I used to drive my dad nuts with Pitstop II blaring out of the TV set 😂 Loved super cycle, winter games and both of the summer games series. What an absolute blast they are even now 👍🏻
I never realized just how many Epyx games I had for my C-64 Jumpman, Jumpman Jr, Impossible Mission, Summer Games, Winter Games ! The nostalgia is real. Thanks
I just love these videos, I think it's impossible to try and explain to younger ones just how amazing the commodore/C64 was and what an impact this computer was and how it set the bench mark of games & gaming particularly in the 8bit market and the only way I think you can sort of compare it to the rest like Atari spectrum and a like is that this system was like a Neo Geo AES of its day lol I absolutely loved and still love Pit stop 2 never mind you Colin McRae rally or Forza because pit stop 2 is where all that started and yes I think it was the first ever game where you could Change tyres and refuel which was a massive big deal back then bringing the game to life not to mention the whole point of competitive game play lol I remember my mate loading up winter sports for the first time I think I might of only have turned 14 in the November and being absolutely blown away and in ore of the beautiful colourful graphics lol The Commodore 64 deserves so much respect it changed lives and made life a lot more exciting especially when back then there was only 3 TV channels and they used to switch off at midnight lol I'm still playing the C64 in 2020 👌👍
Feel the same. I count myself so lucky the c64 was my first home game experience. 30 years on and I feel fantastic watching these videos and reading comments like this:D great times!
Aww man nostalgia overdose! The Epyx sports games were awesome, great presentation and the animations were excellent. Me and my friends would spend hours playing em, competition was fierce, we even kept a score sheet with all the records on. Great times :)
You loved your mame scores when i first met you mate i remember hahaha. What do you think of the new look on this video? ive had to ditch that AVS it was taking me ages to do anything with the crashes and slow loading .... this is gonna be what i do going forward ....maybe no one has noticed though lol
I had that for dos but I copied over the disc trying to make a backup of it. I was only 5 at the time so I barely knew what I was doing. Looking at videos of the dos version I wasn't missing much haha. Had the apshai trilogy too that was a good game even on dos.
@@oldstylegaming oh hell YES I did! A great Accolade game! What I love about great games of the time is that you'd get a collection of scenes/minigames! Train was just that! Another cool simulation was Pirates! and Project Stealth Fighter. Oh, and F16 Combat Pilot. Simpler but quite cool was Ace of Aces. Oh and Gunship! Oh man, I could go on! Xd
The best thing about summer and winter games back then was that the whole family sat with or behind you as you played and urged you on, originally more of a tv room entertainment until monitors took it to the bedroom and kids started locking themselves away to play on their own. :-(
I loved Pitstop 2, Winter Games and, while it took me 20 years to do it, I finally got to finish Impossible Mission. I hated Impossible Mission 2, just seemed too complicated. One game that I thought would be on the list was Dragonriders Of Pern, but it isn't for everyone. Would love to see a list of the best games from either Zeppelin or Domark (I think with the later, it'll be the Top 20 Worst Games though!).
Super Cycle is easily my favorite racing game of that style on the C64, its just so smooth! Imagine how great the classic Sega racer ports would have been if Landrum and Kosaka had handled them
They also made the best controller for the C-64 (and Amiga, Atari, etc.) the Epix Controller. I think they made the Fastload cartridge as well. Great memories.
I do remember Gateway to Apshai, a bit mysterious but spend many hours on it. Also Pitstop II one of my favorites. I realy love these software house series, cant wait for the next😁
Great video, though I miss a few games such as Street Sports Baseball and Basketball, The Movie Monster Game (seems like I'm the only one who likes this game) and Championship Wrestling (liked it back then, now not so much). Personally, I prefer Impossible Mission II over the first one (OK, go ahead and kill me for saying that), and it's one of my favorite Epyx games. Super Cycle also gave me hours of fun (preferred it over Pitstop II, but probably because I just played Super Cycle more).
With skateboarding going to be debuting in Tokyo 2020, and surfing and bmx already there, I'm pretty sure it's only a matter of time for hackysack lol then we can call California Games: Summer Games 3
I had & played Gateway to Apshai as a kiddo! On the rare occasion I ever got to the last Level, I never did figure out how to beat the Dragon... heck, the Ghost & Vampire are nasty pukes as is... I never knew before this Vid that Gateway to Apshai had Descendants... :o
Emudude1963 I bought it on cassette for the C64. I ported it to disk when I bought a disk drive. We even compiled it once and it ran around 10x faster. It is a great game. I still play it from time to time.
