My missing comments on games 19 and 18 Next in 19th place is Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe. Some people prefer this to the Amiga version, I however don’t as the Amiga version is brilliant in all areas. This lacks a bit in the graphics compared to the Amiga but the gameplay is fast and enjoyable. I had this on my C64 and played it all the time until I played the amiga version Rocketball is in 18th place. One of the lesser known games on this list but none the less a great rollerball based game. I’m not sure if this is actually based on the James Caan movie but it’s so similar that it must be. Anyway it’s a brilliant alternative sports game that is loads of fun to play Sorry about that guys
The C64 version also misses the callouts for Ice Cream. LOL Although someone did do an updated version a couple years back complete with the Ice Cream callouts. It wasn't completed to my knowledge though
Really nostalgic and awesome games but I think you concentrate on Commodore a bit too much, it's not a criticism because I have fond memories of the C64 👍
@@oldstylegaming some classic arcade conversions on various systems or maybe some vs videos e.g. C64 vs Amstrad 464 etc. If you're going to do any more C64 could you include Spitfire Ace, Impossible Mission, Super Pipeline, Airwolf, Ghostbusters, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Elite and Bumpin Buggies because they're awesome 👍
OSG I feel that One-On-One Dr. J vs. Larry Bird is a glaring omission, as it is the best basketball sim on the system and it’s excellent 2-player head-to-head fun. Also the futuristic ‘sport’ called Hypa Ball is another excellent 2-player game, if it can count as a sport 😉
There were a few other games like that wiggle side to side, always the connector busting or actually snapping the thing at the base.....then back to the dreaded keyboard if happened during the night.
Good list mate, I didn't have a C64 so can't really comment but glad IK+ was up there and you included some golf games too, often forgot. Speed Ball 2 though? I wish this was a real sport, I would watch it and support Brutal deluxe! 😂🤣😂 👍
@@oldstylegaming I agree, it deserves a place, it is a great game and on many different systems. How about best co-op games, (2 player plus games) / best V's games? We have nostalgia for these games but there is nothing like seeing a game and (like you mentioned in this video) remembering playing it with friends, with or against it was all fun. 👍
Speed ball must be the only sport in the world that both teams wear the same uniforms, how do they know whose on their side, even their heads are covered Lol!!!!
Boxing - fight night , great us gold boxing game . Championship wrestling , another epyx game ( if you can count wrestling as a sports game ). And hardball , classic baseball game .
Spent hours playing Ik+ with my twin brother.. I love the agility game between fights where you needed to block the bouncing balls from every direction.. A game on its own
Loved the Epyx sports games, used to complete with friends like it was the Olympics. That mirrored sun effect on the water in IK+ is pretty neat for the C64! Gonna have to get my 'The C64' Maxi out and give these a try again.
Another good one - Superstar Ice Hockey by Mindscape. You could play full seasons with playoffs, build your own teams, distribute experience points etc. Actually that just reminded me, not only play a full season, but multiple seasons. Amazing game.
Microprose Soccer - what a game. Always found Emlyn Hughes International Soccer to be a bit too ugly looking even though it had some interesting features but having indoor and outdoor soccer in Microprose Soccer was superb. Banana kicks, weather, replays - all quite innovative features at the time. It's still by far my favourite football game across all 8 and 16 bit formats (yes, even better than Sensi).
Thank you for including California games! That was one of my favorites. I would also have included Dr J and Larry Bird go one on one. That was my first sports game for the c64 and I played it to death!
old style gaming liked the music in 720, but agree the gameplay wasn’t great 👍 Edited comment.... was getting skate or die soundtrack mixed up with 720 😬😬
It's a good list but you could've condensed the leaderboard games into one entry as well as summer games, California games and world games. I also would've substituted fight night boxing instead
Great list mate. Nostalgia overload. We could probably spend hours chatting about them over a pint! One game that would have to make my top 20 is Hardball - such fun, and outstanding animation for a 1985 release! Oh the memories......
Microleague is definitely a stat-head game, especially when Microleague 2 let you run seasons. But Hardball... Oh man, what great 2 player fun I had. Some epic extra inning 1-0 games.
Great list m8! Standouts for me are the Eypx games, Leaderboards, Hypersorts and Fist. I would add BMX Simulator 1+2, surely that's a sport yeah? IK+ is a absolute classic so totally deserves no:1
Great list!! Here is a challenge, make a list of c64 soccer management games, may I suggest football manager (class), Kenny dalgliesh soccer manager (class), treble champions (text based but awesome) and my personal favourite, super league, where one of the training options was 'visit the local pub' and I always turned down a 200,000 a year sponsorship deal from 'The Conservative Party' on political grounds. Special games all!! Watch all your content mate amazing memories. I've ploughed my emulator full of c64 games. An amazing system....q
I have put it in the Description and ill pin a comment with my script for those two games thanks for pointing that out (its doing my head in now thinking about it im proper OCD about things being wrong)...try to forget...try to forget lol
Excellent list! So many hours spent with Leaderboard Golf. I was hoping it would make the list. I also had much fun with the Epyx games back in the day. Funny that I stopped playing sports games, the last one being Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis. Like racing games, I don't think of fighting games as sports games though, although they really are. International Karate, IK+ and Way of the Exploding Fist & Fist II are some of my all time favourites.
