Top 50 Commodore 64 (C64) games of 1987 - in under 10 minutes
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2022
- Hello and welcome to the fourth episode of TOP 50 Commodore 64 (C64) games in under 10 minutes.
Another great year for all Commodore 64 gamers. 1987 brought us legendary titles like Maniac Mansion, IK+, The Last Ninja and other great classics.
Games are, as always, presented in no particular order.
Have fun and let us know in the comments if you agree with our choices (and if we missed a title that should be on the list). - Ігри
How much I miss those times when the gaming world was all new to us, full with wonders and colors and we loved every moment of it.
Youngsters now play 10 times higher quality games on their mobile phones and never satisfied with anything.
Games all look better now but kids today can never understand how we felt back in the 80s and early 90s when all of this was truly a miracle to us
Nicely written, and I couldn't agree more.
Thanks for watching!
Back in the day I think we spent more time copying disks, pirating software, and punching the disks to make them double-sided than we actually spent playing.
Oh gosh. I totally forgot about punching the disks. Lol.
Punching discs... I missed this one I think lmfao
Haha🤣👍
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Haha punching disks... man It's been decades since that I totally forgot about
Totally the *high water mark* for the C64.
My top two games for the platform came out that year (Defender of the Crown and Pirates!) and I am happy to say that 35 years later I am still playing them both.
Airborne Ranger another great game from the list...
What a great year for the C64! Programmers really had mastered all aspects of the hardware by that time. Excellent list.
Agreed. The jump in quality of C64 games from 85 to 86 and 87 is very clear.
One of the best things to happen to the c64 was the amiga. The amiga to c64 ports were generally good stuff.
I remember those times, I was fourteen.
It was the peak of the C-64, but from then on the Amiga was on the rise.
Glorious times the youth of today can't understand.
I was 10 and didn't actually own the C64. My cousin did though :) I had ZX Spectrum back then, so had access to "both worlds".
Different (but good) times though, yes.
Borrowing and Copying big Floppy Disks on the Schoolyard. Great Times. If you look at some mobilegames on smartphones now. They are not much better
I was 8 years old in 1987 and I agree The Nostalgia is strong but why don't you think today's youth can understand what it is to enjoy video games?
@@kidkique Because they'll never experience the fascination of a brandnew medium.
My first experience was actually "Pong" at home, the fascinaton of the opportunity to move an object on the TV-set was unique.
The progression of this kind of joy was only in this time.
Kids of today only get perfection.
@@GKitz211 I don't know man fully immersive VR is a pretty new medium that is pretty impressive to experience for the first time
I was about to type a long scathing message lambasting you for your top 50 Commodore games until I realized it was for 1987 only. Feeling better now. Great job putting together the list!
Thanks.
Too many great games on these systems, so I decided to do the lists covering each year the machine was relevant on the gaming market.
Yeah I agree.
The last ninja. Being able to move diagonally up the pathway was revolutionary
Rampage,kick-start,rescue on fractalus,test drive,miami vice,california games...brings back so many memories and thr ocean loader by matt gray...been gaming since 85,still collecting consoles at 42
Could argue with amiga and st still finding their feet, c64 was best games machine in the world at this point....so many top games.
I agree, but the "rise" of them 16-bit machines happened quick after 1988 or so. But C64 really had some great, great titles in 1987. No disputing that whatsoever.
Brilliant Top 50 of Commodore 64 games again.
Absolutely love these videos as I'd forgotten some of the ones you've shown.
Top class again 👍
Thank you very much!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
My first ever gaming experience was from aC64 in 1987 plugged in to my grandparents television. Wow what a trip down memory lane this is!
That's the point of these videos. To bring back memories of those great 80s ;)
Thanks for watching!
i´m born in 1981, and I still remember this: Turbo Tape - SYS 52598!😃😅😇
Platoon was from 1987. I know the movie was from 1986 but the game came out in 1987. Project Stealth Fighter also came out in 1987
best year of C64 games - in 50 titles i found 10 my best games on c64
It was indeed a great year for C64 gaming!
