Missing Barbarian! The only game ever where you decapitate someone...then a green goblin comes on, literally kicks the head off the screen...gobs off at the dead body...and drags the body off with it...tight gameplay and great graphics made this one of the best games on the C64, and arguably one of the best ever.
It’s probably almost impossible for any of us to agree on a top 10, as we all had different, most likely, awesome experiences with it. For me, the Epyx series (California Games/Winter Games etc) felt so far ahead of their time. Defender of the Crown was also an excellent game, along with Rocket Ranger, Strip poker, Racing Destruction Set, Ultima, Alternate Reality, Mail Monsters, Montezuma’s Revenge, Project Space Station, Beachhead, Super Huey, and Leisure Suit Larry! I bought a Aprotek 1200 bps modem, to replace my 300 bps one, just to download a Kathy Ireland picture.. all 16 colors of that pure goodness. If you squinted just right, it was epic. Sporting dual 1541’s and a ram expander.... nothing beat hitting enter on LOAD “*”,8,1
You are correct. You hardly ever get everybody agreeing on any top 10 lists ie top 10 arcade conversions, top 10 fighting, top 10 race games, top 10 action adventure etc etc. The only thing people agree to is the Microprose Soccer and Emlyn Hughes were the best soccer games and as a shoot em up Armalyte is hard to beat.
The Epyx sports series were hard to beat! Unfortunately I remember them beating the 1541 heads mercilessly... Racing Destruction Set was quite ambitious... if only loading times could have been improved. Montezuma’s Revenge! Perfect play mechanics, no disk access in-game... Many hours spent in bliss. 😎 Raid Over Moscow! Grand Prix Circuit! Snappy loading music! Decent physics! F-14 Tomcat!
@@totophi grand prix circuit, awesome game. They did very well with that one. Montezumas revenge i played alot more on the apple 2e - on the school computers after school wholst probably telling my folks i was staying back late to study !!! Probably pretty much the same as the c=64 version.
It’s incredible the creativity of the programmers - you had to make entire game fit into 64k bits at a time. I think one of the best games on there - Lode Runner
Can't agree with anything on this list. Dude has #10 as Ghostbusters which is one of the worst games ever created. Hilariously shitty list. This must be a list of the top 10 worst games on the Commodore 64.
The last ninja needed a Playstation controller. There were too many moves for just a stick and one button. The controls really sucked, and made me hate that game.
@jeeperscreepers8902 DIAGONAL games always suffer control issues. The digital joysticks of the day worked best with four directions (left, right, up, down). Not diagonal .
@jeeperscreepers8902 ATARI 5200 had an analog joystick, but it made games like Pacman nearly unplayable. The N64 and PS1 eventually solved the problem by having BOTH digital pads & analog sticks. The player could choose which control worked best
I was amazed with international karate when I first played it. loved the physics of the fighting, the variation of strikes and the fact that you could knock your opponent onto their back, front or ass. it was also quite a realistic interpretation of karate based "point fighting".
Giana was good but I prefer platformers with a little more originality. Since Giana was essentially a ripoff of SMB, I never really got into it like I got into games like Creatures or even Impossible Mission for that matter.
@@cenkhanevcil1974 last ninja 1 is also a great game. For me not quiet as good as 2 but still unbelievably fun, interesting, and a classic. I think 2 beats it in terms of playability and slightly better graphics.
How awesome ist that? Thank you so much for showing clips of wunderful games of my childhood, Pirates! IK+, Last Ninja 2, Gauntlet, Paradroid, Ultima IV!!! And so on. Goosebumps!!!! ❤
I remember highly playable 'Microprose soccer', one international version incl. national teams and even anthems and one indoor version, with some American cities like: Kansas, Wichita or Tacoma :) Spent hours playing Football Manager 2. There were also adventures of Dizzy. For those racing oriented 'Slicks' was also an option.
My personal list (as far as I can recall and not in any order) - 3 Ace Fly Combat - Kennedy Approach - Blue Max - Summer Games - Defender of the Crown - Pirates - From Rags to Riches - Wizard of War - Archon 1 & 2 - M.U.L.E. - One on One - Elite - Space Taxi - Raid over Moscow - Kaiser - Rocket Ball - Choplifter
Winter Games, Green Beret, Saboteur, Defender of the Crown, Target Renegade, Masters of the Universe, Buggy Boy, Last Ninja and Cauldron 1& 2 are my top 10 games.
Definitely a solid list. Some I enjoyed in no particular order: 1. Sword of Fargoal 2. Gateway to Apshai 3. Ultima 3 4. Racing Destruction Set 5. Commando 6. Spy Hunter 7. Raid on Bungeling Bay 8. Commando 9. Impossible MIssion 10. Seven Cities of Gold 11. M.U.L.E. 12. Silent Service We probably had 600+ games on that thing, it was _glorious_ for a kid growing up.
Wow....bringing back some good memories there. Can remember the first time playing the c64 the game was “highnoon” and was blown away with the graphics.
I like Sanxion too... Liked seeing Uridium up there! I also remember Beach Head and Raid Over Moscow being mind-blowing as a kid when the C64 first came out.
