It's so amazing how many games Commodore 64 has. After so many years of playing, I still haven't seen some of these games like Araknifoe or Rainbow Chaser. I remember playing Traffic for hours, such an addictive game :D. Thanks for the list, really great idea, I should probably do my own list as well :).
The early years of the C64 (early to mid eighties) was when programmers were still trying to figure out what the C64 could do and so were pushing the envelope as much as possible. A lot of clunkers in those early years, but a few gems too. It's too bad that the programmers back then didn't have the development tools we have now: Recent homebrew games are off the charts!
Whilst I've heard of a couple you listed I certainly haven't played any of them which was a nice surprise. I've played upwards of a 1000 c64 games and that means there's at least 9000 that I haven't played. As for less popular games I'd recommend Metamorphosis IV - Earth Warrior "Labyrinth of the Creator", Blagger, Hunter Killer and Pooyan to name but a few. Enjoyed the video, thanks.
Bandits is the only game that I have played in this list, the others I will try and play at some point.. I have played 1000's of Commodore 64 games in the 80's on my brothers C128, we had draws full of original tapes and crap loads of pirated tapes, a guy my father worked with gave us about 5 tapes a week with about 20 to 30 titles per tape and many were not available in the shops at that time (no idea where he got early access games from) .. I required another C64 about 4 years ago "nostalgic reasons" I use a SD2IEC for disks and a Tape adapter for Tap files for the stuff I have not got on original tape, I also make my own compo tapes like I would of done in the 1980's.. I enjoyed your list and I would like to see more of these for the C64 as it is hard to discover cool interesting games "I do have roughly 20.000 plus that I can play [from the net]" I also like to find them games that jog the memory, the ones I played in the 80's.. Do more of these video's and you will grab my attention. I subscribe now.
That's a very interesting list, most of the games were not familiar to me. Crystal Fever is also a favorite of mine, mainly because of the editor. The level with the "magic" wall you showed off is a particularly hard nut to crack.
Great video mate. Was just thinking I should really get into some C64 emulation. Into every other system but the C64 wasn't my system as a kid so I don't have any nostalgia for it. These are some great alternative titles to look out for. That spider one is nuts.
Oh my! you mentioned CROSSFIRE. Thats one of my go to games for the last 35+ years. Played it a few days ago. I seem to have missed 8 of the 12 games on the list. Should check them out.
The only game I remember of these is Araknifoe. I think I may have got that on a magazine cover tape. Guess I'll add that to the list of games to download for my new 'TheC64', as I seem to recall enjoying it, despite my hatred of spiders!
Some of my favorites that are lesser known... Bocce - A simulation of Bocce or "lawn bowling". First a small target ball is thrown out, then players throw larger balls at it in an attempt to get the closest. To be honest, I haven't played in quite a while, so I forget all the rules, but it's easy to figure out. You can add spin to the ball, adjust the power, etc. Lady Tut - A single-screen maze game that seems to have been inspired by the game Tutankham. Piracy - It looks like an arcade game with a net stretched between two pirate ships, but it's actually a sort of board game. You have to take turns moving your pirates and get them across to the opponent's ship while he tries to do the same. Saracen - Large scrolling levels with multiple things to do on each one. There are arrows that can only be fired in the direction that they point, bombs to blow up, doors to open, creatures to kill, etc. It's not especially hard, but there are a ton of levels. Sentinel - A Star Raiders clone from Synapse. C= key brings up the map, W warps, A toggles auto-tracking, spacebar launches a super-bomb that destroys all ships and must be used to destroy enemy bases. Press the button while warping to put up a shield. Space - The Ultimate Frontier - A budget game that's basically a more polished version of the PD Star Trek games. All input is through the keyboard. You have to enter a direction for travel, the distance, direction of your shots, etc. It's harder though because the enemy ships don't just sit in one position and trade shots, they move around. The Staff of Karnath - Graphic adventure game where you need to collect 16 pieces of a pentagram and take each one down to the catacombs and paste it on an obelisk. It has a cool style where the mansion is divided into slices and you can go into or out of the screen to switch which slice you're in. I really liked it, but I could never find more than 12 pieces and I couldn't even figure out how to get all of them. Some were guarded by creatures that I couldn't figure out how to deal with. Stealth - A Broderbund game where you fly your ship toward a tower, avoiding/destroying enemies, picking up energy, etc. When you get close enough, you blast the tower and go to the next level. Survivor - A simple game from Synapse. Shoot your way through the walls protecting each fortress, then destroy all the guns to blow it up. Press "T" to turn off the inertia, which makes the game MUCH easier. Trolls and Tribulations - A neat little platform game with weird controls. Left/right moves one space in either direction, up jumps straight up and pressing the button jumps forward two spaces. At the start of the level, pull down to shoot the little lizards and turn then into eggs, then knock them off before they hatch. If your staff runs out of power, stand on the pulsing space in the center of the area and pull down to recharge. Once they're all gone, the lights turn off and you can enter the maze through the giant razor blade (OK, it's a door, but it looks like a razor blade). Here you just have to get to the exit. You can't shoot the enemies, you can only avoid them. The collision detection is very generous here. You can pick up objects for bonus points, but it's not required.
