All this talk of retrogaming at QGL..

Sif the megadrive and nintendo are retrogaming. I say bring in the C64 and 2 joysticks 1 tape deck and maybe the Disk Drive-1224 Now that's true retrogaming...

Sif I wouldnt 0wn j00 all at C64 games t00


for you youngens c64== Commandor 64

stuff the tape drive! i got some of those '101 games for the c64' books lying around and we can copy the games from it in BASIC :)

Ahh thats the s***!

MAZE anyone?

i had the c64 with the floppy drive
might still have some games laying around

Ooh, i don't know about maze - that one was in the 'advanced game programming' book. I'd better stick to text adventures or text based hang-man games i think, those graphical programs were tricky :)

I remember waiting for 30 mins while Americas Cup loaded.. that was a really boring game too :)

And Cricket, that game rocked , but took ages to load.

Cartridges was the way to go. Wizard of Wor anyone?

i think i can remember playing pong on a c64

Nah gorf was the best, wizard of wor was just pacman in space. Well i guess gorf was glorified space invaders & galaxian too.

Hehe, did you ever see those systems where you got a CD and it kinda replaced the job of your tape drive? The CD had basically pre-recorded squeals (like modem sounds) like tapes do, but you put the CD in your normal hi-fi CD deck then connected the line out to your c64 via a special cable that plugged in to one of your joystick ports? I was so pissed off that it didn't work, it had like 40 games on it (haha, make a whole megabyte's worth).

i'm sorry but ghosts and goblins own you all

s*** yeah Ghost and goblins 0wn and Tyrcan 1 & 2. Not to mention The Last Ninja 1. Number 2 was kinda ok. and number 3 was lame. looked nice, but was still lame.

Hardest part I rekcon in Last Ninja 1 was jumping across 7 (i think it was 7) logs. To get to the other side of a river. You had to get the jump 100% spot on or it missed, lame hay. It should give a margin of error say 5%, just for gameplay...

Bubble Bobble rocked as well. So did Boulder Dash, and the soccer on the cartridge. that was fun. the ball was 1 block..

Archeon 1 and 2 where good aswell. So was Anarchy
Two Heads Are Better Then One was one of the harder games. But Dare to Dream was the wiedest.

....there are so many good games on the c64...

Wizball and Paradroid own you

Skate to Die, Sci To Die, California Games, Summer Games, Winter Games, Operation WOLF!!!!!, Mission Impossible, Centuraions, Revenge of the ninja...

OMG it's all coming back to me now :)

Any of you ever played 'The Halley Project' ?

Operation Wolf, now thats the s*** :) And I believe you mean Impossible Mission, Mission Impossible was the tv show :)

yeah your right, I always stuffed that up :)
It said at the start of the game, "Stay a while, Stay forever hAAHAHA"

R-Type rocked too, so did G-man, Death Knights of Krynn, creatures, Paper Boy, Wastelands, Thing on a Spring, Bouncing Babies, International Karate, International Karate +, International Karate +++.
Budocan (or something like that), Judo...

So many. and many more too :)

How about head over heels? Totally classic.
It took me SOOO long to work out how to kill that dragon in the last ninja :) 'skill' in those games was being able to move your character on to the exact right pixel. And the controls in the last ninja were classic too, you always ended up running around backwards.
Or in impossible mission when that scratchy voice came on - damn i can't even remember what it said now.
Ah those were the days.

heh, the first game I played vs someone on computer was Quake2 :P

Never played scorched earth?

The TANDY 2000, Dick Smith Tape Drive and television screen 0wnz you - Moon buggy!!

Moon Buggy rocked! I remember playing that on a monocrome screen. Go the mighty Green Text!

I remember the original ghostbusters game, can't remember if it was c64 or amiga, but I used to play it over at my neighbours house. You know the one where you pick you car and load it up with equipment, then you get a view of the city map that shows where ghost activity is happening and you gotta pick a building to go to, drive there in your car, then trap the ghosts? And after a while the s*** hits the fan and the marshmallow man forms and you gotta get past him into the main building without him standing on you.... ah that was such a funky game.

The other one I always played at my neighbours house was Airborne Ranger, that kicked much ass too.

i thought it was skate or die

hehe ghostbusters was one of the first c64 games i had. It was so cool but you could never afford all the good equipment and i sucked at it too much to complete a single level :(

Yeaup Ghostbusters was on the c64 and so was Ghostbusters 2 and 3.

Airborne ranger rocked, it was just as good when the pc version came out.

You also cant go past Batman: The Movie (the other ones where lame) You could sing along the roof and walls with your bat hook, You could also turn corners while driveing the car with the bat hook to get it faster.

Defenders of The Crown also 0wned. ..

Soooo many games..

Impossible mission was awesome, ditto this cowboy game (cant remember the name), Spy Hunter (j0r!), that Turtles game, Ghostbusters, and of the 'games' series, Star Wars, Bubble Bobble, BC, Pitfall 2, Way of the Exploding Fist, G&G, Pooyan (hmm), International Karate, Archon (thought it was better than the first), Boulderdash, Bombjack (okay, these names are very suspicious) etc.
There are recent updates to Archon and Boulderdash avaiable. Pity the archon one isnt available yet :(

Ghostbusters was too f***ing hard

Head over heels was a maze =/

oo oo, The Great Escape was fairly cool, long and tedious tho

Short Circuit was bugged i think, couldn't get very far after the first robot, you got your laser program and shot the next one, easy, but i used f***ing EVERYTHING and could not find a key or f***ing anything to pass the level =/

So i ended up playing the F3 level a lot, which also sucked

yeah Spyhunter rocked.

