The 30 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever Made!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- What sup guys OSG here…and this time it’s the start of my Best 30 games ever made redo videos. As many of you know I have been having problems with TH-cam and as a result I am removing almost all my videos…but don’t be sad I will be remaking all the stand out ones with new views, gameplay and commentary.
That being said I would like to say that all the clips in this video are actually played recorded and edited by myself…oh and ranked in order.
So here it is probable my favourite of all the systems ever The Best 30 C64 Games Ever Made.
Games in this video :-
Great Giana Sisters @ 00:46
Airborn Ranger @ 01:24
Platoon @ 02:03
R-TYPE @ 02:42
Waste Land @ 03:21
Summer Games 2 @ 03:59
Wizball @ 04:39
The Bard's Tale @ 05:18
Bubble Bobble @ 05:56
Commando Arcade @ 06:34
Armalyte @ 07:13
Lode Runner @ 07:51
Train: Escape to Normandy @ 08:29
Impossible Mission @ 09:07
Boulder Dash @ 09:45
Archon @ 10:23
Internation Karate @ 11:01
Summer Games @ 11:39
IK+ @ 12:17
Turrican @ 12:55
Katakis @ 13:33
Prince Of Persia @ 14:12
Stunt Car Racer @ 14:50
Elite @ 15:28
Last Ninja II @ 16:06
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders @ 16:44
Winter Games @ 17:22
Maniac Mansion @ 18:00
Pirates! @ 18:37
Turrican II @ 19:13
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This era of gaming and computing was a gem. I consider myself lucky to have been around during this time to see the progression.
Me too mate
Oldies Goldies :)
I plaid all 30 games and today at fifty years i realized i didnt waste my childhood
Never a true word spoken... Those days were the best
Paolo Pastorelli me too...beeing late 50 i have so much memories on teen+ year with 64 and before that zx spectrun...still gaming today for couple of hours per day. Will play till i will be 80:)))
Those were magical times!!!
I got into c64 a bit late about 1990 but I have to say I had such amazing memories playing it with my bro. I was only five but over the years even moving onto sega mega drive then pc gaming I always go back to c64. loved the music monty on the run for me was the greatest example of the fantastic c64 music. there was just so many great games I feel so blessed that my introduction the gaming as a whole was the c64 :D
Late 20's here and found one at an antique mall that looked practically brand new with psu, datasette deck and a few datasettes. I have to say that I'm quite jealous that you were able to play with this back in your childhood. So much fun learning this device and so pumped to see that it still has a great scene today! Never stop playing, as soon as you do, you grow up.
I remember enjoying Fort Apocalypse a lot, as well as Uridium, Spy Hunter, Ghosts 'n Goblins and Bruce Lee.
i feel so old seeing all this,games i used to play for hours,i am 51 now.
Yeah Spy hunter but also Spy vs Spy, Street rod, Skate or die, Wonderboy...
@@doctorhelicopter Overlander, Mikie, One on One, Blue Max, Dino Egs, BC Quest, Sea Fox
🐾🙏🥰🇦🇺🕺
The Turrican games and IK+ were true classics!
Thanks for the reupload! The C64 was my first exposure to gaming, some great memories...
I was addicted to games like Ghostbusters, Beach Head I and II, Transformers, SkyFox on my C64.
I played Transformers alot though I never understood how to play the game. I was forever stuck on the first level
Yeah, I played Ghostbusters with my friend for several weeks. Great times...
“The nightmare known as figure skating” LMAOOOO! Great vid!
Uridium I think was one of the best shoot’em ups ever! (Great Music also) Monty on the run another classic! Also way of the exploding fist. Nice video thanks
Ok first of all let me say sorry for uploading the video last night with no sound from 06:20 its fixed now ...dont know why that happened. Hope you all enjoy this upload now
Don't worry, no damage done 👍
well i do give my opinion..tbh i just want to give the bare bones on these lists as i personally dont really like commentary but TH-cam have said i have to..if i do walk throughs or reviews ill go more in depth
Seven Cities of Gold.
Heart of Africa!
@@markus-hermannkoch1740 wonderboy , spyhunter and chase hq
The C64, truly ahead of its time!
yep i miss all of that i am 51 years old now and am flashing back,i used to play all the kings quest games and leisure suit larry games.
