Commodore 64

Olishi4

Did you have one of these?

They took ages to load. My brother had this soccer game.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EZt5q2BASR0

I remember something where I was wrecking his head to play two player but he never wanted to play with me because I just kept either running in circles or off the pitch!

My dad use to love this golf one...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEk4iIw4ds

vicwatson

Feckin top class computer (at the time)

Skommando

Only rich knobs that new nothing about computers had them. The real computer heads had sinclairs.

Barry Badrinath

Stick in Flimbos Quest, wait for the coloured stripey screen to feck off and happy days!

Notable mention to T2, blow the cartridge (hey hey) which I could never get out of the nut house.

Mr. FoggPatches

I remember being g told that you could record games to blank cassettes. Never worked for me though
Ikari warriors was the best game ever.

Zaph

Olishi4 wrote: »

Did you have one of these?

They took ages to load. My brother had this soccer game.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EZt5q2BASR0

I remember something where I was wrecking his head to play two player but he never wanted to play with me because I just kept either running in circles or off the pitch!

My dad use to love this golf one...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEk4iIw4ds

Had both those games. I was pretty crap at International Soccer, but I played Leaderboard Golf for hours and hours. I was a lot better at it than the soccer game. I think the C64 is still in my parents' garage somewhere.

AllGunsBlazing

Skommando wrote: »

Only rich knobs that new nothing about computers had them. The real computer heads had sinclairs.

And how long did the keyboard last on that garden shed-made piece of shi_t?:D

Skommando

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

And how long did the keyboard last on that garden shed-made piece of shi_t?:D

Long enough to learn far more about computing

Mr. FoggPatches

Skommando wrote: »

Long enough to learn far more about computing

Which is better, ps4 or Xbox one?

B.A._Baracus

Had one myself as a kid. Was pretty good. I only found out recently that piracy was insane back in the day.

Ludo

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

I remember being g told that you could record games to blank cassettes. Never worked for me though
Ikari warriors was the best game ever.

Dual tape deck recorded them fine. They were a bit finicky but usually worked. Always had to keep a tape handy to shove under the cassette tape cable to keep it working on mine due to loose connection.

Senna

I think ours is still in my mum's attic, should really take it down some day.
There was one game, think it was called "Hunchback", each screen was a different obstacle, jumping from pillar to pillar, swinging over a hole, etc. Loved that game, I did look for it on an emulator a few years ago but couldn't find it.

Mr. FoggPatches

Ludo wrote: »

Dual tape deck recorded them fine. They were a bit finicky but usually worked. Always had to keep a tape handy to shove under the cassette tape cable to keep it working on mine due to loose connection.

I only tried it a few tines and when it did t work, I decided it was an urban myth.
No Google in those days
Decided to learn basic instead of playing games then.

Grayson

Atari Jaguar?

TinCool

You can emulate pretty much 100% a C64 on a PC these days. https://sourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/

I still fire it up to play some of my old favs like Impossible Mission every once and a while

buried

Soundtrack for Last Ninja 2 is still f**king class

AllGunsBlazing

There was a few of us in our national school with C64's and we had quite the little piracy ring going for a bit. The games would eventually corrupt and become unloadable but tapes were dirt cheap so you just banged out another copy.

theteal

Did anybody successfully program the bouncy ball? I just could not get it.....so I went back to Flimbo

B.A._Baracus

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

I only tried it a few tines and when it did t work, I decided it was an urban myth.
No Google in those days
Decided to learn basic instead of playing games then.

I remember using a double tape deck radio to copy a game once. Thinking it would work. It didn't :pac:

TinCool

Senna wrote: »

I think ours is still in my mum's attic, should really take it down some day.
There was one game, think it was called "Hunchback", each screen was a different obstacle, jumping from pillar to pillar, swinging over a hole, etc. Loved that game, I did look for it on an emulator a few years ago but couldn't find it.

One of the first games I played on the C64. That and Beach Head

soap1978

Skommando wrote: »

Only rich knobs that new nothing about computers had them. The real computer heads had sinclairs.

did the poor people have amstrads 464

Ludo

buried wrote: »

Soundtrack for Last Ninja 2 is still f**king class

Way of the exploding fist is the one I remember...class sound effects.

Mr. FoggPatches

buried wrote: »

Soundtrack for Last Ninja 2 is still f**king class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NeTZ3AHfpY

Nostalgia overload

brevity

I remember playing that Terminator 2 game on it.

Frustrating game tbf

B.A._Baracus

Anyone else think Freddys fiendish circus game was really really dark and weird looking?

Dr Turk Turkelton

soap1978 wrote: »

did the poor people have amstrads 464

I had a 6128 does that make me middle class?

AllGunsBlazing

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

I had a 6128 does that make me middle class?

Not unless you had a BBC Micro lying around as well. That was the real middle class computer of choice.

Olishi4

The only other thing I can remember was a really basic tennis game. I think it was on the computer itself and not a tape? I loved that.

buried

Would love an actual hi-def copy of the Last Ninja 2 soundtrack. Its funny, this London based electronic musician released this album this year. You just know this guy played and loved Last Ninja 2. Could well still have a commodore 64 and used the soundboard to make some parts of his tunes

mzungu

These were always great for a laugh back in the day:

California Games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2S5CSc97M

Platoon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBz8GsKIu-E

Fiery mutant

Platoon was awesome, but my fav by a mile was Outrun Europa, brilliant for its day.

mzungu

Olishi4 wrote: »

Did you have one of these?

They took ages to load. My brother had this soccer game.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EZt5q2BASR0

I remember something where I was wrecking his head to play two player but he never wanted to play with me because I just kept either running in circles or off the pitch!

I used to play that one too. Actually, my friend had it, but I was either always up in his house or he was always down at mine, so it was one of those games that was always put on. Those were the days.