Love so many of these games 😍, don’t kill me but the games that involve moving a joystick back and forth rapidly have fallen out of favor with me over the years....
Jumpman Junior was not an american exclusive game. It was the first game I played when I got my C64c for christmas in 1986. I live in Norway. It's still one of my favourite C64 games.
Probably the best c64 gaming company. The games aged very well as they are a unique experience even for modern gamer. Although they were good in many levels, I think the controls were the most amazing thing. Specially in the early games of 80, in a era were most of games suffer for jerkiness and bad controls. Also loved street sports basketball and his simplicity. Impossible mission is a game that no matter of much I try, I simply cannot enjoy it, but it is a matter of personal taste
I’ve beaten it dozens of times, and the levels are always different with every play-through, making it very replayable. I can remember all the 9-letter passwords too… my favorite is “cormorant”.
Funny, my mother was telling me she hated the games series (I liked them as a child). She said she hated the joystick waggle. "Joysticks were expensive!" Ha
I'm very disappointed that hot wheels never made the list. I wasted countless hours on that game. Mainly due to loading between each side of the city. Oh wait I remember now It was crap lolol
A great list, though the perdantic prat in me is insistant that the pronouncation of Apshai is either APP-shy or *APE-shay (*as in the animal 'Ape'); it's supposedly a giant corpse eating beetle that dwells in the Egyptian Underworld.
Haha I just pronounce things as I read them mate...kind of like when I was a kid. I don't know if you can pick this up from the videos but I struggle with pronunciation of certain sounds in particular th and ph sounds just come out as either F's or R's been like all my life....sorry hope it's not to offputting...but for this word I think I've just over thought that haha
@@oldstylegaming no probs - you still did better than a school friend of mine - he kept calling the game 'Temple of Ape-shit', though that might also be because he hated the game 😂
I've been trying to recall an action type battle game that's co-op where you're battling each other as chess like characters perhaps? I can't recall if it was on the C64 or amiga. Any ideas?
Impossible Mission - I never cared for this one, mainly because I never knew how to play it properly. What I mean is that the platforms were confusing as to where you could go, I didn't know how to record and use the musical sequences and it was said that there were duplicates, but I'm not very musically inclined, so asking me to do anything with music is a recipe for failure. Destroyer - The segment shown in the video isn't fully representative of the full game as it does have action sequences, like shooting down planes. Although I thought they could have come up with a better system of switching stations than typing in two-letter codes. I suppose they saw that as a form of copy protection.
I have 35 secs to squeeze stuff in... Although I think the majority of this game is more strategy....I think I was just about to shoot when the clip ended
It was made by the same people, using an updated 'Questron' engine; the game itself is apparently an indirect sequel to a game called 'Legacy of the Ancients' (which I've never heard of before).
@@cthulhusmop Lets get even more confused. Questron had to get a license from Richard Garriott (Lord British) because their game looked a lot like Ultima so Questron could be considered a spinoff of Ultima.
i always thought those joystick waggle sports games were some of the worse games ever made, they were no fun then and are not playable today.. Winter games has that event where you have to waggle for about 4 screens then shoot some targets and then waggle again for 4 screens and it becomes really repetitive. Throw them all away. lol
Epyx got publishing contracts for several European games, and Epyx used US Gold to publish their games in Europe. Epyx was a publisher, but to keep a steady flow of games coming in, Epyx merged with Starpath. Most of their internal games were developed by ex-Starpath employees, including the sports games.
Yep, I'm with you, Winter Games number 1. That was my favourite back in the day. Speaking of which I think its about time I game it another go.. been years!
