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How many good Commodore 64/Spectrum 48k games do you remember?

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  • 22-03-2002 3:43pm
    #1
    doubledown
    Registered Users Posts: 804 ✭✭✭


    I have WAY to much time on my hands!

    On the Commodore :

    Black Hawk - kicked ass
    Bruce Lee - superior platform game
    Killer Watt - Crap, but addictive
    Spy Hunter - Classic
    Ghostbusters - Who ya gonna call?
    Way of the Expolding Fist - Great fighting game
    Falcon Patrol/Choplifter - Scrolling, shoot-em-up action
    Fairlight - Slow, but fun "3D" adventure
    Rambo/Commando - Difficult, but fun

    Over to you, can't think of any more right now.


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    #2
    Celt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭Celt


    Laser Squad


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    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    I know it says spectrum/c64 but there was some good games on the amstrad/atari 800xl too.!!!!!
    target renegade - spectrum 48k
    1942 in co-op mode 2 player -c64
    emilyn hughes international soccer(cartridge)c64
    arkanoid-spectrum
    mr do- amstrad cpc464
    knightlore-isometric adventure-spectrum
    double dragon-spectrum version was great(crap graphics but arcade perfect levels)changed it a bit on the c64.
    original street fighter(the one with the small sprites)-on c64 was excellent.

    bounty bobs ?????atari 800xl...good platformer
    manic miner of course.


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    Xterminator
    Registered Users Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Xterminator


    I had a a spectrum 48!

    My favourite was Ghosts and Ghouls.
    It rocked.

    X


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    ironfist77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭ironfist77


    Chase Hq and
    Robocop.

    Great games


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    Dustaz
    Registered Users Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    Elite completely owned my nights.
    'Right on commander!'


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    chernobyl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭chernobyl


    I got the Termainator 2 C64 pack and i got a game that a guy coded himself Blitz Ridar Insanity, someone ripped it off and published it as skate crazy but it didnt do well at all...

    oh..favourite game..hmm

    hmmm.....


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    TinCool
    Registered Users Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭TinCool


    Ahhh yes, fond memories. I owned a C64 myself, so here's my list that you haven't already covered.


    Spy Vs Spy I and II - great two player fun
    Beach Head I and II - what more can I say
    Thrust - great little game from Firebird and music by Rob Hubbard to boot
    All the Arthur Pendragon games (Staff of Karnath, Entombed, Blackwyche and to a lesser extent Dragonskulle).
    Last Ninja I and II - amasing game for its time, and the music was classic
    Pitstop II - more 2 player fun
    Summer Games II - great crack
    Hunchback - one of the first games I got and completed
    Zaxxon - First game I ever purchased for the C64. I still have it in it's original box.
    Tapper - pulling pints was never more fun
    Park Patrol - cute one player game
    Pitfall I and II - something about them that made you play on and on
    H.E.R.O. - brilliant stuff
    Boalderdash IV

    There's so many other games but the above are definite classics.


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    TinCool
    Registered Users Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭TinCool


    Oops, almost forgot. The best game ever released for the C64

    Impossible Mission.

    I've played this on many occasions on a C64 emu since. Still brilliant.


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    Ruu_Old
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    there was a snooker one on the C64, i cant remember the name of it...was a classic :) until the tape stuck *sobs* hehe


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    Kairo
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    Impossible Mission
    Manic Miner
    Jet Set Willy
    Gogo The Ghost
    Percy The Potty Pigeon
    Beach Head
    California Games
    Barbarian
    Forbidden Forest
    Monty Moll
    Platoon
    Rambo First Blood Part 2
    Rainbow Islands

    - Off the top of my head. :)

    Oh Ruu, I think that game you're thinking off might have been 'Hustler'. Great game! :D


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    byte
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    Double Dragon - Speccy 48
    IK Warrior - Speccy 48
    Chase HQ - Speccy 128 "Let's go, Mr Driver!" :) A classic
    Multi Player Manager - C64
    Barbarian - Speccy 48.

    I still have my old Speccy 128k +2A but as soon as you plug in, it boots straight to 48k mode passing the wee OS (Loader, 128 Mode, Calculator, 48 Mode).

    Load "" :)


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    Lemming
    Registered Users Posts: 14,148 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    Ok .. I have over 6/700 of the little buggers on tape/5.25 floppy/cartridge, so theres no way in hell I can remember half of th egood ones .. but here goes:

    (in no particular order)

    New Zealand Story
    Dizzy
    H.E.R.O
    BlueMax
    Supremacy
    Commando
    Green Beret
    Way of the Exploding Fist
    IK+
    Turrican 1/2
    Wonderboy
    PitStop II (2 player)
    Barbarian 1/2
    Platoon *** definitely at the top somewhere! ***
    Impossible Mission
    Creatures 1/2
    Last Ninja 1/2/Remix/3
    Ghouls n'Ghosts
    Elite
    1942
    Spy Hunter

    and my brain has just packed in .. so I'll leave it there!


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    Ruu_Old
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    Hustler thats the one :) gives me the urge to go get an emulator now :D


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    NeRb666
    Registered Users Posts: 483 ✭✭NeRb666


    Microprose Soccer goddammit!


