cimerians Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 Just wondering what kind of games for the 64 are considered must plays. Whats your pick? I recently about a week ago hooked up my C64 (finally) after I got another disk drive through ebay and am currently playing an old favorite, Bruce Lee and a strange game called Trolls & Tribulations, I'm hooked again... Also, has anyone heard if another TV plug in will be made? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 (edited) Of all the classic systems, console and computer, the C-64 sports the best translations of Donkey Kong and Defender (though Defender is perhaps a little too easy). Turbo OutRun is a must-play, both for excellent sample-filled music and for gameplay that proves that the C-64 really could do a game like OutRun justice. The rest of my top 10 would be: Jumpman (doo doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo), Impossible Mission ("Stay a while! Stay forever!"), M.U.L.E. (I've never actually played it, but everone tells me it's an essential), Rambo: First Blood Part II (the game is average, but the music will haunt you long after the game is over), Arkanoid (mouse and paddle goodness), Ghostbusters ("He slimed me!"), and Boulderdash (just one more diamond... d'oh!!). There are other games in my collection that see more playing time, but I think this set would be a perfect cross-section of everything the C-64 was capable of, at least in the genres of games that I liked to play. Edited April 21, 2005 by skunkworx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted April 21, 2005 Share Posted April 21, 2005 Here's my personal top-ten, not necessarily in order. 1. Dino Eggs 2. Wizball 3. Zork I, II and III 4. Spellbreaker 5. Wizard of Wor 6. Spiderbot 7. Miner 2049'er 8. Raid on Bungeling Bay 9. Zeppelin 10. Montezuma's Revenge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted April 22, 2005 Author Share Posted April 22, 2005 Wow, I forgot about some of those....another 3 war type games I liked were Beach Head I and II and Raid Over Moscow. Ms. Pac, DK and Moon Patrol were very good translations at the time. Rambo II's music was cool.... I'll have to try M.U.L.E, I've never played it but everyone swears its one of the greatest games ever made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpddytim Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 May sound stupid but Windham Classic's Alice in Wonderland is a fantastic C64 game. -TIm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 Well, I'm not going to choose an order, and I'm also not going to limit myself to 10... but here's a bunch I'd highly recommend: Paradroid Elite Wasteland Ultima III, IV, and V (The others can be ignored for now) Any AD&D game (Pools of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, etc) Any Infocom game (Planetfall, Hitch Hikers Guide, Zork, etc) Any of the Bard's Tale games Mail Order Monsters M.U.L.E. Alter Ego Conan Neuromancer Space Taxi Gateway to Apshai / Temple of Apshai Psi-5 Trading Company Great Giana Sisters The Goonies California Games Skate or Die Star Control Thrust Jumpman & Jumpman Jr. Stunt Car Racer Archon & Archon 2 That should keep you busy for a while. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 Add Archon to that list. Some of EA's best stuff was produced back then. Ahh, the days of Running SDU, Super Disk Utility to copy a game. Only took about 30 mins IIRC. Anyone here actually break the drive band in their 1541 copyng games? I did. Fixed it with string a few times before I exchanged it for a new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 http://www.mayhem64.co.uk/top10.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vigo Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 Best C64 games? Very hard to judge objectively, since there are so many. Here is my personal list: - Mayhem in Monsterland - Turrican I+II - The Sentinel - Maniac Mansion - Zak McKracken - Creatures I+II - Giana Sisters - Hard´n Heavy - Katakis - Enforcer - (...) At least, most of those games give a clue what the C64 can do technically (especially Mayhem in Monsterland). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 I'll second a lot of things already mentioned... if I made an overall top 10, a lot of it would come out of this list: Space Taxi Impossible Mission Archon M.U.L.E. Beach Head Jumpman Bard's Tale I/II/III Ghostbusters Bruce Lee Wasteland Other games that are amongst my favorites: Sword of Fargoal Winter Games Summer Games I/II Toy Bizarre Zenji Starflight Pitstop II Roadwar 2000 Evolution Spooks Frankie Goes to Hollywood Mr. Robot Oil's Well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvgene Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 If anyone likes M.U.L.E. then a little-known game called Run for the Money is really worth looking into. It's only two-player, but it is fun and has a much better economic system than M.U.L.E. I would add Skool Daze as one of my personal favs. Paradroid is probably the best C64 ever, and I'll second that along with the Ultimas, M.O.M, Archons, as well as most of Ze_ro's list. Age of Adventure is fun, but the graphics are awful. Autoduel and OGRE are also other Origin classics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted April 23, 2005 Author Share Posted April 23, 2005 Autoduel!! Wow, I remember that. Origin had another strange oriental RPG too but I can't remember the name of it. I love these C64 lists... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 (edited) Here are some of my favorite Commodore 64 games: Toy Bizarre http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/top..._toybizarre.htm Most played game at my house in the mid 1980s. Serpentine http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2265 Eat the eggs. Eat the frogs. Eat the back ends of other snakes until they are smaller than you and then you can eat them head on. Oh yeah, protect your eggs and try not to get eaten. First played this on an Apple computer at an Apple computer store. Park Patrol http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1892 Another one of my favorite games. Strange and fun game with cool water sparkles behind the boat when you are on the water. Mr. Do http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/03/c64_0071.html Fun game that was also played a lot at my house. Impossible Mission http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/top...iblemission.htm Don't like some of the perfect timing parts of the game, but it is fun exploring, searching objects, and putting the pieces together. Leaderboard Golf http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/03/c64_0075.html The first game after Golf for the Atari 2600 that showed me that some modern computer sports games might really be fun if done right. The bowling game they did later on wasn't as fun. I was disappointed because I was looking forward to it after reading so much about it in magazines. California Games http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=407 http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/01/c64_0029.html I only liked the surfing part of this game. It was one of the most fun parts of a game I ever played. Boulderdash http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=349 This game should be on every list. I don't like it when it starts getting too hard, but it's fun up to that point. Beach-Head http://www.bhlegend.com/php/show.php3?game=702 http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/01/c64_0001.html I loved the part where you shoot down planes. Next time I played a game with a similar feeling to shooting down those planes was when I got Crimson Skies for the Xbox. Raid Over Moscow http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2074 http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/01/c64_0031_3.html I only like a couple of screens. Mostly the one with big building. Lode Runner http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/01/c64_0017.html Lode Runner was fun, but I liked Jumpman Jr. better back then. Now it's switched and I like Lode Runner better. Jumpman Jr. http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/01/c64_0027.html I played Jumpman Jr. a lot in 1985, but I can barely stand the game today. Nice to hear the music again since it brings back memories, so I play it once in a while. Archon http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=136 http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/03/c64_0052.html The fighting can get boring, but it's still worth playing once in a while. Too bad the fighting screens were so plain and ugly. Gyruss http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/3/a...gotw_gyruss.htm I liked it much better than the NES version I played later. Zenji http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2937 I thought I wouldn't like it at the time, but I did. Pretty fun. Little Computer People http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1525 http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/01/c64_0025.html I was kind of disappointed in it since it wasn't as advanced as I hoped it would be, but it was probably still worth the money though. Ghostbusters http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/top...hostbusters.htm http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=h...D105%26name%3DT http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/01/c64_0021.html I liked it for a short time. Worth playing at least a couple of times. Much better than the Atari 2600 version (as you would expect). Here's a bonus link. Remember when the following game looked sooooo good? It was a pretty game: http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/01/c64_0023.html It doesn't look so hot today, but I remember that the graphics looked better than any I had seen in a C-64 game up to that point. Edited April 23, 2005 by Random Terrain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacbthPSW Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 Origin had another strange oriental RPG too but I can't remember the name of it. "Moebius - The Orb of Celestial Harmony" http://gb64.com/game.php?id=4928&d=18&h=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvgene Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 Omega, the Neural Tank Simulator (also from Origin) was also a very interesting game for the C64 where you programmed your tanks using a pseudo-code and battled them in arenas, vs. your friends. It came out in 1989 (ported from the Apple II) and it got missed by a lot of people, but it was very unique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 TROLLS AND TRIBULATIONS! I used to have that game and loved it. I still have a lot of my