Microprose Soccer was clearly my No.1 ... also liked to a lesser degree the Summer and winter games , I was never into the karate games.... I really believe I was addicted to Microprose Soccer 😂😂😂
Great collection! Not much I would change but I'd put original IK to the top since IK+ was a bit confusing to teen me with 3 fighters. Also nostalgia reasons because IK was and absolutely mind blowing game. Exploding fist felt a lot more sluggish than IK which perfected everything.
@@oldstylegaming wasnt me! But its a great choice, and before i watched i thought IK+ has to be top and Winter Games and Microprose Soccer have to be high, and bingo, you have them as top 3 :) You know your C64 stuff!
I played Microprose Soccer so often, the music is burned into my memory. Even the one where the tape stopped for that wee point during loading that occasionally broke your game. My number one game of all time, and no surprise these guys went on to create massively successful Sensible Soccer. I loved Emlyn Hughes too, though the AI could be a bit naff sometimes, and I thought (although slow) Matchday II had a lot to offer. Seeing International Basketball/Soccer reminded me of what must have been a modded version of the game (though in that period, you can never tell), called Wheelchair Soccer. The goalies were on crutches and their dives were hilarious. Good list though. Apart from some positional changes, hard to disagree. There were so many sports games, though, it was difficult to keep track. I do remember, vaguely, a gridiron style game with robots that I quite liked too
Was probably the best football sim on the system, outside of Super Bowl XX Which was an officially licensed NFL product but a turn-based strategy game ultimately
Hardball was also a pretty good baseball game on the C64. Don't get me wrong I did like Microleague Baseball but that was more of a simulation, I preferred the more straight forward arcade like game that was Hardball overall... Plus it was made by the legendary Bob Whitehead who made some classics on the Atari 2600/VCS with both Atari themselves, and later Activision before him and a few of his colleagues broke away from Activision to form Accolade.
Skate or Die's high jump, now THAT was a joystick breaker. And the Microprose soccer game was marketed here as Kevin Van Eron's Pro Soccer. Keith Van Eron was a goaltender for the Baltimore Blast, the indoor soccer team here, and the owner of the team was Wild Bill Staley, who also owned Microprose.
Since you are in the UK and ice hockey is not big there, "FACEOFF!" is one of my personal favorites. Also, the company MINDSCAPE made "Superstar Ice Hockey" as well as "Indoor Sports" which is a compilation of games on one title. 2 of those games are very good: Bowling and Darts.
Kikstart 2 was an awesome budget sports game from Mastertronic with split screen 2 player and even a course construction set, I spent many hours on this game, an absolute bargain for £1.99. I know you said you did driving games, but this was much more arcade style in 2D.
The Epyx sports games such as World Games were awesome as long as you had it on floppy disk, they were dreadful on tape with every event loading individually including the opening ceremony and having to rewind the tape. The disk version of World Games loaded super fast too.
Really impressed with your content and choices. Really enjoyed Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing and Way of the Exploding Fist. Two of my childhood favourites. 👍
Really good list. Personally I found Winter Games the weakest of the Epyx Games series. Also Leaderboard Golf had no trees in it just islands in water. I'm guessing the game you showed was Executive Leaderboard.
Way of the exploding fust has got very special memories for me. Hearing the music again after 30 plus odf years is quite moving. Reminds me of happy summers playing with me dad and brother, crazy how it can take you back. I felt quite emotional seeing some of these , especially the winter/summer Olympics..great choices and post . Many thanks
Decathlon Supersports Bully (1 on 1 ice hockey) all the Street Sports games (Baseball, Basketball, Soccer) and the adventure soccer mix .. I apparently forgot the name of... help pls.
Joy Stick Breakers 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌 i laugh now mate but at 12 13 or 14 back in them days QuickShot joysticks costed a small fortune and when playing decathlon and that bi*ch broke it was gutting and could be weeks months or a year to some of us ☹😪 lol my advice to any newbies wanting to play these today then get an Atari 2600 Joystick practically indestructible for them 8 bit sports games like my all time favourite Hypersports lol i like it so much that i would still get the C64 out for it 😊 great vid.