The Atari 8-Bit was further ahead of its time, what's your point?
@@petersuskawicz8900 It was due c64 has the best well paid programmers at its time. But I have to say if Atari 800 xl would have had better programmers, history in fact would be very different. Also Amstrad is a really beast machine Atic Atac, Wonder Boy remake talk by themselves.
@@Foebane72 Atari 800 was the Beta of it's time. C64 wasn't as good, but like VHS it sold huge numbers so was much better supported. So became No.1.
Nah, not really - in Japan there already were home PCs much more powerful even before C64 was released
The soundtrack to Last Ninja 1 & 2 is etched into my brain, what wonderful games. As soon as I hear the music it takes me back to playing these classics with my dad. I would also include Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, Ghost ‘n Goblins and Bruce Lee as well amongst my favourites. C64 started my love of games 👾
my true love of games started with C64 too although i did have vic20 first
old style gaming Same here, my dad bought a Vic20 but I only have cool memories playing a game where your are a plane dropping bombs on buildings as the plane gets lower and lower. Trying to hit the highest buildings first otherwise you will crash. Probably amongst my first gaming experiences. C64 is when I started to buy games and really investing some quality gaming....then the next step was the Amiga! Great times
@@paultrundley6408 omg you mean city bomber I still have that game
so do i, first gamei ever brought. Got it from Beaties Wolverhampton.
Oh thank you both, for the life of me I couldn’t remember the name of the game but loved playing it. Just watched a clip on TH-cam and had a nostalgic rush!
I had a NES in the 80's and my pal had a C64. I used to love it when we'd swap for a bit. Digging through them tapes not knowing what I was loading up was heaven for me.
best times our our lives mate :-)
Gunship, Paradroid and Hawkeye come to mind as well. Lovely list and format, thanks!
*Turrican 2* is also my favourite C64 game. When the music in the first spaceship level started I was like 😲🤗
Frantic freddie - one of the best.
Great game, superb music
Thanks for this, great memories!
My favourites were Galaga, Blue Max, Beach Head I+II, Raid on Moscow, Zorro, but best of all was Elite.
Beach Head 1 is great game
Blue Max was amazing
My fav was pit stop 2, i beat all my classmates and i fell in love for sin racing because of it...
Really missed Blue Max, Arkanoid and Choplifter on this list but opinions differ.
The C64 had so many classic games. Truly an unrivaled period of creativity for gaming.
Blue Max was great and nobody ever talks about it.
@@JimmyBackbeat I always liked how you could fly under the bridges just for fun.
Fantastic list of games. So many great classics. R-type is my favourite. Commando is amazing and Katakis. Armalyte I've not finished yet but I will longplay it. Thanks for the upload.
good luck with Armalyte it truly is hard, i tried it a few times for longplays but so far never made it
@@oldstylegaming He has a horrible knack of making really hard games look easy. He'll do it, all the while exclaiming how hard it is! Drives me crazy, but I do like it :-)
I got the t shirt of your profile pic 😁
Wizball!! Thank you so much for making this! I recall playing game as a child but could never remember the name! Going to dig it up relive memories 😁
God bless that SID chip.
Is the SID chip in the original Commodor 64 from 1982? Can it be added?
I am 63 and this is going to be a gift.
Cheers, from Toronto ☮]
@@jmmacb03 Yeah the SID chips was in the original C64. Such beautiful noise!
Awesome Vid, what great memories, bunking off school playing this lot !!
Thanks for this well curated selection.
Project Firestart , Power at Sea , Rocket Ranger , STreet ROd , Killed Until Dead , are fantastic games for the C64 also !!
Stunt Car Racer for Amiga was amazing.
My favourite game on the Amiga 😎
Yes. And Hunter was probably waay ahead of its time too. And Another world of course.
It is one of the rare racing games i like to play! Driving games are not my cup of tea.
Gunship. Ultima 4. Bombjack. Jumpman. Just to name a few of the best games for me.
Quite a solid list, thanks for the video.
Great video, it made me feel very nostalgic about the first computer I ever owned. Can still remember Christmas day as a 12 year old ripping off the Christmas wrapping paper to reveal the c64 box. Best present ever, I spent the school holidays playing the 1 game I got (Skramble) and reading the C64 manual and learning basic coding and typing out the programs in the book.
