Nice list. As an American C64 user I certainly have 20 or I think are missing, but so it goes; the cross-pond differences in gaming cultures is one of the C64's strengths IMO. Learned about a few games I've never played, so that should be fun. Keep up the excellent retrogaming work, Kim!
Great list, a few I would have added but that’s the beauty of this, It’s your own list, there are so many C64 games that everyone will have a different top 50, not much wrong with your list though, all solid games, Thank You Kim
Thank you so much for these vids. I was a c64 owner at school..out numbered by the spectrum owners. Loved the machine.and your list brought back great memories
@@davedogge2280 If I remember rightly, the disk version had a sort of strategy mini game when you attacked the towns from land, whereas the tape version omitted this and instead put you straight into a sword fight to take the fort.
@@MsOpportunity68 If I remember correctly, when attacking towns from land, you engaged in combat on the terrain in front of the fort, with forest, obstacles and such. Some towns were hard to attack from the sea side, since you only used one ship for attack with maxed out crew on that ship, and the fortification always had a lot of fire power. Havana, Panama and similar towns, needed to be attacked from land, because you get full crew compliment, easy to loose them in combat and reduce numbers to keep morale high after plundering, and also, quite important, attacking from land was a way to plunder a town without getting noticed beacause, sometimes - attacking from the seaside meant that the town hid most of the gold and other stuff before you conquered it. My personal fav on C64!
@@branimirbozak That was correct for the disk version of the game. One the tape version however this land battle section was missing so you would walk your crew into town from the landward side to attack the fort with the maximum number of men.
Good woman, Kim! I know you didn't grow up with this system but I still really appreciate you putting this together. I loved your other Top 100 videos even though I hardly know any of the systems you covered. Can't wait to watch this countdown!
The C64 was a huge part of my childhood. My favourite game which I played to death as an 8 yr old was Barry Mcguigans Boxing. Great gameplay and longevity. Working your way up the world rankings. So addictive. Loved this video Kim, thank you!
Of course the quality of the tune depending on the quality of the musician. Listen to any SID from Jim Cuomo, and you wish there was a mute button. LMAO
Great video, and I am very happy you included Montezuma's Revenge in this list. I personally would argue that a type in game from Compute!'s Gazette December 1988 magazine was better than half of the games that made your top 50. I think anyone who had the pleasure of playing Crossroads II: Pandemonium would agree with me as well! ..Still very good video, much respect for making this!
This is an awesome top 50 Kim. I must have had 90% of this list and more. I remember the Way of the Exploding fist tape not working once so I loaded it again, turning the volume up sometimes got a game to work...and I forgot about the scream when it loaded...I crapped myself.
This is great, so many games i had forgotten i played for so many hours. (loved Blue Max and Rambo - though I never managed to defeat the Helicopter at the end. Thanks for compiling and posting!
Microprose Soccer was one of the best soccer games on the system. You could literally play an entire world cup including qualifying round robin groups and knockout rounds. You could play as any of 36 world teams each with varying degrees of strengths and weaknesses. And then you had arena soccer on the reverse side with the same formula only US cities and states. Gameplay felt good with a nice charge up kick, tackling, banana kicks and you could even curl the ball. It was the Sensible Soccer of the C64.
Also the players spinning around when trying to do sliding tackles in the rain. Also the replays with authentic video tape rewinding effects Also the cracking music
@@scottbreon9448 I loved international soccer as well. This one was unique in that you could make the computer play itself. As a kid I would run my own seasons and leagues using pen & paper using the CPU vs CPU mode to simulate games.
As someone who didn't grow up with the system I think you made a fantastic list, which clearly shows you put effort into it. And it's OK to keep mentioning the soundtracks to games, that was one of the great joys of growing up with the system (so to speak) anyway. Sometimes it was even the only redeemable feature. Yes, Knucklebusters, I'm looking at you.
As someone who didn't grow up with the system: that was one of the great joys of growing up with the system. You couldn't have more contradiction bozo clown
These are my additions to your list. Magical memories with these games. Emyln Hughes Soccer, Test Drive, Maniac Mansion, Stunt Car Racer, Kick Off, Summer Games, Defender of the Crown, Street Rod...
Superb collection and well argued for an “arcade fan”. Excellent choice for #1. And well done on the shout out to Parallax, wrongly omitted on many such lists.
Pretty much a definitive list of C64 classics! you missed a few of my favs but thats inevitable. I've played every one and they're all great, not really surprised with the top 5, Wizball deseveres the top spot totally, absolute classic. Great vid KIm :)
Amazing job, you did on this one. You sold them all to me, argued why they're good to you and made watching it all enjoyable. Heck, how CAN anyone NOT love a 40 year old computer that has 40 years of love by millions put into it?
Indeed one of my Favourite Videos takes me back to the golden Era of gaming and to so much nice memories with many of these awesome games.Many of these tunes still around in my head after so many years
Turrican II wasn't Trenz's last C64 game - he'd put out another shmup (Enforcer: Fullmetal Megablaster) a year later (on the German Golden Disk 64 magazine). Well worth checking out, as it is such a great improvement on what he did with Katakis - far more frentic, technically accomplished and oh so much fun.
Yeah when i first saw franky goes to holliwood i thought for sure maniac mansion would be next and then he said there was nothing really quite like and i was like whaaaaa???? He probably never played it
I'm so glad that Wizball is at number one on the list. Such a timeless classic. I keep on thinking about the premise of this game and wonder why modern games developers don't try to reserrect this idea.
The sentinel is one of the most engrossing and unique games ever on any system. Easily a top 5. Very few games managed such an atmospheric setting and giving the player moments of pure panic.
that was touted as 3d chess, it was ok. But I think you could teleport to spots where you couldn't see anything around you i.e. you couldn't pan out and you got stuck I think
Elite was a pretty boring game after a while and the c64 one was slower than the speccy one. Beautiful bit of coding considering the memory limitations though. I think starion on spectrum was a more enjoyable game, although it had a bug that Made it impossible to complete.