Cracking video which is pretty much spot on. I have a real soft spot for DALEY THOMPSON'S DECATHLON which myself and my younger brother played the absolute bits out of which I would include and possibly even 180 which was a real fun darts game if that can be counted as a sport. I would have had Rocketball higher as that was great fun and I liked the film it was based on
My only criticism of Barry McGuigan's boxing (was called Star Rank Boxing over here) was you had no control over your boxer's movement other than the punches and blocking. Water Polo (yes a Water Polo game) was also a pretty good game, at least as far as budget titles is concerned. As for Skate or Die. Hubbard only did the loading/intro music. The in-game music was done by Kyle Granger
I've watched a couple of these videos and have enjoyed them. I enjoyed playing sports games on my C64 as I was terrible at most of them in real life. I was just starting to get into the Olympics at this point so of course I really enjoyed the Games series by Epyx and that got a lot of play at my house. My cousins had the Leaderboard games so I started playing golf on the computer. I got the Jack Nicklaus Greatest 18 holes by Accolade which supposedly had superior graphics but I overall liked the play in Leaderboard better. I noticed the One On One with Dr. J and Larry Bird was mentioned but the second version of Michael Jordan and Larry Bird is much superior graphics wise and with the addition of the slam dunk contest and 3 point contest. For baseball I definitely liked playing Hardball. I am not big into football but John Elway's Quarterback was an enjoyable game for me. One Olympic related game I like to play is called International Team Sports and was published by Mindscape in the US. The sports are water polo, soccer, volleyball, 4x400 relay in track and 4x100 freestyle relay in swimming. The gameplay is realistic but easy to learn and I like that it doesn't rely on button mashing.
So many of them consumed so much of my childhood, especially Leaderboard and the Summer Games series. Good to see Rocket Ball there; I was literally just thinking about it in the previous entry, then it popped up. That was fun, too.
Yeah Rocket Ball is great a proper Gem...sorry the commentary isnt on that game and 19 ...editing problem...dont know whether to take it down and re upload :-(
Mindscape Superstar Soccer a far superior soccer game. Both Hardball and Star League Baseball (1 or 2) both better baseball games. GBA Basketball and the Accolade Basketball game both better than IB
Should try and find Xeno. It was the best 2 player game on the Speccy (a kind of futuristic air hockey), and apparently there was a C64 release as well. You might wind up revising your list...
You were right about Micro League baseball, that game was head of its time. I played 162 game seasons and kept track of stats, surprisingly accurate over a whole season
Great video as ever! 👍International Soccer certainly was an influence on International Basketball as both were written by Andrew Spencer! Could have done with better Rocket Ball footage. In 2 players punching your mate before he could get the ball was VERY satisfying. Seems maybe not many know of that gem. Also on Leaderboard was that an expansion pack you were playing as the original was just islands in a seemingly never ending ocean. Just how did your player get to each, we never saw a little boat :)
I never understood Speedball2. Scoring at the sides was lame, I liked speedball though. So glad you never had sensible soccer, never understood that either as kickoff2 on Spectrum so much better.
International soccer was the first - every other soccer game was of course influenced by it - international soccer should be no 1 in my opinion as it was amazing back in 1993 and sole reason I bought the c64
there was 4 versions of world class leaderboard, well leaderboard etc. What happened to the commentary in rocketball, i feel it should have been higher up the list. it was a skill in Skate Or Die to jump across the water in that level, california games surfing was easy, bmx was harder, but i loved the skate bowl and the frisbee toss was interesting, so was hackey sack.
Many great games on the list. Winter games awesome, summer games, california games. Microprose soccer a long list. I also liked going for gold it was I think my first sports game on the c64 and had weightlifting and clean and jerk or something like that. But Microprose soccer yeah I liked it but remember I did not like that there was no penalties in that game. And the 5 a side on the side b was impossible for me to win a game. Think I maybe won one game or maybe just a draw. Was so hard when the ball bounced around on the walls. But great list really enjoyed it.
IK+ at number 1... Can't argue with that. In my opinion, probably the greatest fighting game ever made. Great list by the way... Loved Rocketball,The Way of the Exploding Fist, Microprose Soccer, International Karate, Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer and Summer, Winter and California Games............... Two games that I would add to the list are American 3D Pool and Mini-Golf (1988)(Magic Bytes) ... great games.
3 of my favorit sport games on c64 are: "Caveman Ugh-Lympics", "Face Off!" and "Street Sports Basketball". A little sad that none off them make it to your list.
It's completely subjective really there were so many good games that I was never gonna get every ones favourites in...but that's just a tribute to how good the c64 library is
Why does no one ever mention "The Games Winter edition and The Games summer edition" both by Epyx.. Both very good sports titles.. And why put the Karate games in the list (Did you not do a fighting list?) Why not Snooker or Darts?
Karate is in as I asked in the community groups and on streams if it was a sport and should be included. Both those epyx games get mentioned on my epyx games video. And as for darts and snooker ...this isn't a list of as many sports games I can fit in...its a list of best sports games and no darts or snooker games where good enough in my eyes to get on...
Did you never play World Series Baseball from Imagine? That was great and even had cheerleaders coming on although due to the low res of the grx they looked more like a line of Snoopys to me!
What about ,football manager , codemasters snooker, 3d pool .to many of the same games taking up the list , and to many same karate games. C64 had more sport variety of good sport games .