It's all about the gameplay on those games....they shouldn't be so good but they are ...watching the clips in this video don't actually do the game justice tbh but how do I capture the gameplay feeling...I hope people go out and try them for themselves
I would have placed The Apshai game and Legend of Blacksilver somewhere higher up the list, but other I would agree with the majority of the list - didn't know that Barbarian was renamed State-side (down in Oz, we used the UK/European titles too) - I heard back in my school days that Death Sword was a spin-off/clone, rather than a simple renaming 😅 Also - one minor point: "Apshai" is pronounced something closer to "APP-shy" or "APP-sigh"; it's from "Apshai/Apshait", the name of a gigantic corpse-eating dung beetle that was said to have dwelt in the Eqyptian Underworld at one point....sorry, but my right eye was twitching something *fierce* whenever you referenced the title.. 😉😅
dunno about how good the others are but the epyx the games series , is still second to none even after all these years no other company has ever equalled the orignality playability, and addictive compettitive edge, that brought out the best of local multiplayer,......and just my opinion but the best Beat em up fighting karate game ever, if we take into account it's age.....was way of the exploding fist.....simply magical
Summer Games had the Good Fortune of being released at the same time as the Summer Olympics that year that and Impossible Mission when the fellow would fall through the floor and scream my Grandmother was always irritated, and yet at the same time wanted to play it she was 83.
Consider it done mate :-) ill put it on my todo in the very near future list ...maybe start with the 30 best Atari ST Games Ever ...I have an Atari 1040STE ;-)
For me Impossible Mission was by far the best C64 game, it even had speech which I had only witnessed in a proper arcade game at that time with GORF. Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy best Spectrum games of that genre. Though Attic Attack and Sabre Wolf where also pretty great. Elite was by far the best 8 bit game ever, released on the BBC Micro. Acornsofts prior arcade ripoffs where very good too. Hmm... one of my mates had an Apple ][ and it was Lode Runner that was my favourite game on that. But most '80s UK teens had BBC, C64 or Spectrum. The good old days!
@@oldstylegaming Actually I think my early to mid 20's were the best days of my life (because I had my own place, girlfriends, and more importantly a fucking Amiga 1200 with 50MHz 68030 card, massive 120MB HDD and SupraFAX modem with bluebox phreaking to get free warez). Traded it all in for a 486 when Win 95 became a thing. It all went downhill from there... lol!
System 3 published the game in Europe, but they got Epyx to publish the American version. It's a surprise Epyx got sued, not System 3 for copyright infringement by Data East over the similarities in Karate Champ.
Your absolutely correct, it’s really hard to pick a favourite. I just picked on pure emotion and memories, they are all great titles indeed. By the way, your videos are awesome viewing, a must watch for C64 fans or retro gaming enthusiasts :-)
For me Impossible Mission is the number 1 Epyx spot, and maybe my number 1 game on the whole C64 catalog.
its a great game there is no doubt about that :-)
I used to drive my dad nuts with Pitstop II blaring out of the TV set 😂 Loved super cycle, winter games and both of the summer games series. What an absolute blast they are even now 👍🏻
Pitstop 2 was super loud and a noise that I can imagine now I have kids would have wound your dad up lol
@@oldstylegaming tolerance levels definitely decrease as age increases. He never finished a crossword with that racket going on 😬
@@thejoneseys Yeah....tgats definitely me now lol
I never realized just how many Epyx games I had for my C-64 Jumpman, Jumpman Jr, Impossible Mission, Summer Games, Winter Games ! The nostalgia is real. Thanks
I just love these videos, I think it's impossible to try and explain to younger ones just how amazing the commodore/C64 was and what an impact this computer was and how it set the bench mark of games & gaming particularly in the 8bit market and the only way I think you can sort of compare it to the rest like Atari spectrum and a like is that this system was like a Neo Geo AES of its day lol
I absolutely loved and still love Pit stop 2 never mind you Colin McRae rally or Forza because pit stop 2 is where all that started and yes I think it was the first ever game where you could Change tyres and refuel which was a massive big deal back then bringing the game to life not to mention the whole point of competitive game play lol
I remember my mate loading up winter sports for the first time I think I might of only have turned 14 in the November and being absolutely blown away and in ore of the beautiful colourful graphics lol
The Commodore 64 deserves so much respect it changed lives and made life a lot more exciting especially when back then there was only 3 TV channels and they used to switch off at midnight lol
I'm still playing the C64 in 2020 👌👍
Best time ever though still... Kids will never experience what we did mate
Feel the same. I count myself so lucky the c64 was my first home game experience. 30 years on and I feel fantastic watching these videos and reading comments like this:D great times!
darren cullen definitely mate great times great days 👍
The Hotfoot level on Jumpman was one of my favorites.
Yeah that was a great level!