Elite was SLOW AS MOLASSES on the C64. Both the Spectrum and BBC versions were far better. The only games slower on the C64 were the Freescape games.. The Commodore 128 version was a TAD bit faster, but the original C64 version was utter pants. I perfer games that don't run at 0.000000000000006 FPS
@@scottbreon9448 The video was about the best games on the commodore 64 not it does not matter if better versions existed on other systems, and as for the Spectrum version the copy protection on that version was an abomination, to say the least, and please provide the evidence that the C64 frame rate was 0.000000000000006 FPS
Yet another brilliant list to binge through! Of all the best of lists you do, I think this one is gonna be the most meaningful to me. It was Christmas 1990 when I got my c64. Its still in the brothers house, and it works perfectly. I got the Night Moves and Mind Benders packs with them. The Night Moves pack contains one of my fave c64 games- Midnight Resistance. Still a brilliant Contra style shoot em up. Terrific soundtrack that instantly takes me back to those times. Other favourites- Last Ninja 2, Creatures , the Turrican series, Platoon, Salamander. Most of the games I loved in general contain soundtracks that I listen to all the time to this very day. Thanks for making this list!
I still remember the tunes from Law of the West by the rather unknown but great composer Ed Bogas. He also did the equally marvelous soundtrack to Murder on the Mississippi.
Happy to see Flimbo get some love. That was the first game I played after upgrading from C16, and back then it was like suddenly having a mid-80s arcade machine in the house... Stunning parallax scroll and music even now, it totally eased my longing for a quality console-style platformer. Brutally hard, of course, but since when was that something we hold against 8-bit platformers?
Kim your videos are so great they help with my depression and have done for years now. I hope you read this as I want to give you a massive thank you. I even watch your videos on content that I'm not massively into just because of the quality of your videos and how relaxing they are. Thanks Kim you are a legend!
What's with: - Maniac Mansion - Nebulus - Antiriad - To be on Top - David's Midnight Magic - Hypa Ball - Spy versus Spy - Infiltrator - Lazy Jones - Shadow of the Beast ?
Shadow of the beast was shit...on every platform. It was a technical achievement, but they left out ACTUAL gameplay. The only good game in the SOTB series in terms of gameplay was SOTB3
Thanks for the trip down memory lane ! Weren't you a fan of Project Firestart ? One game I could play mindlessly for a while was that Donald Duck game where you worked various jobs to get money and pimp your playground !
Ahh... Many broken quickshot C64 joystick memories! Had a graveyard of dead joysticks building up behind my C64 and tv thanks to those brilliant games... and heavy handed mates breaking them!
So, being of 'that' age I had a pong machine followed by an Atari VCS. Then a Spectrum but my heart always belonged to Commodore prior to the Playstation era. The games I enjoyed included - Choplifter, Beach-Head, Dropzone, The Sentinal, Ghostbusters, Impossible Mission, Kennedy Approach, Leaderboard Golf, Speedking, Thrust, Pitstop 2, Buggy Boy and Falcon Patrol. Back in the day when it took maybe 10 mins to load a game and some serious imagination was required. Many, many hours lost to this system, then the Amiga arrived...................
Wow, lots of memories here! Some others I loved: Infiltrator II, Raid over Moscow, Raid over Bungling Bay, Choplifter, Gunship, F19 Stealth, Lode Runner, Gyruss, Beachhead II, Ballblazer, Winter Games... so many classics!
I loved Action Biker. One of the best budget games for the C64. The in-game tune is one that, even if it has been years since I played it, will suddenly pop into my head and refuse to leave for days.
I genuinely think Action Biker on C64 was the game that inspired my love of free roaming games. It was like the GTA of it’s time (only on a bike with no missions and stuff). I played it at a mate’s house and had to have it. Imagine what I felt like when I got my spectrum version home...
It's your list Kim and i'm not here to judge ya. I guess platformers and star shooters like R-Type are more up your alley than any other games. And of course some games had so many ports it's hard to pick those that stand out on C64. From a C64 enthusiast like me here are some games you may consider for future top 100 update - i personally find them hard, gorgeous (for 8-bits), and rocking some great music: IO, Batman the Caped Crusader (both parts), Rastan, Outrun and Turbo Outrun, Diplomacy (tabletop adaptation), Stunt Car Racer, Castle Master, Shoot Out, Archon, Andy Capp, Rick Dangerous (also both parts), Bop'n Rumble, any Dizzy game, Defender of the Crown (best 8-bit iteration imo), Double Dragon (any part), Fort Apocalypse, Bride of Frankenstein, The Great Escape, Zig-Zag, Hans Kloss, Winter Games, The Train - Escape to Normandy, Antiriad, Usagi Yojimbo, Spy vs Spy (any part), Scumball, Sidewalk, Skate or Die, Kartateka, One on One (or Bird vs Eving). Thare are more, undoubtedly, but these are the ones i personally played and enjoyed - yea, many of them are just ports but good ports nonetheless :).
1:41 the C16/Plus 4 version of the C2N datasette being used with the C64? I'm wondering if this was possible with an adapter (or changing the connector) and if so did Commodore ever include the black version of the C2N with the C64 in an attempt to get shot of the units after the commercial failure of the C16/Plus 4 line? Or was it a simple case of the production staff for the advert cocking up and using the wrong tape deck?
You are correct in your assumption of an adapter, and most certainly the black version with the adapter was bundled with some C64C bundles. I remember my cousin having the C64C Light Fantastic bundle for Christmas '89 which had a black 1531 with the 7 pin din to card connector adapter required. Commodore were renowned for using whatever from their parts bin to use up supplies. Unusual that I have the reply to your query with an incredibly similar username too.
