This is probably the hardest and the most frustrating game in C64. Still cant understand with what kind of patience we played these games when we were kids :)
also growing up i so thought the graphics were different colors. So lame that this game doesn't have an end. It was fun for its time, but only meaningful gameplay is getting good at this odd game.
@@aphixe this is the final difficulty level. the others have the graphics the way you remember them. Hopaztec is really the only unfair level, as you have to memorize the correct path.
I guess we were patient because there was no alternative. Patience is relative though because our neighbors probably didn't think that I was patient whenever I was screaming at the tv 🤣
oh god... i finished it but i thought i made a mistake because there is nothing at the end .... please tell me i didnt get a trauma as a kid thinking i always died but actually finished it loool ????
I played it throught last week (using raspberry pi + retropie image on a big screen tv) and was wondering the same. As a kid i could never finish it, after 30+ years it just happened, what a feeling. (:
Wow! After all these years now I know that I was so close to completing the challenge. The only leg I couldn't remember ever reaching is the last one in the video: The Bridge. Probably because I was playing on a black and white TV and always got eaten up by the Piranhas. I actually enjoyed playing this game and the music is just hard core heavy metal. Great stuff.
Spent a good chunk of my summer trying to beat this game 19, or 20 years ago. I made it to the bridge level, never beat it, but now that I've seen the ending, I think I'm okay with that fact. Fun, fun, fun, fun, frustrating game all the same.
One of the hardest but most interesting games ever on Commodore 64! And what to say about that amazing music background! Legendary! Brings me in days of my childhood back in 80s like a time machine! Greetings from Croatia to the all fans of amazing C64!
This is the oldest game that i like on the c64! I played it again today after about 32 years! And it was GREAT the different gameplay styles are fantastic and so is the music!!!
this is probably the hardest and the most frustrating game in C64. Still cant understand with what kind of patience we played these games when we were kids :)
best game ever!!!! only problem i had was the piranha level as i had only monochrome tv and red piranhas were not visible in blue water - d-oh. only found out once i plugged it in later in colored tv
This game was a grueling test of focus and perseverance. It would've been easier to be an albino Aztec, at least I would've gotten a more merciful ending than this game had.
Yeah - and on a colour screen, you got eye cancer from trying to distinguish reddish static dots zipping through blueish static water at lightning speed. Oh the memories :-).
Magnificent !!!! My brother and I were fanatic players, the music I still remember as the day of yesterday 😁 and my brother with a red face shouting at the computer in ibis only drive to win 😬🤭
The piranhastage was the hardest. It took me countless hours until I passed it, but after I did it once, I could do again with ease. I was the only one in my family who could finish this game, that made me really proud back then. If you could finish it once, the game wasnt that challenging anymore and you could finish it pretty fast. That game was a christmaspresent by my uncle and I still have it, but the C64 doenst work anymore ... since 15 years or so.
"Aztec Challenge was originally created by another COSMI programmer in the style of Mario Bros. before my arrival. I was asked if I could do a port to the C64, and, for one reason or another, I went off and made a completely new game from scratch that in no way resembled the first, except for the title." -- Paul Norman, designer and programmer [Aztec Challenge - C64]
I first played this game on a black/white TV set, which is really funny. Especially the Piranha stage. You just don't see the fish. Fortunatly it is enough to swim out at the bottom and then up again, minimizing the risk of being eaten :)
Me and my mate went down to our local computer shop and they had this on display,and we were playing this for over 2 hours(very nice bloke to let us play that long) and when i was playing it was the music getting louder that mad my heart race and panic on that first level and getting killed and start all over again wanting to get further.I did`nt get past the first level my mate did. I LOVE the music.
I barely ever made it past the first temple run part as a kid. Didn't realize there was so much more to this game. Also interesting to look back on this after how much the "endless runner" genre has grown (Canabalt, Tiny Wings, Subway Surfers) since then -- the first section is basically one of the earliest endless runners. Also loved the music on this one mostly because it builds to a crescendo as you make it pretty far in each section (maybe it's even dynamic? Seems like more instruments are added as it goes on, but perhaps that's just baked into the track.)
du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun :)
Did you use a cheat oder something like that at the piranhas level ? I see many piranhas hit you. I remember that if one piranha bite, all piranhas came and make a heavy meal
I FINALLY FOUND IT. I think this was the game was what the game Pharaoh was spoofed off of. Pharaoh being the game Randal was playing in the "the last starship trooper" episode from the Clerks Animated Series.
