Rick Dangerous 1 and 2 were evil - you could freely select levels, but to unlock the last level you needed to play all in succession. This meant that all levels could be relatively easily practiced (which was essential since this was a memory game before everything else) except for the last one where each attempt carried a price of having to perfectly beat all previous levels. OR cheat and use infinite lives poke, which was what all sane people eventually did. :)
Yep, but so cute and you always somehow forget how punishing it was after a while, and come back to it happily jumping in, just to jump out an hour or so later frustrated that it kicked your ass once more. xD
Yay for more C64! :) Also, I had foreseen that this would be a good video. ;) Golden Axe looks so different on C64, but it's a very good port otherwise, from the footage you have here. Those little guys you have to kick always seemed to me more like leprechauns, because they looked like they were rich and also came at night to cause mischief. You know, like real life leprechauns. :D Now I remember why I had so much trouble with Duck Tales! I kept crashing the plane. XD Which is kind of in character with Launchpad, so... XD It's too bad Back to the Future had such a weak tie-in game... It deserved much better. Oh, and I must say, as a big fan of both Dorothy and Alice, it was actually Alice who got stuck in the land behind the mirror. :)
Leprechauns that live at the end of the rainbow? Have you seen some of those rainbow pictures taken from planes, where they're actually round circles? Where would they live there? Something's not right here... Oh, I take you played Duck Tales on PC? So it's Alice... What was Dorothy responsible for then? Or where she ended up? Don't know which of these is appropriate in her context. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Leprechauns live in Ireland in the forests. It's a common misconception that they live at the end of rainbows. They actually tell people that they keep their pots of gold at the end of rainbows and whoever can find the gold gets to keep it. But it's just a trick, since, the rainbow having no end, then there is no gold up for grabs. Sneaky leprechauns! I got into the old Donald Duck comics by Carl Barks some years ago (and they are brilliant btw), so I found and played Duck Tales on the PC then. I kept crashing the plane. Came back to it recently and learned to land. :D Dorothy has several books about her actually, but most people only know Wizard of Oz because of the film. There is one called Ozma of Oz where Dorothy (among other fantastical happenings) gets kidnapped by a lady who had a collection of dozens of heads and changed them like one would change socks and got the personality of that head when wearing it too. She wanted Dorothy's head for her collection. Great book btw. :)
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks Sneaky Leprechauns! We should really teach them a lesson for all the rainbow stuff... Reminds me of an episode of Sunny, when the gang caught one... Supposedly. It's often the case, isn't it? That just one book gets recognition out of all of the series, and everyone just kinda ignores the rest. Happened with Dune too.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh, what did the Sunny gang do about the supposed leprechaun? You're right, many series often get just a book that becomes popular. I'm still waiting for the rest of Asimov's robots. Children of Dune was very good too. Maybe now that they remade the first film, they might continue with the rest of the series. :)
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks They kept him in the basement and tortured him to get him to spill where he keeps his pot of gold. But since they've committed plenty more other felonies in the episode, they've eventually let him go. It was never proven or disproved however, so we will never know. xD
Golden Axe for C64 is one of the best 8bit conversions of the game it plays great but like the game generally it gets too samey after a while. Rick Dangerous II is a classic & well known for the system but I haven’t played on C64. it’s great on other platforms & I don’t doubt the C64 can do it justice. Strider II was a bit disappointing on 16bit systems, not bad as such, just not a great game but I’ve never played the C64. Sounds from what you said it’s the same though. Wings of Fury is another I’ve never played on C64 but have on other systems but it looks great (for the system) from what you’ve shown. Dynasty Wars is hard on the eyes & the graphics blend together in to a mess. Look at Flimbo’s Quest compared to Dynasty Wars, it’s night & day. Sure the Amiga game is vastly superior graphically the dev’s made the best use of what the C64 could actually do & speaking of good looking for the system, Duck Tales! It’s a great game with great graphics & sounds & varied gameplay that feels bigger than it is & is highly recommended. This is sacrilege for an 80’s-90’s British gamer but I’ve never played Magicland Dizzy. I’ve played most of the Dizzy games but not Magicland. I have shame now. 😄 I never played Back to the Future II because I assumed it would be a turd, like most licensed games back then & I was almost right! King’s Bounty is a marvel for the system. It’s not my thing but I can appreciate what it achieved on limited hardware. Nicely varied list. I have a ‘The C64’ modern emulation device with a full C64 keyboard & it’s a great way to go back to a system I didn’t get enough time with back in the day because I didn’t have one, so only got to experience it at a mate’s house, so a list like this makes good recommendations for what to play, thanks!
