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Great video. Try some of these in PAL mode (vs. NTSC). The Commando music sounded faster than usual, and it's probably also why the scrolling was glitchy. Possibly also why Cybernoid didn't work for you. Also check out some of the newer games from Protovision and Psytronik! I just recently got Planet X2 and Polar Bear in Space, which I liked a lot.
My first exposure to the Commodore was in 6th grade, and I can honestly say it's been my favorite retro computer ever since. Such a wonderful library of games too! Have fun my friend, the C64 is pretty epic!
@@GregsGameRoom honestly, in covid times we couldnt have gotten a better carreer because the work load has gone up significally so yeah cant complain doing 24/7 home office now IT support
Some recommendations for C64 games; Ace of Aces* Aliens (Activision) Barbarian (sword fighting) Buggy Boy/Speed Buggy Elite* Ghostbusters* Gyruss Impossible Mission* Leaderboard Golf Lode Runner (Press CTRL-Z to turn off the iris effect!) Mountie Mick's Death Ride Raid over Moscow (once your plane is up, press F7 to open the hangar door) Realm of Impossibility Saucer Attack (shallow gameplay, great graphics) Space Taxi Speedball (I like it better than Speedball II) Stealth Street Sports Baseball Stunt Car/Track Racer Wizball* Zaxxon (Synapse version) *You'll probably need to read the manual for these games. Elite in particular is a rather complex game. It's probably not all that appealing in today's world, but it's pretty impressive that it's a fully 3D space combat and trading simulation in just 64K of RAM, on a 1Mhz machine with no 3D hardware.
Joystick ports - Some programmers thought it made sense to use port 1 for one player games, however port 1 shared some IO line with the keyboard, such that moving the joystick and pressing the button would be read by the C64 as keyboard input. So other programmers figured it made more sense to use port 2. Alien Syndrome - I never felt this was a good port because of the terrible push-scrolling that requires you to get close to the edge to scroll the screen. Aliens - It's not real obvious from the display, but you're basically turning inside a room, then when you click on the door, you go to an adjoining room. The map is HUGE and you have to find your way to the armory, the control room, etc. I never had this back then, and to be honest, I find the way it displays the rooms to be a little disorienting since it's hard to tell when you're looking at a different wall. Arkanoid 2 - I liked the first one better because you could play it with paddle controllers. Bionic Commando - Glitches like that were common when running PAL games on NTSC machines. When you see stuff like that, try PAL mode. In fact, you should probably assume that around 99% of the C64 games on the net are PAL mode. Also, there's a HORRIBLE American version that was written from scratch. Commando - When you get to the point where the two enemy soldiers have a prisoner, always go to the left of the large mound. If you try to go to the right, you'll get stuck on that little rock every time. Also, play Commando Arcade, it has all the levels of the arcade version and some graphical improvements.
This thing double as furnace during winter. No need buy gas heater when Commode disk drive heat up room. Make toes under blanket very warm during inclement weather if put under sheet
It's funny - I had C-64 growing up, and had hundreds of games due to having a friend who had access to European pirated games, but I don't think I recognize any of the games you have. Edited: I had Bruce Lee and Buck Rogers.
Yea.. That was actually Beyond Castle Wolfenstien, and it was broken.. The map should not look like that. Find another disk image.. It also needs several keyboard commands so it will be helpful to find a scan of the manual.
That was fun! Especially blue max . Lol. Some very nice looking games there though. My first computer was Apple II+. The games weren't as good but we had just as much fun making bootlegs and trading them
More thoughts.. Blue Max.. You are right.. Press up to go up is the default, and the plane has to hit 100mph before you pull up. Play with the F-keys on the title screen and there is a "Pilot Controls" option to fix that. Also wanted to comment that a lot of these are PAL games. Some run fine on a North American C64, albeit faster; and others suffer graphical glitching, particularly on scrolling games. And for Blueprint, that is an artifact of a corrupted rom.. That was a common problem when people downloaded games from BBSes.. It corrupted during download. Usually it broke the game, but sometimes the corruption happened in the gfx data, the game would work with broken graphics.. Could also be a bad crack of the game.