Aww man nostalgia overdose! The Epyx sports games were awesome, great presentation and the animations were excellent. Me and my friends would spend hours playing em, competition was fierce, we even kept a score sheet with all the records on. Great times :)
You loved your mame scores when i first met you mate i remember hahaha. What do you think of the new look on this video? ive had to ditch that AVS it was taking me ages to do anything with the crashes and slow loading .... this is gonna be what i do going forward ....maybe no one has noticed though lol
@@oldstylegaming Ha yeah m8! 20 yrs of high scores gone! reet downer :(
I noticed the new style yeah, looks great. Yer right AVS is a pain in the ass.
ill send you this one if you want its as easy...and is fast..no crashes, more features etc
@@oldstylegaming Nice one, I'll check it out :)
Always loved summer/winter games! 😊
I thought Street Sports Baseball was solid multi-player fun and holds up nicely even today
I had that for dos but I copied over the disc trying to make a backup of it. I was only 5 at the time so I barely knew what I was doing. Looking at videos of the dos version I wasn't missing much haha. Had the apshai trilogy too that was a good game even on dos.
Loved Epyx! Such a big part of my childhood. Cool video!
Thanks mate
Winter Games and Impossible Mission are in my C64 top 5. You know your stuff !!!!!
I had Jumpman Jr here in Australia. I remember when I realised you could change the speed of the game, it made it so much better.
Pitstop II one of my favourite c64 games :)
Yeah its a both a great racing game and multiplayer game...i cant remember playing a split screen racer before this
I just realized there are a few of these videos I hadn’t seen. Kick ass!!! OSG rules!!! ;)
No Movie Monster Game? What about the Epyx joystick? I loved that thing....
Jerry Bonner Good call out
I'm so glad to see someone acknowledging Destroyer! It was such a complex and engaging simulation for the time and the system!
Yeah it's a great game there are a few great sims on the c64 ...have you played Train Escape to Normandy ?
@@oldstylegaming oh hell YES I did! A great Accolade game! What I love about great games of the time is that you'd get a collection of scenes/minigames! Train was just that! Another cool simulation was Pirates! and Project Stealth Fighter. Oh, and F16 Combat Pilot. Simpler but quite cool was Ace of Aces. Oh and Gunship!
Oh man, I could go on! Xd
Can't argue with number one. Winter games was phenomenal. Played it over and over.
The best thing about summer and winter games back then was that the whole family sat with or behind you as you played and urged you on, originally more of a tv room entertainment until monitors took it to the bedroom and kids started locking themselves away to play on their own. :-(
I loved Pitstop 2, Winter Games and, while it took me 20 years to do it, I finally got to finish Impossible Mission. I hated Impossible Mission 2, just seemed too complicated. One game that I thought would be on the list was Dragonriders Of Pern, but it isn't for everyone.
Would love to see a list of the best games from either Zeppelin or Domark (I think with the later, it'll be the Top 20 Worst Games though!).
Haha I was thinking that when I saw Domark lol
@@oldstylegaming Make it happen, dude! lol
Super Cycle is easily my favorite racing game of that style on the C64, its just so smooth! Imagine how great the classic Sega racer ports would have been if Landrum and Kosaka had handled them
They also made the best controller for the C-64 (and Amiga, Atari, etc.) the Epix Controller. I think they made the Fastload cartridge as well. Great memories.
Ahh such a nostalgia, thanks for all the great videos!👍🙂
I do remember Gateway to Apshai, a bit mysterious but spend many hours on it. Also Pitstop II one of my favorites. I realy love these software house series, cant wait for the next😁
Summer games 2 was my favourite! Especially as it had events from the first game
Great video, though I miss a few games such as Street Sports Baseball and Basketball, The Movie Monster Game (seems like I'm the only one who likes this game) and Championship Wrestling (liked it back then, now not so much). Personally, I prefer Impossible Mission II over the first one (OK, go ahead and kill me for saying that), and it's one of my favorite Epyx games. Super Cycle also gave me hours of fun (preferred it over Pitstop II, but probably because I just played Super Cycle more).
With skateboarding going to be debuting in Tokyo 2020, and surfing and bmx already there, I'm pretty sure it's only a matter of time for hackysack lol then we can call California Games: Summer Games 3
Yeah you are right mate ...weird how times change
Excelente siempre dejándonos sin palabras saludos cordiales desde Uruguay 👍🇺🇾🤗
Gracias amigo, significa mucho para mí que veas mis videos
I had & played Gateway to Apshai as a kiddo! On the rare occasion I ever got to the last Level, I never did figure out how to beat the Dragon... heck, the Ghost & Vampire are nasty pukes as is...