Interesting list....several of these I never played while others I owned but wasn't as big a fan of as you. Some C64 games I loved but may not have the names for since I'm going off memory are: - Archon. I feel like this game deserved to continue on as a franchise over time. A really cool take on chess and battle chess that incorporates action. - Jumpman JR - Caveman Uglympics - A summer games style game done in a fantastic comedy theme - Oil Rig or something like that. Think snake meets pacman where you collect pellets from a central rig. Simple game concept. Super fun to play.
I fully expected Impossible Mission to be there with the digitized voice. C64 with voice was incredible at its time. The biggest one that should have been on the list was Jumpman JR. It was the most simplistic and early game that never made it to the arcade. Everyone loved it. It came after Donkey Kong, but as far as I know was a game created for the C=64 only.
I loved: SALAMANDER, Bruce Lee, Ace 2, Match Day 2, Head Over Heels, Parallax, Mikie, Hyper Sports, Castle Master, Dizzy series, WWF Wrestlemania, Bart vs Space Mutants, Friday the 13th, Rainbow Islands, Mr Angry, Kick Start, Night Racer, Scumball, F16 Combat Pilot, Knightmare, Wizball, Terra Cresta, Super Trux, Operation Wolf, Summer Camp, Rick Dangerous, Frightmare, Gremlins 2, Back to the Future 2 and many more.
Many Years i have C64...in Time from 1986 to 2000. My favorite games was : Paradroid (play every day), the Simulations "Gunship" and " Silent Service". Pit Stop 2 played, and the Western Shooter "West Bank"....by this was the Music GREAT ! German : Von 1986 bis 2000 hatte ich zwei C64 mit 2 Diskettenlaufwerken (1541) ...und 3 Diskettenboxen mit ca 300 Disketten. Paradoid habe ich mehrfach täglich gespielt und mein Rekord lag bei 1,5 Std Spieldauer, 7. Raumschiff und so 300.000 Punkten. Die Simulationen "Gunship" (Kampfhubschrauber Apache) und "Silent Service" (U-Boot) spielte ich sehr häufig und hatte da sogar Orignale ;-) Damals habe ich auch viel C64 MUSIK gesammelt und sehr viel gehört :-) Sogar auf Audio Kassetten aufgenommen... Als "kreativer Mensch" habe ich auch viel mit "Amica Paint" (Zeichen PRG mit den 16 Farben) gearbeitet und hatte mir ein sehr teueres "Video Digitalisierungs Modul" gekauft mit dem man Video / TV Signale "als Bild in 4 Graunstufen" in den C64 laden konnte. Grüße (Gretings) Tanialassie
Paradroid is probably my favourite on the C64. It looks good (simplicity), has a cool atmosphere (simplicity) and the tactical nature of the game made it more than 'just shoot all the robots to win'.
Pitstop was my favorite. at the race start, i moved over and dragged my tire against the computer drivers wheel until he got a flat. Sure, my tire was also worn, but still okay. I would go full speed to the finish line because it would take the computer driver so long to fix his tire. Drive Offensively!!
I really loved Elite, Mercenary, Booty, Bruce Lee, Shadowfire, Enigma Force, Beach Head 2, Raid over Moscow, Cauldron and probably more I have long since forgotten sadly.
Some of these were good, but my favourites you didn’t mention. “Wizard of Wor” was my top favourite. The others were “Lazarian”, “California Games”, “Skate or die”, “720”, “Minor 2049er”, “Head over Heels”, “Jumpman”, “Altered Beast”, “Robocop.”
Man, I had so many faves. The Last Ninja I, and II. Test Drive, Below the Root, Bubble Ghost, the Ultima series, Ghosts 'n' Goblins, the Zork series, Silent Service, Gunship, Spindizzy, PHM Pegasus, Airborne Ranger, et al. So many.
The whole International Karate series was awesome. For me, Defender of the Crown makes the main list for sure. My list would also have had Silent Service, Gunship (that game took 45 minutes to load off a tape for me.. but holy crap it was advanced for its time), Micropose Soccer, Paper Boy, and Test Drive. Just off the top of my head.
M.U.L.E., Wizball, Archon, Test Drive 1 & 2, Grand Prix Circuit, Beachhead, Raid over Bungling Bay, Raid over Moscow, California Games, Jumpman Jr., Temple of Apshai, Sword of Fargoal, Mail order Monsters, Leaderboard Golf, Street Surfer, Bruce Lee, the list goes on and on.
Wow! Mayhem in monster land looks unbelievable for an 8 bit system.It wouldn't look out of place being run on the 16 bit S.N.E.S. Hats off to whoever programmed that game, i hope they received the accolades they deserved for it back in the day because the graphics are the best i have seen on the C64.
@grahamtaylor8912 AND YES mayhem would look very primitive compared to Mario World or Sonic on actual 16-bit consoles (Super NES, Genesys) or computers (Commodore Amiga) .
Personal favorites: Yie Ar Kung-Fu, R-Type, Green Berret, Paradroid, Mario Bros, Bubble Bobble, Power Drift, Commando, Ikari Warriors, Skate or Die... There are too many to choose from anyway!
These topics are always down to personal Preference. Bubble Bobble & Impossible Mission deserve their place. But where are Head over Heels, Creatures 2, Turrican 2, Rainbow Islands, Midnight Resistance, Barbarian, Wizball…….The list is endless. The best 8 bit home computer EVER.