The C64 was a great computer, here are some of the classics I enjoyed, manic miner, jet set willy, chuckie egg, kokotoni wilf, atic atak, scuba dive, alien8, halls of the things and few more I have forgotten, good memories
oh my, i was 12 back in 87 :) I Loved it, wonderful presentation and thanx for all the nice memories with this :) High 5
I was 10 :)
I'm glad you liked the video and thanks for watching!
Nice video. I missed quite a few of these as a kid. The swamp in curse of Sherwood drove me crazy 😡
Finally got a C64 for xmas '86 (after owning a spectrum and acorn electron), so 1987 was my first full year of gaming on the system. A great year for Commodore titles (a few of these i dont remember). Loved the Microprose games Airborne Ranger and Pirates! (the packaging was classy). Also Stavros Fasoulas's "Delta" which only got 74% in ZZAP! but i thought it was a great shoot-em-up with superb music from Rob Hubbard.
Really good games at 1987. Thanks for sharing.
spent days playing solomons key and the last ninja, absolute classics
Agreed, great games those two!
Maniac Manson , Test Drive etc.
i had them all on disc 👍👍👍😄
A watershed year for gaming in the c64. A real leap in quality over previous years pushing the boundaries of the machine. A lot of the all time classics from 87.
I played most of these games as a kid. It's nice to remember the titles :)
loved those games, thanks for the video
Thank you!
I'm glad you liked the video!
I'm so happy the The Last Ninja was at 4:20 - I was literally dominating a fat blunt and my 2nd fav' C-64 game.
As for WIZBALL, my all time favourite C-64 game.
Stuff of legend.
Wizzball was just a classic.When you knew what you were doing it was an amazing experience,again one of my favourite games of all time 👍🏻
Wizball way ahead of its time, brilliant game!! Enjoyed completing that!!!!
Totally agree,one of the games I completed without cheating.👍🏻
Loved Maniac Mansion. Unlocked every ending. Played with every character. A masterpiece of the 80s.
Airborne Ranger, too.
Oh man, can't stop editing my coment, lol.
Played 90% of the games.
Neuromancer ?
Bop and rumble 😂 I knew I would find you if I watched enough UA-cam videos, I remember spinning people above your head. My cousins and I loved that game 😎
Yes, it was a "different" kind of a game.
No way, would this kind of game be published today though. :)
The music in some of those games just comes flooding back into my brain
Hands down, the C64 is the best computer ever. I own a PS5, and it is an empty husk when compared to this machine. I wish somebody would do a version of Wizball for the PS5.
great memories.. thanks for the post.
Thank you!
I'm glad you got to relieve those special memories.
@@retrononame Subscribed! I urge others to the same!!!
The Island of Dr Destructo theres a game I'd completely forgotten about. Good shout. Army Moves another classic with a great soundtrack.
IK+ still looks amazing now.
Nice top of commodore 64 games 👍
7:06 Renegade is a super retro fighting game!
Brilliant compilation!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video!
Many of my favorite games are from this year, pheraps 1987 was the year C64 got his peak.
The c64 was my favorite computer , loved all the games and going online to the BBS
Thought it was a massive upgrade in graphics and sound over my 48k ZX Spectrum, but the speccy was my first love.
My first year owning a C64. Probably too late a time to get one but still had a blast in spite of PC DOS taking over more and more. We have to start somewhere. And a C64 was probably the best 8 bit computer for games ever. Especially if money was tight and you actually wanted to play computer games and couldn't afford a PC that was at least 10x the price.
Giana Sisters and Arkanoid were my favourites...I missed Frogger...😅😚
Played Giana Sisters a ton with my cousin on his C64. Great game (even though it was a copy of Mario) :)
Looking at the games on this list , this has to b the best yr for the c64, way to many classics.
So many 1987 games to choose from! Hard to choose the "top" ones other than some obvious no-brainers (like Pirates!).
A couple other titles worth checking out are Crossroads (Compute), and Spore (Mastertronic)
Crossroads and Crossroads 2 are noteworthy as perhaps the best type-ins ever, and they can be seen as a high resolution update of another C64 classic, Wizard of Wor.