I never knew before this Vid that Gateway to Apshai had Descendants... :o
I first played Pit Stop 1988. Those things stay forever written to our firmware.
Hardcoded
Sword of Fargoal. The best rogue game on the C64. The Vic20 version is really good too.
Ever play Telengard?
@@MarvelousLXVII Yes I have. It's one of my favourites. I still have the original disk.
Emudude1963 I bought it on cassette for the C64. I ported it to disk when I bought a disk drive. We even compiled it once and it ran around 10x faster. It is a great game. I still play it from time to time.
To me Death Sword(Barbarian) I still play that today and chopping heads never gets old to me, btw great video👍
Yeah the death move on this was great and I can't remember any commercial game having anything like that before this game ?
@@oldstylegaming either can i and Germany banned this game due to it, plus cheat code for nudity.
Jumpman was my favorite. It was the first video game I ever played.
Please do Accolade games next
Yes! Test Drive 2: The Duel, they did amazing games and started the Need for Speed series.
I miss The Games: Winter and Summer Edition and the Streets Sports Series. But a very nice video!
Love so many of these games 😍, don’t kill me but the games that involve moving a joystick back and forth rapidly have fallen out of favor with me over the years....
Ultimate Wizard (EA) is so similar to Jumpman, LOL 😂
Love your output man.
Thanks mate
Pitstop 2 was great. Good fun changing the tyres and refueling.
6:56 I wonder if Epyx had the rights to 2020 Ian McKellen's likeness, for use back in 1988 in that title page.
Impossible Mission not number 1?? ...Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Destroy him my robots!!!
Jumpman Junior was not an american exclusive game. It was the first game I played when I got my C64c for christmas in 1986. I live in Norway. It's still one of my favourite C64 games.
Another visitor... Stay awhile... Staaaay forevaaaa
Destroy Him My Wobots lol
Probably the best c64 gaming company. The games aged very well as they are a unique experience even for modern gamer. Although they were good in many levels, I think the controls were the most amazing thing. Specially in the early games of 80, in a era were most of games suffer for jerkiness and bad controls. Also loved street sports basketball and his simplicity. Impossible mission is a game that no matter of much I try, I simply cannot enjoy it, but it is a matter of personal taste
Thanks for the shout out! Lol
No problem mate ....I'll give you a proper shout out when I do a real Amstrad video ;-)
Has anyone ever finished Impossible Mission?
I did. The code word was "Albatross." I'll never forget that.
@@gametimewithunclejer Nice! I tried to assemble those picture cards and could never get anywhere so gave up :-(
Yeah I've done it...I'll do a longplay on it ;-)
I’ve beaten it dozens of times, and the levels are always different with every play-through, making it very replayable. I can remember all the 9-letter passwords too… my favorite is “cormorant”.
@@TokyoXtreme that's a bird iirc. I think i ought to go back and try again.
My favorite company in the days.
Funny, my mother was telling me she hated the games series (I liked them as a child). She said she hated the joystick waggle. "Joysticks were expensive!" Ha
Hey, where is the greatest Street Sports Basketball??
All the street sports games were very good!
Yeah they just missed out tbh thank this is mainly down to me being from UK ....they are great games though
I loved street sports basketball!
I always thought Winter Games was the weakest of ‘The Games’ series. Summer Games II or World Games was always the go to for me and my ‘ickle friends.
Impossible Mission 2 in my opinion should be in the top ten, albeit derivative. All great games, though.
I'm very disappointed that hot wheels never made the list.
I wasted countless hours on that game.
Mainly due to loading between each side of the city.
Oh wait
I remember now
It was crap lolol
Haha yeah it was :-)
@Karl Burnett Yeah loading times.... I sometimes think how did we cope with that lol...nowadays kids would complain about 5 seconds lol
the predecessor of Motorcity online :)
@Karl Burnett Yeah my son hates that
A great list, though the perdantic prat in me is insistant that the pronouncation of Apshai is either APP-shy or *APE-shay (*as in the animal 'Ape'); it's supposedly a giant corpse eating beetle that dwells in the Egyptian Underworld.