Pfft fond memories... all i remember is that tape deck which took hours to load a game with what seemed like a 50/50 chance to actually work and those seizure inducing loading screens for hours on end, god bless progress!
Those are all great games. Armalyte (Thalamus, 1988) for me was the greatest shootemup ever released on the C64. Wizball was such a quirky, inventive game. International Karate copied from Way of The Exploding Fist which was released in 1985. Elite is worthy of a mention although it was orignally made for the BBC/Acorn computers. It changed the face of gaming, a work of genius by David Braben & Ian Bell imo.
Great games! Especially Maniac Mansion and Defender of the Crown. I also liked Turrican, Platoon, Operation Wolf, Galifornia Games, Lemmings, Commando, Rambo, Green Baret, Pang! Choplifter, Blue Max and Battle Chess.
Impossible Mission was very good, whenever my mum used to watch me play whenever I was facing those objects for clues she thought he was taking a leak 🤣
Wouldn't like to add up how many hours I spent playing: Spy Hunter Raid Over Moscow Way of the Exploding Fist Rambo ... anyone else break a joystick on Daley Thomson's Decathlon??
Yes indeed! My parents confiscated the game as I broke a couple playing Daley Thomson and Summer Games I think.... Loved Rambo as well....I seem to remember the music was really great. Good times
That was a fine list. The only one I never played was Mayhem in Monsterland. On hours spent I'd include Decathlon, Giana Sisters and Green Beret (which was insanely hard). Many great games.
Who else played Impossible Mission, & thought it was funny when he searched the toilet. It looked like he was going to the bathroom!😁👍 Hello from Phoenix Arizona!🔥
We had a Commodore 64 that was given to us by my aunt and uncle in the later 1980s after they upgraded. We had Word Wizard, Pit Stop, and my favorite, Dream House!
Winter Games was a bit shit compared to the Summer Games series. Oh, an yes, I remember the woman from Barbarian. She was a well known topless model at the time - Maria Whittaker
@@lucaschapman2188 - Hotdog event - boring AF. Figure skating and free skating - essentially the same event. Boring. Biathlon - tedious. A couple of the events were OK, I suppose.
Never played Summer Games . I’ve seen clips on you tube . Looks pretty shite tbh . Bialthon was the Dogs 🐕 bollox . The ice skating was quite skillfull probably doesn’t come Over on You tube.
Paradroid, Rescue on Fractulus, Wizball, Elite, Turrican, Bubble Bobble, Koronis Rift, Forbidden Forest, Buggy Boy and The Sentinel would keep me happy for many a long day.
Miss a lot of C64-Jewels. Elite, California Games, Barbarian, ZakMcKracken. Played days. First with a Datasette (took hours to load). Later with a Floppy (this was fast, for the 80s). Today, longer then a minute is a NoGo.
Oh there were so many great games that deserved to be in a top ten list Ace of Aces Football Director Grand Prix Circuit Test Drive Law of the West The Train Track and Field California Games F-14
John Creasy01 : I had the fortune of discovering that the slow-loading F-14 Tomcat could be loaded from CMD RAMLink, switching sides via Super Snapshot!
Loved Boulder Dash (I and II) and Impossible Mission. Missing here are a few simple but addictive platformers like Mario Bros. and Ardy the Aardvark, and of course the wonderful Castles of Dr. Creep
@@aiddogg3 Yes it was. SUPER MARIO was not on C64, but the original Mario Bros was. In fact it got TWO official port, idiot. One from Atarisoft and another from Ocean. SMH
I loved Countdown to Shutdown and the Way of the Exploding Fist, PHM Pegasus as well. I was lucky, I went straight to the floppy drive when I got my C64
I'm seriously missing Zak McKracken and Commando. Other then that, great list. Some honorable mentions: Space Taxi, Blue Max, Bruce Lee & Ghosts'n Goblins
My all time favorite game was Super Cycle. I didn't play most of the games mentioned here except Uridium and Impossible Mission WHICH I COMPLETED! It was long and quite tough. I also played Temple of Apshai Trilogy a lot.
Some brilliant memories in that video. We may immortalise some of those in our journey of Tees soon. Check out the journey so far as we continue #KeepingTheGameAlive
MULE is my favorite game of all time and its not even close. I do like gauntlet defender of the crown and bubble bobble all great games. Gauntlet is my favorite arcade game of all time and i used to play bubble bobble at the arcades too.
I remember having to pay the C64 on a black and white television when we first got it. One of the first games we got was Pit Stop II. So confusing when you can't see the color on the tires. 🤣🤣
I would love to share my memories of the C-64, but my finances ran only to the ZX-Speccy. There was one boy in our class who had a C-64 (the rich kid) and he couldn't "borrow" anyone's games. I would have loved a C-64, though. Great machine with a 64k memory and it looked beautiful. Oh, that keyboard! In my school-boy dreams!
Creatures, Rick Dangerous 2, Terry's big adventure, Blue Max, Leaderboard Golf, Wasteland, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, Samurai Warrior, Pool of Radiance and Myth.