These are great haha. I think I'll add Araknifoe to my list of bizarre and batshit crazy games (along with Attack of the Mutant Camels and Beaky and the Eggsnatchers) that appear to be exclusive to 8-bit microcomputers. I picked up TheC64 to rekindle childhood memories recently. I had a c64 long after it was superceded - around 1992-1995 - the time where people were practically giving them away as they were seen as ancient tech. I recall being slightly terrified of my c64. The brown colour scheme was very out of place by then, the SID chip was often misused to create loud, unsettling, out of tune-sounding music - and the speech effects were absolute nightmare fuel. It was like I was stuck in this bizarre videogame purgatory of yesteryear. I recall in 1993 when I just got to primary school, we still had a classroom full of c64s, which is where I was able to build up my collection. I still remember the computer room 'smell' of what was probably cheap plastic, overheating SID chips and power supplies just about on the fritz. On fridays we could go in there at lunch and play games with everyone at the school and it was awesome fun! By 94 they were sold off to anyone who wanted them and were replaced with 386s with Windows 3.1. Now I just own the fact that I was a latent 'microcomputer kid' and love showing the absolute 8-bit dumbfuckery that was my childhood to friends. It's much more respected now than it was back then!
! Crossfire ! Thanks for reminding me of that! It was the first game where I got into the flow state. I also remember playing it without firing, to see how many seconds I could last just dodging bullets and enemies. Great times! And the music is still awesome.
Just seen this today: Im played 2 of them, Crossfire and Bandits. Both was ace arcade games. A another one im saw on the list, its Bazair. Today im working with the coder behind the game (Rusty Pixels UK). Micheal did also Warhawk and since done two remakes of that games (one to Nintendo DS and another to Spectrum Next). Nice to see, hihi.
I haven't technically played any of these, at least not in these versions. Some of the clones I've played the originals of, and I've played Ugh! quite a bit, but on the Amiga. I wasn't aware that a C64 version of it even existed, although I have played Space Taxi on the C64.
Enjoyed finding out about some of these as well as your approach in making the video. Look fwd to part II and other content. As far as a suggestion, "Maxwell Manor" comes to mind but I'm not sure if there was a PAL version.
YES! I actually _know_ one of these: "Traffic"! That one impressed me from the start in how detailed it is for such a simple-looking game. And yes, I would like to know how they did the cars. Too many for sprites, too complex for characters? THe programming behind this must be truly clever.
Brilliant writing! I was 6 Years old when my father first got me a Breadbin! I just bought an used one last christmas! And despite having played a LOT of C64 games I never met any of these... well maybe except Ugh, but on the Amiga.:D I'm gladly a new subscriber! Can't wait for more content. :) Have you ever played Siren City? The First ever GTA-like game?!
