Probably one of the best games for 1991 on the Commodore 64, from a graphics perspective? 😇🕹👌 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= More from 1991: tinyurl.com/1991-C64-GAMES My Top Picks: tinyurl.com/CCGS-BEST-GAMES
I remember seeing Exile on the BBC Micros at school, thinking it looked really neat and wishing I could play it on my C64 at home. It wasn't until decades later I found out it had a C64 port, haha. Same with Xor.
I'm glad we got to savour this game eventually on the Commodore 64... I'd actually never heard of it before it hit the shelves on the trusty C64, but have since played it on it's original format... great game all round this one 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer It's really neat how they crammed the big game world into so little memory. Just crazy to think the entire computer used to have less memory than a small icon takes up now.
YES 😺👍🕹️!!! EXILE is one of my childhood favorite games on the Amiga 😺👍🕹️. I have played it on my Amiga 500 as a young boy back in the early 1990's 😺👍🕹️. The music 🎵🎶 on the intro is outstanding 😺👍! The backgrounds in the game are absolutely amazing 😺👍🕹️. And the characters... OH YEAH 😺👍🕹️!! And that is why, i am giving the purrfect score 10/10 😺👍🕹️! Never played the Commodore 64 version of this game, but it looks absolutely as brilliant as the Amiga version 😺👍🕹️. Thank you 😸😺👍🕹️. Your video deserves another big like 🕹️ from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮 😺👍.
Complexity of this absolute GEM of the game is mind boggling. I have never managed to finish it - still, 30+ years later on the list "to finish" :D Loving it. There was Amiga version too but somehow when it comes to Exile I prefer C64 one. Great video!
I will admit, as a child, I was of the "become a mad scientist and create monsters" school of thinking. Nowadays, however, I have a regular job to pay the bills and a CRISPR machine to fulfill the dream.
Haha, looks like you've swapped your childhood "mad scientist" dreams for a regular job-though I'm hoping the CRISPR machine is still powered by some retro Commodore 64 tech! 😇🕹️👌
Remember playing this on my C64, from the Commodore Format Demo Tape around summer 1991. Did wonder at the time (and still do) if they got the Game Play idea from another game I had, Phantom's of the Asteroid from 1985.
You had me at Blowing Up Mushrooms! I was entranced with this game after getting the demo off a Commodore Format, but just couldn't find it in the shops anywhere. Kids today would never understand, a lot of the time you just couldn't find the gam you want on sale anywhere :o
You're right! If the local market store didn't have a copy of the game I was looking for it was pretty frustrating. It was literally a case of him saying 'look kid, I'll try get it for you in a couple of weeks and I'll leave a copy for you under the counter' haha... some games were much rarer to get hold of than others. Nowadays, anything can be bought AND delivered to your house the very next day! Lucky swines 😇🕹️👌
whoah, this game I’ve *never* even heard about and it looks amazing! Perfect timing though, since I got a The C64 Maxi for christmas so this is definitely going on the usb stick to try out tomorrow, thanks for another great video :)
@ It sure does, and your videos are the perfect byte sized reminders of stuff I played and new discoveries like this one :) I’ve been emulating stuff for years, since it became possible to do so, but *almost* nothing beats having that bread box on floor in front of the tv like the in the good old days (except the real thing of course), but the convenience a joystick and the full size box, loving it :) Selling my C64 back in the day is my only regret - even though I did it to be able to afford the Amiga 500 with a ram expansion and a sampler - I still have it, and I’m planning on doing a video on my channel about it since I recently aquired a box of over 700 amiga floppies from a friend who was a graphics artist in the amiga demo scene back in the day … but also contemplating maybe doing a separate channel for some older computer stuff, since I’m building an arcade controller now using the gp2040-ce controller firmware on a microcontroller and I’ve still got my Philips VideoPac G7000 and some other bits and bobs in my workshop … time will show :)
Very true... many would have migrated over to the C64's big brother... or at least, cousin. Hopefully these videos will captivate people to return to the C64 for some of the classics they may have missed out on 😇🕹️👌
@CheekyCommodoreGamer I bought a Commodore 64c with a 1541-2 disk drive 8 years ago and can't get enough of it and lots of nostalgia. I hardly use the disk drive ever since I bought a SD card reader for it and it saves using a power board👍🏽🥃
Loved Exile but on the Amiga, played it for ages had no clue what I was doing but was great fun doing it :D didn’t know about the c64 version going to find it and try it.
IIRC, the C64 version had some interesting copy protection: if the protection code recognised you were playing a pirated copy it would let you play, but introduce gradual changes to the gameplay so that eventually the game was unfinishable.