Ho passato molto tempo giocando ad atzec challenge, il livello con i piranha era impossibile da superare (avevo un tv in bianco e nero). Tecnicamente lascia a desiderare, ma l'idea alla base del gioco è buona. Molto bella è anche la schermata di avvio con il logo della software house che si trasforma.
I played this all the time, but could barely get past the first spears area. I did get to the rooms eventually. I remember watching my dad and our cousins try it, and get further. I was only about 5-8 yrs.
I loved this game! I remember the piranhas was invisible on Black % White N TVs, some friends playing BN didn't understand how to pass the river level. :)
The reason it reminds me of CAVERN is the increase in music tempo that makes you start twitching and then end up making the wrong move. The pirahnas were fairly easy for me, I usually ate it on the stairs or in the cave series with the monoliths and pits and arrows.
I loved this game when i was so much younger:) I recently bought a original again just to keep sweet memories... this game was fustrating, but the most fustrating was that when I finished this game there was no end sequence at all :( still love the concept and the music, thanks Paul Norman for giving me so much fun many years ago!
Ahhh, back when some dude could program an entire game himself, and that game would be played by EVERYBODY in the world with a computer, distributed by swapping floppy disks around.
I was playing this earlier on an emulator. I'm glad I didn't carry on for that ending lol. Great video, but I can't help feeling spoiled by modern games. I used to spend hours on the C64 and nowadays the games just don't do anything for me.
One of the most difficult games I played on the C64 and was still able to beat. The music was good too. Tk, tktktk, tktktk, tktktk, tktktk, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-DUN-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, doo, doodoodoo, doodoodummmmm, tuweeyuuweeyuuweeyuu... I literally had nightmares from wrestling that game.
Thank you so much for posting... gives me Goosebumps. This was actually the Game that took me from my Atari 2600 to the C-64. I still get Chills hearing the starting Sound ... Brooooooom... 1982 released... this is (now 2011) 29 Years old! Like watching the 50s Hollywood Movies back then. Im SO curious what Computergames will look like in the Year 2040. If i'm still alive then.
This game was RETARDEDLY HARD in it's first level... The rest was easy. But it was very addictive. Plus it has a SID music track that is quite minimalistic but it Rocks! :)
so at the end you win the game and you dont even get a congratulations screen... its like you did all those levels of pure concentration and you dont even get a thank you.
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Played this for a couple of hours yesterday with a friend. He got to the level with the piranhas, I was having trouble with level three haha. FYI. Set up my original commodore!
Great game, not that easy, especially in some parts, but very exciting to me and also graphics and music were stunning for the times. The weird fact is that your 1st stage playing is by night, while I remembered was always daytime in that (cyan sky and sand was yellow as screen frame) and I got a C64 and the game again the last year and never had that darkness in the 1st level. :-|
@iyumcropus1 :) I'm an X year-old English business man (allegedly) sitting in Zurich airport waiting to catch my flight to Stuttgart. I still hanker for the days of a C64 loader screen..
NO music is scarier than the C64 and good use of its saw waves for bass and melody. Case in point, Forbidden Forest and its Beyond sequel. Friggen hell XD
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Still love the music after all these years ! Another flawed yet brilliant masterpiece from Paul Norman.
This is probably the hardest and the most frustrating game in C64. Still cant understand with what kind of patience we played these games when we were kids :)
also growing up i so thought the graphics were different colors. So lame that this game doesn't have an end. It was fun for its time, but only meaningful gameplay is getting good at this odd game.
Same here. Going through the game on the first difficultly was easy.
@@aphixe this is the final difficulty level. the others have the graphics the way you remember them. Hopaztec is really the only unfair level, as you have to memorize the correct path.
Stabil up until a few minutes ago i had high hopes of finishing delta, I can get to stage 8, only another 20 to go (big sigh)
I guess we were patient because there was no alternative. Patience is relative though because our neighbors probably didn't think that I was patient whenever I was screaming at the tv 🤣
oh god... i finished it but i thought i made a mistake because there is nothing at the end .... please tell me i didnt get a trauma as a kid thinking i always died but actually finished it loool ????