The simple pleasure of being a 12 year old and exploring the exciting world of home computers!
LOL, I did the same, I bought books at Waldenbooks, and tyoed in every game I could. I also typed in games from magazines. Remember Red Baron? or shoot the rapids?
I did the same! Scramble
The last Ninja played for hours on my own....
Great C64 games there, but the later games I never played at the time. I had a C64 from 85-87. Some of my favourites were Gribbly's Day Out, Bounder, Buggy Boy, Monty on the Run, Dropzone, Uridium, and Thrust
Yeah, the better games were made after 87.
Zak McKracken is one of the - if not the best point & click adventures ever made!
Some solid picks in there. I’d pick Forbidden Forest, Space Taxi, Aliens, Champions of Krynn, Jumpman Junior, Fist 2, H.E.R.O., Gateway to Apshai, Sea Wolf.
Megawatt HERO Was an OK port of an Atari classic.
Forbidden Forest is an all time c64 classic
You forgot Ghosts 'n Goblins
The C64 had so many great games! Tough to narrow it down like this... great job :)
It was hard
Way of the Exploding Fist for me. Great gameplay and the music was simply fantastic 🎶👍
What about Pool of Radiance 😁
Don"t mind me. I am just here to headbang to C64 music.
Impossible Mission greatest ever
thx 4 the well structured video. I wish i could tell, wich games i played most back then. Probably: Kung Fu Master, Green Beret, Buggy Boy, Pit Stop 2, Hunchback 2, Arkanoid, Beach-Head 2, Bruce Lee, Popeye, Bombjack, Int. Karate, Thing on a Spring, ... completely mesmerized by the beauty of these gems.
13:40 Yap, Katakis - best c64 game ever!
Just the music alone was so awesome!
I have very fond memories of the C64 (and VIC20). Had most of these games. Forgot how good they looked comparatively speaking.
Paradroid should have been in the list.
Paradroid 90 FTW 🤪
It's not s definitive list, it's an opinion list...smh
And Uridium with that music.
Paradroid is a near-perfect game, IMHO. There is just so much to love about it.
Oh man...this brings back memories of the Great 80s period. I Remember we got Commodore 64 and neighbour who were freinds bought Amstrad or ZX Spectrum (can’t remember exactly) at the same time. And we would always argue about which is better . The 80s really was a Awesome period
Great games, lots of memories, thanks for the video.
Quality job as usual mate! You know the one game I was surprised by it not making your list would have to be Will Wright's Raid on Bungeling Bay. I know here in the States it was responsible for many C64 sales. Maybe not as highly regarded in the U.K.?
Not really that familiar with it tbh but i will play it and maybe make a longplay if its as good as you say. I included Lode Runner for you though ;-) and nearly put Space Taxi in with im sure is another US favourite
In my top 3 for sure !
I would have added Wizard of War and Ghost and Goblins. I’m glad you had Maniac Mansion that’s my all time fav!
Ghosts and Goblins was incredible!!.. I can still hear the music in my head.
Awesome thanks for review brings back old memories
Man, thank you. I had completely forgotten about Train.
The title music for Wizball was epic
Everything about Wizball was epic!
Excellent list - of course everybody's list might differ from this as doe smine, but very much enjoyed watching the video.
thanks man
Fort Apocalypse, Tiger Mission, and Hyper Sports I’d add to this list.
I would have added Dino Eggs too. Nothing overly complex, but sometimes simplicity adds for a better more well rounded game
My favorites were Pirates!, The Bards Tale III, Gunship, and Red Storm Rising. Thanks for sharing.
Danke für das Video, da kommen wieder schöne Erinnerungen hoch an die C64 Zeit, lang lang ist es her.
NIce list! Some of your omissions IMHO are Monty on the Run/Auf Wiedersehen, Head Over Heals, Henry´s House, Uridium, Zorro, Kung Fu Master, Yie Are Kung Fu and my personal favorite Montezuma´s Revenge.
Great games but I can't have them all in a top 30 ...I could make a top 200 and still have to leave out loads of good games
@@oldstylegaming Yeah, the C64 has a really huge library...