Yeah, but the samey-ness of GA is something it suffered from on all systems, arcade cabinet included. It's just the thing with those early beat'em ups. :) Oh, Rick Dangerous, both of them actually, I like the most on C64. Dynasty Wars is trash. Sadly, as I liked the arcade game. Yep, both Flimbo's Quest and Duck Tales were amazing on most systems they came out on. Don't be ashamed for not playing Magicland. It just happened, and personally I'd be fine never playing it. Not my thing. Dizzy games that is.
It's hard to joke about it when my personal Batman is gone since Christmas... And he did love C64 videos the most. xD Even if on YT they're my worst performing. xD
There wasn't an arcade original for Strider II - the home computer versions are where it started. There was, however, a Genesis/Mega Drive remake (the levels are thematically similar but not the same design) released in 1992, also under the title of Strider Returns. This one had Hinjo (finally with a name) using shurikens instead of a gun, with orbs to absorb damage. A Master System and Game Gear port also exist of this version. One of these has probably shown up somewhere with the wrong attribution, or perhaps as one of those "Megaplay" arcade games (which basically just put a coin slot on a Mega Drive). Capcom would eventually make their own Strider 2 for arcades in 1999 and port it to PSX in 2000, but it was a very different game - a 2.5D platformer where you again played as Hiryu from the first game. They've also completely disavowed the existence of Hinjo (he wasn't their creation, after all), and there's no reference to him at all in the 2014 reboot despite a large number of other Striders from the manga having dossiers as bonus features.
I have no idea what happened. I have not seen your channel in my recommendation in a month. I used to watch a lot of your stuff. But then a month ago TH-cam stopped showing it in my feed. Until this video, how strange. I thought you stopped posting videos, but it seems you have released a bunch of videos since then.
TH-cam does what YT does, and there's no reason to seek logic behind it. I too noticed that it stopped recommending my videos as my views were cut in four. Still, I like to make the videos, so I carry on, and hope all of you will somehow find them anyway. ;) A sub and a bell is probably the only foolproof way of being informed of new uploads.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames The good thing with this kind of videos is that they are ever green. In that they will find its audience sooner or later. Because the content is timeless. It is about old classic games and when we want to find more good old games, your content is there to fill that need. I have saved a lot of your stuff to my games playlist to check out again, when I finally get around to play some of those systems again, to look for more good recommendations to play. It is really good stuff.
@@cajampa Thank you for your kind words! :) Also, these have to be made, cause sooner or later (more likely later), most of these may disappear forever, and it would be good to have something about them left behind.
Hmmm... "Wings of Fury runs super-smooth" ??? I'm sorry, but in this video (and others) it has the jerkiest scrolling I've ever seen on the C64. I had a C64 back in the day! Super-smooth scrolling was its speciality, and many games demonstrated that. But I'm sorry, Wings of Fury is not one of them!
I played DuckTales: The Quest for Gold on my old DOS PC and couldn't find it since my childhood. Thanks for the video, my dude!
Oh, well, glad that I could help. It was pretty fun on all the machines it released on. :)
5:49 Planet Magenta's leader ran a printer ink scam.
I would've kidnapped him, too! And do much more to him than that!
Yeah, and the scam was that Magenta's always have 1/10 of the capacity the other colours do, and you have to replace them all anyway. xD
15:56 I think it's the first time I ever heard their name. Or forgot. I always remember them by their Polish name: B. Brothers (Bracia B).
