The Last V8 Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2013
- Developed by David Darling and published by Mastertronic in 1985.
Foreword: The first couple of minutes of the video is dedicated to Rob Hubbard's great music that he wrote for the game. You can skip to the actual longplay by clicking here: 2:27
The Last V8 back story involves some hokum with a nuclear war some time around the year 2008 and the fall-out has reached levels where it is almost acceptable to go outside again, or something like that...
Whatever the story, I think it borrowed the concept from Mad Max, with "The Last V8" being a reference to the car Max drove as being "the last of the V8 interceptors".
The game is split into 2 (very short) stages.
The objective of the first is to navigate some very narrow, winding roads and to reach the end of the stage before an atomic bomb is dropped, obliterating everything in sight.
Despite the world having meant to have been crippled by nuclear fall out, the first stage of the game feels more like a pleasant country drive; there's even a house with patio furniture and a swimming pool!
The second stage has no time limit, but you must drive around an irradiated city zone in an attempt to find the science base. Certain zones have high radiation that will drain your car's shields and there are a number of dead-ends and false routes to avoid.
For a game from 1985, it looks and sounds very good indeed, courtesy of Rob Hubbard.
Unfortunately, the gameplay is ruined by the terrible control scheme for the car. Just about every top-down racer I have ever played sticks to the convention that UP accelerates, DOWN decelerates, whilst LEFT and RIGHT rotate the vehicle clockwise/counter-clockwise.
Instead, in The Last V8, you press a direction on the joystick and your car will turn/accelerate in that direction. If you're pushing in the same direction that your car is facing then it will accelerate, whilst pushing in the opposite direction will brake. This is just really, really awkward, especially when going round corners because you can end up swapping directions and crashing into nearby scenery.
Aside from the crap controls, the game is ridiculously short and can be completed in a couple of minutes, assuming you can get to grips with the controls.
I never owned this game back then and I'm really glad; I'd never have had the patience to play it for very long.
Enjoy!
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This game was so hard that I still suffer from PTSD 35 years on.
Yeah I played it a few times and gave up....it was infuriatingly difficult.
Me too! I could never get past the first corners
Sure ... look at them wating in the intro to play the music :-)
@@3swick I feel your pain..I thought I was doing really well and reached 1st check point and then gave up. 2nd level.. those corners! Extraordinarily difficult!
this guy has the right idea - don't take off, just listen to the great music.
Bought this game from a high-street chemist.
After playing for a while and realising how hard it was, my brother quipped “V8 - return to Boots immediately”!
I hear ya. Never did finish this game.
For the kids who think Dark Souls is difficult...
I bet they could finish Dark Souls before they could finish this game. Hell, this longplay is in cheat mode. The real game has pixel-perfect collision detection. It took 11-year-old me DAYS just to make it to the base. But 11-year-old me didn't mind playing over and over and over. I tried to get past every obstacle possible, such as going the wrong way on the road - I almost made it past that roadblock several different times - but never actually made it.
@@zerobyte802 He also has time limit disabled. He hardly makes it to 2km mark in time.
DrSid42 Man you guys are all over this!
It wouldn't be so bad if the actual playing area was bigger. I really hate when developers like to brag by putting the game's name all over the playing screen as if we don't know the name of the fucking game to begin with
Could have just removed the game's name and developer's name from the bottom of the screen and bake the playing area bigger. However, if you think this is bad, Red max, which is the spiritual sequel is even WORSE.
@@zerobyte802 months man.. months! And i didnt even speak english back then.
Rob Hubbard, one of the awesome musicains on the C64.
I remember throwing my joystick out the window playing this.
There is very little to recommend this, other than Rob Hubbard's music 😒
I remember getting hit in the head by a flying joystick one day while going for a walk!!!!!!
😅😂😂😂
Well, it's decades later, but I finally got to see the end of the game!
same
same
Same. I guess that's how you release a 3 minute long game.
It's astonishing that the whole game is just a fwe minutes long yet I tried to bet it for countless hours and couldn't even manage the first level.
From a time when you weren't entitled to beat the game.
This game drove me nuts, it was SO difficult because the control method wasn't great and you would crash if you touched a leaf on a bush...
Wow, I only ever got to the second screen a few times, I’m happy I saw the end, well done and thank 😊😊
I finished this game as a youngster, really happy memory! I also accidently found a short-cut on the first level!
I got nowhere in this thing. but watching it being played, something I couldn't do back then, it looks a lot more forgiving than I remember. I think I was trying to do it too fast. The music, the speech definitely threw me off a little. That was amazing stuff for the time.
This has multiple cheats enabled!
damn that music was amazing. This game was really good. Miss hearing the opening though; “V8, return to base immediately” I think it was
You made it! ... *Long pause* ... *plays death music*
Fantastic.
Without poking out the collision detection, both of these stages are nigh impossible. The first is doable, if you don't get the crash bug, the second - no chance. It's brutal. You can clearly see the BMX Simulator ideas forming...
the collision detection was so strict
@@WaffleWaffles absolutely! 🤣
As we played on 14" TVs back then, it was crazy that only one third of the screen was used for gameplay!
This was the hardest game in the C64. And the weirdest concept. Like, after the apocalypse there are only V6 engines? A weird ethnic cleansing for cars?
Oh right, like that scene where they’re like, “If you even try to drive this car, you will crash into a wall and die-GAME OVER.”