Spore is a bit interesting to me as a Gauntlet/puzzle hybrid.
1987 was a good year on the C64.
Best year ever.
OMG This list is friggin awesome. I probably played like 60-70% of these games. Couple of stand-outs: Last Ninja, Buggy Boy, Test Drive, Krakout, California Games, IK+, Arkanoid (heck yeah), Giana Sisters, Zynaps. Not in this video but friggin awesome: Uridium.
Thank you!
You can find Uridium in the Top 50 C64 games of 1986 list (here: ua-cam.com/video/2pGaJrg2d0A/v-deo.html )
The jizzle in my pants when I first hear the theme to IK+ then Monty.
Time to search for some of the other games and see if there are any longplays on them :)
I've only played a fraction of the games shown here :D
I think 87 was the peak C64 year. Great quality games and the trading scene was huge. I went to Amiga in late 88 and things went from there.!
i love c64 my fav system all-time it has great games
I used to enjoy Canyons of Zelaz. My Stepson and I typed in the program from the BASIC code printed in RUN magazine ...
It's shocking how smoother Buggy Boy is in comparison to test drive, even though it seemingly does have more advanced graphics (the dashboard in Test Drive is more for limiting the game window for performance reasons I guess).
I bought Kikstart 2 on cassette from local newsagents in the UK with money earned from Carol singing!
Saved the best for last, man :D
O.M.G I was just wondering if "The last Ninja" would be on here? And that same second it came on!!
Last ninja is a great game that more than deserves to be on the top 50 C64 games of 1987 ;)
Thanks for watching!
@@retrononame absolutely a great game! 👍
Woohoo!! I only knew (and played) maybe 7 or 8 of the games. And the others I haven't even heard of. Could be because I changed to the Atari ST in 1986 when I was going to University. And I didn't either know that so many Spectrum games were ported to the C64. They look so speccy on the Commodore, really ridiculous :-))
Finished Head over Heels many times
Never managed to do that. Played it a lot (though on the Spectrum - didn't have C64 back then). But never finished it.
Californie games 😍😍😍😍 Amiga 500 🥰🥰🥰
Think some of those games stretch the definition of best games.
Space Harrier?
Wonderboy?
Rampage?
Could be, but I am limited to a particular year in each "Top games" video - 1987 in this case. ;)
I did like Wonderboy and Rampage a lot back in the days. And Space Harrier, I think it's quite well done as well. But, of course, this is just my personal opinion.
Thanks for watching the video!
@@retrononame sorry, I have to apologise. I didn't see best games of "1987". For the year, rampage would probably make it. Still not sure about space harrier though. Remember it being very hard to make out anything. Music wasn't half bad though.
A lot of very good games born in 1987! 👍
Agreed! Fantastic year for C64 gaming scene.
There some goodies in there.. Renegade was my substitute for Double Dragon..
airborne ranger: depicting the osprey 2 years before its first flight
Defender of the Crown. Best game ever :)
I never played any of these. I really preferred games like Carriers at War and Reach for the Stars. I did really love Archon though.
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I still have 3 of these
God I was on the bleeding edge for about 60 seconds
Bop n rumble was called street hassle over here in UK
What was that boxing game after every round bruises and cuts showed up on each boxer?
Giana sisters! 😱😍😍 I downloaded that on my playstation 3 😍🤣
I remember playing California games, i think i had a 486 with a cga card
Trip down 80's memory lane here California Games Test Drive Bubble Bobble Kickstart 2 Wizball Buggy Boy The Last Ninja Arkanoid Andy Capp
1987 was a great year for the C64 obviously.
My top 8: 1. Pirates (G.O.A.T.) 2. World Class Leaderboard 3. Rampage 4. California Games 5. Arkanoid 6. Bop n Rumble 7. Test Drive 8. The Train : Escape to Normandy.
I don't know about 1987 precisely, but The Bard's Tale was one of the best.
I think I saw that one recently in a list for '85, I remember drawing maps for that game and everything but I never got very far as it was so damn hard.
I somehow had so many of these but never bought any
sooooo many of the games on there that i wasted many an hour playin back in the day
Didn't we all waste so many hours back then? Happy times for sure...
