I saw my sister over Christmas and we got talking about the old C64 and how when we were kids, we'd eat too much sugar and go mental watching the flashing colours as a game loaded :D so does anyone want to reminisce with me?

My top 3 games:

Jet Set Willy
The Captive
Knightmare (the old version, not the TV version)

Others

Booty
Beach Head
Freak Factory
Forbidden Forest


Come on you oldies!

iffy

Monty mole, Bounty Bob Strikes Back, Frak, Dinky Doo, Uridium, awww them were the days!

Anyone else remember Time Bandit on the Dragon 32?? God I must be old!

haa! All the games used to have the most innocent names.. Wasnt the Dragon made by Tandy?!

Originally posted by neeeeeeeeeek


Anyone else remember Time Bandit on the Dragon 32?? God I must be old!


Myself and a mate used to play Time Bandit for hours that game was the bees knees soooo addictive ..cant remember what machine on though

The dragon was made by Dragon but had the some compatibility with the Tandy apparently. Time bandit and Legit seem to be the only games I remember. :)

Trollie Wallie was our fave - at least I think it was C64! Did anyone else play this? Ooh and Krazy Kong.

Wow Trollie Wallie yeah!!

http://www.c64.com/detail.php?gameid=2100

The Dizzy Collection and Bloodwych were mine! Oh how i miss those simple days...

oh man!! I remember.. before the days of memory cards and gamesaves.. me and my sister would spend HOURS doing the dizzy games.. after 5 hours just to land on a spike or something and ..game over - no continue, no retry..

Magicland Dizzy was my favourite :)

the best game by far was kickstart. absolutely brilliant. hours spent with a crippled hand after holding the joystick to tightly!

does anyone remember a game, that involved looking after a man in a house, you had to feed him and keep him entertained etc ??

the early version of Sims!

The only one I got addicted to was 'Midnight ....' :gag: can't remember the full name of it :(

Originally posted by Lee1979
the best game by far was kickstart. absolutely brilliant. hours spent with a crippled hand after holding the joystick to tightly!

does anyone remember a game, that involved looking after a man in a house, you had to feed him and keep him entertained etc ??

the early version of Sims!

Yo! The Sim game was Little Computer People.. definately very cool.. and Kickstart.. I never played the first one but you got a construction kit with Kickstart 2 so you could make your own levels! how novel.

i used to play football manager for hours on end and this one

http://www.bigredswitch.co.uk/games/mm/manicminer.html

I used to really love Pajamarama, but it would take ages for the game to load up on the tape, and always crash. I'm sure the point was to not wake up some bloke...

Was also a big fan of Summer Games... Used to knacker your hand up trying to do the sprint on the joystick! Although the diving was my favourite!

Robocop 3 was my favourite C64 game, you could fly and shoot enemies on the roof.

Blue Max was my favourite, followed by Raid over Moscow and Spy Hunter.

The C64 had tremendous sound. I recall loading US Gold games with the US national anthem playing. Suicide Express, Glider Rider and a Monty Mole game (can't remember which) had some teriffic sound.

If anyone has Winamp, you can download and install a small plug-in and download and listen to thousands of great C64 SID tunes!

Wow Spy Hunter! I used to play that at the arcade but never on C64, there was an old machine at Disney in florida and it was free I spent more time on that than the rides:loopy:

Originally posted by duffman
Wow Spy Hunter! I used to play that at the arcade but never on C64, there was an old machine at Disney in florida and it was free I spent more time on that than the rides:loopy:

Never had a C64 but had a Spectrum instead, used to play Spy Hunter over and over on my speccy.

Originally posted by Lee1979
the best game by far was kickstart. absolutely brilliant. hours spent with a crippled hand after holding the joystick to tightly!

does anyone remember a game, that involved looking after a man in a house, you had to feed him and keep him entertained etc ??

the early version of Sims!
Preferred Kickstart 2 myself where you could make your own courses.

People mention Spy Hunter but I never rated it on the C64. It was one of my favourites on the Arcade though.

Other C64 favourites were:

Law of the West
Burger Time
Last Ninja
Impossible Mission
Exploding Fist
Beach Head 2

Bubble Bobble, IK, Boulderdash, DOTC...

Who could forget Bubble Bobble, one of the best of all time.

Mmm... bubble bobble! Still got that on my phone!! I loved Scorpion, IK/IK+, Double Dragon, The Simpsons (original), Uridium and Llamatron! :clap: Wish I hadn't sold my C64 now...

Incidentally, does anyone remember the light-gun games on the C64, such as platoon or robocop 1?

Originally posted by Agent Dan
Incidentally, does anyone remember the light-gun games on the C64, such as platoon or robocop 1?