That monster game reminds me of a primitive version of 'Mail Order Monsters'. My whole neighborhood put down their nintendos and super nintendos to gather round the old commodore 64 to play that game. It was _that_ addictive and fun. Yet today, you'd hardly know it existed! It was one of EA games' earlier titles by Paul Reich III. Imagine Archon with upgrade driven monsters and tournaments(that you ordered in the "mail"). The game even came with a faux ordering card for monsters, heh. Also, it has permanent deaths. If your monster loses in a tourny, you lose your monster! This led to physical fights among us irl. At one point my brother figured out that the disk had to update the death to the disk. He ripped the player disk out of the drive and ran away with it because he lost his mega uber monster he'd been crushing everyone with for a month. It was also the first game where we were 'grinding' characters to compete with each other(because of my brothers over-successful monster). Man those were great times. I just marvel thinking back that people were dropping their 16 bit console controllers and begging to play a game from 1983. Goes to show that graphics are second to game play, every time. I still have the original disk and it still works. Edit: Here are some of my favorite obscure games on the 64(Although I am not sure how obscure they actually are): Slinky(another Qbert clone, but with a twist, you are a slinky) Time Tunnel(one of the first point and click adventures, & in a unique style) Future knight Kid Niki, Radical Ninja (kinda like mario brothers with weird bosses that all have unique weaknesses) Invaders of the Lost Tomb(first 3D scroller game I can remember, called Scarabae? in UK) Mr. Robot (has a map editor too) Dark Tower(impossibly hard...or "harder than vindaloo mutton as you say.) The Sentry(which my brothers and I had to figure out with _no_ _manual)_ I can't think of anymore off hand that were obscure ware at the moment... Mediator perhaps?
Great vidy. Wish a working C64 version of the point-and-click fantasy-adventure game _Destiny_ existed. Never did get to finish that game. it was broken, as all online versions are.
Mikrodot. A 1989 by Jim Blackler. Released with the Commodore Disk User magazine. 😊 Awesome list, by the way. I hope to try some of these games. I know of Bandits. Played that allot.
Loved Microdot back in the day, we used to have great fun with the level editor. only problem was we could never save our home made levels... the save function just didn't work :(
Hi. I remember a game that I really loved, but cannot seem to find any clue about it. I thought is was called Supernova, but looking it up doesnt seem to be a fit. Basically, you piloted a starship visiting races like Mice race, Bear race, and the snobby Cat race, whereas you tried to do favors and upgrade your ship ( the cat race had the best missiles which were very expensive ) so you could find the randomly placed bad guys and take them out. I dont remember much more about it. Any clue to which game that was?
@@CasualCommodore Indeed I found it in my assembly 64 collection under csdb. The reason i didn't find it is that disk images names are not correctly sorted when shown on the winvice rom browser. Thanks !
Use to get tapes on front of magazines called power pack I believe , would get about 4 games on them.. there was one I played that was like bomber man but with way more moves.. I'd love to know what it's called, I enjoyed this video although didnt know any of the games , think I remember playing way of the exploding fist when I was 7 and cant remember much before that.
The LEMON64 top 100 has waaaayyyyy too many strategy/rpg/adventure games up the top for a computer with the most powerful sprite and sound hardware ever seen in 1982 for my liking. Most of my fav games are in the ZZAP!64 Top 64 (printed around page 80 in the launch issue in May 1985), now that is a list that matches my own 1983-1988 Commodore 8bit gaming tastes. I did miss out on some really awesome budget games like CJ Elephant/DJ Puff. and Dizzy Down the Rapids/Kwik Snax but waaaaayyyy too many 4 colour only background big conversions were being pumped out around 1989/1990 onward so I left the C64 at a good time to move into ST/PC Engine/Amiga and Megadrive by end of 1989. R I S K by The EDGE is the last C64 game I bought, a console quality resource management + shmup beauty with no multiload, joy.
I'm with you on that one. My top 10 or 20 games look nothing like Lemon64's. I guess it depended on what games your friends had or what was available on the local shop :)
I’m looking for a game I used to play it was space game where you had to get fuel and you used warp ports to get to different areas you would need to know a password to go to the different ports like kappa
BUT they have better variants at another games: crossFire - any top view scrolling shooter as rambo, bathroomSpiders - i would not find same background but it is duckHunt/operationWolf, crystalFever - one of mostly ported game as BoulderDash at the list "not have played", little helicopter game - it is choplifter(sms) and lunarLander (atari) well known games, Qubert clone, Galaga clone, jumping balls - versus Cauldron2 as raw dough versus bread, bunch of minigames - nintendo did warioWare, but why you need minigames if you can play actual ones and indeed i never played text quests and traffic light simulator, but want i?waiting for new episode of "you have never seen show")
Crystal fever is a ripoff/port/clone of the Amiga/ST game "Emerald Mine" released in 87. The visuals are close enough I spotted it in seconds, the round bomb is a dead give away.
Traffic was great. I used to play that as a kid. I'll have to go download it. Thanks for reminding me of it.
