Commodore 64 games

[Videogamecollector123]

I'm looking for two games, Marble Madness and Dan Dare. I'm only looking for the floppies as I have the boxes already.

[BillyHW]

I'm looking for two games, Marble Madness and Dan Dare. I'm only looking for the floppies as I have the boxes already.

 

Just curious, but would any of these floppies still work without error after all these years?

[+thegoldenband]

I've accumulated a small collection of C64 games on floppies -- some hand-me-downs, some trades, some bought at flea markets -- and to date, all of the ones I've tried still work. Same with my Tandy CoCo disks.

[Mayhem]

Most disks are still fine today, you'd be amazed how well they preserve...

[high voltage]

Many carts don't work nowadays

[thegamezmaster]

I've got a ton of old floppies and almost all still work. The only ones I've had problems with are Newegg disk, I think that's what they're called.

[+FujiSkunk]

I still have a huge stash of C-64 disks. Some don't load at all anymore, and others flake out on occasion, but a large majority still work as well as they did when I first bought them.

 

Just as an aside, I have a lot of Apple II games as well. Ironically, one of the few Apple II disks I've had go bad on me was... Marble Madness. I once read there was something about the Apple DuoDisk double disk drive that the copy-protection on some EA games didn't like. I've suspected that's what ate my disk, though I can't say for sure.

Edited August 26, 2013 by FujiSkunk

[BillyHW]

I still have a huge stash of C-64 disks. Some don't load at all anymore, and others flake out on occasion, but a large majority still work as well as they did when I first bought them.

 

Just as an aside, I have a lot of Apple II games as well. Ironically, one of the few Apple II disks I've had go bad on me was... Marble Madness. I once read there was something about the Apple DuoDisk double disk drive that the copy-protection on some EA games didn't like. I've suspected that's what ate my disk, though I can't say for sure.

 

Once again, misguided copy-protection hurting legitimate consumers.