🖥⌨🐸+++I 🐸WOULD PUT "BOULDERDASH"AT NUMBER 4 AS WHEN I🐸HAD MY COMMODORE 64 💻💻I SPENT MANY ENJOYABLE HOURS PLAYING THAT GAME+++🤩+++I 🐸USED 2 SELL THE COMMODORE 64 ⌨AS WELL+++YES BE4 I RETIRED 🐸I USED 2 SELL THE COMMODORE 64+++IT WAS 🤩A GOOD JOB+++I 😁LIKED IT+++
Apache AH64 - Kickstart - Jumpman series - Zork series - Impossible Mission - Grand Prix Circuit - this was my late teen years. I had a TON of games but I played these the most
Missing Barbarian! The only game ever where you decapitate someone...then a green goblin comes on, literally kicks the head off the screen...gobs off at the dead body...and drags the body off with it...tight gameplay and great graphics made this one of the best games on the C64, and arguably one of the best ever.
Raid over Bungling Bay, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, Karateka, Bop N Rumble, Beachhead, Raid Over Moscow...
Bungling Bay was one of the best games IMO I played that for hours and hours as a kid
Nothing beat the music... Especially stayn up all night playing. I miss these graphics. I just miss these times.
It’s probably almost impossible for any of us to agree on a top 10, as we all had different, most likely, awesome experiences with it. For me, the Epyx series (California Games/Winter Games etc) felt so far ahead of their time. Defender of the Crown was also an excellent game, along with Rocket Ranger, Strip poker, Racing Destruction Set, Ultima, Alternate Reality, Mail Monsters, Montezuma’s Revenge, Project Space Station, Beachhead, Super Huey, and Leisure Suit Larry! I bought a Aprotek 1200 bps modem, to replace my 300 bps one, just to download a Kathy Ireland picture.. all 16 colors of that pure goodness. If you squinted just right, it was epic.
Sporting dual 1541’s and a ram expander.... nothing beat hitting enter on LOAD “*”,8,1
I agree, Epyx Destroyer, now there we had a game ahead of its time. Hard but fun.
You are correct. You hardly ever get everybody agreeing on any top 10 lists ie top 10 arcade conversions, top 10 fighting, top 10 race games, top 10 action adventure etc etc. The only thing people agree to is the Microprose Soccer and Emlyn Hughes were the best soccer games and as a shoot em up Armalyte is hard to beat.
The Epyx sports series were hard to beat! Unfortunately I remember them beating the 1541 heads mercilessly...
Racing Destruction Set was quite ambitious... if only loading times could have been improved.
Montezuma’s Revenge! Perfect play mechanics, no disk access in-game... Many hours spent in bliss. 😎
Raid Over Moscow!
Grand Prix Circuit! Snappy loading music! Decent physics!
F-14 Tomcat!
@@totophi grand prix circuit, awesome game. They did very well with that one. Montezumas revenge i played alot more on the apple 2e - on the school computers after school wholst probably telling my folks i was staying back late to study !!! Probably pretty much the same as the c=64 version.
Defender of the Crown! Yes!
It’s incredible the creativity of the programmers - you had to make entire game fit into 64k bits at a time. I think one of the best games on there - Lode Runner
bytes not bits! Also, you could have bank-switched cartridges holding up to 256^16,384 bytes!
@ecernosoft3096 MOST games came loaded on disks. So the practical limit was 170 kilobytes times multiple disks
Impossible Mission --- my all-time favorite!! 😍
Legend of Blacksilver, Ultima IV, Pool of Radiance and Gunship. Games for the brain, not for the wrist, was my cup of tea!
International Karate really looks interesting. The sprites move so naturally, and the background was impressive, for The Commodore 64.
One of the best games back in the day yea, really responsive action.
Used to play my buddy for hours. Excellent gameplay for any period
Plays like a king also today
IK+ . Whole other ballpark, great little fighting game. The satisfaction of doing a jumping split kick and taking out both opponents simultaneously…
Can't agree with anything on this list. Dude has #10 as Ghostbusters which is one of the worst games ever created. Hilariously shitty list. This must be a list of the top 10 worst games on the Commodore 64.
Ghostbusters was ahead of its time. Loved that game.
Typing Daniel45321 as your name at the beginning you would get a bunch of money to buy the best equipment
@masteric123 IT looks lame on the screen. What was so great about it?
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The last ninja 1 and 2 were incredible games for their time. I spent hours playing them. No mention of outrun..that was also decent on the C64.
The last ninja needed a Playstation controller. There were too many moves for just a stick and one button. The controls really sucked, and made me hate that game.
@@jeeperscreepers8902
Is keyboard an option?
@jeeperscreepers8902 DIAGONAL games always suffer control issues. The digital joysticks of the day worked best with four directions (left, right, up, down). Not diagonal
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@jeeperscreepers8902 ATARI 5200 had an analog joystick, but it made games like Pacman nearly unplayable. The N64 and PS1 eventually solved the problem by having BOTH digital pads & analog sticks. The player could choose which control worked best
I was amazed with international karate when I first played it. loved the physics of the fighting, the variation of strikes and the fact that you could knock your opponent onto their back, front or ass. it was also quite a realistic interpretation of karate based "point fighting".