I knew of the game but for the Acorn Electron - they crammed it into 32kb but this passed me by back in the day. Only heard of it recent times, didn't even know there was a C64 version - it looks awesome to be honest. I don't have the patience to play a game like that these days though.
Amazing game. So far ahead of its time, so many unique mechanics that I've never seen repeated. A bit too difficult for 10 year old me though, never got very far! I seem to remember finding a hilarious bug (or easter egg?) where if you restart the game & teleport the instant you spawn in the world, you'll teleport in front of the guy who nicks your "destinator", block him, and then be able to complete the game instantly by grabbing the destinator yourself.
Haha yeah I saw that 'cheese' on TH-cam somewhere, that enables you to literally complete the game in seconds haha. In modern times, that would have been patched as soon as it was discovered - I truly love the fact that these epic Commodore 64 games cannot be changed now and what was released is what we got ... mind you, with the amount of superb modern developers for the system, it wouldnt surprise me if the majority of games with 'bugs' all got patched eventually and re-released as theres still a huge market out there for C64 gamers 😇🕹️👌
They were giving out the demo with Commodore Format magazine and I think thats where I probably first saw it... but then managed to get a 'copy' shortly thereafter - superb game 😇🕹️👌
The physics of the inertia is superb for an 8-bit game! A lot of programming must have gone into this game behind the scenes to exact the way your character 'floats' around the screen. Superb indeed 😇🕹️👌
Fantastic game, I was so impressed by the physics - years before games like Half-Life made it a common feature. There was also protection codes on the packaging, a trick Metal Gear Solid tried a few years later. It was tricky though, with the way the creatures surrounded you or got in the way.
I'm really intrigued with regards to copy protection on these games... I'd be keen to research all of the games that had it. My earliest memories of copyright protection came on the Software Projects games... those fiddly little booklets full of hundreds of coloured rectangles on a grid! I remember being pretty mindblown at how it worked when I was a young kid hehe 😇🕹️👌
I played this game back in the days, I really enjoyed exploring. I don't think I ever understood what to do and I never finished the game, but still I played occasionally. Oh, I remember, there was a way to finish the game in a couple of seconds, if you were fast? Teleported immediately after starting the game? Somehow, you could get ahead of the bad guy and got that thing before him. :)
Haha yeah I've seen someone do that on a TH-cam video! Making this one of the shortest games out there, if you want a quick 30 seconds blast of a game! 😇🕹️👌
Sorry I never got to this one; it looks pretty special. It's amazing that they managed to fit such a big map into the Commodore's memory, even while working the physics engine, inventory, and everything else. Looks like it would fit right in amidst today's "immersive sim" genre, with the increasing fondness for pixel art, with very little modification.
Originally designed for the BBC Micro, I absolutely love this Commodore 64 port... they did an awesome job and it was mindblowing when I first fired this up as a kid. The physics are superb 😇🕹️👌
I played a bit of this, it's actually quite fun and the graphics are amazing for the C64. I'm actually not sure how they pulled the particle effects off, whether they used character graphics or sprite multiplexing. Either way, it's rather impressive.
I was awestruck when I first played it, was light a graphical shift from what I was used to at the time... great game too, plenty of puzzles to keep you busy 😇🕹️👌
@CheekyCommodoreGamer I definitely think I should also look into doing my own "Week using a C64 (exclusively)" at some point, just to see how I'd fare. I got the idea from another creator ages ago, who I now can't find unfortunately! I'm not sure if that sort of thing would interest you at all? Naturally, we both know that the gaming part is well covered, especially with gems like this and PROJECT Firestart, along with the known classics!
I agree, it's never the same with the emulated versions especially when playing on a modern TV/Monitor... the best way to play these games will always be on an original CRT 😇🕹️👌
Surprised I've never even heard of this, looked into it and it was first released on the BBC Micro and Electron in 1988, not exactly gaming machines and yet I've just looked at some BBC gameplay and it looks excellent, fully taking advantage of it's higher resolution and unlike many games on the platform it boasted smooth animation and scrolling. By 1991 I owned an Amiga, looked at gameplay and the game obviously has much better graphics, but it looks like a forgotten classic on all platforms.
You're right there, it seems to be a forgotten classic yet I think that when people play it and get into it, it'll quickly move up in their estimations... It always shocks me that this game isn't in many peoples' top 10 games for the C64 😇🕹️👌
Isn’t this a port of a BBC micro game? It would explain the cerebral nature of it. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Looks very good for an 8 bit micro game.