It's so amazing how many games Commodore 64 has. After so many years of playing, I still haven't seen some of these games like Araknifoe or Rainbow Chaser. I remember playing Traffic for hours, such an addictive game :D. Thanks for the list, really great idea, I should probably do my own list as well :).
The early years of the C64 (early to mid eighties) was when programmers were still trying to figure out what the C64 could do and so were pushing the envelope as much as possible. A lot of clunkers in those early years, but a few gems too. It's too bad that the programmers back then didn't have the development tools we have now: Recent homebrew games are off the charts!
Great list, i even still remember Bandits. As a kid i've played it for many hours. Keep up the good work!
The arcade game that Crossfire is based on is called Targ, if I'm not mistaken. Crossfire also has a pretty good port on the VIC-20 as well
Whilst I've heard of a couple you listed I certainly haven't played any of them which was a nice surprise. I've played upwards of a 1000 c64 games and that means there's at least 9000 that I haven't played. As for less popular games I'd recommend Metamorphosis IV - Earth Warrior "Labyrinth of the Creator", Blagger, Hunter Killer and Pooyan to name but a few. Enjoyed the video, thanks.
I haven't heard of any of these games before so I'll definitely be checking some of them out on my C64 SD2IEC. Good video... you've earned a sub!
Bandits is the only game that I have played in this list, the others I will try and play at some point.. I have played 1000's of Commodore 64 games in the 80's on my brothers C128, we had draws full of original tapes and crap loads of pirated tapes, a guy my father worked with gave us about 5 tapes a week with about 20 to 30 titles per tape and many were not available in the shops at that time (no idea where he got early access games from) .. I required another C64 about 4 years ago "nostalgic reasons" I use a SD2IEC for disks and a Tape adapter for Tap files for the stuff I have not got on original tape, I also make my own compo tapes like I would of done in the 1980's.. I enjoyed your list and I would like to see more of these for the C64 as it is hard to discover cool interesting games "I do have roughly 20.000 plus that I can play [from the net]" I also like to find them games that jog the memory, the ones I played in the 80's.. Do more of these video's and you will grab my attention. I subscribe now.
Great video man.. I liked your style of narration too. 👍🏼
That's a very interesting list, most of the games were not familiar to me. Crystal Fever is also a favorite of mine, mainly because of the editor. The level with the "magic" wall you showed off is a particularly hard nut to crack.
Took me AGES to get past that!
Great video mate. Was just thinking I should really get into some C64 emulation. Into every other system but the C64 wasn't my system as a kid so I don't have any nostalgia for it. These are some great alternative titles to look out for. That spider one is nuts.
Oh my! you mentioned CROSSFIRE. Thats one of my go to games for the last 35+ years. Played it a few days ago. I seem to have missed 8 of the 12 games on the list. Should check them out.
if you look at it, Araknifoe is basically a unique take on the classic arcade "trench" shooter
Apple Bandits on C64 is up high on my list for sure. Wish I'd played the rest of them back then. Thanks good watch.
The only game I remember of these is Araknifoe. I think I may have got that on a magazine cover tape. Guess I'll add that to the list of games to download for my new 'TheC64', as I seem to recall enjoying it, despite my hatred of spiders!
Yeah, I hear ya. Honestly, old covertapes and disks were a gold mine of quality games.
Mad Doctor is a pretty good one, despite it getting panned in Zzap64.
Some of my favorites that are lesser known...
Bocce - A simulation of Bocce or "lawn bowling". First a small target ball is thrown out, then players throw larger balls at it in an attempt to get the closest. To be honest, I haven't played in quite a while, so I forget all the rules, but it's easy to figure out. You can add spin to the ball, adjust the power, etc.
Lady Tut - A single-screen maze game that seems to have been inspired by the game Tutankham.
Piracy - It looks like an arcade game with a net stretched between two pirate ships, but it's actually a sort of board game. You have to take turns moving your pirates and get them across to the opponent's ship while he tries to do the same.
Saracen - Large scrolling levels with multiple things to do on each one. There are arrows that can only be fired in the direction that they point, bombs to blow up, doors to open, creatures to kill, etc. It's not especially hard, but there are a ton of levels.
Sentinel - A Star Raiders clone from Synapse. C= key brings up the map, W warps, A toggles auto-tracking, spacebar launches a super-bomb that destroys all ships and must be used to destroy enemy bases. Press the button while warping to put up a shield.