Ok I very much enjoyed this, and it's an excellent list Here are a few that I'm really glad made it: --------- - Action Biker - Beach Head - Ikari Warriors and here are a few that I'd have in mine - Thrust - Creatures - Ninja Spirit - Enforcer - Navy Seals - Exile - Powerdrift - Slicks - Retrograde - Supremacy I know it's mentioned in the vid, but maybe the title should be "50 Greatest action games of all time" or something if we're excluding RPGs (Lords of Midnight, Bards Tale, Wasteland, Times of Lore would all make my top 50) [edit] Although it does already say "Kim Justice's top 50" so have what you want :D Also if you like defender clones - definitely check out RETROGRADE if you haven't already
I remember bringing my nes over to my neighbors as a kid.i would let him play the Nintendo while I gamed on his c64.i was surprised by how much fun it was.but,these games are alot better than anything I played.great video!!
Like the Amiga, Commodore put a lot of effort into the graphics and sound chips for this machine, made it stand out from the other 8-bit micro's, even against the NES and Master Systerm.
Ultima series and Wolfenstein 3D. Spent half my teenage years playing those. Seven Cities of Gold, Defenders of the Crown, Commando, Archon, Beachhead, Ghostbusters, Bruce Lee and other karate games.
Kim, fantastic video! You did a really good job with this list. As you stated no two individuals will agree on games IE your self proclaimed lack of RPGs (mine would have had at least 15 of them!) but for action games etc I can't disagree with too many. Good job!
Wizball is my favourite c64 game ever. It's the only game that I can think off that was never attempted again and why I love it so much, it always feel fresh when you go back to it.
Opening ceremony to Summer Games is definitely, for me, as you say 'weirdly iconic'. It just seems to sum up that particular era of the Commodore 64. ♥️ Thank you for these wonderful memories; much too many games to mention.. From the first one to the last, all games I played when I had one of these amazing machines.
This is a wonderful compilation of C64 games, just like I remember them from the 1984 and on. Summer Games was definitely one of those mesmerizing games at the time. :)
I remember spending time with International Soccer, One on One and Sid Meier's Pirates until '88, and some more that are on the list... Good old days..
Aye, it was miserable on the CPC wasn't it. Not that I was surprised, but even so. Worse was what happened to the Amiga version; no excuses there. A few of these games like Wizball, Impossible Mission, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, it's really only the c64 version you want and don't bother with any others.
@@AnthonyFlack yes that too, you would think a 16 bit version would be better or at the very least equal of the C64 version and why didnt the music make it to any of the other conversions??!
Nice list but this ones are a must in a top50: Pirates, Samurai Warrior, Pitstop 2, Creatures 2, Maniac Mansion, Zack Mckracken and Enforcer. Long live the SID chip!
Can't believe it's taken me this long to check this out, the c64 was my first machine, very fond memories of my old cassette tapes. Gonna give shot outs to my favourites before this starts, and see how they place. Paperboy, Kickstart 2, Beachhead, Yi Ar Kumg Fu, Green Beret and perhaps my first love, FROGGER. What was that flying shoot em up, where you went through time fighting in each world war also? Digging in!
I wouldn't pick half of them for my top 50 but simply our tastes differ. That hour flew by fast, thanks for the vid. And I was waiting for at least Rick Dangerous out there somewhere,
😱 You can’t call Action Biker shoddy?! It’s relaxing, but also challenging, and has that amazing tune playing! It’s one of the few c64 games I can go back to for more than a few minutes.
God, I love C64 music... Never had C64 back at the day, but countless hours of listening C64 tunes on my ST... Those Jochen Hippel conversions and later sampled versions are still on my mind. And of course, now I have 3 C64s... xDDDD
I've never found it since, but the Zzap64 demo of Creatures (one of THE best C64 platformers, bar maybe CJ's Elephant Antics) had a rendition of 'Hear the Drummer, Get Wicked' at the end and it was amazing.
IMO Emlyn Hughes International Soccer is the best football game on C64. Although I played the actual International Soccer the most. Never got into Microprose Soccer.
Ah Kim, if you love single screen platformers, you should love Bruce Lee on the good old Speccy. I bounced straight from your top 100 Speccy games to this - and just realised that it was missing when I saw Jumpman on this list. If you haven't played it Kim - please do, even if it's a really, really short game. EDIT - and then I watched to the end and discovered that you had it here, right up there near the top, on the c64! WOOOT
Great list. I enjoyed Ghost n Ghoblins and I think my all time favourite was Spellbound. Both great soundtracks. Master of Magic had a amazing soundtrack
I would have to add Thrust, Mercenary, Hyper Sports, Gunship as well as many of the Lucas Arts games. We missed out on some great games in the UK because the 1541 floppy drive was so expensive.
A good list with most of the essentials present and accounted for - and nice to see the underappreciated and truly original Frankie Goes To Hollywood featuring so high, although the not-at-all-impossible and still-brilliant-to-this-day Impossible Mission really deserves a top five spot (it's well worth your time even now, whereas the likes of Barbarian really aren't). It's certainly more of a jewel in the crown of the C64 than that ropey Super Mario clone IMO. C64 Commando is just far too short, if I was going to pick one of Elite's arcade conversions, the heart says Ghosts 'n' Goblins but the head says Buggy Boy. For quirky personal preference; games that I love that I don't expect others to necessarily see the appeal: Skate Rock and IBall are the ones I keep coming back to.