Great list. The C=64 was such an awesome machine!
The Great Giana Sisters was one of my favs. Lots of hours spent on that.
Who would know that someone in 2019 will create a real Mario on C64
1. The Great Giana Sisters
2. Raid Over Moscow
3. Summer and Winter Games
4. Target Renegade
5. Forbidden Forest
Giana was good but I prefer platformers with a little more originality. Since Giana was essentially a ripoff of SMB, I never really got into it like I got into games like Creatures or even Impossible Mission for that matter.
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The Beach-Head games were awesome too, especially the first one.
it was a rip off of mario bros
Last Ninja 2 was and is still one of the greatest games of all time. Pushed the c64 to its very limits.
Last Ninja 1 ofcourse 😊
@@cenkhanevcil1974 last ninja 1 is also a great game. For me not quiet as good as 2 but still unbelievably fun, interesting, and a classic. I think 2 beats it in terms of playability and slightly better graphics.
@@MegaasAlexandros yeah
I remember Bruce Lee on the c64 aswell I think that was the very first game I played on any computer
Bruce Lee should've been on this list!
Did it crash for u? I loved that game.
@@aratneerg1375 I dont remember it crashing on me I must of been lucky lol
How awesome ist that? Thank you so much for showing clips of wunderful games of my childhood, Pirates! IK+, Last Ninja 2, Gauntlet, Paradroid, Ultima IV!!! And so on. Goosebumps!!!! ❤
International Karate was incredible I used to play that all the time. International Soccer was also great - I had that one on a cartridge.
I remember highly playable 'Microprose soccer', one international version incl. national teams and even anthems and one indoor version, with some American cities like: Kansas, Wichita or Tacoma :)
Spent hours playing Football Manager 2.
There were also adventures of Dizzy.
For those racing oriented 'Slicks' was also an option.
Incredible banana shots, lol it was epic
Could only score one way on Microprose Soccer, loved Emlyn Hughes' International Soccer more also Rockstar ate my Hamster!!
Yes to Micropose soccer and Emlyn Hughes! Those were great games! Also glad someone else has mentioned Dizzy! I loved those games!
My personal list (as far as I can recall and not in any order)
- 3 Ace Fly Combat
- Kennedy Approach
- Blue Max
- Summer Games
- Defender of the Crown
- Pirates
- From Rags to Riches
- Wizard of War
- Archon 1 & 2
- M.U.L.E.
- One on One
- Elite
- Space Taxi
- Raid over Moscow
- Kaiser
- Rocket Ball
- Choplifter
Green Beret,Navy moves,Army moves,Who dares wins,Rick Dangerous 2,Fire Ant and many many more....
Defender of the crown was one of my favourite games back then. It was such a complete game.
Crap, meant to list that in another comment. In my top five for sure. Pirates as well. So many memories.
Winter Games, Green Beret, Saboteur, Defender of the Crown, Target Renegade, Masters of the Universe, Buggy Boy, Last Ninja and Cauldron 1& 2 are my top 10 games.
Definitely a solid list. Some I enjoyed in no particular order:
1. Sword of Fargoal
2. Gateway to Apshai
3. Ultima 3
4. Racing Destruction Set
5. Commando
6. Spy Hunter
7. Raid on Bungeling Bay
8. Commando
9. Impossible MIssion
10. Seven Cities of Gold
11. M.U.L.E.
12. Silent Service
We probably had 600+ games on that thing, it was _glorious_ for a kid growing up.
Wow....bringing back some good memories there. Can remember the first time playing the c64 the game was “highnoon” and was blown away with the graphics.
Blow away by the graphics? Tell me more.
I like Sanxion too... Liked seeing Uridium up there! I also remember Beach Head and Raid Over Moscow being mind-blowing as a kid when the C64 first came out.
My favourites... Law of the West, Bruce Lee, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Friday the 13th, Ghostbusters and Strip Poker.
Boulder Dash was my favorite childhood game. I was 15 when I saw this game first and I was in love with it. :) But I doubt about the other games.
🖥⌨🐸I AGREE+++GO BOULDER DASH+++🖥+++IT WAS A "GREAT" GAME+++😁+++
Interesting list....several of these I never played while others I owned but wasn't as big a fan of as you. Some C64 games I loved but may not have the names for since I'm going off memory are:
- Archon. I feel like this game deserved to continue on as a franchise over time. A really cool take on chess and battle chess that incorporates action.
- Jumpman JR
- Caveman Uglympics - A summer games style game done in a fantastic comedy theme
- Oil Rig or something like that. Think snake meets pacman where you collect pellets from a central rig. Simple game concept. Super fun to play.
Archon. Simply one of the top 3 games every made
Archon must be top 3
Airborne Ranger, Microprose Soccer and Turrican 2, oh and Wonderboy....were amazing for me.
Still have the C64 in the attic.
I fully expected Impossible Mission to be there with the digitized voice. C64 with voice was incredible at its time. The biggest one that should have been on the list was Jumpman JR. It was the most simplistic and early game that never made it to the arcade. Everyone loved it. It came after Donkey Kong, but as far as I know was a game created for the C=64 only.