I played it throught last week (using raspberry pi + retropie image on a big screen tv) and was wondering the same.
As a kid i could never finish it, after 30+ years it just happened, what a feeling. (:
Crap ending :(
@@CricksHz you mean no ending lol
scary music, but sweet memories of my youth...
This game is pure life experience. The soundtrack is the stuff of nightmares.
Apocalipto: The videogame
I'm glad I never saw the "end" although numerous hours were consumed trying to get there.
I don't get why there was no end celebration
likewise, I would have expected a much better ending/reward for the long hours of practice required to get there
Wow! After all these years now I know that I was so close to completing the challenge. The only leg I couldn't remember ever reaching is the last one in the video: The Bridge. Probably because I was playing on a black and white TV and always got eaten up by the Piranhas. I actually enjoyed playing this game and the music is just hard core heavy metal. Great stuff.
Talented!
Spent a good chunk of my summer trying to beat this game 19, or 20 years ago. I made it to the bridge level, never beat it, but now that I've seen the ending, I think I'm okay with that fact. Fun, fun, fun, fun, frustrating game all the same.
One of the hardest but most interesting games ever on Commodore 64! And what to say about that amazing music background! Legendary!
Brings me in days of my childhood back in 80s like a time machine!
Greetings from Croatia to the all fans of amazing C64!
Am I the only one who finds this music utterly terrifying? ok...
Vervain Vanity This sound has some weird mysterious vibe in it.. I love it! :)
Yes, weird and mysterious like @Edwins1984 said, but also unsettling, kind of like Forbidden Forest and the like :-D
Haha looking back at it it does, forgot it was like that but I dug it big time back then
No your not and my Therapist can testify to that.
This was my first game when around 8 years old, and taught me what to expect from a video game.
You gotta love the ending, haven't you?
This is the oldest game that i like on the c64! I played it again today after about 32 years! And it was GREAT the different gameplay styles are fantastic and so is the music!!!
The game with the neverending levels. Played it a lot as a kid.
this is probably the hardest and the most frustrating game in C64. Still cant understand with what kind of patience we played these games when we were kids :)
That music give me chills after a long time I didn't heart .gosh I miss the 80s
best game ever!!!! only problem i had was the piranha level as i had only monochrome tv and red piranhas were not visible in blue water - d-oh. only found out once i plugged it in later in colored tv
This game was a grueling test of focus and perseverance. It would've been easier to be an albino Aztec, at least I would've gotten a more merciful ending than this game had.
Yeah - and on a colour screen, you got eye cancer from trying to distinguish reddish static dots zipping through blueish static water at lightning speed. Oh the memories :-).
Gotta love those awesome heavy PWM sweeps of the SID as well.
Magnificent !!!! My brother and I were fanatic players, the music I still remember as the day of yesterday 😁 and my brother with a red face shouting at the computer in ibis only drive to win 😬🤭
The years when a completely normal game was terrifying
The piranhastage was the hardest.
It took me countless hours until I passed it, but after I did it once, I could do again with ease.
I was the only one in my family who could finish this game, that made me really proud back then.
If you could finish it once, the game wasnt that challenging anymore and you could finish it pretty fast.
That game was a christmaspresent by my uncle and I still have it, but the C64 doenst work anymore ... since 15 years or so.
😂
One of the most difficult games of all time on the C64 or any other system from the "golden years" of gaming (late seventies to mid eighties).
I loved the music to this, really menacing!
I love imagining that in the running-and-spear-dodging part of the game, everyone's like HEY EVERYONE! JOE'S DOING THE RUN! LET'S TRY 'N SPEAR 'IM
"Aztec Challenge was originally created by
another COSMI programmer in the style of
Mario Bros. before my arrival. I was asked if I
could do a port to the C64, and, for one reason
or another, I went off and made a completely
new game from scratch that in no way
resembled the first, except for the title."
-- Paul Norman, designer and programmer [Aztec Challenge - C64]
One of the most difficoult game of my chldhood, now i understand the mechanic and is still an awesome game!