@@patsfan4life Yeah, I love it. The art style, the different short levels and the difficulty. Hate the birds in the last level though. :-)
Henry’s House is a true hidden gem
Montezuma's Revenge!!... what a great game!
Waste Land looks interesting, never played that, great to see you back Paul
I think Monty On The Run is my favourite, but definitely nostalgia talking
we all have our favourites i really like Rambo and Robocop too but they never made it in
Great video, OSG! Agree about Epyx, pure class, those sports games! Amazed by that Normandy train one, really cool, atmospheric too.
I showed my children bubble bobble recently and they absolutely love it. A great co-op game. I completed it twice, once with my brother and once at uni with a pal.
I loved it 🙂 I used to charge my sis and her friend to play it, then I'd take the money I made from them and go play street fighter in the arcade 😂 thems were the days.
Bubble Bobble is the greatest sing screen platformer ever made.Ever.
Bubble bobble was the best game ever made (apart from missile command at the chippers down the road with the ball)
Stunt Car Racer would be my No 1, such a brilliant game. Preferred it to the Amiga version 👍🏻
I LOVED LOVED LOVED Airborne Ranger! I think I still have the overlay for the keyboard and F-keys...
Yup,still got All Orig Airbourne Ranger in the nice Box it came in !
The love you hold for these games is so evident and special. Thank you for taking me back to the 80s with you
:-) thanks for watching :-)
And early 90s
Great list mate. I loved Rick Dangerous, Flimbos Quest and Antiraid. Thanks for uploading a couple on here I've not heard of so will check them out. Looking forward to the full sized c64 with micro switch joystick in December 🕹⌨
I'd have swapped out quite a few but it's each to their own with gaming. Salamander I thought was a great game. One of the creatures games is worth a mention and if you're going for new games... Sam's journey surely has to make the list. I think for me a game doesn't have to be technically amazing just fun to play and keep you coming back. The C64 has such a great library that's ever increasing.
im gonna check out that Sams Journey properly tonight
Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday never gets any love...
Oh...I've never played that ...is it any good?
@@oldstylegaming It was pretty good , It was one of the best gold box RPG games.
Great video, still surprised at how smooth the movement is! Exile was another game that was good on all formats, I had that on C64 and Amiga.
Nice list. Some favourites of mine were: Thing on a spring, Nibly, Flimbo's Quest, Gauntlet, kickstart and leaderboard
getting a new tape without knowing what is on it was the best!
Bubble Bobble 22!?! Number 1 or not at all! Sacrilege sir 🤓😉
Haha it's a good game but not number one. My arcade cabinet is covered in bubble bobble artwork I love that game
@@oldstylegaming where curse of sherwood and dizzys games and battle ships
I loved Airborne Ranger and Turrican games. I'd also have included the following:
Batman The Movie. Very atmospheric. Great soundtrack. Good gameplay.
Spike in Transylvania. Excellent graphics. Looks like Hagar the Horrible.
Star Paws. Roadrunner in space.
Myth
Tusker. Basically Indiana Jones made by the Last Ninja guys.
Shadow of the Beast
Heroquest
Way of the Exploding Fist
Awesome computer, I absolutely loved mine. Good list of games you mentioned but lets be honest we could go on and on. Amazing how they fitted all the soundtracks for the games in such a small space let alone the game as well. Personal favourites, off the top of my head, Super Cycle, Drop Zone and Paradroid. Anyway thanks for the great video ..👍
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Beachhead I+II, G.I.Joe, Blue Max, Zaxxon, Forbidden Forest, Wizard of War, Lazy Jones, Impossible Mission, Uridium, Way of the exploding Fist, Commando, all the Summer-/Winter-/World Games, Maniac Mansion... I can go on for hours! - I just loved that machine. *sigh
edit: I typed my list before I watched the video btw!
edit 2: people have to keep in mind that you had just ONE button on the joystick to manage it all. the mechanics/combinations to play IK+ or prince of persia were awesome. (don't remember if it was 1942 or 1943 -the shoot'em up- which was the first/only game you had to use the space bar to loop or drop smart bombs. crazy... I broke around 20 Quickshot II joysticks before the Competition Pro 5000 stick came out. With 2 buttons that did the same job. Don't know why they needed a stick for left handed players!^^) Thx for bringing back those precious memories (Man...I'm havin flashbacks right now!!^^) I was born 1970 and got my C64 in '84. The first year I had to use a datasette cause a "floppy" was too expensive. Remember Turbo-Tape?! Hahaha! :D
Oh yes!!! Blue Max and G.I.Joe were great!!!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great list!