I lol'd too hard at this
It was Mad Max inspired, and they needed a fast car to avoid the nukes, I guess
2:27 "V8! Returse the face immediately!". What?
its "V8, return to base immediatley" . What i couldnt understand was what it said at the start of lvl 2!
@@benrichards6087 "Horsie, the more radioactive science"
Ben Richards Caution, avoid radioactive sites
The voice samples obviously aren't as good as they are on Impossible Mission and Beach-Head 2
I hold a personal grudge against this game. Overall I have fond memories of all my C64 games, even the most crappy ones, but I really hate The Last V8.
That music though....
Ive got 2 cartons of V8 in my fridge, so what was all the fuss about?
I remember this game from back in the day. Think it was one of those games I wish I never bought. Fook it was difficult. Got past level 1 a couple of times but not level 2. Good sound n graphics let down by rubbish controls n game play that was totally unfair. This guy makes it look easy like a pro snooker player.
worth buying for the soundtrack
He's taking risks that would be usually indicative of someone using an emulator - which is still fine. Glad someone has posted a playthrough.
"The 8, returns of base, reliege of me!"
I only played this game for the music and the vocal sample. It's so incredibly flawed, as you mentioned. I'd like to point out that "winning" this game is pointless- it triggers the same music as when you crash and die.
as a kid this was hard as F. But only thing i remember about this was "V8 return to base immediatly". The graphic was waaaay better back then hehe.
And i didn't know a single word of english back then growing up in norway.
Awww, where's the trademark phrase at the beginning? "V8...return to base...immediately!"
It's cool, man, never beat this in my childhood, and by today's standards, it's such an anti-climax that there's no ending conclusion or anything, but I'm glad I got to see it all the way through for once.
it's at 2:27 when the music repeats
Yeah, I probably just didn't update the comment. I remember hearing that at the beginning of the game instead of in the middle. :-)
I'd sit on the road looking at a bush too, if I knew I'd die for touching the tiniest bit of grass
Did it only had 2 levels ?? Never reached the end...was somehow frustrating : ) But the music was very cool...
Yeah I still don't understand when the skull thing was triggered and after 2 seconds you were killed
It had 3 levels on the C128 version, on that version an extra stage takes place at the start where you pick up supplies of some kind, once you do this, you start in the normal version.
On Stage 1, the skull indicated the bomb drop you needed to race underground to avoid, miss it and you are dead. On Stage 2 the skull indicates you are in a high radioactive zone and it's eating at your car's shield. Most of stage 2 requires you to move through these zones so you need to learn the correct path and get in without losing too much shield.
I never got to stage 2 , but i didnt know the cheat you are using.
I remember a friend of mine had this and mail order monsters
So... the whole point of the game was to drive home?
Sheepy007 The point of the game was Hubbards SID tune
Never made it past the first corner. SOOO HARD to play! :)
My Brother Bengt learn me to hande this game.
Later he learn me how to drive his Chevelle V8.
Recently tried this game. I found a cheesing shortcut on the first map and it still works when i play on the emulator. Unfortunately controls are not good enough to actually beat the game anymore and i am not as resilient as i was when i was a kid. I was back then with this cheese able to beat the game numerous times.
From Mad Max movie "this is the last of the V8"
the music in this game is better than cyberpunk 2077s music they should use this!!!.like if u agree
The music was fantastic, I played it mostly for that ‘cause I was rubbish at the game.
Apparently, there's a Commodore 128 version that has an extra level, but you really aren't missing anything. I think the same developer did Chiller and that was most definitely not finished...
One of the guys who formed Codemasters actually
@@satan3959 yeah - what is with the hate here ? Did AL82 get fired from Codemasters ?
I always thought I had a bad copy. So it wasn't bugged eh? Just hard as f*ck by design. That is funny!
Funny how a terrible game can be so fondly remembered simply due to having such a classic C64 tune on it
Longplay, the game is completed in 2 minutes.
Commodore 128?
(Many) Games where sooo primitive and short back then, its unbelievable. As a gamer back then and now i have to say: Games are soooo much better today!
1980s though, this is all we had, amazing for the time, and we used our imaginations a lot.
ahhhh yah... fond memories of rage quitting and turning off my computer.
A 5:26 video, and the first 2:27 of that is just the music. Leaving under 3 minutes of 'game'-play. Across a whopping [checks notes] ...er, two levels.
I've gotten more out of demos. At least they're free.
oh come on the tv screen shows how much you have to go, and at that time it was awsome
You Can drive in to the Wood and get close to the end in level 1 on c64 Lol
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I played the Amstrad CPC version of this game. For some reason I got used to the control and then I actually had fun with it. The music was damn cool considering the rather simple sound chip the Amstrad came with. The voice output was missing however. But the upper part of the screen had a higher resolution.
Too hard to play, but sounds are as fine as possible
this game reminds as being a bit boring when I was playing on it...
I thought this game would be about a shortage of canned vegetable juice but the reality was even more disappointing
This game was impossible!
No wonder they made this game so ridiculously hard, it's like the programmers finished a couple of levels of the game and ran out of ideas / lost interest.
Yes, the game was terrible, but the sounds make up for it. I was a programmer on the c64, I could do anything except music :-).
Horrible by the uploader not to mention he has CHEATS ON in the description.
That's because cheats aren't on 🙄