Space - The Ultimate Frontier - A budget game that's basically a more polished version of the PD Star Trek games. All input is through the keyboard. You have to enter a direction for travel, the distance, direction of your shots, etc. It's harder though because the enemy ships don't just sit in one position and trade shots, they move around.
The Staff of Karnath - Graphic adventure game where you need to collect 16 pieces of a pentagram and take each one down to the catacombs and paste it on an obelisk. It has a cool style where the mansion is divided into slices and you can go into or out of the screen to switch which slice you're in. I really liked it, but I could never find more than 12 pieces and I couldn't even figure out how to get all of them. Some were guarded by creatures that I couldn't figure out how to deal with.
Stealth - A Broderbund game where you fly your ship toward a tower, avoiding/destroying enemies, picking up energy, etc. When you get close enough, you blast the tower and go to the next level.
Survivor - A simple game from Synapse. Shoot your way through the walls protecting each fortress, then destroy all the guns to blow it up. Press "T" to turn off the inertia, which makes the game MUCH easier.
Trolls and Tribulations - A neat little platform game with weird controls. Left/right moves one space in either direction, up jumps straight up and pressing the button jumps forward two spaces. At the start of the level, pull down to shoot the little lizards and turn then into eggs, then knock them off before they hatch. If your staff runs out of power, stand on the pulsing space in the center of the area and pull down to recharge. Once they're all gone, the lights turn off and you can enter the maze through the giant razor blade (OK, it's a door, but it looks like a razor blade). Here you just have to get to the exit. You can't shoot the enemies, you can only avoid them. The collision detection is very generous here. You can pick up objects for bonus points, but it's not required.
Dude, what a great write up! I'm certainly going to check some of those out.
@@nostalgiatrain6714 I'd love to hear what you think of them. :)
I really love a lot of the c64 arcade ports, they don't seem to get talked about as much anymore.
I have a plan on at least one video for that :)
Nostalgia Train there will never be enough c64 game vids...
These were all completely new to me... thanks for sharing!
I had Araknafoe from a cover cassette as well. Got totally hooked on it.
These are great haha. I think I'll add Araknifoe to my list of bizarre and batshit crazy games (along with Attack of the Mutant Camels and Beaky and the Eggsnatchers) that appear to be exclusive to 8-bit microcomputers. I picked up TheC64 to rekindle childhood memories recently. I had a c64 long after it was superceded - around 1992-1995 - the time where people were practically giving them away as they were seen as ancient tech. I recall being slightly terrified of my c64. The brown colour scheme was very out of place by then, the SID chip was often misused to create loud, unsettling, out of tune-sounding music - and the speech effects were absolute nightmare fuel. It was like I was stuck in this bizarre videogame purgatory of yesteryear. I recall in 1993 when I just got to primary school, we still had a classroom full of c64s, which is where I was able to build up my collection. I still remember the computer room 'smell' of what was probably cheap plastic, overheating SID chips and power supplies just about on the fritz. On fridays we could go in there at lunch and play games with everyone at the school and it was awesome fun! By 94 they were sold off to anyone who wanted them and were replaced with 386s with Windows 3.1. Now I just own the fact that I was a latent 'microcomputer kid' and love showing the absolute 8-bit dumbfuckery that was my childhood to friends. It's much more respected now than it was back then!
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR BAZAIR FOR LIKE 20 YEARS NOW, HOLY SHIT THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
! Crossfire ! Thanks for reminding me of that! It was the first game where I got into the flow state. I also remember playing it without firing, to see how many seconds I could last just dodging bullets and enemies. Great times! And the music is still awesome.
yay ! i did that too. Tried to stay alive without shooting as much as i can.
I loved Traffic!
Just seen this today: Im played 2 of them, Crossfire and Bandits. Both was ace arcade games.
A another one im saw on the list, its Bazair. Today im working with the coder behind the game (Rusty Pixels UK). Micheal did also Warhawk and since done two remakes of that games (one to Nintendo DS and another to Spectrum Next). Nice to see, hihi.
Bandits!
Damn, man! My dad and brother used to play the hell out of it ^^
Loved Crossfire, Hawk Eye, IK+, Way of the Exploding Fist and Paradroid
I haven't technically played any of these, at least not in these versions. Some of the clones I've played the originals of, and I've played Ugh! quite a bit, but on the Amiga. I wasn't aware that a C64 version of it even existed, although I have played Space Taxi on the C64.