I honestly don't remember their Polish names. I've drawing blanks here trying to recall them... xD
Had forgotten that Flimbo's Quest was such a looker😱
Yep, basically on all systems it came out on :)
Rick Dangerous 1 and 2 were evil - you could freely select levels, but to unlock the last level you needed to play all in succession. This meant that all levels could be relatively easily practiced (which was essential since this was a memory game before everything else) except for the last one where each attempt carried a price of having to perfectly beat all previous levels. OR cheat and use infinite lives poke, which was what all sane people eventually did. :)
1 had no level select. And the pooky highscore cheat doesn't work on pc for unlimited lives. Its a pretty hardcore memorization game as a result
8 bit Dark Souls? ;)
Yep, but so cute and you always somehow forget how punishing it was after a while, and come back to it happily jumping in, just to jump out an hour or so later frustrated that it kicked your ass once more. xD
Never known 🤯
Yay for more C64! :) Also, I had foreseen that this would be a good video. ;)
Golden Axe looks so different on C64, but it's a very good port otherwise, from the footage you have here. Those little guys you have to kick always seemed to me more like leprechauns, because they looked like they were rich and also came at night to cause mischief. You know, like real life leprechauns. :D
Now I remember why I had so much trouble with Duck Tales! I kept crashing the plane. XD Which is kind of in character with Launchpad, so... XD
It's too bad Back to the Future had such a weak tie-in game... It deserved much better.
Oh, and I must say, as a big fan of both Dorothy and Alice, it was actually Alice who got stuck in the land behind the mirror. :)
Leprechauns that live at the end of the rainbow? Have you seen some of those rainbow pictures taken from planes, where they're actually round circles? Where would they live there? Something's not right here...
Oh, I take you played Duck Tales on PC?
So it's Alice... What was Dorothy responsible for then? Or where she ended up? Don't know which of these is appropriate in her context. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Leprechauns live in Ireland in the forests. It's a common misconception that they live at the end of rainbows. They actually tell people that they keep their pots of gold at the end of rainbows and whoever can find the gold gets to keep it. But it's just a trick, since, the rainbow having no end, then there is no gold up for grabs. Sneaky leprechauns!
I got into the old Donald Duck comics by Carl Barks some years ago (and they are brilliant btw), so I found and played Duck Tales on the PC then. I kept crashing the plane. Came back to it recently and learned to land. :D
Dorothy has several books about her actually, but most people only know Wizard of Oz because of the film. There is one called Ozma of Oz where Dorothy (among other fantastical happenings) gets kidnapped by a lady who had a collection of dozens of heads and changed them like one would change socks and got the personality of that head when wearing it too. She wanted Dorothy's head for her collection. Great book btw. :)
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks Sneaky Leprechauns! We should really teach them a lesson for all the rainbow stuff... Reminds me of an episode of Sunny, when the gang caught one... Supposedly.
It's often the case, isn't it? That just one book gets recognition out of all of the series, and everyone just kinda ignores the rest. Happened with Dune too.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh, what did the Sunny gang do about the supposed leprechaun?
You're right, many series often get just a book that becomes popular. I'm still waiting for the rest of Asimov's robots.
Children of Dune was very good too. Maybe now that they remade the first film, they might continue with the rest of the series. :)
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks They kept him in the basement and tortured him to get him to spill where he keeps his pot of gold. But since they've committed plenty more other felonies in the episode, they've eventually let him go. It was never proven or disproved however, so we will never know. xD
21:04 Ah yes, the deadly ankle kick!
Yes, the one and only!
Golden Axe for C64 is one of the best 8bit conversions of the game it plays great but like the game generally it gets too samey after a while.
Rick Dangerous II is a classic & well known for the system but I haven’t played on C64. it’s great on other platforms & I don’t doubt the C64 can do it justice.
Strider II was a bit disappointing on 16bit systems, not bad as such, just not a great game but I’ve never played the C64. Sounds from what you said it’s the same though.
Wings of Fury is another I’ve never played on C64 but have on other systems but it looks great (for the system) from what you’ve shown.
Dynasty Wars is hard on the eyes & the graphics blend together in to a mess.
Look at Flimbo’s Quest compared to Dynasty Wars, it’s night & day. Sure the Amiga game is vastly superior graphically the dev’s made the best use of what the C64 could actually do & speaking of good looking for the system, Duck Tales! It’s a great game with great graphics & sounds & varied gameplay that feels bigger than it is & is highly recommended.
This is sacrilege for an 80’s-90’s British gamer but I’ve never played Magicland Dizzy. I’ve played most of the Dizzy games but not Magicland. I have shame now. 😄
I never played Back to the Future II because I assumed it would be a turd, like most licensed games back then & I was almost right!