My dad use to love this golf one...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEk4iIw4ds

I had that one too, but I was woeful at it! Just looking at the way the screen loads really slow after every shot....makes me wonder how people stuck with some of those games. Lack of choice maybe.

mzungu

Olishi4 wrote: »

The only other thing I can remember was a really basic tennis game. I think it was on the computer itself and not a tape? I loved that.

I don't think I ever played a tennis game on the C64, so not sure on that score.

Was it any of these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laKF7r08tzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-el17Htq4V4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW01dGjjgu0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrV-Dw1O_l4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPw5_WIb1pE

B.A._Baracus

Here's a couple of really interesting facts about Robocop on the C64 (shamelessly stolen from youtuber Guru Larry jr)

- So who here has actually completed the game?
that's right no one. Not because the game is really hard or anything like that. But the developers ran out of time and just released the game as is. Only one problem tho... Level 4 had a major glitch that would make the graphics go all messed up and since they didnt want to spend more time on it, they simply made the time limit to complete level 3 so short that no one could make it to said glitchy level 4 :pac:

- Robocop the video game (not just the c64 port tho) was a huge success. It made millions but (if i recall correctly) only cost around 20,000 US dollars to license in the first place. That's why Robocop is actually the game that made Hollywood take notice of the medium and start charging more for future licenses of movies.

mzungu

Fiery mutant wrote: »

Platoon was awesome, but my fav by a mile was Outrun Europa, brilliant for its day.

Now ye're talkin'.

Although, I think Hang On was every bit as good as Outrun.

vicwatson

Skommando wrote: »

Only rich knobs that new nothing about computers had them. The real computer heads had sinclairs.

Bullcrap, real computer heads had specifically the Sinclair zx81 :P

Skommando

vicwatson wrote: »

Bullcrap, real computer heads had specifically the Sinclair zx81 :P

the clue was in the name

Olishi4

mzungu wrote: »

I don't think I ever played a tennis game on the C64, so not sure on that score.

Was it any of these?

Ha no, not any of them. It was really basic. It was this


https://www.google.ie/search?q=c64+tennis+games&client=ms-android-h3g-ie&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis-6ya-7XQAhVBKsAKHWKmCkEQ_AUICCgB&biw=320&bih=454#imgrc=n_Z4tK14D_JEyM%3A

mzungu

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Here's a couple of really interesting facts about Robocop on the C64 (shamelessly stolen from youtuber Guru Larry jr)

- So who here has actually completed the game?
that's right no one. Not because the game is really hard or anything like that. But the developers ran out of time and just released the game as is. Only one problem tho... Level 4 had a major glitch that would make the graphics go all messed up and since they didnt want to spend more time on it, they simply made the time limit to complete level 3 so short that no one could make it to said glitchy level 4 :pac:

Cheeky feckers!!

andekwarhola

Atari 800 XL kid myself. Tasteful chocolate/cream design. Games like Spyhunter and New York City that took ages to load via the tape player and sounded like a strangled fax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBj1B9k_5vI

mzungu

Olishi4 wrote: »

Ha no, not any of them. It was really basic. It was this


https://www.google.ie/search?q=c64+tennis+games&client=ms-android-h3g-ie&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis-6ya-7XQAhVBKsAKHWKmCkEQ_AUICCgB&biw=320&bih=454#imgrc=n_Z4tK14D_JEyM%3A

Ah...Pong...of course, the game tennis wishes it was!

mzungu

brevity wrote: »

I remember playing that Terminator 2 game on it.

Frustrating game tbf

Great game, though. Once you got used to the different types of levels, then it came into its own.

OldMrBrennan83

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buried

andekwarhola wrote: »

Atari 800 XL kid myself. Tasteful chocolate/cream design. Games like Spyhunter and New York City that took ages to load via the tape player and sounded like a strangled fax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBj1B9k_5vI

Jayzus, that could well be the brainbirth of the modern GTA franchise on that New York City game!

monkeysnapper

I had a c 64 , well I actually had 3 , all 3 broke inside warrenty and I ended up after a argument in shop getting a Sinclair specy 128 .

C64 was way better and I think guy in shop won that argument .

I loved the dizzy collection , I finished all the games .

My favorite game was midnight resistance and target renegade.

I sometimes hear old 80s songs and the memory's flood back to my youth , you have a lot of time to listen to radio while waiting for a game to load .

mzungu

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I had a c 64 , well I actually had 3 , all 3 broke inside warrenty and I ended up after a argument in shop getting a Sinclair specy 128 .

C64 was way better and I think guy in shop won that argument .

I loved the dizzy collection , I finished all the games .

My favorite game was midnight resistance and target renegade.

I sometimes hear old 80s songs and the memory's flood back to my youth , you have a lot of time to listen to radio while waiting for a game to load .

Fair play, those games were all really tough.

ZeroThreat

soap1978 wrote: »

did the poor people have amstrads 464

Aye, and the real plebs had a green screen & played harrier attack on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MePgjXoo9aA

Titzon Toast

andekwarhola wrote: »

Atari 800 XL kid myself. Tasteful chocolate/cream design. Games like Spyhunter and New York City that took ages to load via the tape player and sounded like a strangled fax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBj1B9k_5vI

Spent many happy hours playing Spyhunter myself.

andekwarhola

Titzon Toast wrote: »

Spent many happy hours playing Spyhunter myself.

Am humming the tune to myself now. Der-der-der-der-de-de-de-der-der etc

Heisenberg1

Loved this computer we had the night moves pack. It was class sly spy secret agent and microprose soccer were class. I loved thunder blade.

Sir Osis of Liver.

We were poor so only had the Commodore Vic 20.

Fcukin loved it.Games were quite limited though.