Tgats like saying too many Olympic event games... The 3 karate games on this list are there because they are better than a lot of the other sports games
Emlyn was probably my top game. My cousin and I spent hours playing this. Audiogenic produced some brilliance with the controls, enabling a double up on passing moves, depending on when you let go of the button or stick first. Brilliant.
@@tituslongcock6195 And you probably cry yourself to sleep wondering why you don't have a girlfriend, I think the answer is pretty clear and i love how your user name is the exact opoosite of what you have
From the North East mate...and i am a peasant...pure working class mate and proud of it... wasnt around in the bubonic plague though ..... but shame that it didnt catch Titus Loncocks ancestors then we wouldnt have to put up with the likes of his comments...what i will do being from the northeast though is extend an invitation for him to come say that to my face.....
My missing comments on games 19 and 18
Next in 19th place is Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe. Some people prefer this to the Amiga version, I however don’t as the Amiga version is brilliant in all areas. This lacks a bit in the graphics compared to the Amiga but the gameplay is fast and enjoyable. I had this on my C64 and played it all the time until I played the amiga version
Rocketball is in 18th place. One of the lesser known games on this list but none the less a great rollerball based game. I’m not sure if this is actually based on the James Caan movie but it’s so similar that it must be. Anyway it’s a brilliant alternative sports game that is loads of fun to play
Sorry about that guys
LOL i can hear you right now as i read it here LOL
The C64 version also misses the callouts for Ice Cream. LOL
Although someone did do an updated version a couple years back complete with the Ice Cream callouts. It wasn't completed to my knowledge though
@@scottbreon9448 better not put that in, it's 2020 and we are trying to fight obesity by stopping kids eating sugar! No sugar tax in 1992 !!!
Thanks for that. It's not the same without the commentary!
PhilOffHisTree true dat ahahaha!
Really nostalgic and awesome games but I think you concentrate on Commodore a bit too much, it's not a criticism because I have fond memories of the C64 👍
What would you like me to cover?
@@oldstylegaming some classic arcade conversions on various systems or maybe some vs videos e.g. C64 vs Amstrad 464 etc. If you're going to do any more C64 could you include Spitfire Ace, Impossible Mission, Super Pipeline, Airwolf, Ghostbusters, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Elite and Bumpin Buggies because they're awesome 👍
Missing a few but I think it because you are "across the pond" :-) One-On-One Dr. J vs. Larry Bird is an instant classic....
The C64 was a classic machine. How did they pack so much in to such a tiny amount of memory, amazing.
OSG I feel that One-On-One Dr. J vs. Larry Bird is a glaring omission, as it is the best basketball sim on the system and it’s excellent 2-player head-to-head fun. Also the futuristic ‘sport’ called Hypa Ball is another excellent 2-player game, if it can count as a sport 😉
I'll check them out mate
Oh yeah. I love when you break the backboard.
shaolin1derpalm yeah and the janitor comes out & yells at you hahahaha
Completely forgot about that. Loved that game
Slam Dunk was also pretty decent for a budget title
Another good game is Mini-Putt by Accolade, that was another solid game.
Glenn MK Good call, more of a puzzle game in some ways however....
oh yeah I liked that a lot
We all spent hours playing the Epyx games, and NOBODY enjoyed the figure skating. Great list! Cheers OSG!
What about cross country skiing
It was the same thing with the gymnastics event in the first Summer Games.
Yeaaaaah, Epyx and System 3 delivered some fantastic games.
Yeah mate they defo did
one of my favourite was Daley Thompson’s Olympic challenge. Joystick breaker and completing the game was a real workout. Epic soundtrack by Ocean
Yeah i nearly put that in i have it on original...but maybe for the bad memories of a dead arm it never made it lol
I loved this game too but it was a joystick buster. We always used to ask my dad if he wanted a shot just before the 1500 metres lol!
There were a few other games like that wiggle side to side, always the connector busting or actually snapping the thing at the base.....then back to the dreaded keyboard if happened during the night.
Good list mate, I didn't have a C64 so can't really comment but glad IK+ was up there and you included some golf games too, often forgot. Speed Ball 2 though? I wish this was a real sport, I would watch it and support Brutal deluxe! 😂🤣😂 👍
Speed Ball 2 although not a real sport is an alternative sport so its in...had to be in really its a great game
@@oldstylegaming I agree, it deserves a place, it is a great game and on many different systems. How about best co-op games, (2 player plus games) / best V's games? We have nostalgia for these games but there is nothing like seeing a game and (like you mentioned in this video) remembering playing it with friends, with or against it was all fun. 👍
Yeah I'll do that
Speed ball must be the only sport in the world that both teams wear the same uniforms, how do they know whose on their side, even their heads are covered Lol!!!!
Boxing - fight night , great us gold boxing game . Championship wrestling , another epyx game ( if you can count wrestling as a sports game ). And hardball , classic baseball game .