King’s Bounty is a marvel for the system. It’s not my thing but I can appreciate what it achieved on limited hardware.
Nicely varied list. I have a ‘The C64’ modern emulation device with a full C64 keyboard & it’s a great way to go back to a system I didn’t get enough time with back in the day because I didn’t have one, so only got to experience it at a mate’s house, so a list like this makes good recommendations for what to play, thanks!
Yeah, but the samey-ness of GA is something it suffered from on all systems, arcade cabinet included. It's just the thing with those early beat'em ups. :)
Oh, Rick Dangerous, both of them actually, I like the most on C64.
Dynasty Wars is trash. Sadly, as I liked the arcade game.
Yep, both Flimbo's Quest and Duck Tales were amazing on most systems they came out on.
Don't be ashamed for not playing Magicland. It just happened, and personally I'd be fine never playing it. Not my thing. Dizzy games that is.
1:36 Lost both of her parents.
No Batman joke?
It's hard to joke about it when my personal Batman is gone since Christmas... And he did love C64 videos the most. xD Even if on YT they're my worst performing. xD
2:23 Well slashing them would count as killing innocent unarmeds, soooo...
I always feel like Rick Dangerous 2 might be the best game on c64
It's there, it's definitely there among those better ones. I suck at it, but it's a notable release. No doubt about that.
A great year for the Commodore 64 ☺
Yep, and there's still more to come. :)
There wasn't an arcade original for Strider II - the home computer versions are where it started. There was, however, a Genesis/Mega Drive remake (the levels are thematically similar but not the same design) released in 1992, also under the title of Strider Returns. This one had Hinjo (finally with a name) using shurikens instead of a gun, with orbs to absorb damage. A Master System and Game Gear port also exist of this version. One of these has probably shown up somewhere with the wrong attribution, or perhaps as one of those "Megaplay" arcade games (which basically just put a coin slot on a Mega Drive).
Capcom would eventually make their own Strider 2 for arcades in 1999 and port it to PSX in 2000, but it was a very different game - a 2.5D platformer where you again played as Hiryu from the first game. They've also completely disavowed the existence of Hinjo (he wasn't their creation, after all), and there's no reference to him at all in the 2014 reboot despite a large number of other Striders from the manga having dossiers as bonus features.
Holy moly, you're right! It was Genesis that was first. xD
3:12 Another day of "laundromat clerk lost my sh it"
:)
golden axe on c64 is just sad lol.
It's not bad, I'd say it's the best non-console 8bit port.
I have no idea what happened.
I have not seen your channel in my recommendation in a month.
I used to watch a lot of your stuff.
But then a month ago TH-cam stopped showing it in my feed.
Until this video, how strange.
I thought you stopped posting videos, but it seems you have released a bunch of videos since then.
TH-cam does what YT does, and there's no reason to seek logic behind it. I too noticed that it stopped recommending my videos as my views were cut in four. Still, I like to make the videos, so I carry on, and hope all of you will somehow find them anyway. ;)
A sub and a bell is probably the only foolproof way of being informed of new uploads.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames The good thing with this kind of videos is that they are ever green. In that they will find its audience sooner or later.
Because the content is timeless.
It is about old classic games and when we want to find more good old games, your content is there to fill that need.
I have saved a lot of your stuff to my games playlist to check out again, when I finally get around to play some of those systems again, to look for more good recommendations to play.
It is really good stuff.
@@cajampa Thank you for your kind words! :) Also, these have to be made, cause sooner or later (more likely later), most of these may disappear forever, and it would be good to have something about them left behind.
I too am bacon challenged
It may ki11 us slowly, but it's soooooo good. xD
9:51 Dong Zhuo (Zhuo is pronounced and almost spellef like Zło in Polish, meaning evil). A name fit for an evil tyrant: Evil Pe nis
Hey sus Chris, that tnb nl
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Hmmm... "Wings of Fury runs super-smooth" ??? I'm sorry, but in this video (and others) it has the jerkiest scrolling I've ever seen on the C64. I had a C64 back in the day! Super-smooth scrolling was its speciality, and many games demonstrated that. But I'm sorry, Wings of Fury is not one of them!