Interesting list I was an avid C64 user but there's tons on there I haven't played. Did Creatures/Creatures II not make the cut? Apologies if I missed it, for me that was the peak of C64 graphics, beautiful looking games
I'm VERY sad that Sam's Journey didn't make this list, it doesn't matter that the game was released late 2017, it's the best platformer the C64 has to offer. But I'm so very happy to see Hard 'n Heavy one of my favorite games from when I was a kid made it :) Please Kim and everyone reading this, give modern C64 development a bit more love, in fact I just received the cartridge version of MW Ultra in the mail a few days ago and have been playing the game since, it's INCREDIBLE. Don't get me wrong, the video has many of my favorites like Katakis/Denaris, it has Turrican II, Mayhem and so on, it's a fantastic video. I just I dunno when I saw there was a top 50 C64 game I somehow expected to see Sam's Journey on it :) I think Sam's Journey and many other modern titles such as Steel Ranger, MW Ultra (it's new so I understand why it wouldn't make it in a video like this), Knight 'n Grail, The Age of Heroes and many others deserve to be mentioned when the C64 is being discussed because the C64 is still a very much alive and active platform. EDIT: I just realized Enforcer isn't in the video either, it's THE best C64 shmup and another Trenz masterpiece.
Good video here. (Sir, I must contest your comment however, at 6 mins in for Trailblazer. The Atari 800 can do this type of game similar to the C64. Some of the Lucasfilm games are better on the Atari 800xl, e.g. Rescue on Fractalus, Ballblzer. Archer McClean thought his Dropzone was best on the Atari. People gave up on the Atari by 1985/6 mostly).
Watching Kim place her characters and ghost trap in Ghostbusters is sort of like watching Ashens slice a hot dog bun. ;P Thanks for the great video, Kim. ABOUT TIME! :P
Choplifter, Airborne Ranger, Skate or Die and California Games were a few that I thought I would see on here. Also my personal favorite - Raid on Bungling Bay!
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Loved watching this so much. Brought back a lot of memories I didn't know I still had.
Nice to see Frankie Goes to Hollywood so high here; I can still hear that beautiful soundtrack in my head.
A Kim Justice top 50? These are great. Always an amazing jumping off point for diving into micros.
Nice list. As an American C64 user I certainly have 20 or I think are missing, but so it goes; the cross-pond differences in gaming cultures is one of the C64's strengths IMO. Learned about a few games I've never played, so that should be fun. Keep up the excellent retrogaming work, Kim!
Great list, a few I would have added but that’s the beauty of this, It’s your own list, there are so many C64 games that everyone will have a different top 50, not much wrong with your list though, all solid games, Thank You Kim
Thank you so much for these vids.
I was a c64 owner at school..out numbered by the spectrum owners.
Loved the machine.and your list brought back great memories
One of my favorites that isn't on this list is Sid Meier's Pirates.
the only downer about that game is that the disk version had some extras that the cassette version didn't; or did I dream this ?
@@davedogge2280 Pirates in cassette ?? mmmm I dont think so.
@@davedogge2280 If I remember rightly, the disk version had a sort of strategy mini game when you attacked the towns from land, whereas the tape version omitted this and instead put you straight into a sword fight to take the fort.
@@MsOpportunity68 If I remember correctly, when attacking towns from land, you engaged in combat on the terrain in front of the fort, with forest, obstacles and such. Some towns were hard to attack from the sea side, since you only used one ship for attack with maxed out crew on that ship, and the fortification always had a lot of fire power. Havana, Panama and similar towns, needed to be attacked from land, because you get full crew compliment, easy to loose them in combat and reduce numbers to keep morale high after plundering, and also, quite important, attacking from land was a way to plunder a town without getting noticed beacause, sometimes - attacking from the seaside meant that the town hid most of the gold and other stuff before you conquered it. My personal fav on C64!
@@branimirbozak That was correct for the disk version of the game. One the tape version however this land battle section was missing so you would walk your crew into town from the landward side to attack the fort with the maximum number of men.
Good woman, Kim! I know you didn't grow up with this system but I still really appreciate you putting this together. I loved your other Top 100 videos even though I hardly know any of the systems you covered. Can't wait to watch this countdown!
The C64 was a huge part of my childhood. My favourite game which I played to death as an 8 yr old was Barry Mcguigans Boxing. Great gameplay and longevity. Working your way up the world rankings. So addictive. Loved this video Kim, thank you!
YES! I got Barry McGuigans boxing with the computer for my 8th birthday too! I forgot about that, great game.
Hey Kim, you nailed it great list. 42 of these game are in my c64 collection and I have been on a c64 since the beginning of 1984.
That SID chip still sounding great , oh the memory’s !!!
memories.... wait... unless you meant the ROM on the SID itself?!? 😂
Of course the quality of the tune depending on the quality of the musician. Listen to any SID from Jim Cuomo, and you wish there was a mute button. LMAO
@Dalle Smalhals Look up the music for Intergalactic Cage Match, a shit tune for a shit game
It's really weird that a system from 1981 sounds so damn good, it sounds damn good!!
Great video!
My omitted favourites : Rainbow Islands, Cloud Kingdoms, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer.
Just what the Dr. ordered! I picked up a C-64 Maxi recently and need to flesh out a good classic game playlist. Thanks my friend, good stuff indeed.
The golf commentator after the shot was made in number 29 was amazing use of the sound of the c64
Great video, and I am very happy you included Montezuma's Revenge in this list. I personally would argue that a type in game from Compute!'s Gazette December 1988 magazine was better than half of the games that made your top 50. I think anyone who had the pleasure of playing Crossroads II: Pandemonium would agree with me as well! ..Still very good video, much respect for making this!
This is an awesome top 50 Kim. I must have had 90% of this list and more. I remember the Way of the Exploding fist tape not working once so I loaded it again, turning the volume up sometimes got a game to work...and I forgot about the scream when it loaded...I crapped myself.