Wrestling is defo a sport I'll check that out
Exactly, how could you forget hardball?
Spent hours playing Ik+ with my twin brother.. I love the agility game between fights where you needed to block the bouncing balls from every direction.. A game on its own
Im crap at that bonus stage ...always was , i think at one point on it one of my mates had a bouncing head come in..maybe that was Amiga though
@@oldstylegaming That bonus stage got mental! I remember the heads :)
Brilliant collection as always!!
Really enjoying this series sir OSG!
First one in Sammy :-) im enjoying doing them too
Loved the Epyx sports games, used to complete with friends like it was the Olympics. That mirrored sun effect on the water in IK+ is pretty neat for the C64!
Gonna have to get my 'The C64' Maxi out and give these a try again.
Another good one - Superstar Ice Hockey by Mindscape. You could play full seasons with playoffs, build your own teams, distribute experience points etc. Actually that just reminded me, not only play a full season, but multiple seasons. Amazing game.
Hey mate, I suggested that list and I am very humbled and happy to finally see it, great job as always! Now on to the Amiga ;)
Oh i forgot who asked for it but i knew someone had...thanks mate it was so much fun and great memories making this :-)
And as usual Amiga will be on the way :-)
old style gaming looking forward to it ;)
Microprose Soccer - what a game. Always found Emlyn Hughes International Soccer to be a bit too ugly looking even though it had some interesting features but having indoor and outdoor soccer in Microprose Soccer was superb. Banana kicks, weather, replays - all quite innovative features at the time. It's still by far my favourite football game across all 8 and 16 bit formats (yes, even better than Sensi).
It's a great game that's for sure but swos was outstanding too. They both pretty different really I like both ...I don't want to pick lol
@@oldstylegaming swos ?
@@MegaasAlexandros + Sensible World Of Soccer.
@@jamieprice8940 thanks, I gotta check it out.
@@jamieprice8940 swos is not on the 64 ay ?
Thank you for including California games! That was one of my favorites. I would also have included Dr J and Larry Bird go one on one. That was my first sports game for the c64 and I played it to death!
Really good list. I’d also add 720 and Konami Pong.
Pong was class yeah , i wasnt keen on 720 though
old style gaming liked the music in 720, but agree the gameplay wasn’t great 👍
Edited comment.... was getting skate or die soundtrack mixed up with 720 😬😬
lol :-)
IK+ was fantastic, still is, love the crunching noises when punching and kicking, makes me laugh still.
pfft. Hardball! and 4th & Inches were the best sports games on the C64.
Everyone has their favourites mate
Very early C64 game I had was exploding fist and California games was brilliant fun
Oops. I forgot to mention star league baseball. Not great graphics but very playable
Wow, awesome vídeo! Waiting for a similar video for MSX1 and MSX2 computers...
hmmm id have to get some outside help with that.... i do know a few people though so maybe it might happen
Street Sports Basketball from EPYX wasn't bad at all :-)
It's a good list but you could've condensed the leaderboard games into one entry as well as summer games, California games and world games. I also would've substituted fight night boxing instead
Great list mate. Nostalgia overload. We could probably spend hours chatting about them over a pint! One game that would have to make my top 20 is Hardball - such fun, and outstanding animation for a 1985 release! Oh the memories......
That's the 2nd mention of that game ..I'm defo gonna check that out tomorrow :-)
Microleague is definitely a stat-head game, especially when Microleague 2 let you run seasons. But Hardball... Oh man, what great 2 player fun I had. Some epic extra inning 1-0 games.
Great list m8! Standouts for me are the Eypx games, Leaderboards, Hypersorts and Fist. I would add BMX Simulator 1+2, surely that's a sport yeah? IK+ is a absolute classic so totally deserves no:1
I loved the codemaster games im actually gonna do a video on them
Great list!! Here is a challenge, make a list of c64 soccer management games, may I suggest football manager (class), Kenny dalgliesh soccer manager (class), treble champions (text based but awesome) and my personal favourite, super league, where one of the training options was 'visit the local pub' and I always turned down a 200,000 a year sponsorship deal from 'The Conservative Party' on political grounds. Special games all!! Watch all your content mate amazing memories. I've ploughed my emulator full of c64 games. An amazing system....q
My mate always asked me to do a football manager list, i have so many original football manager games ...i might do that i loved them
great video as always! Fyi, there’s no commentary on #19 and #18, probably some editing glitch..
hmm its on mine...do you think i should take it down...im taking it down
or you could pin a comment to cover those..
I have put it in the Description and ill pin a comment with my script for those two games thanks for pointing that out (its doing my head in now thinking about it im proper OCD about things being wrong)...try to forget...try to forget lol
old style gaming No biggie, the pinned comment is just fine.
nice! Thank you
Excellent list! So many hours spent with Leaderboard Golf. I was hoping it would make the list. I also had much fun with the Epyx games back in the day. Funny that I stopped playing sports games, the last one being Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis. Like racing games, I don't think of fighting games as sports games though, although they really are. International Karate, IK+ and Way of the Exploding Fist & Fist II are some of my all time favourites.
i actually asked the Karate question in a few groups and thats how its in as most people said yes :-) im glad though as i love IK+
Exploding Fist is excellent....