Haha I just pronounce things as I read them mate...kind of like when I was a kid. I don't know if you can pick this up from the videos but I struggle with pronunciation of certain sounds in particular th and ph sounds just come out as either F's or R's been like all my life....sorry hope it's not to offputting...but for this word I think I've just over thought that haha
@@oldstylegaming no probs - you still did better than a school friend of mine - he kept calling the game 'Temple of Ape-shit', though that might also be because he hated the game 😂
I've been trying to recall an action type battle game that's co-op where you're battling each other as chess like characters perhaps? I can't recall if it was on the C64 or amiga. Any ideas?
Archon?
@@oldstylegaming Yes, thank you! I haven't played it since the 80's so recalling the details was a shot in the dark. Cheers.
for me it was summer games.
TBH i love them all and its really hard to separate all the Games games
@@oldstylegaming yes i understand, for me i played summer games with a bunch of friends we had a bit of fun.
Winter Games was so good 🏂❄
Impossible Mission - I never cared for this one, mainly because I never knew how to play it properly. What I mean is that the platforms were confusing as to where you could go, I didn't know how to record and use the musical sequences and it was said that there were duplicates, but I'm not very musically inclined, so asking me to do anything with music is a recipe for failure.
Destroyer - The segment shown in the video isn't fully representative of the full game as it does have action sequences, like shooting down planes. Although I thought they could have come up with a better system of switching stations than typing in two-letter codes. I suppose they saw that as a form of copy protection.
I have 35 secs to squeeze stuff in... Although I think the majority of this game is more strategy....I think I was just about to shoot when the clip ended
I was just commenting for people who may not know the game and who might think it's all maps screens and such. :)
Legend of Blacksilver reminds me of Questron.
I may be wrong but I think it was kind of a sequel or made by the same people.
It was made by the same people, using an updated 'Questron' engine; the game itself is apparently an indirect sequel to a game called 'Legacy of the Ancients' (which I've never heard of before).
@@cthulhusmop That's right. Yeah Legacy of the Ancients was an indirect sequel to Questron. I actually played it but don't remember it.
@@MarvelousLXVII so it's the spinoff, of a spinoff, of Questron... like that's not confusing enough.... 😅
@@cthulhusmop Lets get even more confused. Questron had to get a license from Richard Garriott (Lord British) because their game looked a lot like Ultima so Questron could be considered a spinoff of Ultima.
Jesus... all the memories. Still love the C64 even though i rarely play on it.
i always thought those joystick waggle sports games were some of the worse games ever made, they were no fun then and are not playable today.. Winter games has that event where you have to waggle for about 4 screens then shoot some targets and then waggle again for 4 screens and it becomes really repetitive. Throw them all away. lol
Haha those games were and still are great
Clumsy Colin
I have that on original...sponsored by skips crisps lol
Impossible Mission much better than Winter games
Its subjective mate but I think winter games is better...no one is right or wrong though
Deathsword 😂😂 the sequel called stopsheild? Kickfoot? 😂😂
Did you say The Gateway To Ass Feet?
I thought all Epyx games were made in the USA.
Maybe but not all just U.S. released
Epyx got publishing contracts for several European games, and Epyx used US Gold to publish their games in Europe. Epyx was a publisher, but to keep a steady flow of games coming in, Epyx merged with Starpath. Most of their internal games were developed by ex-Starpath employees, including the sports games.
world games on c64 was my very first videogame experience
Hope it was a good experience?
it was fabulous and i am addicted sice then
Yep, I'm with you, Winter Games number 1. That was my favourite back in the day. Speaking of which I think its about time I game it another go.. been years!
I never get tired of playing it mate :-)
@@oldstylegaming yep, best of Epyx no doubt for me!
I played Sword of Fargoal so much. Crazy for a game written in Basic.