This is great, so many games i had forgotten i played for so many hours. (loved Blue Max and Rambo - though I never managed to defeat the Helicopter at the end. Thanks for compiling and posting!
Microprose Soccer was one of the best soccer games on the system. You could literally play an entire world cup including qualifying round robin groups and knockout rounds. You could play as any of 36 world teams each with varying degrees of strengths and weaknesses. And then you had arena soccer on the reverse side with the same formula only US cities and states. Gameplay felt good with a nice charge up kick, tackling, banana kicks and you could even curl the ball. It was the Sensible Soccer of the C64.
The best soccer sim on the system! But no other decent competitors really..... none very playable
Also the players spinning around when trying to do sliding tackles in the rain.
Also the replays with authentic video tape rewinding effects
Also the cracking music
@@patsfan4life Emeyln Hughes and Commodore's own International Soccer were pretty decent
@@scottbreon9448 I loved international soccer as well. This one was unique in that you could make the computer play itself. As a kid I would run my own seasons and leagues using pen & paper using the CPU vs CPU mode to simulate games.
Top rank boxing
As someone who didn't grow up with the system I think you made a fantastic list, which clearly shows you put effort into it. And it's OK to keep mentioning the soundtracks to games, that was one of the great joys of growing up with the system (so to speak) anyway. Sometimes it was even the only redeemable feature. Yes, Knucklebusters, I'm looking at you.
As someone who didn't grow up with the system: that was one of the great joys of growing up with the system.
You couldn't have more contradiction bozo clown
Perfect timing! Just finished re watching your top 100 of all time list and then this pops up! 👌
These are my additions to your list. Magical memories with these games. Emyln Hughes Soccer, Test Drive, Maniac Mansion, Stunt Car Racer, Kick Off, Summer Games, Defender of the Crown, Street Rod...
Street Rod was one of my all time favorites. I still don't think there is a modern car game that gives me the same feelings as that game did.
A perfect start to the week! Thanks Kim, I liked your Spectrum list too!
Superb collection and well argued for an “arcade fan”. Excellent choice for #1. And well done on the shout out to Parallax, wrongly omitted on many such lists.
My favourite channel and my favourite machine. Awesome!!!
But, haha, creatures 1 or 2 was missing for me! Amazing video!!!
This wasn't your list bozo
@@ramrodbldm9876 I know that you spunktrumpet 🤦🏼♂️😂😂
Pretty much a definitive list of C64 classics! you missed a few of my favs but thats inevitable. I've played every one and they're all great, not really surprised with the top 5, Wizball deseveres the top spot totally, absolute classic. Great vid KIm :)
Amazing job, you did on this one. You sold them all to me, argued why they're good to you and made watching it all enjoyable. Heck, how CAN anyone NOT love a 40 year old computer that has 40 years of love by millions put into it?
Indeed one of my Favourite Videos takes me back to the golden Era of gaming and to so much nice memories with many of these awesome games.Many of these tunes still around in my head after so many years
Turrican II wasn't Trenz's last C64 game - he'd put out another shmup (Enforcer: Fullmetal Megablaster) a year later (on the German Golden Disk 64 magazine). Well worth checking out, as it is such a great improvement on what he did with Katakis - far more frentic, technically accomplished and oh so much fun.
True! I was positively shocked when I bought the Golden Disk back then. Enforcer really is in a class of its own. Definitely recommended!
That's correct
Hmmm, does Maniac Mansion get a mention? I always loved playing that.
Yeah when i first saw franky goes to holliwood i thought for sure maniac mansion would be next and then he said there was nothing really quite like and i was like whaaaaa???? He probably never played it
And Zack McKracken
i really like these video's. It's not the videogames, it's your fun comments and bits of info.
I'm so glad that Wizball is at number one on the list. Such a timeless classic. I keep on thinking about the premise of this game and wonder why modern games developers don't try to reserrect this idea.
The satisfaction when you’d filled all the colours was off the charts 😂
The sentinel is one of the most engrossing and unique games ever on any system. Easily a top 5. Very few games managed such an atmospheric setting and giving the player moments of pure panic.
that was touted as 3d chess, it was ok. But I think you could teleport to spots where you couldn't see anything around you i.e. you couldn't pan out and you got stuck I think
The Sentinel is crying out for a modern day overhaul, especially with VR.
@@figurehead1971 I'd love to see a VR version of Stunt Car Racer myself
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The Sentinel is the best game ever made full stop the end on any system ever and the C64 version of it is the best.
Missing out Elite and Kick Start 2 is criminal both phenomenal games.
ELITE was far better on the BBC model B or even the Spectrum, the slow CPU of the 64 did this particular game no favours at all.
Elite was a pretty boring game after a while and the c64 one was slower than the speccy one. Beautiful bit of coding considering the memory limitations though. I think starion on spectrum was a more enjoyable game, although it had a bug that Made it impossible to complete.
Elite was SLOW AS MOLASSES on the C64. Both the Spectrum and BBC versions were far better. The only games slower on the C64 were the Freescape games.. The Commodore 128 version was a TAD bit faster, but the original C64 version was utter pants. I perfer games that don't run at 0.000000000000006 FPS
@@scottbreon9448 The video was about the best games on the commodore 64 not it does not matter if better versions existed on other systems, and as for the Spectrum version the copy protection on that version was an abomination, to say the least, and please provide the evidence that the C64 frame rate was 0.000000000000006 FPS
@@blindtruth4614 The video was about HIS favorite C64 games, that's why is NAME was in the title
Great video ! There are a lot of games on C64 I forgot, like Frankie. So, thanks for bringing my memories alive ...