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    #16
    phaxx
    Registered Users Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    I don't remember playing ant c64 games - what I remember about the c64 is footling about with BASIC, taking my first steps to beardyness. :P


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    leejon
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    Miner 2049er and the follow up Bounty Bob Strikes Back.... fantastic platform games, never really matched.


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    Clintons Cat
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    off the top of my head
    mikie> a pac man varient
    Skool daze/Back to skool/Sam spade>microsprose genius
    Lords of Midnight/DoomsDark revenge
    Spy V Spy/Bounces >2 player goodness
    Movie
    Alien 8
    Dun Darach/tir na nog/Marsport
    Avalon/dragontorc
    Dizzy series
    the hobbit
    booty
    spy hunter
    trap door
    Rebelstar/rebel star2>more 2player brilliance
    Wriggler
    elite

    Time to boot up my emulator methinks


    >>>Shadowfire and its prequal whose name escapes me,


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    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    There is a disturbing lack mentions towards
    Silkworm WHAT A GAME !!!!!!!
    Salamander
    R-Type
    And TURRICAN Go SPINNY ball........lollol
    And if someone could tell me the name of a 4 pack of games all made be the same company originally for the Amiga but ported to C64 ,i think one of them was Gods or Mist .Was in a white box all cracking games .No name no download.
    Also what Emu does everybody use for the C64 ???
    Kdja


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    doubledown
    Registered Users Posts: 804 ✭✭✭doubledown


    Ah, yes! Thank you, TinCool. I had completely forgotten about Mission Impossible!!!

    I don't know how many times I deliberately stepped into the abyss, just to hear the little bugger (who was dressed like Han Solo for some reason) scream "AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

    "Another visitor...Stay a while...Stay FOREVER!"


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    Retr0gamer
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    Any one remember Creatures 1 & 2 or mayhem in monsterland? Both excellent and they kept me happy when everybody else had a snes
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    Samba
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    interesting stuff but doesn't anyone remember BUGGY BOY! That **** kept us on 2 player for months on end :D

    combat school (sore wrists and a lot of broken joypads anyone!)
    The last ninja (personal favourite from the c64)
    spy vs spy
    final battle (v.hard to get into but gets ya hooked when ya give it a chance)
    Jet set willy.
    and how could anyone forget to mention another vg fave of mine in the early c64 days BUBBLE BOBBLE (we spent countless weeks and eventually finished it in 2 player mode)
    pac man :p

    gah we had so many of the friggin games I can't put names to em anymore, I can only remember the look and feel of em now.....we went through 3 c64's and about 20 joystick's :)


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    OttoVonBis
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭OttoVonBis


    Laser Squad from Blade software was the best game ever on C64!

    The forerunner to the UFO: Enemy unknown series.

    There was also a fantasy version called Lords of Chaos where you played wizards summoning monsters and casting nasty spells.

    Otto.


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    OttoVonBis
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭OttoVonBis


    I really should smoke less crack!

    Right thats my large and daft signiture taken care of....

    Otto.


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    Hobbes
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    Speccy.

    Rebel Star Raiders (2 player) - Same as laser squad.

    Day at the races - Actually a good laugh with a lot of people.

    Formula 1 - Like day at the races only with a crappy pitstop game.

    Head over Heels - Surpised no one mentioned this.

    Elite.

    Archeon (that ball maze game)

    Hobbit/Quill games

    There was also some 8 player wizard game think it was called Chaos.


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    Lemming
    Registered Users Posts: 14,148 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    Originally posted by Retr0gamer
    Any one remember Creatures 1 & 2 or mayhem in monsterland? Both excellent and they kept me happy when everybody else had a snes

    YESSSSS :D

    The torture screens in Creatures 1/2 were hysterical. SO much so I'd not even try to complete them sometimes, just sit there in utter mordid hysterics watching it all :D

    Mayhem in Monsterland, if I recall, was the only c64 game to ever score 100% a few years back when it was released (Commodore Format magazine)


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    spooky donkey
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    Ghostbusters
    commando
    and manic miner still my fav`s


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    amp
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    Jetpack. That is all.


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    #29
    Vivi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭Vivi


    Originally posted by Xterminator
    I had a a spectrum 48!

    My favourite was Ghosts and Ghouls.
    It rocked.


    That was such a cool game..........<sigh>I loved that game</sigh>.
    The only other games that comes to mind was Paper Boy, Dizzy, Rainbow Islands, Terminator im sure theres more but i cant remember them.


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    stormkeeper
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    The games I remember the most were Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Midnight Resistance, Wizball, Dropzone, Orio (played that for ages :)) some wierd game named DeadZone, Ghostbusters and a few others that don't come to mind atm :D

    They were all on the C64... :)

    I still have fond memories of my C64... I remember the stuff I had and how ringing it to school was th end of it, until i got another one, though this was 1 of the bulkier ones.... got it for a bargin at about a fiver :)

    I recently got a C64 emulation CD myself, and the games bring back fond memories... :)


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