Probably one of the best games for 1991 on the Commodore 64, from a graphics perspective? 😇🕹👌
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I remember seeing Exile on the BBC Micros at school, thinking it looked really neat and wishing I could play it on my C64 at home. It wasn't until decades later I found out it had a C64 port, haha. Same with Xor.
I'm glad we got to savour this game eventually on the Commodore 64... I'd actually never heard of it before it hit the shelves on the trusty C64, but have since played it on it's original format... great game all round this one 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer It's really neat how they crammed the big game world into so little memory. Just crazy to think the entire computer used to have less memory than a small icon takes up now.
I still think of this game as modern lol where have all the years gone 🤯
You're not wrong! To me, the 90's was yesterday.... In my head the 90s is still only 10 years ago hehe... time is flying, my friend 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer 👾Yes, adulthood is very fast...
Seek the Lord while He may be found ❤
YES 😺👍🕹️!!!
EXILE is one of my childhood favorite games on the Amiga 😺👍🕹️.
I have played it on my Amiga 500 as a young boy back in the early 1990's 😺👍🕹️.
The music 🎵🎶 on the intro is outstanding 😺👍!
The backgrounds in the game are absolutely amazing 😺👍🕹️.
And the characters... OH YEAH 😺👍🕹️!!
And that is why, i am giving the purrfect score 10/10 😺👍🕹️!
Never played the Commodore 64 version of this game, but it looks absolutely as brilliant as the Amiga version 😺👍🕹️.
Thank you 😸😺👍🕹️.
Your video deserves another big like
🕹️ from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮 😺👍.
Superb music & graphics with plenty of head-scratching puzzles, great game 😇🕹️👌
I think I had this on a Commodore Format demo tape and it vaguely involved soapy frogs. Good game though.
Ahh yeah on Powerpack 10! I remember that one too as it came with the full game of 'Park Patrol'! I love that game too (Also on the channel) 😇🕹️👌
Complexity of this absolute GEM of the game is mind boggling. I have never managed to finish it - still, 30+ years later on the list "to finish" :D Loving it. There was Amiga version too but somehow when it comes to Exile I prefer C64 one. Great video!
I will admit, as a child, I was of the "become a mad scientist and create monsters" school of thinking. Nowadays, however, I have a regular job to pay the bills and a CRISPR machine to fulfill the dream.
Haha, looks like you've swapped your childhood "mad scientist" dreams for a regular job-though I'm hoping the CRISPR machine is still powered by some retro Commodore 64 tech! 😇🕹️👌
I had it on the Amiga , loved it . Did't know it was on 64 thou.
Yeah superb on the Amiga too isn't it 😇🕹️👌
Remember playing this on my C64, from the Commodore Format Demo Tape around summer 1991. Did wonder at the time (and still do) if they got the Game Play idea from another game I had, Phantom's of the Asteroid from 1985.
Played it a lot back in the day, really enjoyed it. :)
Tough game isn't it, but superb graphics and inertia controls 😇🕹️👌
Somehow, this is the first time I'm hearing of this game. Cheers, Cheeky!
More than welcome, my friend - definitely one to get fired up on your Commodore 64 at some stage as it's one that can't be missed 😇🕹️👌
You had me at Blowing Up Mushrooms!
I was entranced with this game after getting the demo off a Commodore Format, but just couldn't find it in the shops anywhere. Kids today would never understand, a lot of the time you just couldn't find the gam you want on sale anywhere :o
You're right! If the local market store didn't have a copy of the game I was looking for it was pretty frustrating. It was literally a case of him saying 'look kid, I'll try get it for you in a couple of weeks and I'll leave a copy for you under the counter' haha... some games were much rarer to get hold of than others. Nowadays, anything can be bought AND delivered to your house the very next day! Lucky swines 😇🕹️👌
whoah, this game I’ve *never* even heard about and it looks amazing! Perfect timing though, since I got a The C64 Maxi for christmas so this is definitely going on the usb stick to try out tomorrow, thanks for another great video :)
Good man! Superb Christmas present by the way!! Hehe hopefully some of these videos will give you inspiration to fire up those classics once more 😇🕹️👌
@ It sure does, and your videos are the perfect byte sized reminders of stuff I played and new discoveries like this one :)
I’ve been emulating stuff for years, since it became possible to do so, but *almost* nothing beats having that bread box on floor in front of the tv like the in the good old days (except the real thing of course), but the convenience a joystick and the full size box, loving it :) Selling my C64 back in the day is my only regret - even though I did it to be able to afford the Amiga 500 with a ram expansion and a sampler - I still have it, and I’m planning on doing a video on my channel about it since I recently aquired a box of over 700 amiga floppies from a friend who was a graphics artist in the amiga demo scene back in the day … but also contemplating maybe doing a separate channel for some older computer stuff, since I’m building an arcade controller now using the gp2040-ce controller firmware on a microcontroller and I’ve still got my Philips VideoPac G7000 and some other bits and bobs in my workshop … time will show :)
I really didn't know much C64 games in the early 1990's because I upgraded to the Amiga by then.