Yet another brilliant list to binge through! Of all the best of lists you do, I think this one is gonna be the most meaningful to me. It was Christmas 1990 when I got my c64. Its still in the brothers house, and it works perfectly. I got the Night Moves and Mind Benders packs with them. The Night Moves pack contains one of my fave c64 games- Midnight Resistance. Still a brilliant Contra style shoot em up. Terrific soundtrack that instantly takes me back to those times. Other favourites- Last Ninja 2, Creatures , the Turrican series, Platoon, Salamander. Most of the games I loved in general contain soundtracks that I listen to all the time to this very day. Thanks for making this list!
I still remember the tunes from Law of the West by the rather unknown but great composer Ed Bogas. He also did the equally marvelous soundtrack to Murder on the Mississippi.
This was really well done - great choices and summaries. Thank you!
Thanks for the video. What a wicked trip down memory lane.
Happy to see Flimbo get some love. That was the first game I played after upgrading from C16, and back then it was like suddenly having a mid-80s arcade machine in the house... Stunning parallax scroll and music even now, it totally eased my longing for a quality console-style platformer. Brutally hard, of course, but since when was that something we hold against 8-bit platformers?
Thanks Kim, great memories and rare that I agree with a list but theres very little missing. Good job including Frankie.
Finally got around to properly watching this after falling asleep to it for almost a year xD Fantastic video and fantastic list, thank you Kim!!!
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Kim your videos are so great they help with my depression and have done for years now. I hope you read this as I want to give you a massive thank you. I even watch your videos on content that I'm not massively into just because of the quality of your videos and how relaxing they are. Thanks Kim you are a legend!
Keep up the fight against depression - from personal experience I "get" it.
Stay strong.
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The amazing thing about the C64 is how no 2 people's top 50 would ever be the same.
great list! some favorites i had on the c64 that me and my friend used to grind was "street machine" and "Painter boy"
What's with:
- Maniac Mansion
- Nebulus
- Antiriad
- To be on Top
- David's Midnight Magic
- Hypa Ball
- Spy versus Spy
- Infiltrator
- Lazy Jones
- Shadow of the Beast
?
Shadow of the beast was shit...on every platform. It was a technical achievement, but they left out ACTUAL gameplay. The only good game in the SOTB series in terms of gameplay was SOTB3
Manic Mansion ruled for sure! SOTB though... :-/
Man, I need to finish restoring my C128. So many good games I wasn't aware of! Thanks a lot for this list.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane ! Weren't you a fan of Project Firestart ? One game I could play mindlessly for a while was that Donald Duck game where you worked various jobs to get money and pimp your playground !
If space taxi and Paradroid wasn't here I would have rioted. I can now die happy. **Slowly fades out of reality and vanishes**
You do realise they did a PC version of Paradroid...project-paradroid.en.softonic.com
UP, PLEASE!
Hey, Taxi. ::hits fare:: HEY!
@@FrikinOSM There's something about the physics of the original that the PC clones doesn't capture.
I get excited any time i see Aztec challenge. A childhood favorite that holds up today.
There were a indiana jones type of game where you could use dynamite (?) it was similar to aztect, but I don't remember the name of the game.
Great stuff and like all personal lists it can't be wrong because it's yours.
IK+ was so playable and the controls response was instant.
Ahh... Many broken quickshot C64 joystick memories! Had a graveyard of dead joysticks building up behind my C64 and tv thanks to those brilliant games... and heavy handed mates breaking them!
Competition pro was the joystick way to go. Quickshot just looked good
@I Live In A 16-Bit Van Down By The 8-Bit River did you have a freeze frame cartridge? Awesome gadget.
Boulder dash is my #1
a classic game, someone's mum around the Preston area got hooked on the game badly, so much that she negelected the household chores etc
@@davedogge2280 Poor you ;)
@@rondlh20 wasn't my mum !
Is it?
The Epyx "... Games" series destroyed many joysticks due to merciless waggling.
So, being of 'that' age I had a pong machine followed by an Atari VCS. Then a Spectrum but my heart always belonged to Commodore prior to the Playstation era. The games I enjoyed included -
Choplifter, Beach-Head, Dropzone, The Sentinal, Ghostbusters, Impossible Mission, Kennedy Approach, Leaderboard Golf, Speedking, Thrust, Pitstop 2, Buggy Boy and Falcon Patrol.
Back in the day when it took maybe 10 mins to load a game and some serious imagination was required. Many, many hours lost to this system, then the Amiga arrived...................
I've started exploring the c64 for the first time, but so far I like Project Firestart, Organism, and Aliens. I guess I just like Alien games.
Wow, lots of memories here!
Some others I loved: Infiltrator II, Raid over Moscow, Raid over Bungling Bay, Choplifter, Gunship, F19 Stealth, Lode Runner, Gyruss, Beachhead II, Ballblazer, Winter Games... so many classics!
Aztec (Datamost) and Castle Wolfenstein are my all-time favourite C64 games and I still play today.
I loved Action Biker. One of the best budget games for the C64. The in-game tune is one that, even if it has been years since I played it, will suddenly pop into my head and refuse to leave for days.
I genuinely think Action Biker on C64 was the game that inspired my love of free roaming games. It was like the GTA of it’s time (only on a bike with no missions and stuff). I played it at a mate’s house and had to have it. Imagine what I felt like when I got my spectrum version home...