c64 stuff, but not that one. I've googled it from time to time since, and asked around, but no one else ever seemed to have heard of it. Wow, that's awesome. People pretty much summed up the good stuff, although I have to add another vote for Raid Over Moscow. I also liked a lot of the Mastertronic budget games. I forget the name, but there was a wild west-themed game that I just loved. The first stage had you shooting birds with a bow and arrow. There was a horseback riding stage. There was a shootout-in-the-town stage. I'm not a fan of the Western genre at all, but this game was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted April 23, 2005 Author Share Posted April 23, 2005 Wow, got my hands full now. Anyone prefer playing these on an emulator or the real thing? Like I said, I hooked up the actual C64 but the load times and the save points are truly brutal. I'm thinking about switching to an emulator but the controls are not 100% correct and I'm using an actual Atari joystick with the Atariage adapter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 I generally stick to the real thing. Playing on emulators never quite feels right to me, especially when the target system is a computer. Yeah, the load times suck, but sometimes you just have to grin and bear it. If grinning at bears doesn't work for you, try picking up an Epyx Fastload cartridge perhaps. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacbthPSW Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Anyone prefer playing these on an emulator or the real thing? Like I said, I hooked up the actual C64 but the load times and the save points are truly brutal. I enjoy the actual gaming way better on the real thing, but the emulator offers a lot of conveniences that you've pointed out - quicker loads (Alt+W, baby!), snapshots to allow saving where the game doesn't natively allow that, etc. It really varies by the type of game - bigger games that load often I'd probably tend to play on the emulator, while the quicker games I'd definitely play on the real thing. Fast Load has been mentioned - I'd also put in a plug for JiffyDOS, as it's much more compatible, and thus allows more games to be sped up. Downside, it's more expensive, and you've got to open up your 64 and drive to do the swap. It's been worth it, in my experience. If you're really getting into it, I'd recommend visiting http://lemon64.com/ which is the C64 equivalent of Atari Age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 It's not a game, but did anyone use "Easy Script?" I wrote nearly every paper in High school and college that word processor. It was probably the only program I ever "Bought" for the C=64. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maya2012 Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 It's not a game, but did anyone use "Easy Script?" I wrote nearly every paper in High school and college that word processor. It was probably the only program I ever "Bought" for the C=64. 842954[/snapback] Man that brought back memories. The Easy Script and Paperclip word processors also helped me get through my high school term papers in the early 80's thankfully. I'm thinking about getting a C64 with a couple of floppy drives and the XE1541 data transfer cable to play some of the classics on the big screen. Cool memories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Yeah, RT, I totally forgot Toy Bizarre! I love that game. I have this problem wherein I can't allow myself to complete a board until I've sent that damn enemy toy robot flying skyward at least once. That really racks up the points, at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I also liked a lot of the Mastertronic budget games. I forget the name, but there was a wild west-themed game that I just loved. The first stage had you shooting birds with a bow and arrow. There was a horseback riding stage. There was a shootout-in-the-town stage. I'm not a fan of the Western genre at all, but this game was great. That one's Kane... it's great. It was packaged (at least sometimes) with The Human Race, another great (but hard!!) game. My favorite of the Mastertronic games was Spooks. RT, thanks for mentioning Serpentine... I'd forgotten about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 I played a lot of the Mastertronic games. I could never understand Spooks because I had a "copy" of it without the instructions. Big Mac (similar to Manic Miner I think) and Ninja were pretty good and Knight Games wasn't too bad either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEMoz Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hmm, let's see. Paradroid Dropzone Impossible Mission Thrust International Karate Stunt Car Racer Buggy Boy The Sentinel The Bard's Tale series (plus Wasteland) The Leaderboard series (especially World Class) The Games Series (especially Summer Games II and California Games) Others well worth a look: Citadel Turrican Space Taxi Hunter's Moon Ranarama Spindizzy Alter Ego Ancipital Bounder Scarabaeus Beyond The Forbidden Forest Armalyte The Eidolon Koronis Rift Rescue On Fractalus Bombuzal Dragon Wars Exile Frankie Goes To Hollywood Great Giana Sisters Iridis Alpha Samurai Warrior: Usagi Yojimbo Zenji Zolyx There are loads more. That'll do for now though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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