Enjoyed finding out about some of these as well as your approach in making the video. Look fwd to part II and other content. As far as a suggestion, "Maxwell Manor" comes to mind but I'm not sure if there was a PAL version.
A few of my obscure faves: Bounces, Hypa Ball, Mr. Angry, Rupert Ice Palace, Frosty the Snowman II
I will check those out!
YES! I actually _know_ one of these: "Traffic"! That one impressed me from the start in how detailed it is for such a simple-looking game. And yes, I would like to know how they did the cars. Too many for sprites, too complex for characters? THe programming behind this must be truly clever.
Brilliant writing! I was 6 Years old when my father first got me a Breadbin! I just bought an used one last christmas! And despite having played a LOT of C64 games I never met any of these... well maybe except Ugh, but on the Amiga.:D I'm gladly a new subscriber! Can't wait for more content. :) Have you ever played Siren City? The First ever GTA-like game?!
Thanks man. I haven't played it, but damn sure I'm about to look it up!
Interesting list! My little brother and sister used to love playing a game called 'Mr Angry', a £1.99 game, I haven't seen that on any lists yet.
Never knew Bandits was released on the C64. Had the VIC version myself, and it's a pretty good version in its own right
It's a really killer game. I lost so much time to it in the mid 80s.
That monster game reminds me of a primitive version of 'Mail Order Monsters'. My whole neighborhood put down their nintendos and super nintendos to gather round the old commodore 64 to play that game. It was _that_ addictive and fun. Yet today, you'd hardly know it existed! It was one of EA games' earlier titles by Paul Reich III. Imagine Archon with upgrade driven monsters and tournaments(that you ordered in the "mail"). The game even came with a faux ordering card for monsters, heh. Also, it has permanent deaths. If your monster loses in a tourny, you lose your monster! This led to physical fights among us irl. At one point my brother figured out that the disk had to update the death to the disk. He ripped the player disk out of the drive and ran away with it because he lost his mega uber monster he'd been crushing everyone with for a month. It was also the first game where we were 'grinding' characters to compete with each other(because of my brothers over-successful monster). Man those were great times. I just marvel thinking back that people were dropping their 16 bit console controllers and begging to play a game from 1983. Goes to show that graphics are second to game play, every time. I still have the original disk and it still works.
Edit: Here are some of my favorite obscure games on the 64(Although I am not sure how obscure they actually are):
Slinky(another Qbert clone, but with a twist, you are a slinky)
Time Tunnel(one of the first point and click adventures, & in a unique style)
Future knight
Kid Niki, Radical Ninja (kinda like mario brothers with weird bosses that all have unique weaknesses)
Invaders of the Lost Tomb(first 3D scroller game I can remember, called Scarabae? in UK)
Mr. Robot (has a map editor too)
Dark Tower(impossibly hard...or "harder than vindaloo mutton as you say.)
The Sentry(which my brothers and I had to figure out with _no_ _manual)_
I can't think of anymore off hand that were obscure ware at the moment...
Mediator perhaps?
I used to play Bandits in my young days. Great game
Great vidy. Wish a working C64 version of the point-and-click fantasy-adventure game _Destiny_ existed. Never did get to finish that game. it was broken, as all online versions are.
Mikrodot. A 1989 by Jim Blackler. Released with the Commodore Disk User magazine. 😊 Awesome list, by the way. I hope to try some of these games. I know of Bandits. Played that allot.
Could the Arachnifoe be from a couple years later? Because the movie Arachnophobia came out in 1990...
This was great, thanks for uploading 👍🏻
Loved Microdot back in the day, we used to have great fun with the level editor. only problem was we could never save our home made levels... the save function just didn't work :(
Hi. I remember a game that I really loved, but cannot seem to find any clue about it. I thought is was called Supernova, but looking it up doesnt seem to be a fit. Basically, you piloted a starship visiting races like Mice race, Bear race, and the snobby Cat race, whereas you tried to do favors and upgrade your ship ( the cat race had the best missiles which were very expensive ) so you could find the randomly placed bad guys and take them out. I dont remember much more about it. Any clue to which game that was?
Good lord. I've no idea. None of that sounds familiar.
@@nostalgiatrain6714 i since found it, and actually downloaded it. It is called Project Nova. Found it on myabandonware
Hello ! Where did you find microdot ? I cannot find it, even in the huge assembly 64 games list. Weird... Thanks !