I first played this game on a black/white TV set, which is really funny. Especially the Piranha stage. You just don't see the fish. Fortunatly it is enough to swim out at the bottom and then up again, minimizing the risk of being eaten :)
Me and my mate went down to our local computer shop and they had this on display,and we were playing this for over 2 hours(very nice bloke to let us play that long) and when i was playing it was the music getting louder that mad my heart race and panic on that first level and getting killed and start all over again wanting to get further.I did`nt get past the first level my mate did. I LOVE the music.
I am now 46 years old and I never forget this game and music
Best difficult game of the Milky-way Galaxy
The graphics go downhill the moment you get to the stairs screen.
@piacca73
This is the C64-version. You had to play that game four times thru before you reach the end. And the last round have the dark background.
@6anatolyy4
Thats how Cosmi games were man. You crossed your fingers and hoped for the best.
I love that low bassy synth sound at the intro, and always have.
+limegreensquid Me too! I wish I made the music like this.
I really enjoyed this game as a kid...
memories...
I barely ever made it past the first temple run part as a kid. Didn't realize there was so much more to this game. Also interesting to look back on this after how much the "endless runner" genre has grown (Canabalt, Tiny Wings, Subway Surfers) since then -- the first section is basically one of the earliest endless runners. Also loved the music on this one mostly because it builds to a crescendo as you make it pretty far in each section (maybe it's even dynamic? Seems like more instruments are added as it goes on, but perhaps that's just baked into the track.)
du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun du du dun
:)
Did you use a cheat oder something like that at the piranhas level ? I see many piranhas hit you. I remember that if one piranha bite, all piranhas came and make a heavy meal
I FINALLY FOUND IT.
I think this was the game was what the game Pharaoh was spoofed off of. Pharaoh being the game Randal was playing in the "the last starship trooper" episode from the Clerks Animated Series.
Ho passato molto tempo giocando ad atzec challenge, il livello con i piranha era impossibile da superare (avevo un tv in bianco e nero). Tecnicamente lascia a desiderare, ma l'idea alla base del gioco è buona. Molto bella è anche la schermata di avvio con il logo della software house che si trasforma.
I completed this game taking turns with my dad and friends, a very good memory, we were hooked on it. Awesome game for it's time.
I took a lot of arrows to the knee on this game, quite a few to the head also. :P
"Aztech Challenge" by Cosmi and "Crazy Comets" by Martech and "Hybris" by Discovery Enterprise: WONDERFUL!
Just watched it twice. Once for the memory. twice for the music
I played this all the time, but could barely get past the first spears area. I did get to the rooms eventually. I remember watching my dad and our cousins try it, and get further. I was only about 5-8 yrs.
Oh man I remember going through so much pain playing this game! :-)
When those Aztecs have challenges they don't mess around.
I remember making it all the way to the ladder section but never being able to succeed a triple jump.. That game was annoyingly addictive..
@6anatolyy4 Ah. Thanks for pointing that out. Nice work on the Longplay. Keep it up.
I loved this game!
I remember the piranhas was invisible on Black % White N TVs, some friends playing BN didn't understand how to pass the river level. :)
@6anatolyy4 Haha, I feel you! Was in an airport on a business trip as well a few days ago, watching old C64 games and getting high on nostalgica :)
Ho aspettato 35 anni per vederlo finito. Oggi so, grazie. Ma è una sola finisce e ricomincia daccapo...
:D Watch out! they drop huge sugar cubes
Insane, psychedelic game that could cause nervous overload, even seizures.
I failed probably 90% of the time but I did beat the game several times. It’s a classic!
It was my first game in C64 (1986). Difficult game
The trick for the first stage is that you have to watch/concentrate on the torso of your player and not the sides. (:
The reason it reminds me of CAVERN is the increase in music tempo that makes you start twitching and then end up making the wrong move. The pirahnas were fairly easy for me, I usually ate it on the stairs or in the cave series with the monoliths and pits and arrows.
If this recording was your actual play, you have incredible reflexes.....
Why are the colors different from my version in most levels? In level 1, my ground is yellow and my sky is blue.
This is the highest difficulty. If you choose this one, colors are darker.
I loved this game when i was so much younger:) I recently bought a original again just to keep sweet memories... this game was fustrating, but the most fustrating was that when I finished this game there was no end sequence at all :( still love the concept and the music, thanks Paul Norman for giving me so much fun many years ago!