@@GregsGameRoom Yea the lines are blurry for what proper PAL vs NTSC games are.. There were even PAL versions that made it to North America by way of BBSes. Back in the day I just figured they were broken because they were pirated. Didn't matter though, we played the heck out of them anyhow. Us NTSC users didn't know the difference. Generally, if the games were made in the early 80s, they were US games, and later games were more from Europe. Many games were released in both regions, so they played fine for the most part, except for the speed difference that makes enthusiasts argue over the right sound of the music... And on that note, the "warbly-ness" of the SID is kind of the defining characteristic of the SID. It had only 3 voices, so clever composers would play rapid arpeggios to make one voice play multiple notes.. It really had a unique and fantastic sound quality back in the day when compared to other computers with simple single voice beeps. Later synth chips had more voices, so that arpeggio trick wasn't needed. It (and the filters) really makes that sound very much "SID" that hadn't really been heard before, and not much since. A few NES games used that arpeggio trick, usually from those awesome European SID composers that went on to compose NES game soundtracks. Nowadays that style is an artistic choice to evoke nostalgia.
Commando in game music is one of the most iconic tunes of the history of gaming,it does play too fast in this video,just like other games you are playing, use pal mode for european games next time or you’ll never enjoy them.
@@GregsGameRoom I think also Bubble Bobble and Bionic Commando tunes play too fast, I think the problem is the same. Another suggestion if you allow me,please try european version of Cabal, it's much better than USA version 😏
I notice you didn't play the 3-games that were the sole reason for buying a C64: Airborne Ranger Sid Meier's Pirates! and Gunship! Really, any Microprose game is a must play for C64 owners. It's what set the C64 apart from other systems of the time and are quite historical in their own right.
Mate, you didn't start with some of the best C64 games like "Impossible Mission", "Pirates", "Raid Over Bungelling Bay" or "Raid Over Moscow"! "Blue Max" didn't work for you as you had the joystick in the wrong port. It was very common for most C64 games to have the joystick in port 2.
I saw part 1 and 2 of this andi must say you only play the very early games and totaly miss those games that the C64 is famous for! Why is that? Mostly every game that would nowdays be called a AAA game, for the c64 isent in your Videos.
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My friend had an Atari 800 with hundreds of pirate games on disk so I got to play C64 and Atari all the way from 1983 to 1987. Great days.
Flimbo's Quest is one of the best looking sounding games on the C64, great platformer.
Great video. Try some of these in PAL mode (vs. NTSC). The Commando music sounded faster than usual, and it's probably also why the scrolling was glitchy. Possibly also why Cybernoid didn't work for you. Also check out some of the newer games from Protovision and Psytronik! I just recently got Planet X2 and Polar Bear in Space, which I liked a lot.
Ah, that makes sense. I'll check Vice for PAL mode.
Growing up, I had a C64 & a close friend had an Atari 800XL, I always felt that the 2 systems were evenly matched when it came to graphics and games.
The C64 is about 3 years newer than the Atari hardware which was developed in 1979!
My first exposure to the Commodore was in 6th grade, and I can honestly say it's been my favorite retro computer ever since. Such a wonderful library of games too! Have fun my friend, the C64 is pretty epic!
I just with the Atari had this many games!
My second “console” after my 2600. Loved it as a teen. My sis ended up with the NES, while this was my thang.
Did you have the fast load cartridge? It was pretty slow loading some of these.
@@GregsGameRoom I had floppy discs and also cassettes. The cassette loading was epically long.
bro this was my childhood in the 80s, made me the IT guy I am today honestly! C64, Bruce Lee I used to play that all the time.
Same for me (but with the Atari 8-bits.) Not sure if becoming an IT guy was a good thing or not!