God yeah. We were too poor to get one (we still had the old old c64, brown, rounded edges) but I remember we had the gun for the NES and I used to sit and try to plug it in to the c64, convinced there was a way.. somehow.. awww

Did you ever have many cartridge games.. I remember The Terminator we had on cart..

I had Rat Race and some submarine game on cart.

Originally posted by fnkysknky
I had Rat Race and some submarine game on cart.

`Radar Rat Race` on cart also
International soccer
Jupiter lander

On disc was `Silk Worm`

Tape:

Tapper
Beach Head 2 "Fall in men - I`m hit - medic! - Aaaaargh!"
Silent Service
Valhalla `which reminds me of this forum`
Jet Set Willy 1+2
Destruction Derby construction set
Way of the Exploding Fist
Forbidden Forest
Marble Madness
Tales of the Arabian Nights
Kickstart
Action Biker
Spy vs Spy
Mr Do
BMX Simulator

I guess thats why I have my own arcade machine now..
:help:

Originally posted by fnkysknky
I had Rat Race and some submarine game on cart.
I remember the submarine cart game but it was pants I remember.

A bad version of Space Invaders if my memory serves me well?

Originally posted by venger
Action Biker

Action Biker was super hard.

Originally posted by Agent Dan
Mmm... bubble bobble! Still got that on my phone!! I loved Scorpion, IK/IK+, Double Dragon, The Simpsons (original), Uridium and Llamatron! :clap: Wish I hadn't sold my C64 now...

Wasn't it by pressing "T" on IK+ that made the ninja's pants fall down??!!

C64 emulators are freely available on t'internet :thumbsup:

A few more favourites.

Ghostbusters
Commando
Ikari Warriors
Hover Bover

Originally posted by SilentStatic
C64 emulators are freely available on t'internet :thumbsup:

Yes but let me know if you can find one that works properly with Windows XP.

Yes, Ikari Warriors was fab.

China miner

Codemasters are giving away `BMX Simulator` with a C 64 emulator as a free download, to celebrate their on going success.

That is really jerky and crappy on XP also.

Shame :(

didn't have a C64 but had my spectrum 48k

used to like

manic minor was me fav bu also used to like
cookie
attic attack


anyone own a ZX81? respect to you if ya did!

i remember buying magazines for me specturm and writing in lines and lines of the code for games that they published - used to take days to do, all for some crappy spriteless non-fest! seemed ace at the time though!

Best speccy games were:

Exolon (great side scrolling shoot-me-do)
Dizzy series
Seymour goes to Hollywood + Wild West Seymour
Robocop

I remember in those days as well that the Spectrum vs C64 debate was almost a pre-cursor to the Xbox Vs PS2 debates of nowadays as the zealots of both machines would bleat till the day they died that their machine was best, only difference was that in those days circa the 80s there wasn't any internet forums to start flame wars on the subject like numpties tend to do nowadays.

Originally posted by Rich
Best speccy games were:

Hang on a minute, bleating about???

Speccy???

What are you on about old boy???

What about Ant Attack, does anyone remember that game?

I can't believe no-one has mentioned 'Pitstop II' or 'Mario Bros' (Atari version).

The two websites to visit are Lemon (http://www.lemon64.com/index2.php) and C64.com (http://www.c64.com) these are a wealth of knowledge about our favourite 'retro' machine

Originally posted by Lickszz
What about Ant Attack, does anyone remember that game?

That was actually more impressive on the ZX Spectum. It used patented Softsolid modelling.

Impressive games but too many keys to press.

Originally posted by Hal9001
I can't believe no-one has mentioned 'Pitstop II' or 'Mario Bros' (Atari version).

The two websites to visit are Lemon (http://www.lemon64.com/index2.php) and C64.com (http://www.c64.com) these are a wealth of knowledge about our favourite 'retro' machine
Pitstop II was a great 2 player game. You could burn the other players tyres out and force him out of the race.

Originally posted by venger
Yes but let me know if you can find one that works properly with Windows XP.


Shame :(


This (http://www.viceteam.org/) works very well on XP.

Wasn't BMX simulator only a budget game as well?

What about these?

Rock 'N' Wrestle
Bruce Lee - Another fave of mine.
Championship Sprint
Ace - A great flight sim.
World Games
Badlands
Barbarian
Barry Mcquighan's Boxing
Bop 'N' Rumble
Microprose Socce - great fun especially with indoor mode
4th & Inches
Slapfight

Which did you think was the best software house?

I think the C64 emulator VICE works well under XP.

Since we're hijacking this thread for the Spectrum, go here:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/promo/office/awards/animation.html

and click on number nine. And PLEASE vote for it if you can!

That was quite fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!