jupiter Lander for Vic20. Wow, don't I feel old.
That first image of the good, old "breadbox" model C64. That's the one I had and loved, not the later "sleeker" design. Ah. Nostalgia moment. :)
The "sleeker" design" also had a lot of problems, particularly with the SID chip. I know, I had both models. The only reason why I had to get the C64C (the one that looked like the C128) was because my first one got damaged in a flood
I had(still have) the sleek design back then and I favor it. The Boss joystick was the favorite. The TAC2 always had button problems .
great collection
whats the key you push to capture marshmellow man on the map of ghostbusters i forgot it cause not played in a while
7 Cities of Gold was a great great game of exploration. The C64 was amazing.
13:05 Thanks for getting that tune back into my head again :O
The music synthesis of the C64 was EVERYTHING!
Success2gether you can make a stereo sid for a few dollars
Great memories!
Any list of C64 games is simply incomplete without The Last Ninja games, in particular The Last Ninja 3. Possibly the greatest technical achievement of the system. One of my most cherished gaming memories was owning this game legit when 99% of my games (as a 6-7 year old) were pirated...... Amazing game.
agreed, The Last Ninja series was awesome.
Amazing how little has changed with respect to the basic gameplay of games. Even on c64 there are a ton of titles I would love to play.
I LOVE YOU ZX Spectrum 128❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍✌✌✌✌✌✌
5/5 -video, I like it, retro
The C64 rocks!!! Even today the c64 is as popular as it was in the 80's The gfx and sound and the games are so playable with nice scrolling.
Also new hardware being developed for the machine keeps its strength!
I remember playing some of these when I was a kid. Never played Burning Rubber though....gotta say: what an ODD song selection for a car game soundtrack. LOL!
I was surprised that Jumpman never made the list :( One of my favorite games for the C64 and there were alot of favorites for me :)
@P0V3RTY09: I'm with you on the Jumpman. That and Fort Apocalypse were the two C64 games I spent the most time on. Mastered them both too! :-)
It's not a top ten, it's just a list of random games for different years
Burning Rubber....my firts racing game...the memories ^^
Cool list, I played a lot of them. I played Zaxxon and Gyrus a lot as well.
Great idea, thanks!
oo man when i was a little kid i played nebulus allot all the sounds bring back good memories a wel we had over 150 floppies if it wasnt more and a but loads of cassette tapes
I remember playing a car racing game at my friends house, with the steering wheel and gas pedal, I forget the name of the game, it must have been pit stop, wow does this bring back great memories.
Turbo for Colecovision
Some great titles and some that I missed first time round - time to get the emulator out
HEEEEEY exellent VIDEO!!! Dude, can u please tell what the music in the intro is? it's 8bit it seems, from 0:05 to 0:20... please!
Andres Leguizamon same with me i cant remember the name were have i heard it >.<
Anyone knows the name please reply >
one of the games I played the most as a kid on c64 was Ultimate Wizard. still a good game imo
Ooohhh... Pitstop II. Anyone else remember the blisters on your thumb/forefinger from holding the joystick in the forward position for entire races?
Nebulus looks better than any game from 1987 should.
Yup, in fact, it could almost pass as a 16 bit game
what the name of the tune thats at the start of this vid?