Microprose Soccer was clearly my No.1 ... also liked to a lesser degree the Summer and winter games , I was never into the karate games.... I really believe I was addicted to Microprose Soccer 😂😂😂
A great game to be addicted to mate ;-)
Great collection! Not much I would change but I'd put original IK to the top since IK+ was a bit confusing to teen me with 3 fighters. Also nostalgia reasons because IK was and absolutely mind blowing game. Exploding fist felt a lot more sluggish than IK which perfected everything.
if IK+ confused you you should check out Fist+ .... my god that is confusing lol ;-)
@@oldstylegaming Haha yes. I was not a smart kid :)
You like undertaking massive challenges, don't you ;) :D
Did you suggest for me to do this list?
@@oldstylegaming wasnt me! But its a great choice, and before i watched i thought IK+ has to be top and Winter Games and Microprose Soccer have to be high, and bingo, you have them as top 3 :) You know your C64 stuff!
Another great video. So many great classic games. So many memories.
Yeah apart from the baseball and basket ball games i have found memories of all of these ;-)
I played Microprose Soccer so often, the music is burned into my memory. Even the one where the tape stopped for that wee point during loading that occasionally broke your game.
My number one game of all time, and no surprise these guys went on to create massively successful Sensible Soccer.
I loved Emlyn Hughes too, though the AI could be a bit naff sometimes, and I thought (although slow) Matchday II had a lot to offer.
Seeing International Basketball/Soccer reminded me of what must have been a modded version of the game (though in that period, you can never tell), called Wheelchair Soccer. The goalies were on crutches and their dives were hilarious.
Good list though. Apart from some positional changes, hard to disagree. There were so many sports games, though, it was difficult to keep track. I do remember, vaguely, a gridiron style game with robots that I quite liked too
Awesome games, also like 4th & inches , many hours of play with that.
Yeah i think 4th & Inches was ok on the C64 ...was crap on the Amiga though
Was probably the best football sim on the system, outside of Super Bowl XX Which was an officially licensed NFL product but a turn-based strategy game ultimately
Hardball was also a pretty good baseball game on the C64. Don't get me wrong I did like Microleague Baseball but that was more of a simulation, I preferred the more straight forward arcade like game that was Hardball overall... Plus it was made by the legendary Bob Whitehead who made some classics on the Atari 2600/VCS with both Atari themselves, and later Activision before him and a few of his colleagues broke away from Activision to form Accolade.
Skate or Die's high jump, now THAT was a joystick breaker.
And the Microprose soccer game was marketed here as Kevin Van Eron's Pro Soccer. Keith Van Eron was a goaltender for the Baltimore Blast, the indoor soccer team here, and the owner of the team was Wild Bill Staley, who also owned Microprose.
Keith Van Eron, not Kevin. www.gb64.com/game.php?id=20902
@@scottbreon9448 Thanks I typoed when I was writing that.
Since you are in the UK and ice hockey is not big there, "FACEOFF!" is one of my personal favorites. Also, the company MINDSCAPE made "Superstar Ice Hockey" as well as "Indoor Sports" which is a compilation of games on one title. 2 of those games are very good: Bowling and Darts.
Kikstart 2 was an awesome budget sports game from Mastertronic with split screen 2 player and even a course construction set, I spent many hours on this game, an absolute bargain for £1.99. I know you said you did driving games, but this was much more arcade style in 2D.
The Epyx sports games such as World Games were awesome as long as you had it on floppy disk, they were dreadful on tape with every event loading individually including the opening ceremony and having to rewind the tape. The disk version of World Games loaded super fast too.
Missing for me. Hardball, On Court Tennis, Gamestar Basketball, 4th and Inches, Mindscape Hockey and Soccer
Really impressed with your content and choices. Really enjoyed Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing and Way of the Exploding Fist.
Two of my childhood favourites. 👍
Really good list. Personally I found Winter Games the weakest of the Epyx Games series. Also Leaderboard Golf had no trees in it just islands in water. I'm guessing the game you showed was Executive Leaderboard.
Way of the exploding fust has got very special memories for me. Hearing the music again after 30 plus odf years is quite moving. Reminds me of happy summers playing with me dad and brother, crazy how it can take you back. I felt quite emotional seeing some of these , especially the winter/summer Olympics..great choices and post . Many thanks
Decathlon
Supersports
Bully (1 on 1 ice hockey)
all the Street Sports games (Baseball, Basketball, Soccer)
and the adventure soccer mix .. I apparently forgot the name of... help pls.