@@GregsGameRoom honestly, in covid times we couldnt have gotten a better carreer because the work load has gone up significally so yeah cant complain doing 24/7 home office now IT support
Some recommendations for C64 games;
Ace of Aces*
Aliens (Activision)
Barbarian (sword fighting)
Buggy Boy/Speed Buggy
Elite*
Ghostbusters*
Gyruss
Impossible Mission*
Leaderboard Golf
Lode Runner (Press CTRL-Z to turn off the iris effect!)
Mountie Mick's Death Ride
Raid over Moscow (once your plane is up, press F7 to open the hangar door)
Realm of Impossibility
Saucer Attack (shallow gameplay, great graphics)
Space Taxi
Speedball (I like it better than Speedball II)
Stealth
Street Sports Baseball
Stunt Car/Track Racer
Wizball*
Zaxxon (Synapse version)
*You'll probably need to read the manual for these games. Elite in particular is a rather complex game. It's probably not all that appealing in today's world, but it's pretty impressive that it's a fully 3D space combat and trading simulation in just 64K of RAM, on a 1Mhz machine with no 3D hardware.
I've played Elite, Elite II: Frontier, and Elite Dangerous. Love it!
One of my favorite systems ever. The library of games was extraordinary.
Agreed, it's huge!
Joystick ports - Some programmers thought it made sense to use port 1 for one player games, however port 1 shared some IO line with the keyboard, such that moving the joystick and pressing the button would be read by the C64 as keyboard input. So other programmers figured it made more sense to use port 2.
Alien Syndrome - I never felt this was a good port because of the terrible push-scrolling that requires you to get close to the edge to scroll the screen.
Aliens - It's not real obvious from the display, but you're basically turning inside a room, then when you click on the door, you go to an adjoining room. The map is HUGE and you have to find your way to the armory, the control room, etc. I never had this back then, and to be honest, I find the way it displays the rooms to be a little disorienting since it's hard to tell when you're looking at a different wall.
Arkanoid 2 - I liked the first one better because you could play it with paddle controllers.
Bionic Commando - Glitches like that were common when running PAL games on NTSC machines. When you see stuff like that, try PAL mode. In fact, you should probably assume that around 99% of the C64 games on the net are PAL mode. Also, there's a HORRIBLE American version that was written from scratch.
Commando - When you get to the point where the two enemy soldiers have a prisoner, always go to the left of the large mound. If you try to go to the right, you'll get stuck on that little rock every time. Also, play Commando Arcade, it has all the levels of the arcade version and some graphical improvements.
Nice video. It feels like home for me. Many memories. Many of these C64 games doesn't sound right in NTSC though
I loved this system growing up. Space Taxi was simply amazing!!
I'll check it out when I get to the "S" games!
Great video! Definitely check out the NES version of Cabal; I loved playing it when I had it.
Yeah it’s pretty good!
This thing double as furnace during winter. No need buy gas heater when Commode disk drive heat up room. Make toes under blanket very warm during inclement weather if put under sheet
LOL
It's funny - I had C-64 growing up, and had hundreds of games due to having a friend who had access to European pirated games, but I don't think I recognize any of the games you have. Edited: I had Bruce Lee and Buck Rogers.
Yea.. That was actually Beyond Castle Wolfenstien, and it was broken.. The map should not look like that. Find another disk image.. It also needs several keyboard commands so it will be helpful to find a scan of the manual.
I adore my Commodore 64!
I can see why!
@@GregsGameRoom When you get a chance, try out the Blagger series.
I grew up with one, should have kept it 💫
Yep, you should have!
That was fun! Especially blue max . Lol. Some very nice looking games there though. My first computer was Apple II+. The games weren't as good but we had just as much fun making bootlegs and trading them
A little disappointing. I'm obviously missing something...
Check out games like Cybernoid, Turrican, Last Ninja, Giana Sisters etc.
Basically the best C64 games, were made in the UK and Germany.
Tried Cybernoid, but it didn't work. Guess I'll have to find a different ROM...