Holy, I'm so messed up, I even remember the Boulder Dash levels. Even the moves in places. In detail! :D
Definitely belonged on this list
When I was a kid with a Commodore 64, Spyhunter and Montezuma's Revenge were what we mostly played.
Maniac Mansion was awesome! 🤩
Pirates: countless hours playing it! 👍
Impossible Mission: both were awesome!
Defender Of The Crown: countless hours!
I loved: SALAMANDER, Bruce Lee, Ace 2, Match Day 2, Head Over Heels, Parallax, Mikie, Hyper Sports, Castle Master, Dizzy series, WWF Wrestlemania, Bart vs Space Mutants, Friday the 13th, Rainbow Islands, Mr Angry, Kick Start, Night Racer, Scumball, F16 Combat Pilot, Knightmare, Wizball, Terra Cresta, Super Trux, Operation Wolf, Summer Camp, Rick Dangerous, Frightmare, Gremlins 2, Back to the Future 2 and many more.
Many Years i have C64...in Time from 1986 to 2000.
My favorite games was : Paradroid (play every day), the Simulations "Gunship" and " Silent Service".
Pit Stop 2 played, and the Western Shooter "West Bank"....by this was the Music GREAT !
German :
Von 1986 bis 2000 hatte ich zwei C64 mit 2 Diskettenlaufwerken (1541) ...und 3 Diskettenboxen mit ca 300 Disketten.
Paradoid habe ich mehrfach täglich gespielt und mein Rekord lag bei 1,5 Std Spieldauer, 7. Raumschiff und so 300.000 Punkten.
Die Simulationen "Gunship" (Kampfhubschrauber Apache) und "Silent Service" (U-Boot) spielte ich sehr häufig und hatte da sogar Orignale ;-)
Damals habe ich auch viel C64 MUSIK gesammelt und sehr viel gehört :-)
Sogar auf Audio Kassetten aufgenommen...
Als "kreativer Mensch" habe ich auch viel mit "Amica Paint" (Zeichen PRG mit den 16 Farben) gearbeitet und hatte mir ein sehr teueres "Video Digitalisierungs Modul" gekauft mit dem man Video / TV Signale "als Bild in 4 Graunstufen" in den C64 laden konnte.
Grüße (Gretings) Tanialassie
Paradroid is probably my favourite on the C64. It looks good (simplicity), has a cool atmosphere (simplicity) and the tactical nature of the game made it more than 'just shoot all the robots to win'.
Pitstop was my favorite. at the race start, i moved over and dragged my tire against the computer drivers wheel until he got a flat. Sure, my tire was also worn, but still okay. I would go full speed to the finish line because it would take the computer driver so long to fix his tire. Drive Offensively!!
I remember having some of these games back in the mid 1980’s as a kid. ;)
I really loved Elite, Mercenary, Booty, Bruce Lee, Shadowfire, Enigma Force, Beach Head 2, Raid over Moscow, Cauldron and probably more I have long since forgotten sadly.
I still have some C64 games. Got some of them. I never did get inside the castle on "Pawn". Pit Stop 2 was my favorite!
Slicks, Creatures, Turrican 2, IK+, Armalyte, Snare, CJ's Elephant antics, Rick Dangerous 2, Last Ninja Remix and Silkworm. That'll do.
Rick Dangerous 2 was great game on C-64,I miss 80's
Some of these were good, but my favourites you didn’t mention. “Wizard of Wor” was my top favourite. The others were “Lazarian”, “California Games”, “Skate or die”, “720”, “Minor 2049er”, “Head over Heels”, “Jumpman”, “Altered Beast”, “Robocop.”
Man, I had so many faves. The Last Ninja I, and II. Test Drive, Below the Root, Bubble Ghost, the Ultima series, Ghosts 'n' Goblins, the Zork series, Silent Service, Gunship, Spindizzy, PHM Pegasus, Airborne Ranger, et al. So many.
Pirates, Defender of the Crown, Law of the West...
The whole International Karate series was awesome. For me, Defender of the Crown makes the main list for sure. My list would also have had Silent Service, Gunship (that game took 45 minutes to load off a tape for me.. but holy crap it was advanced for its time), Micropose Soccer, Paper Boy, and Test Drive. Just off the top of my head.
Wow I’m surprised Montezuma’s Revenge and GI Joe didn’t make the list! Such great memories!
M.U.L.E., Wizball, Archon, Test Drive 1 & 2, Grand Prix Circuit, Beachhead, Raid over Bungling Bay, Raid over Moscow, California Games, Jumpman Jr., Temple of Apshai, Sword of Fargoal, Mail order Monsters, Leaderboard Golf, Street Surfer, Bruce Lee, the list goes on and on.
Wow! Mayhem in monster land looks unbelievable for an 8 bit system.It wouldn't look out of place being run on the 16 bit S.N.E.S. Hats off to whoever programmed that game, i hope they received the accolades they deserved for it back in the day because the graphics are the best i have seen on the C64.
Yeah it got a lot of praise when it was released.
@Lookoutmedia353 THE 8 bit Nintendo or Sega could recreate Mayhem with careful programming. (See Sonic on the Master system for example.)