That cowboy game, did you have to try to outrun a train on a horse? And did you have to shoot down birds with a bow and arrow? and was there a saloon type shooting, where guys pop out from behind barrels?
If so It rocked, yeah Exploding Fist was good.
OMFG I never played the Short Circuit game :( O well...

hehe, the great escape was pretty neat. I never completed it but it was well remembered for it's monochromity (whatever the word is).

Spy vs Spy was pretty (I SPELT IT RIGHT) lame.

I mean wtf where you suposed to do??

excuse me but spy vs spy, i had that on my master systema and it f***ing rocked

as for c64, we had one, hmm, i was kind of young and i remember that i don't think i full yknew how to play any ofthe games 100%, they had f***gin s*** all instractions and some were just weird
but that made them really myserious and finding out somethign new was a big thrill

i remember liking guantlet, gates of dawn (oh god i wish so much i had known how topaly that one properly it was so f***gin cool, if anyone played it let me know), N.A.R.C (which b the way i got for mame and it f***gin rocks), bumping buggies was f***gin cool, shadow warriors was f***ign mad (also got it for mame..rocks hard), god there were others, but i don't really remember them, ithink those were the onlyones i reallyliked

i remember numerous games f***ing up (they were all floppy disk) and some took years to load, like predator and terminator 2

we had last ninja 3 but my brother wouldnt' let mepaly it, it looked awesoem though, i tried to get a rom of it but they were all f***ed.

then we got an amiga500, that was f***gin awesome compared to the c64, and some of the games were really f***ign good, like gods, oh man god's was sooooo f***gni cool, it really was
there were otehr, but i really don't remember, amiga seemed to be he golden age of games for me, they were jut moving out of that stage where everyhtign was a bit dodgy and things had more quality and polish to them.

thign is i barely played games back then, though i kind of wish i had been realyl into games during the amiga days, cause those games were f***gin so good, pitty that the amiga wasn't a console, cause the emulators are too much of a headache to use making it not worth the bother to pplay the games

the cowboy game.. cant remember the name but i can still remeber the sound of effect of the horse running and the little music tune at the start of the level. tarzan was the first game I saw on it I think.
great memories. and a jet game i remember where spacebar was to raise the landing gear i think haha

also champions of kyrnn, second best c64 memory watching my brother play it for ages (played the emu version again a few months back and it is still fun to play)

best c64 memory, pirates!... owning a fleet of those massive ships and taking over towns where ever i went.

still got a c64 and disk drive in boxes with manuals (cost about 1000 dollars for the c64 i think) going to wait till im 80 then ebay them as classics

i have a C16 <--- yes thats right! an a fountain if ya intersted :P

wtf happened then@!
repeated part of the message??

hahahah u guys must love computers..i have only played games on a puter since i found out by cs....7 months

Gauntlet rocked...

Most of the games I had where on tape. But I had almost as many on disk. Instructions?? What are they? They way I remember playing was to load it up and go hard. Spacebar always did something so that was one of the first buttons I pushed n any game, as a result my spacebar on the c64 is kinda skrewed. N.A.R.C was fun as for Gods That rocked ( I had it on my pc)
Remember Flashback on the PC. that was f***en awsome.

hehe I remember when games f***ed up on the tape drive. But if I put the drive on an angle of about 20-35% it would sometimes work, how I figured this out as a 4 (or 5?) year old kid I dont know.

One thing for cetain is that if you played a s***load of computers games, your patteren recognition should be through the roof....

c64 rawked !! bring it awn i say !! bring fist2 !! that was the s*** on c64 :)

Sif Spy vs Spy didnt own with two players.

How about some match ups of spy vs spy? Hehe, it was like 1 on 1 CS, complete the objective before you all get killed. But i guess there weren't quite as many guns :) How funny was it to do the 'bucket of water on top the door' trick and electrocute the other guy? classic. Or the spring loaded cupboards. hehehehe

yeah willy i had both flashback and gods on amiga, and another world aswell.

i never really played another world or flashback, i simply didn'thave the patience, i only had the patience for god's because like 99% of games we had they were all hacked, with those funky swirling colours and awesome music and then you choose which cheats to have on....ahh, that music is so nostalgic... do warez still have those screens? cause i dun bother with pirated stuff for years. form watchign my brother play and finish both another world and flashback, another world looked like the better game to me.

Paradroid, the one and only.

Hey, all you guys seem to be forgetting Jumpman! Damn, that game rocked :)

I spent heaps of time playing Impossible Mission 1 & 2, Le Mans was an addictive time-waster too...

i feel sorry for that dude in flashback, conrad....how could his parents stoop so low.

ah, the joys of playing my dad's c64....

we only had the olympic games game, and this other game were u typed in commmands and you did stuff...i remember you had to jump out of a falling elevator at the beginnning, then you went and did all this other weird s***...heheheh, i could never get past the bit in the zoo where a bomb was thrown at you :). also when the elephant stood on you was pretty funny... :)

ah, the memories....

Hehe, jumpman was one of the games i made sure to play on c64 emulators. If you ever want any games, check out
Lemon64 or
Arnold
Lemon is a nicer presented site but if the c64 had a certain game, chances are arnold has it.
As for the emulator itself, winvice is pretty much the best - runs in a window and is almost perfect emulation.