Not a waste!
Depends who you asking (hint - parents). ;)
Bob'n rumble seemed badass. Head butting grannies and blind people? Hell's yeah!!! +10
Yes it was, hm, a bit different :)
No way would this kind of game be published today.
Some gems and some really bad an generic ones in here. Man, I miss the time... 🙂
I thought it was awesome then playing these games then. How we evolved so much.
Airborne ranger ❤😢
4:32 Bart Simpson's nightmare game
the c64 had the best ms pac man for any console
Missing loads of the best. How about sensible soccer, flimbos quest, rtype, North and south, a dizzy game, wwf, Adams family, super off road, paperboy, pitfighter. So many better games missed off
Please read the title again ;)
This is (my) top 50 of the C64 games released in 1987 and 1987 only.
Super offroad is 1990 (also found in my top 50 list for C64 games released in 1990), Paperboy is (if my memory serves me correctly) from 1985... and so on.
@@retrononame you're right. My bad
By this time, the Amiga and the Atari ST had been released. However, the Commodore 64 still held its own, with programmers taking full advantage of the hardware. After all these years, the Commodore 64 still lives on and the games shown here are a testament to that fact. Thanks for making this video.
BY 88 lazy gamers were all Nintendo. Real PC gamers still played C64. Literally no one played AMIGA and it never really caught on.
Compared to the games of the early years of the c64 these look almost next gen
I find your content non offensive and enjoy it. I defend though a person's right to criticise. Being negative is not beyond the pail and doesn't invalidate their comments, except when they are wrong. I do watch your shows to the end so I get all the facts.
Missing the best wizard,james bond,bruce lee,superpipeline,road runner.
This video covers only the games released in 1987 (check the title) ;)
Krakout without the music?????
bop and rumble = streets of rage hulk hogan edition
Missing Uridium, Bruce Lee, Impossible Mission, Rambo, Beach Head, H. E. R. O, Boulderdash, Exploding Fist, Karateka, Delta, Bomb Jack, Zak Mc Cracken, Who Dares Wins, Commando, Parallax, Spy VS Spy, Turrican, Ghost Busters, Barbarian, Rally Speedway and a lots other in front of many games in this video.
This video only covers top C64 games of the 1987. Other games are covered in other episodes of Top C64 50 games - you can find them in the Top 50 library on this channel.
Thanks for watching!
@@retrononame ok. Thanks.
At last, some games I played. The trouble is, not on the 64.
You missed out on the best era unless there's another video with Turrican 2, Mayhem in Monsterland etc.
This video only covers top 50 games for C64 that were released in 1987.
I will cover later years (1988 and later) in the future episodes.
Thanks for watching!
@@retrononame Ok. Thank you for clarification. 👍
Hey guys.. Im looking for a game I played on C64. It was like a spaceship, scrooling game, you had to pick up guys waving at you in futuristic city.
Space Taxi?
@stackhat8624 no. Thank you for an answer though. All I remember is that it had a black screen and the landscape was blue. And you were flying(scrooling) left n right. It was like a space city, you had to pick up the the guys and dont crush them while landing.
@@jankejval1747 AirWolf, Choplifter?
This has the great giana sisters game on it?
Last game on here is by EA. They haven’t advanced that much actually.
Come on bro, Nebulus.
You're right. I should have included Nebulus!
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No Gunship or Silent Service???
Flimbo’s quest should be on here
This video covers only the games released in 1987.
Flimbo was (if I recall correctly) released in 1990, so it will feature in the future video, when I cover that particular year.
Thanks for watching!
At least it was better than the Atari 2600, which is what I owned before this.
Wow the memories. Terrible graphics compared to todays standard but at least you didnt get charged a ton for games and add ons.
Yeah, we needed to use our imagination a bit in order to "teleport ourselves" into strange worlds inside the 1980s video games :)
But it was still magical... at least for me.
Test drive was one of those must have games , driving different iconic cars even having the option of 2 joystics to drive one for shifting gears.
Agreed. Test Drive is a fantastic game.