Very true... many would have migrated over to the C64's big brother... or at least, cousin. Hopefully these videos will captivate people to return to the C64 for some of the classics they may have missed out on 😇🕹️👌
@CheekyCommodoreGamer I bought a Commodore 64c with a 1541-2 disk drive 8 years ago and can't get enough of it and lots of nostalgia.
I hardly use the disk drive ever since I bought a SD card reader for it and it saves using a power board👍🏽🥃
Loved Exile but on the Amiga, played it for ages had no clue what I was doing but was great fun doing it :D didn’t know about the c64 version going to find it and try it.
Hope you enjoy it! Definitely worth sourcing and giving it a whirl on the C64... superb game on Amiga too though 😇🕹️👌
IIRC, the C64 version had some interesting copy protection: if the protection code recognised you were playing a pirated copy it would let you play, but introduce gradual changes to the gameplay so that eventually the game was unfinishable.
I knew of the game but for the Acorn Electron - they crammed it into 32kb but this passed me by back in the day. Only heard of it recent times, didn't even know there was a C64 version - it looks awesome to be honest. I don't have the patience to play a game like that these days though.
I didn't know there was a C64 version
Yup, and it's superb too! I love this game 😇🕹️👌
The clams, the mushrooms, the birds... oh my!
Sounds like a nice meal... if handles by a proper chef 😇🕹️👌
This looks amazing. Another one on the must play list
Definitely Peter, its a superb game... and it's huge too! 😇🕹️👌
Amazing game. So far ahead of its time, so many unique mechanics that I've never seen repeated. A bit too difficult for 10 year old me though, never got very far!
I seem to remember finding a hilarious bug (or easter egg?) where if you restart the game & teleport the instant you spawn in the world, you'll teleport in front of the guy who nicks your "destinator", block him, and then be able to complete the game instantly by grabbing the destinator yourself.
Haha yeah I saw that 'cheese' on TH-cam somewhere, that enables you to literally complete the game in seconds haha. In modern times, that would have been patched as soon as it was discovered - I truly love the fact that these epic Commodore 64 games cannot be changed now and what was released is what we got ... mind you, with the amount of superb modern developers for the system, it wouldnt surprise me if the majority of games with 'bugs' all got patched eventually and re-released as theres still a huge market out there for C64 gamers 😇🕹️👌
I only ever played the demo, I dont think I ewer actually saw it in the shops, but you could tell it was something special.
They were giving out the demo with Commodore Format magazine and I think thats where I probably first saw it... but then managed to get a 'copy' shortly thereafter - superb game 😇🕹️👌
played back in the day, sooo hard, played it recently on an emulator, using quick save and load loads of times, still didn't finish it
Tough game, but definitely an iconic C64 classic 😇🕹️👌
Somehow I've never heard of this. Looks great!
Superb graphics thats for sure, and the physics in the game are brilliant - one of it's kind thats for sure 😇🕹️👌
Never knew about this one. it looks fantastic! Did the creator work on other games?
this gives a "metroid on the c64" vibe!
Yeah the creators worked on games like 'Thrust'. Superb game this isn't it, technically awesome 😇🕹️👌
the animation of floating is fantastic
The physics of the inertia is superb for an 8-bit game! A lot of programming must have gone into this game behind the scenes to exact the way your character 'floats' around the screen. Superb indeed 😇🕹️👌
I haven’t seen particles in a C64 game before, something modern indie games with shaders use a lot these days.
Incredible programming... I still scratch my head sometimes as to how they fit it all into 64k! 😇🕹️👌
Fantastic game, I was so impressed by the physics - years before games like Half-Life made it a common feature. There was also protection codes on the packaging, a trick Metal Gear Solid tried a few years later. It was tricky though, with the way the creatures surrounded you or got in the way.