It's all about the gameplay on those games....they shouldn't be so good but they are ...watching the clips in this video don't actually do the game justice tbh but how do I capture the gameplay feeling...I hope people go out and try them for themselves
Loved playing epyx sport games with my mates😀 but for me Impossible Mission will always be my favourite c64 game👌
I would have placed The Apshai game and Legend of Blacksilver somewhere higher up the list, but other I would agree with the majority of the list - didn't know that Barbarian was renamed State-side (down in Oz, we used the UK/European titles too) - I heard back in my school days that Death Sword was a spin-off/clone, rather than a simple renaming 😅
Also - one minor point: "Apshai" is pronounced something closer to "APP-shy" or "APP-sigh"; it's from "Apshai/Apshait", the name of a gigantic corpse-eating dung beetle that was said to have dwelt in the Eqyptian Underworld at one point....sorry, but my right eye was twitching something *fierce* whenever you referenced the title.. 😉😅
Where is the wrestling game??! 😒
RiCHaRD 'ABK' SToRM which one?
dunno about how good the others are but the epyx the games series , is still second to none even after all these years no other company has ever equalled the orignality playability, and addictive compettitive edge, that brought out the best of local multiplayer,......and just my opinion but the best Beat em up fighting karate game ever, if we take into account it's age.....was way of the exploding fist.....simply magical
Summer Games had the Good Fortune of being released at the same time as the Summer Olympics that year that and Impossible Mission when the fellow would fall through the floor and scream my Grandmother was always irritated, and yet at the same time wanted to play it she was 83.
Had most of these on tape or disk. Can't disagree with all your choices. How good was Pitstop II. Epyx were the Rockstar Games of the 80's
Can’t argue with that, winter games is awesome, love pit stop 2 as well!
The Surfing game was the best
Wasn't World Karate Championship also released as "Way of the explodign fist" from Melbourne House Software?
No that was just way of the exploding fist... The all very similar though
I'd love to see you cover some Atari ST stuff
Consider it done mate :-) ill put it on my todo in the very near future list ...maybe start with the 30 best Atari ST Games Ever ...I have an Atari 1040STE ;-)
@@oldstylegaming that be brilliant! I love your vids so I cant wait to see what you come up with.
Epyx also had a fun wrestling game. Winter Games and World Games were my favorites though.
Championship Wrestling. Got boring after awhile, it's one game that aged fast.
For me Impossible Mission was by far the best C64 game, it even had speech which I had only witnessed in a proper arcade game at that time with GORF.
Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy best Spectrum games of that genre. Though Attic Attack and Sabre Wolf where also pretty great.
Elite was by far the best 8 bit game ever, released on the BBC Micro. Acornsofts prior arcade ripoffs where very good too.
Hmm... one of my mates had an Apple ][ and it was Lode Runner that was my favourite game on that. But most '80s UK teens had BBC, C64 or Spectrum. The good old days!
Best days of our lives mate :-)
@@oldstylegaming Actually I think my early to mid 20's were the best days of my life (because I had my own place, girlfriends, and more importantly a fucking Amiga 1200 with 50MHz 68030 card, massive 120MB HDD and SupraFAX modem with bluebox phreaking to get free warez). Traded it all in for a 486 when Win 95 became a thing. It all went downhill from there... lol!
Great video! Personally I owned Spectrum, but a lot of those games were there and they brought so much fun. Thanks for the memories.
Impossible Mission is my absolute favorite game on the system, and I still play it every so often. I played it a bunch in the 80s too.
Super cycle and Pitstop - Both games that just draw you in with their highly polished playability.
sorry but world champion etc etc is international karate from system 3!!!!!!!
Yeah....I say that mate...but Americans know this as an epyx game as that's what it was packaged as
System 3 published the game in Europe, but they got Epyx to publish the American version. It's a surprise Epyx got sued, not System 3 for copyright infringement by Data East over the similarities in Karate Champ.
World Games no.1 sports game by Epyx for me. Countless hours Cliff diving...oh not to forget Weightlifting too!
yeah you could gladly pick up any of the Games games and be happy to play for hours
Your absolutely correct, it’s really hard to pick a favourite. I just picked on pure emotion and memories, they are all great titles indeed. By the way, your videos are awesome viewing, a must watch for C64 fans or retro gaming enthusiasts :-)
@@The_Last_Ninja Thanks mate
i never really went for epyx games, the sports games were ok and that's about it
No way ...they were ...are great mate
I always thought speed king was the best cycle game. (I know it's not epyx)
The Braint Family save it for best racing games
Yeah that video is in the backlog lol
Spy Hunter? Barbarian? One on One?
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@@oldstylegaming Much better games by far.
@@jlberlanga erm.... But not made by Epyx..... And by the way Barbarian is in this video...just under the name Deathsword....same game though