That bass track. Laid the foundation for modern reggaeton.
Ahhh, back when some dude could program an entire game himself, and that game would be played by EVERYBODY in the world with a computer, distributed by swapping floppy disks around.
I was playing this earlier on an emulator. I'm glad I didn't carry on for that ending lol. Great video, but I can't help feeling spoiled by modern games. I used to spend hours on the C64 and nowadays the games just don't do anything for me.
One of the most difficult games I played on the C64 and was still able to beat. The music was good too. Tk, tktktk, tktktk, tktktk, tktktk, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-DUN-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, doo, doodoodoo, doodoodummmmm, tuweeyuuweeyuuweeyuu... I literally had nightmares from wrestling that game.
I remember the music helping me concentrate on it. :)
Great synth soundtrack..that baseline!
goil! war damals so ein geiles spiel aufn C64! vor allem die musik und der sound *g*
The Amiga version of da game has 1 more level, on a paved road with evil skateboarding ghettoblaster radios and falling flower pots.
This music gets me dancing
yeah scared the shit out of me with the snakes and spiders and all when I was a kid.... the NIGHTMARES!!!!
Thank you so much for posting... gives me Goosebumps.
This was actually the Game that took me from my Atari 2600 to the C-64.
I still get Chills hearing the starting Sound ... Brooooooom...
1982 released... this is (now 2011) 29 Years old! Like watching the 50s Hollywood Movies back then.
Im SO curious what Computergames will look like in the Year 2040.
If i'm still alive then.
I had the same problem. Black and white television. 😊
This game was RETARDEDLY HARD in it's first level... The rest was easy. But it was very addictive.
Plus it has a SID music track that is quite minimalistic but it Rocks! :)
so at the end you win the game and you dont even get a congratulations screen... its like you did all those levels of pure concentration and you dont even get a thank you.
Played this for a couple of hours yesterday with a friend. He got to the level with the piranhas, I was having trouble with level three haha. FYI. Set up my original commodore!
Great game, not that easy, especially in some parts, but very exciting to me and also graphics and music were stunning for the times.
The weird fact is that your 1st stage playing is by night, while I remembered was always daytime in that (cyan sky and sand was yellow as screen frame) and I got a C64 and the game again the last year and never had that darkness in the 1st level. :-|
This game required the reflexes of a mongoose
@iyumcropus1 :) I'm an X year-old English business man (allegedly) sitting in Zurich airport waiting to catch my flight to Stuttgart. I still hanker for the days of a C64 loader screen..
Man I used to love / hate this game.
I never made it past bridge 3 growing up, you are a beast!
NO music is scarier than the C64 and good use of its saw waves for bass and melody. Case in point, Forbidden Forest and its Beyond sequel. Friggen hell XD
As a kid I never beat the damn stairs! Wow!
I did beat the game the first two complete rounds today, but the third round ist hell ;) everything gets much faster each time you beat the game.
One freaking excellent game. Great gameplay with one of those soundtracks thats impossible to get out of your head.
@6anatolyy4 - these are tool assisted, it's cheating but at least we get to see how the games end. Personally, I think it's bullshit.
With me it was the same.
First I didn`t know, there were even piranhas! *LOLMAO
I just thougt, the game had a mistake!
yes! ending was a real shit.. was it a final ending, or it repeat itself on a higher speed and difficulty again and again?
The caca
Almost impossible that we played this game for 'fun'.
after hearing all annoying background music throughout the game the designer even didn't make a decent ending??? WTF?
After playing the game for a while you really became mad about the music...couldnt stand it after playing a time :)
first game i ever remember to be playing, must have been between the age of 4 - 6. also most frustrating game experience so far
The background color on level 1 is all wrong, black in stead of yellow. Must be a bad crack or something?
No, this is the highest difficulty level which is at night. that's why it went to the title screen after.
@6anatolyy4
The character can dive for few seconds. Under warter he is invisible for the piranhas.
mad skils right there dude
horrible evil music, someone should make a apocalypto montage set to it.
I beat it aged 8. :'p Probably harder if I had to do it now ;)
The last level, different jump lenghts. Ah..
@oooonek
yeah...the game designers really invested much time in gameplay and level design :))))