@1:43 - this game feels a lot like ESB because this game was a spoof of ESB
More thoughts.. Blue Max.. You are right.. Press up to go up is the default, and the plane has to hit 100mph before you pull up. Play with the F-keys on the title screen and there is a "Pilot Controls" option to fix that. Also wanted to comment that a lot of these are PAL games. Some run fine on a North American C64, albeit faster; and others suffer graphical glitching, particularly on scrolling games. And for Blueprint, that is an artifact of a corrupted rom.. That was a common problem when people downloaded games from BBSes.. It corrupted during download. Usually it broke the game, but sometimes the corruption happened in the gfx data, the game would work with broken graphics.. Could also be a bad crack of the game.
Unfortunately they don't specify that they're PAL games when I downloaded them. :-/
@@GregsGameRoom Yea the lines are blurry for what proper PAL vs NTSC games are.. There were even PAL versions that made it to North America by way of BBSes. Back in the day I just figured they were broken because they were pirated. Didn't matter though, we played the heck out of them anyhow. Us NTSC users didn't know the difference. Generally, if the games were made in the early 80s, they were US games, and later games were more from Europe. Many games were released in both regions, so they played fine for the most part, except for the speed difference that makes enthusiasts argue over the right sound of the music... And on that note, the "warbly-ness" of the SID is kind of the defining characteristic of the SID. It had only 3 voices, so clever composers would play rapid arpeggios to make one voice play multiple notes.. It really had a unique and fantastic sound quality back in the day when compared to other computers with simple single voice beeps. Later synth chips had more voices, so that arpeggio trick wasn't needed. It (and the filters) really makes that sound very much "SID" that hadn't really been heard before, and not much since. A few NES games used that arpeggio trick, usually from those awesome European SID composers that went on to compose NES game soundtracks. Nowadays that style is an artistic choice to evoke nostalgia.
You really should of Checjed out "The Last Ninja 2" It's probably the greatest C64 game of all time.
This is just Part 1! I have a lot of games yet to try!
Attack of the camels? WTF? LOL! Altered Beast does not look bad on this thing. My brother rocked an Atari 400 when I was growing up. 😂
I love Jeff Minter's games. Llamatron, Hover Bover, Revenge of the Mutant Camels, and of course Tempest 2000 for the Jaguar!
Commando in game music is one of the most iconic tunes of the history of gaming,it does play too fast in this video,just like other games you are playing, use pal mode for european games next time or you’ll never enjoy them.
Unfortunately the ROMs I downloaded didn't specify that they were PAL.
@@GregsGameRoom I think also Bubble Bobble and Bionic Commando tunes play too fast, I think the problem is the same. Another suggestion if you allow me,please try european version of Cabal, it's much better than USA version 😏
I notice you didn't play the 3-games that were the sole reason for buying a C64:
Airborne Ranger
Sid Meier's Pirates!
and Gunship!
Really, any Microprose game is a must play for C64 owners. It's what set the C64 apart from other systems of the time and are quite historical in their own right.
Mate, you didn't start with some of the best C64 games like "Impossible Mission", "Pirates", "Raid Over Bungelling Bay" or "Raid Over Moscow"! "Blue Max" didn't work for you as you had the joystick in the wrong port. It was very common for most C64 games to have the joystick in port 2.
I’m going through them alphabetically.
You wanted to turn off Rob Hubbard's legendary Commando soundtrack for sound effects? Sacrilege!
Haha! It was just so loud! Plus it was too fast and it needed to be played in PAL mode.
Maybe you would have enjoyed some of the music if it was at the correct speed. You do realise almost every game here was running fast, yes?
you need yourself a 2 button controller or play with keyboard
I'm using an Xbox controller, but I'm only using 1 button for a more accurate experience.
I saw part 1 and 2 of this andi must say you only play the very early games and totaly miss those games that the C64 is famous for! Why is that? Mostly every game that would nowdays be called a AAA game, for the c64 isent in your Videos.
I'm just going through a list and trying the ones that sound interesting to me. I'll check out the consensus's favorite games at some point.
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