Bard's tale is great, I enjoyed drawing all the maps 😀
Pool of radiance is so much better though!
oh ill have to revisit that game now :-)
I'm not much of an RPG (although I do love arcadish RPGs like Chronotrigger) guy, but I've always loved the Bard's Tale series
@@oldstylegaming Don't forget about Bard's Tale 3, Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn etc. I remember spending tons of hours on these. Honorable mentions for me are also Wizardry and Ultima games - talking RPG.
My top C-64 games of all time are Space Taxi, Knight Games, and Beach Head 2.
Great video!
Thanks mate
Great video and some games on there i was nit familiar with.
The Ultima series were my favorites -- especially Ultima III and Ultima IV.
Gyruss was great on the C-64
I spent hours with Pinball Construction Set
Raid on Bungeling Bay
Did Raid on Bungeling Bay have and end? That was a tough, tough game!
Raid on Bungeling Bay was one of my favorites.
I´ll just throw in here, in case you dont know, that it was made by WIll Wright, who later made "Sim City" and "The Sims".
Ultima V is true best, than Ultima VI
@@Todor81 V, yeah, but VI.... how many disk drives did you have? I was surprised to see it on the shelf for the c64 back then, bought it, and ughhh. That´s when i realized that its best days were over. I am not sure, but i think V had even more discs (4 double sided, iirc vs. VI´s 3, again: iirc), but the content was much better distributed among them. "Towne disc" instead of "conversation disc A" (to C), f.e. In V you could prepare, so to speak, for the disc swaps, cause i would know, that entering a dungeon will make it ask you for the dungeon disc, whereas with VI, well, it was different.
Always loved the role playing games like Bards Tale, Ultima and Zork. Also really liked Head over Heels. I remember mapping out the entire game!
Head over heels was a great game.
Last Ninja 2 was brilliant. This vid brought back some fond memories. One of my first games on C64 was a game called Aztec. Some of my favourite games were : Airwolf, Barbarian 1 & 2, Dropzone, International Karate 2, Dragon Ninja, Spy Hunter, Outrun, Renegade 1 & 2, Daley Thompson's Decathlon.
I'd have included the Ultima games (either 1 thru 6, or just 4 thru 6) as a single entry.
Also Space Taxi.
Bruce Lee, Silkworm, He-Man (best music theme c64 ever), 1942, Treasure Island Dizzy.
I spent so much time on treasure island dizzy..was that the one where you had to nimbly tie the rope round the crocodiles mouth?
@@oldstylegaming Nah, that was Fantasy World Dizzy :D
Buen vídeo! todos grandes juegos clásicos!
So glad I’ve found this channel.
Great list, and gives me a lot of games to check out, yours has quite a few I never even heard of let alone played. That's the magic of the C64. My personal list would include Gunship, Fort Apocalypse, Phantasie, and probably a tonne of others I'm forgetting at the moment. Gunship was amazing. I couldn't stop until I achieved every objective the game had to offer. Pirates was the same.
Gunship almost made it in ...i love the loading screen on Gunship it looked so real when i was a kid
Somehow I miss some games: Pitfall, Pipeline I + II, Cauldron I + II, Wizard of Wor, GI Joe, Steel Thunder, Forbidden Forest, Bruce Lee, Barbarian II, Ghost Busters, Castlevania, Murder on the Mississippi, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, ...
Unfortunately even your Best of 75 list includes only a few of them.
Nocturnon The Cauldron games both made his list of toughest c64 games...... Ghouls and Ghosts made his list of the top c64 arcade ports.....Pitfall / Pitfall II and Wizard of War were just okay Atari/Arcade conversions
Bruce Lee was on the top 75 I believe, as was Ghostbusters
Forbidden Forest deserves an honorable mention on any list because it’s the first horror/survival game for PC ever
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Pitstop, Pitfall, GI Joe, Rambo, California Games, Breaking, Beatstreet, Posterboy, Defender of the Crown, ER Kung Fu
If you're going to play Elite today though, play the version that was optimized for the Commodore 128. it runs a lot more smoother
Elite was one of the first games that they've made for PC's.