Joy Stick Breakers 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌 i laugh now mate but at 12 13 or 14 back in them days QuickShot joysticks costed a small fortune and when playing decathlon and that bi*ch broke it was gutting and could be weeks months or a year to some of us ☹😪 lol my advice to any newbies wanting to play these today then get an Atari 2600 Joystick practically indestructible for them 8 bit sports games like my all time favourite Hypersports lol i like it so much that i would still get the C64 out for it 😊
great vid.
Cracking video which is pretty much spot on. I have a real soft spot for DALEY THOMPSON'S DECATHLON which myself and my younger brother played the absolute bits out of which I would include and possibly even 180 which was a real fun darts game if that can be counted as a sport. I would have had Rocketball higher as that was great fun and I liked the film it was based on
My only criticism of Barry McGuigan's boxing (was called Star Rank Boxing over here) was you had no control over your boxer's movement other than the punches and blocking. Water Polo (yes a Water Polo game) was also a pretty good game, at least as far as budget titles is concerned.
As for Skate or Die. Hubbard only did the loading/intro music. The in-game music was done by Kyle Granger
I've watched a couple of these videos and have enjoyed them. I enjoyed playing sports games on my C64 as I was terrible at most of them in real life.
I was just starting to get into the Olympics at this point so of course I really enjoyed the Games series by Epyx and that got a lot of play at my house.
My cousins had the Leaderboard games so I started playing golf on the computer. I got the Jack Nicklaus Greatest 18 holes by Accolade which supposedly had superior graphics but I overall liked the play in Leaderboard better.
I noticed the One On One with Dr. J and Larry Bird was mentioned but the second version of Michael Jordan and Larry Bird is much superior graphics wise and with the addition of the slam dunk contest and 3 point contest.
For baseball I definitely liked playing Hardball.
I am not big into football but John Elway's Quarterback was an enjoyable game for me.
One Olympic related game I like to play is called International Team Sports and was published by Mindscape in the US. The sports are water polo, soccer, volleyball, 4x400 relay in track and 4x100 freestyle relay in swimming. The gameplay is realistic but easy to learn and I like that it doesn't rely on button mashing.
So many of them consumed so much of my childhood, especially Leaderboard and the Summer Games series. Good to see Rocket Ball there; I was literally just thinking about it in the previous entry, then it popped up. That was fun, too.
Yeah Rocket Ball is great a proper Gem...sorry the commentary isnt on that game and 19 ...editing problem...dont know whether to take it down and re upload :-(
"He always beat me at real golf, but I was the champ on this"
Goes on to scuff the putt
Edit: scuffs all putts on the video lol
Lol :-)
I haven't played it in about 25 years lol.....I was the champ...now I beat him at real golf
@@oldstylegaming your double takedown of red and blue in IK+ makes up for it lol unless you weren't white? 🤣
@@jhuny I was white that was me :-)
@@oldstylegaming haha yes! Red and Blue could do better lol 🤣
Mindscape Superstar Soccer a far superior soccer game. Both Hardball and Star League Baseball (1 or 2) both better baseball games. GBA Basketball and the Accolade Basketball game both better than IB
Should try and find Xeno. It was the best 2 player game on the Speccy (a kind of futuristic air hockey), and apparently there was a C64 release as well. You might wind up revising your list...
You were right about Micro League baseball, that game was head of its time. I played 162 game seasons and kept track of stats, surprisingly accurate over a whole season
I remember having Decathlon, Barry McGuiggan (most likely spelt wrong) Boxing, and a baseball game
Matchpoint could be in the list for me, too. Very fond memories, and all the Olympic games from Epyx etc...
Cool!
Cheerio.
Great video as ever! 👍International Soccer certainly was an influence on International Basketball as both were written by Andrew Spencer! Could have done with better Rocket Ball footage. In 2 players punching your mate before he could get the ball was VERY satisfying. Seems maybe not many know of that gem. Also on Leaderboard was that an expansion pack you were playing as the original was just islands in a seemingly never ending ocean. Just how did your player get to each, we never saw a little boat :)
I never understood Speedball2. Scoring at the sides was lame, I liked speedball though. So glad you never had sensible soccer, never understood that either as kickoff2 on Spectrum so much better.
Just remembering hearing that arcade machine pumping out chariots of fire still gives me goose bumps. Loved my c64
International soccer was the first - every other soccer game was of course influenced by it - international soccer should be no 1 in my opinion as it was amazing back in 1993 and sole reason I bought the c64
there was 4 versions of world class leaderboard, well leaderboard etc. What happened to the commentary in rocketball, i feel it should have been higher up the list. it was a skill in Skate Or Die to jump across the water in that level, california games surfing was easy, bmx was harder, but i loved the skate bowl and the frisbee toss was interesting, so was hackey sack.
Activision's On court Tennis was a favorite of mine. Also some American Football games like 4th and inches :)
I played a game called Star League Baseball and I remember a football game that I believe was called Worlds Greatest Football Game.