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@grahamtaylor8912 AND YES mayhem would look very primitive compared to Mario World or Sonic on actual 16-bit consoles (Super NES, Genesys) or computers (Commodore Amiga)
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Those games look very different. Looks like they could be fun. Thank you for the video.
Personal favorites: Yie Ar Kung-Fu, R-Type, Green Berret, Paradroid, Mario Bros, Bubble Bobble, Power Drift, Commando, Ikari Warriors, Skate or Die... There are too many to choose from anyway!
Just not the North American version of Ikari Warriors. That sucked. LOL
These topics are always down to personal Preference. Bubble Bobble & Impossible Mission deserve their place. But where are Head over Heels, Creatures 2, Turrican 2, Rainbow Islands, Midnight Resistance, Barbarian, Wizball…….The list is endless. The best 8 bit home computer EVER.
Why do retro games give me the warm fuzzies?
My first pc. Great memories!
Pfft fond memories... all i remember is that tape deck which took hours to load a game with what seemed like a 50/50 chance to actually work and those seizure inducing loading screens for hours on end, god bless progress!
yeah monopoly took over an hour to load. hope the power didn't go out in your neighborhood either.
Ghostbusters was so good. Great soundtrack too.
Ace. My mate was the weaponsman. Can't imagine the hours we spent.
Attack, and Revenge, of the Mutant Camels were my absolute faves!
Yes, Jeff Minter rules!
I missed Archon, Operation wolf, Giana Sisters, Bruce Lee, Supremacy, IO. C64 had a lot legendary games! ❤️
For me, Barbarian and Barbarian 2 are classics to.
I would also add my beloved Barbarian
There's nothing better for 9yo than to cut someones head off.
glad to see LN2 made it to the top highlighting the incredible soundtrack as well
Nice, I used to play a lot of these games on the pc. So even though I wasnt there to play them on the commodore, I do have fond memories of them.
Super Bowl Sunday and Track n Field were my favs
Andrew Braybrook's Uridium was seriously addictive and frustrating at the same turn.
Those are all great games. Armalyte (Thalamus, 1988) for me was the greatest shootemup ever released on the C64. Wizball was such a quirky, inventive game. International Karate copied from Way of The Exploding Fist which was released in 1985. Elite is worthy of a mention although it was orignally made for the BBC/Acorn computers. It changed the face of gaming, a work of genius by David Braben & Ian Bell imo.
Great games! Especially Maniac Mansion and Defender of the Crown. I also liked Turrican, Platoon, Operation Wolf, Galifornia Games, Lemmings, Commando, Rambo, Green Baret, Pang! Choplifter, Blue Max and Battle Chess.
We played 10, 8, 5 and 2 when we were growing up and had a C64. The rest of these are familiar at best.
Who remembers raid over moscow and its biggest nightmare for 80's gamers with its thousands of attempts to get the fighter out of the hangar?
Ghostbusters blew. Boulder dash was amazing. Pirates was fun. Impossible mission yeah I’ll never forget that game. Glad they mentioned Ultima.
Ghostbusters was good for the time, it just aged rather poorly. Keep in mind, it did come out in 1984
@@scottbreon9448 And it's still the best ghostbusters game made to date. Which says a lot.
Impossible Mission was very good, whenever my mum used to watch me play whenever I was facing those objects for clues she thought he was taking a leak 🤣
Wouldn't like to add up how many hours I spent playing:
Spy Hunter
Raid Over Moscow
Way of the Exploding Fist
Rambo
... anyone else break a joystick on Daley Thomson's Decathlon??
Yes indeed! My parents confiscated the game as I broke a couple playing Daley Thomson and Summer Games I think....
Loved Rambo as well....I seem to remember the music was really great.
Good times
That was a fine list. The only one I never played was Mayhem in Monsterland. On hours spent I'd include Decathlon, Giana Sisters and Green Beret (which was insanely hard). Many great games.
You have failed in your mission. We won't ask for you again.
Almost no-one played Mayhem in Monsterland. It was released just as the system was dying off.
@@gibbonduder182i did and loved it, but never got that far ;)
Summer Games was my favorite. Also great was Zorro and Pure Stat Baseball
I've never seen it before, but that Ninja game has phenomenal graphics and animations for a C=64 game, wow!
Who else played Impossible Mission, & thought it was funny when he searched the toilet. It looked like he was going to the bathroom!😁👍
Hello from Phoenix Arizona!🔥
We had a Commodore 64 that was given to us by my aunt and uncle in the later 1980s after they upgraded. We had Word Wizard, Pit Stop, and my favorite, Dream House!
Knight games ,Winter games and Emlyn Hughes soccer were my personal favourites! That Woman on the Box that Barbarian came in Wow !!
Winter Games was a bit shit compared to the Summer Games series. Oh, an yes, I remember the woman from Barbarian. She was a well known topless model at the time - Maria Whittaker
@@capitalb5889 winter games was 100 percent better than summer
@@lucaschapman2188 - Hotdog event - boring AF. Figure skating and free skating - essentially the same event. Boring. Biathlon - tedious.
A couple of the events were OK, I suppose.
Never played Summer Games . I’ve seen clips on you tube . Looks pretty shite tbh . Bialthon was the Dogs 🐕 bollox . The ice skating was quite skillfull probably doesn’t come Over on You tube.