It's your list Kim and i'm not here to judge ya. I guess platformers and star shooters like R-Type are more up your alley than any other games. And of course some games had so many ports it's hard to pick those that stand out on C64. From a C64 enthusiast like me here are some games you may consider for future top 100 update - i personally find them hard, gorgeous (for 8-bits), and rocking some great music: IO, Batman the Caped Crusader (both parts), Rastan, Outrun and Turbo Outrun, Diplomacy (tabletop adaptation), Stunt Car Racer, Castle Master, Shoot Out, Archon, Andy Capp, Rick Dangerous (also both parts), Bop'n Rumble, any Dizzy game, Defender of the Crown (best 8-bit iteration imo), Double Dragon (any part), Fort Apocalypse, Bride of Frankenstein, The Great Escape, Zig-Zag, Hans Kloss, Winter Games, The Train - Escape to Normandy, Antiriad, Usagi Yojimbo, Spy vs Spy (any part), Scumball, Sidewalk, Skate or Die, Kartateka, One on One (or Bird vs Eving). Thare are more, undoubtedly, but these are the ones i personally played and enjoyed - yea, many of them are just ports but good ports nonetheless :).
Last Ninja dispatches multiple enemies with ease then drowns in a pond.
1:41 the C16/Plus 4 version of the C2N datasette being used with the C64? I'm wondering if this was possible with an adapter (or changing the connector) and if so did Commodore ever include the black version of the C2N with the C64 in an attempt to get shot of the units after the commercial failure of the C16/Plus 4 line? Or was it a simple case of the production staff for the advert cocking up and using the wrong tape deck?
You are correct in your assumption of an adapter, and most certainly the black version with the adapter was bundled with some C64C bundles. I remember my cousin having the C64C Light Fantastic bundle for Christmas '89 which had a black 1531 with the 7 pin din to card connector adapter required. Commodore were renowned for using whatever from their parts bin to use up supplies. Unusual that I have the reply to your query with an incredibly similar username too.
Here is one listed over at amibay to quell your curiosity www.amibay.com/showthread.php?52945-Commodore-1531-to-1530-adapter
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@@figureheaduk Yep named after my favourite cure song too.
Great video mate, brought back a lot of happy memories from a simpler time 😊
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I've been waiting for this for a long time!
Ok I very much enjoyed this, and it's an excellent list
Here are a few that I'm really glad made it:
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- Action Biker
- Beach Head
- Ikari Warriors
and here are a few that I'd have in mine
- Thrust
- Creatures
- Ninja Spirit
- Enforcer
- Navy Seals
- Exile
- Powerdrift
- Slicks
- Retrograde
- Supremacy
I know it's mentioned in the vid, but maybe the title should be "50 Greatest action games of all time" or something if we're excluding RPGs (Lords of Midnight, Bards Tale, Wasteland, Times of Lore would all make my top 50) [edit] Although it does already say "Kim Justice's top 50" so have what you want :D
Also if you like defender clones - definitely check out RETROGRADE if you haven't already
I remember bringing my nes over to my neighbors as a kid.i would let him play the Nintendo while I gamed on his c64.i was surprised by how much fun it was.but,these games are alot better than anything I played.great video!!
Like the Amiga, Commodore put a lot of effort into the graphics and sound chips for this machine, made it stand out from the other 8-bit micro's, even against the NES and Master Systerm.
Great list. I'm glad Leaderboard is in there. That is my favourite.
Wizard of Wor - simple yet just fun to play COOP action.
Used to love that me and my brother played it all the time
The C64 conversion of Gyruss would have made my list too
Ultima series and Wolfenstein 3D. Spent half my teenage years playing those.
Seven Cities of Gold, Defenders of the Crown, Commando, Archon, Beachhead, Ghostbusters, Bruce Lee and other karate games.
An absolute treat, thank you.
Kim, fantastic video! You did a really good job with this list. As you stated no two individuals will agree on games IE your self proclaimed lack of RPGs (mine would have had at least 15 of them!) but for action games etc I can't disagree with too many. Good job!
Wizball is my favourite c64 game ever. It's the only game that I can think off that was never attempted again and why I love it so much, it always feel fresh when you go back to it.
Opening ceremony to Summer Games is definitely, for me, as you say 'weirdly iconic'. It just seems to sum up that particular era of the Commodore 64. ♥️ Thank you for these wonderful memories; much too many games to mention.. From the first one to the last, all games I played when I had one of these amazing machines.
This is a wonderful compilation of C64 games, just like I remember them from the 1984 and on. Summer Games was definitely one of those mesmerizing games at the time. :)
This is perfect! I love arcadey games! And only just downloaded a C64 emulator for my OG XB along with the 2000 odd tapes I used to own ;)
Excellent list, Kim.
I remember spending time with International Soccer, One on One and Sid Meier's Pirates until '88, and some more that are on the list... Good old days..
One on One was the best basketball sim on the system.....
Wow, some of the fondest memories of my childhood just flashed by.... thanks! ❤️👾🕹
Glad to see Wizball at number one. Cried inside when i bought the Amstrad version hoping to get the same experience. Stunning music too.
Aye, it was miserable on the CPC wasn't it. Not that I was surprised, but even so. Worse was what happened to the Amiga version; no excuses there. A few of these games like Wizball, Impossible Mission, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, it's really only the c64 version you want and don't bother with any others.
@@AnthonyFlack yes that too, you would think a 16 bit version would be better or at the very least equal of the C64 version and why didnt the music make it to any of the other conversions??!
Nice list but this ones are a must in a top50: Pirates, Samurai Warrior, Pitstop 2, Creatures 2, Maniac Mansion, Zack Mckracken and Enforcer. Long live the SID chip!
Can't believe it's taken me this long to check this out, the c64 was my first machine, very fond memories of my old cassette tapes. Gonna give shot outs to my favourites before this starts, and see how they place. Paperboy, Kickstart 2, Beachhead, Yi Ar Kumg Fu, Green Beret and perhaps my first love, FROGGER. What was that flying shoot em up, where you went through time fighting in each world war also?
Digging in!
I wouldn't pick half of them for my top 50 but simply our tastes differ. That hour flew by fast, thanks for the vid. And I was waiting for at least Rick Dangerous out there somewhere,
😱 You can’t call Action Biker shoddy?! It’s relaxing, but also challenging, and has that amazing tune playing!