Emlyn Hugues the best soccer game!! is much better and more fun than Microprose Soccer !!!
I love all your videos - they are so soothing as they take me back to my childhood. Thanks!
maybe daley thompsons decathlon also although it sid write off a good few quickshot II’s
Many great games on the list. Winter games awesome, summer games, california games. Microprose soccer a long list. I also liked going for gold it was I think my first sports game on the c64 and had weightlifting and clean and jerk or something like that. But Microprose soccer yeah I liked it but remember I did not like that there was no penalties in that game. And the 5 a side on the side b was impossible for me to win a game. Think I maybe won one game or maybe just a draw. Was so hard when the ball bounced around on the walls. But great list really enjoyed it.
Way if the exploding fist loved that game nostalgia overload thanks for the upload btw not stopped playing outrun2 😉
Surfing and Hackey Sack.... I never managed a legal caber toss. 🥴
For me Epyx dominated the entire era.
And a few football managers. :)
Great video brought back memories. The C64 was great.
TKO boxing and Hardball somehow didn't make it?
How did TKO Boxing and Aussie Games not make the list.
where the heck is EA's "One on One : Dr J vs Larry Bird" ???
4th and Inches was a good American football game.
What no Decathlon? Maybe it was just me and my friends who enjoyed even 5000 meter run in that game. :D
And "Sex Games" could be sport too, so that should be on the list. ;)
Lol
I remember these hard fights, when i lost any feelings in my arms :D
International cricket was one of my favourites
forbidden forest
Not a sports games, fool
Fight Night was a far superior boxing game !
should of gone for the top 50 games i reckon mate.ha
I really enjoyed Hypaball but it's a great list
Pleased to say I sat Barry McGuigan on his arse. ✊
The halfpipe in Skate or Die was amazing
IK+ at number 1... Can't argue with that. In my opinion, probably the greatest fighting game ever made. Great list by the way... Loved Rocketball,The Way of the Exploding Fist, Microprose Soccer, International Karate, Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer and Summer, Winter and California Games............... Two games that I would add to the list are American 3D Pool and Mini-Golf (1988)(Magic Bytes) ... great games.
i didnt even have them on my shortlist...ill check them out
Microleague baseball was always the best
3 of my favorit sport games on c64 are: "Caveman Ugh-Lympics", "Face Off!" and "Street Sports Basketball". A little sad that none off them make it to your list.
It's completely subjective really there were so many good games that I was never gonna get every ones favourites in...but that's just a tribute to how good the c64 library is
Why does no one ever mention "The Games Winter edition and The Games summer edition" both by Epyx.. Both very good sports titles.. And why put the Karate games in the list (Did you not do a fighting list?) Why not Snooker or Darts?
Karate is in as I asked in the community groups and on streams if it was a sport and should be included. Both those epyx games get mentioned on my epyx games video. And as for darts and snooker ...this isn't a list of as many sports games I can fit in...its a list of best sports games and no darts or snooker games where good enough in my eyes to get on...
street sports baseball was pretty good
Rocketball has awesome two player
Always love these lists and cool to see California Games! A classic
California games, i loved it on every system i ever played it on
Did you never play World Series Baseball from Imagine? That was great and even had cheerleaders coming on although due to the low res of the grx they looked more like a line of Snoopys to me!
Im sure ive played it :-) lol
What about ,football manager , codemasters snooker, 3d pool .to many of the same games taking up the list , and to many same karate games. C64 had more sport variety of good sport games .
Tgats like saying too many Olympic event games... The 3 karate games on this list are there because they are better than a lot of the other sports games
Why no Streets Sports games?
I would have put winter games 1st. Exploding fist second.
The golf game company had a really good bowling game. And Decathalon was pretty good.
Emlyn was probably my top game. My cousin and I spent hours playing this. Audiogenic produced some brilliance with the controls, enabling a double up on passing moves, depending on when you let go of the button or stick first. Brilliant.
Loved Rocketball!
Hyper Sports at 15? You must have really hated that game! - That is top 5 for sure!
I own the game and love it but its not top 5
with your accent i would have guessed all 20 would have been soccer games
Lol .... I like football but I'm not a die hard fan....in fact the rivalry between my two local teams winds me up
Where are you from?
@@tituslongcock6195 And you probably cry yourself to sleep wondering why you don't have a girlfriend, I think the answer is pretty clear and i love how your user name is the exact opoosite of what you have
From the North East mate...and i am a peasant...pure working class mate and proud of it... wasnt around in the bubonic plague though ..... but shame that it didnt catch Titus Loncocks ancestors then we wouldnt have to put up with the likes of his comments...what i will do being from the northeast though is extend an invitation for him to come say that to my face.....
old style gaming the posh kids has bbc micros at my school. Guess that’s why I didn’t have one 😆😆
See @skijumpnose .... as soon as i say im onto him he deletes his comments...makes me surer than ever :-)
lol @Stephen