I'm really intrigued with regards to copy protection on these games... I'd be keen to research all of the games that had it. My earliest memories of copyright protection came on the Software Projects games... those fiddly little booklets full of hundreds of coloured rectangles on a grid! I remember being pretty mindblown at how it worked when I was a young kid hehe 😇🕹️👌
I played this game back in the days, I really enjoyed exploring. I don't think I ever understood what to do and I never finished the game, but still I played occasionally. Oh, I remember, there was a way to finish the game in a couple of seconds, if you were fast? Teleported immediately after starting the game? Somehow, you could get ahead of the bad guy and got that thing before him. :)
Haha yeah I've seen someone do that on a TH-cam video! Making this one of the shortest games out there, if you want a quick 30 seconds blast of a game! 😇🕹️👌
Sorry I never got to this one; it looks pretty special. It's amazing that they managed to fit such a big map into the Commodore's memory, even while working the physics engine, inventory, and everything else. Looks like it would fit right in amidst today's "immersive sim" genre, with the increasing fondness for pixel art, with very little modification.
Originally designed for the BBC Micro, I absolutely love this Commodore 64 port... they did an awesome job and it was mindblowing when I first fired this up as a kid. The physics are superb 😇🕹️👌
Love this game on Amiga 500.
Superb on all formats really, a truly technical feat though to get it to be this good on the Commodore 64 😇🕹️👌
I played a bit of this, it's actually quite fun and the graphics are amazing for the C64. I'm actually not sure how they pulled the particle effects off, whether they used character graphics or sprite multiplexing. Either way, it's rather impressive.
Blows my mind that this is a Commodore 64 game sometimes... technically brilliant especially, as you say, with those particle effects 😇🕹️👌
impressive that it had a bigger map than Starquake
Starquake was HUGE too! Me & my friend mapped that game on post-it notes when we were kids too haha. Good memories 😇🕹️👌
Looks Good keep on exploring
A vast game, with a huge map - great for those who love exploration in games 😇🕹️👌
This is a game I missed completely. Looks like I missed out.
Was a true gem of a game, at the tail ond of the Commodore 64's superb lifespan 😇🕹️👌
This definitely looks like an interesting game!
I was awestruck when I first played it, was light a graphical shift from what I was used to at the time... great game too, plenty of puzzles to keep you busy 😇🕹️👌
@CheekyCommodoreGamer I definitely think I should also look into doing my own "Week using a C64 (exclusively)" at some point, just to see how I'd fare. I got the idea from another creator ages ago, who I now can't find unfortunately! I'm not sure if that sort of thing would interest you at all? Naturally, we both know that the gaming part is well covered, especially with gems like this and PROJECT Firestart, along with the known classics!
Fantastic game, great feeling, was tough though
Very tough, a lot of head scratching puzzles to figure through 😇🕹️👌
2:36 There's nothing worse than a clogged jet pack😂
Haha sometimes I can't resist a bit of daftness 😇🕹️👌
Exile came out in 1988 on the BBC Micro.
It certainly did - glad it was eventually ported to the C64 😇🕹️👌
This game has very modern look and feel
It looks like it would have been an excellent game for the SuperNintendo, if it just had better looking sprites.
I agree, in the early 90s the Commodore 64 was truly showing how much of a superb machine it was 😇🕹️👌
True enough, but the SNES was 16-bit... try this on the Amiga if you want higher res sprites, still a superb game on the C64 though 😇🕹️👌
Absolutely loved the Amiga version ... But only the original a500 version, the a1200 version looked terrible in comparison
Superb on both the Amiga & C64 - such a great period in gaming history, but they still hold up when played today too 😇🕹️👌
I never managed to lay my hands on this one back in the days. I have tried it in an emulator a couple of years ago but .... Its never the same, is it?
I agree, it's never the same with the emulated versions especially when playing on a modern TV/Monitor... the best way to play these games will always be on an original CRT 😇🕹️👌
Surprised I've never even heard of this, looked into it and it was first released on the BBC Micro and Electron in 1988, not exactly gaming machines and yet I've just looked at some BBC gameplay and it looks excellent, fully taking advantage of it's higher resolution and unlike many games on the platform it boasted smooth animation and scrolling. By 1991 I owned an Amiga, looked at gameplay and the game obviously has much better graphics, but it looks like a forgotten classic on all platforms.
You're right there, it seems to be a forgotten classic yet I think that when people play it and get into it, it'll quickly move up in their estimations... It always shocks me that this game isn't in many peoples' top 10 games for the C64 😇🕹️👌
This reminds me of the old school H.E.R.O. game
Ahh yes, the classic from Activision! That game can also be found here -> th-cam.com/video/AknIcwpRaj8/w-d-xo.html 😇🕹️👌
wish I had this
Never too late to give it a whirl, still plays superbly 😇🕹️👌
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Isn’t this a port of a BBC micro game? It would explain the cerebral nature of it. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Looks very good for an 8 bit micro game.
Yeah, Exile began its journey on the BBC Micro - I was very grateful that it was eventually ported to the C64 😇🕹️👌