It’s one of the few c64 games I can go back to for more than a few minutes.
It’s not shoddy. It’s shite.
Also Skips "Maize based?" What nonsense. The open world does make the game more appealing these days.
Actually - I believe that Trailblazer was originally developed for the C16/Plus 4 and was then ported to the C64
That is correct. I prefer the C16 version too as you don't share the screen with the 2nd player.
The C64 version is also BUGGED
Great list! You always make the best videos. Thanks!
God, I love C64 music... Never had C64 back at the day, but countless hours of listening C64 tunes on my ST... Those Jochen Hippel conversions and later sampled versions are still on my mind. And of course, now I have 3 C64s... xDDDD
I've never found it since, but the Zzap64 demo of Creatures (one of THE best C64 platformers, bar maybe CJ's Elephant Antics) had a rendition of 'Hear the Drummer, Get Wicked' at the end and it was amazing.
I'm putting the Ghosts'n'goblins and Spy versus Spy tunes on my running tracks on my phone.
Brings back old memories:
Speed King
Emlyn Hughes International Soccer
Myth
Untouchables
The Wombles
Track Suit Manager
Emlyn Hughes soccer! What a game! I loved changing the names of the players etc my first taste of in game editing haha
IMO Emlyn Hughes International Soccer is the best football game on C64.
Although I played the actual International Soccer the most.
Never got into Microprose Soccer.
Ah Kim, if you love single screen platformers, you should love Bruce Lee on the good old Speccy. I bounced straight from your top 100 Speccy games to this - and just realised that it was missing when I saw Jumpman on this list. If you haven't played it Kim - please do, even if it's a really, really short game. EDIT - and then I watched to the end and discovered that you had it here, right up there near the top, on the c64! WOOOT
I think this will have to be a ‘go to’ video for deciding what to play today!
OHHHHhhhh! That’s why the music from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence was sooooo familiar the first time I saw the film a few years ago!!
Great list. I enjoyed Ghost n Ghoblins and I think my all time favourite was Spellbound. Both great soundtracks. Master of Magic had a amazing soundtrack
I would have to add Thrust, Mercenary, Hyper Sports, Gunship as well as many of the Lucas Arts games. We missed out on some great games in the UK because the 1541 floppy drive was so expensive.
yeah it narked me off that many of those SSI strategy games and D&D games were disk only for the c64
I had an Evesham micros disk drive, much cheaper and smaller than the 1541 but just as good.
@@meetoo594 yeah they were cheaper I remember. Wish I had bought an Evesham
Cough Stunt Car Racer Cough
A good list with most of the essentials present and accounted for - and nice to see the underappreciated and truly original Frankie Goes To Hollywood featuring so high, although the not-at-all-impossible and still-brilliant-to-this-day Impossible Mission really deserves a top five spot (it's well worth your time even now, whereas the likes of Barbarian really aren't). It's certainly more of a jewel in the crown of the C64 than that ropey Super Mario clone IMO. C64 Commando is just far too short, if I was going to pick one of Elite's arcade conversions, the heart says Ghosts 'n' Goblins but the head says Buggy Boy.
For quirky personal preference; games that I love that I don't expect others to necessarily see the appeal: Skate Rock and IBall are the ones I keep coming back to.
My favourite thing about IK+ on the Amiga/ST was that, if you typed "wank", it came up with the message "sweaty hands slip off joysticks".
Interesting list I was an avid C64 user but there's tons on there I haven't played. Did Creatures/Creatures II not make the cut? Apologies if I missed it, for me that was the peak of C64 graphics, beautiful looking games
I'm VERY sad that Sam's Journey didn't make this list, it doesn't matter that the game was released late 2017, it's the best platformer the C64 has to offer. But I'm so very happy to see Hard 'n Heavy one of my favorite games from when I was a kid made it :)
Please Kim and everyone reading this, give modern C64 development a bit more love, in fact I just received the cartridge version of MW Ultra in the mail a few days ago and have been playing the game since, it's INCREDIBLE.
Don't get me wrong, the video has many of my favorites like Katakis/Denaris, it has Turrican II, Mayhem and so on, it's a fantastic video. I just I dunno when I saw there was a top 50 C64 game I somehow expected to see Sam's Journey on it :)
I think Sam's Journey and many other modern titles such as Steel Ranger, MW Ultra (it's new so I understand why it wouldn't make it in a video like this), Knight 'n Grail, The Age of Heroes and many others deserve to be mentioned when the C64 is being discussed because the C64 is still a very much alive and active platform.
EDIT: I just realized Enforcer isn't in the video either, it's THE best C64 shmup and another Trenz masterpiece.
Good video here. (Sir, I must contest your comment however, at 6 mins in for Trailblazer. The Atari 800 can do this type of game similar to the C64. Some of the Lucasfilm games are better on the Atari 800xl, e.g. Rescue on Fractalus, Ballblzer. Archer McClean thought his Dropzone was best on the Atari. People gave up on the Atari by 1985/6 mostly).
I agree. I had an Atari 400/800 and then a 130XE. The likes of Blue Max, Bruce Lee, and Ballblazer were very good on the Atari 8 bits.
Watching Kim place her characters and ghost trap in Ghostbusters is sort of like watching Ashens slice a hot dog bun. ;P
Thanks for the great video, Kim. ABOUT TIME! :P
nice! i remember Castle of Terror... to get a wooden stake you had to break the hayloft ladder :) classic, spooky soundtrack was epic back in 84
I need to check that one out
Choplifter, Airborne Ranger, Skate or Die and California Games were a few that I thought I would see on here. Also my personal favorite - Raid on Bungling Bay!