Paradroid, Rescue on Fractulus, Wizball, Elite, Turrican, Bubble Bobble, Koronis Rift, Forbidden Forest, Buggy Boy and The Sentinel would keep me happy for many a long day.
Miss a lot of C64-Jewels. Elite, California Games, Barbarian, ZakMcKracken. Played days. First with a Datasette (took hours to load). Later with a Floppy (this was fast, for the 80s). Today, longer then a minute is a NoGo.
Flimbo's Quest, Tiger Mission, Super Cars, Cloud Kingdom... also great games!
Oh there were so many great games that deserved to be in a top ten list
Ace of Aces
Football Director
Grand Prix Circuit
Test Drive
Law of the West
The Train
Track and Field
California Games
F-14
John Creasy01 : I had the fortune of discovering that the slow-loading F-14 Tomcat could be loaded from CMD RAMLink, switching sides via Super Snapshot!
Loved Boulder Dash (I and II) and Impossible Mission. Missing here are a few simple but addictive platformers like Mario Bros. and Ardy the Aardvark, and of course the wonderful Castles of Dr. Creep
Henry's House
mario was not on commodore 64
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@@aiddogg3 Yes it was. SUPER MARIO was not on C64, but the original Mario Bros was. In fact it got TWO official port, idiot.
One from Atarisoft and another from Ocean. SMH
Yes OK sorry I forgot
I loved Countdown to Shutdown and the Way of the Exploding Fist, PHM Pegasus as well. I was lucky, I went straight to the floppy drive when I got my C64
Leader board golf was my favorite along with 'Where in the world is carmen sandiego'
1942 Wonderboy Paperboy Gyros
Bluemax Raid over Moscow International Karate.... Falken patrol.. and many many more what a wonderful time in my life
Falcon, not Falken
It's Gyruss, not Gyros
I'm seriously missing Zak McKracken and Commando.
Other then that, great list.
Some honorable mentions: Space Taxi, Blue Max, Bruce Lee & Ghosts'n Goblins
Maniac mansion should be #1. It still holds up today for gameplay and humor and has so many different ways to win the game. High replay value.
I can't even count the hours i've spent on Uridium alone... What an amazing trip down the memory lane...
Did you make it to the end? Epic!
@@koenmortelvande1181 Oh yes, many times! B-)
My all time favorite game was Super Cycle. I didn't play most of the games mentioned here except Uridium and Impossible Mission WHICH I COMPLETED! It was long and quite tough.
I also played Temple of Apshai Trilogy a lot.
Pitstop II - one of the first C64 games I ever played... I never understood how it could be so good and Chase HQ could be so bad...
No C64 game list is complete without at least one Bruce Carver game, the man that gave us Beach Head II and Raid Over Moscow.
As a kid, my faves were Pirates, Boulder Dash, Heart of Africa, Frogger, Winter Games and Summer Games lol
Some brilliant memories in that video. We may immortalise some of those in our journey of Tees soon. Check out the journey so far as we continue #KeepingTheGameAlive
Game of the year JUMPMAN and then Jumpman Junior. Raid over Moscow rocked and that baseball game with red and blue teams
Great list. Other honorable mentions for me would be California Games, Fort Apocalypse, and Pool of Radiance.
I bought my first Commodore 64 in 1983 and fondly remember all of these games. But I am quite surprised that not a single Ultima game made your list.
MULE is my favorite game of all time and its not even close. I do like gauntlet defender of the crown and bubble bobble all great games. Gauntlet is my favorite arcade game of all time and i used to play bubble bobble at the arcades too.
Nice list ! ..Also Project Firestart, Nebulus, Renegade and Wizard of War are stellar games !
Thanks for the memories,I think I am going to dig out my 128 Lost my 64 some how but these games brought back some great memories.
I remember having to pay the C64 on a black and white television when we first got it. One of the first games we got was Pit Stop II. So confusing when you can't see the color on the tires. 🤣🤣
I would love to share my memories of the C-64, but my finances ran only to the ZX-Speccy. There was one boy in our class who had a C-64 (the rich kid) and he couldn't "borrow" anyone's games. I would have loved a C-64, though. Great machine with a 64k memory and it looked beautiful. Oh, that keyboard! In my school-boy dreams!
Creatures, Rick Dangerous 2, Terry's big adventure, Blue Max, Leaderboard Golf, Wasteland, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, Samurai Warrior, Pool of Radiance and Myth.
🖥⌨🐸+++I 🐸WOULD PUT "BOULDERDASH"AT NUMBER 4 AS WHEN I🐸HAD MY COMMODORE 64 💻💻I SPENT MANY ENJOYABLE HOURS PLAYING THAT GAME+++🤩+++I 🐸USED 2 SELL THE COMMODORE 64 ⌨AS WELL+++YES BE4 I RETIRED 🐸I USED 2 SELL THE COMMODORE 64+++IT WAS 🤩A GOOD JOB+++I 😁LIKED IT+++
Apache AH64 - Kickstart - Jumpman series - Zork series - Impossible Mission - Grand Prix Circuit - this was my late teen years. I had a TON of games but I played these the most
Kickstart was good, but Kickstart II was better
Couldn't stop playing ghost busters. Fond memories..