Mafia, Bangkok Nights, Zamzara, Knight Games Defender of the Crown, Wizard od Wor, Commando Lybia, Teacher Busters, Friday the 13th, X-Out, and the TOP 30 you mentioned. So much great memorirs and emotions when thinking back !
The Bard's Tale , II ,III are my top three. It was like playing AD&D without the constant arguing with friends. Summer and Winter games, Leaderboard Golf was great. Spyhunter. I totally forgot about Impossible Mission, love that game too. Thanks for sharing.
One of my favorite games was PSI-5 Trading Company. It was a space simulator where, instead of flying the ship yourself, you gave orders to a crew of five. It was a surprisingly complex game where you had to decide how to use the limited resources that were available. Also, some of the crew members wouldn't obey your orders if they were too scared or just didn't like each other. Some of them would have more initiative than others, which could be either a good or a bad thing - it was good if Scanning started to examine whether another ship was friend or foe without you having to order them to do so, but it wasn't so good if Weapons decided to start firing at it before you knew which it was. A truly great game.
Flimbo Quest, Rick Dangerous, River Raid
Rick Dangerous was never released on C64 I think.
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@@damianlangowski6299 Wtf, I didn't know that. Thanks.
Flimbo doesn't get the love it deserves. Cracking game!
I played River Raid all the time on my Atari 2600, didnt know it was on the C64 too.
The Great escape, parallax, couldron, test drive and although not really great Ghostbusters has a place in my heart. Probably played that game the most outside of elite. Shit and the eidolon.
I remember being entranced by Loco, the gameplay and gorgeous visuals, music too, I think? And a high quality Defender conversion called Guardian, I played that a lot.
Ehis International Soccer, Bruce Lee, Power Drift(best music ever), Thundercats, Phantomas, KunFu Master, Usagy Yohimbo, Kickoff 2, Kenny Daglish, One on One, Ghost n' Goblins, Pitfall 2, Barbarian, Milk Race, Green Beret, Paperboy, Microprose Soccer, Decathlon, Moon Patrol, Dizzy Series, Spy vs Spy series, Buggy Boy, Rampage, Last Ninja, KickStart 2 and so many others!!!!
Platoon was esp frustrating to a 7 yr old me, and especially some other stuff like lode runner, pop, but Giana and a few others like the Turtles were favourites for effing sure
These lists are always subjective, but I think this is a pretty good list overall. I find it surprising that California Games didn't make it, given that you included other Epyx sports games (especially given that California Games was, in the opinion of our group, the best of the bunch). Another notable omission is Mayhem in Monsterland, which was released towards the end of the C64's life (when most sane people had upgraded to an Amiga or an Atari ST - I was not one of them!): It was a platform game that might have been the most technically impressive game to have even been released on the C64 (at least, during it's original life cycle).
Yes! If forgotten about California Games. I remember my mate bringing that around to mine. Amazing game.
Great vid, for me the game I played the most was Stunt Car Racer 🤘
Maniac Mansion! What a wonderful game on the C64. Awesome nostalgia!
Maniac mansion and later day of the tentacle. Best games ever.
later day of the tentacle is a c64 game?
m.u.l.e. choplifter and fort apocalypse were the best for me
Apart from my love for text adventures, this vid is basically determining what I need to add via usb to my new maxi. 👏👍
I would have included the Ultima series, Defender of the Crown, and Autoduel. So many hours and good memories. Time to pull it out the closet.
The C64 version of R-Type was basically a poor man's Katakis and was knocked out by (the great) Manfred Trenz in about 6 weeks. The story goes that Activision saw Katakis and, realising that it was superior to their official R-Type conversion, threatened to sue Rainbow Arts unless they recalled the game and had Manfred Trenz code their R-Type conversion. The result was very good in light of this, though it suffered from long multi-loads and it was pretty buggy. I also remember the critics (Zzap! 64 and Commodore Format) panning the game at the time, which I assume was more to do with Activision's behaviour than the game itself (which was actually pretty good).
Katakis was later re-released as Denaris.