It's on the csdb site. :)
csdb.dk/release/?id=16200
(Looks like Casual Commodore beat me to it!)
@@CasualCommodore Indeed I found it in my assembly 64 collection under csdb. The reason i didn't find it is that disk images names are not correctly sorted when shown on the winvice rom browser. Thanks !
I loved bandits back in the day , it was a copy of an arcade game called Stratovox or something like that .
very nice. pretty much all of these are pretty awesome. (ahaha, the spider game: EVACUATE!)
btw., I played Crossfire! :-D
Nice content dude, big like👍🏻
Where from is that music playing at the beginning?
It's a cover of the Commando high-score music I did a while back
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Cool video, thanks.
No.10 C64 version of Pokemon Go
good list, I use to love Hennry's House
I really enjoyed this.
Use to get tapes on front of magazines called power pack I believe , would get about 4 games on them.. there was one I played that was like bomber man but with way more moves.. I'd love to know what it's called, I enjoyed this video although didnt know any of the games , think I remember playing way of the exploding fist when I was 7 and cant remember much before that.
I wanna say that you're thinking of 'Bug Bomber'. I got that on a Commodore Format covertape.
Keep up the good work!
I think you never played "ÜVEGHÁZ".
i plyed bandits a lot. great game.
Microdot is sooo addictive... love it!
Right? It's beyond simple but there's just something about it that makes you want to come back for more
Where is Stroker? (joke)
The LEMON64 top 100 has waaaayyyyy too many strategy/rpg/adventure games up the top for a computer with the most powerful sprite and sound hardware ever seen in 1982 for my liking. Most of my fav games are in the ZZAP!64 Top 64 (printed around page 80 in the launch issue in May 1985), now that is a list that matches my own 1983-1988 Commodore 8bit gaming tastes. I did miss out on some really awesome budget games like CJ Elephant/DJ Puff. and Dizzy Down the Rapids/Kwik Snax but waaaaayyyy too many 4 colour only background big conversions were being pumped out around 1989/1990 onward so I left the C64 at a good time to move into ST/PC Engine/Amiga and Megadrive by end of 1989. R I S K by The EDGE is the last C64 game I bought, a console quality resource management + shmup beauty with no multiload, joy.
I'm with you on that one. My top 10 or 20 games look nothing like Lemon64's. I guess it depended on what games your friends had or what was available on the local shop :)
Deactivators... Strangeloop... Clean-Up Time
@11:40 released in 1989
thanks! crossfire is a legend!
UGH was quite well known and played on PC.
I’m looking for a game I used to play it was space game where you had to get fuel and you used warp ports to get to different areas you would need to know a password to go to the different ports like kappa
Skyfox II? It had wormholes and each starbase had a unique name, which you had to look on the map for. It was a form of copy protection.
A Microdot is a medium for LSD.
Nemesis The Warlock
Cool ! Great !!
I also really liked a game called The Pyramid
BUT they have better variants at another games: crossFire - any top view scrolling shooter as rambo, bathroomSpiders - i would not find same background but it is duckHunt/operationWolf, crystalFever - one of mostly ported game as BoulderDash at the list "not have played", little helicopter game - it is choplifter(sms) and lunarLander (atari) well known games, Qubert clone, Galaga clone, jumping balls - versus Cauldron2 as raw dough versus bread, bunch of minigames - nintendo did warioWare, but why you need minigames if you can play actual ones
and indeed i never played text quests and traffic light simulator, but want i?waiting for new episode of "you have never seen show")
I LOVE C64 👍🥂🎩
I remember C64 Fun
Nice 1
wow a c64 knew how to use indicators.......seriously what is wrong with drivers these days!!!!!(too lazy to type 30 million !'s but you get my point)
Crystal fever is a ripoff/port/clone of the Amiga/ST game "Emerald Mine" released in 87. The visuals are close enough I spotted it in seconds, the round bomb is a dead give away.
Strange with Turrican as it’s probably one of the most famous C64 games.
Hey man. Turrican isn't in the list, I just created footage of it to demonstrate a popular game.
Nostalgia Train ah just me being lazy then viewing without sound on the bus. Sorry and thanks for the info.
Great video man, many games i didn' knew yet.Thanks for the tips you got my sub!!! If you like retro games check my channel to.
No i ddont liike u miss lot o games