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Had a ZX Spectrum then an Atari ST but I always associated the C64 with Llamas, can't remember the name of the game(s) though.

Mail Order Monsters
War in the South Pacific
Lords of Midnight
Defender of the Crown

I remember that disk drive was sloooooow.

I had elite on the bbc...Spent a whole year playing nearly everyday...slowly working my way up...then the tape got chewed of my save postion!!!
Twas one of the low points of my computer gaming career...

I still have 3 CBM64 computers in my collection... complete with Datacorder. I shudder to think how much money I spent on my original machine.. but here goes..

CBM64 £229
Monitor £229
1741DD £229
DW Printer £229
DM Printer £229
Koala Pad £80.00

Plus games... ££££

Hardware comes to £1225

I had a ZX Spectrum AND a BBC B at the same time.

Sigh.. I hope the wife dont see this cos my computing habit has cost us a small fortune [:D]

Mind yoo I did get a career out of it [8D]
Cheers

Jev

Ultima IV
Battles of Napoleon
Wasteland
Elite
Typhoon of Steel & Panzer Strike (prelims to Steel Panthers W@W)
Kings Bounty

ORIGINAL: diablo1

Typhoon of Steel & Panzer Strike (prelims to Steel Panthers W@W)

(Children of Kampfgruppe & Battlegroup).

My Top 15:
1.Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
2.Archon: The Light and the Dark
3.Defender of the Crown
4.Seven Cities of Gold
5.M.U.L.E.
6.Airborne Ranger
7.Mail Order Monsters
8.Gateway to Apshai
9.H.E.R.O.
10.Space Taxi
11.Spy vs Spy
12.Raid of Bungeling Bay
13.Racing Destruction Set
14.Adventure Construction Set
15.Wargame Construction Set #1

Here are five that come to mind. I no longer have the C64, but I think I actually do still have some of the games

1. Battles of Napolean ( I thought Matrix might be making a remake of this a while back, but that project faded)

2. Battlefront (yes, Battle Front from SSG)

3. Kampfgruppe

4. Knights in the Desert

5. War In Russia

There were numerous others, including A set of Civil War games also from SSG.

Thanks
Rick

While we're on the subject, anyone have Blue Powder, Grey Smoke by Garde? (for any machine... written by Ralph Bosson who also wrote Under Fire for AH)  It's one that's escaped me for some decades.

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While we're on the subject, anyone have Blue Powder, Grey Smoke by Garde? (for any machine... written by Ralph Bosson who also wrote Under Fire for AH)  It's one that's escaped me for some decades.

I had it at one time, but I dont know that it's one I still have.

Thanks
Rick

My dad still has the bbc b 32k in the attic. Think it cost him £400 in about 1983!

How could I forget Pirates! and Red Storm Rising? I´m getting so old.

Just want to make sure everyone knows that there are free C64 emulators like http://www.ccs64.com/ available and you can find pretty much every single game on various websites and they play just like they did back in the day. Load "*",8,1 and all that crap. Your main difficulty will be archaic copy protection like "what is the third word on page 34 of the manual"

That and finding out just how crappy 320x200 resolution really looks like on modern monitors

I learned english by reading Red Storm Rising manual. There were many good rpgs and others games but they were available only on disk and there was no way I could afford that. I read pool of radiance review through like 25 times dreaming I had a disk drive. I actually played the game through 20 years later.

Som good games were released on tape too but since I got c64 in 1988 many of them were no longer sold and the computer games mags had no info about them so I didnt even know they existed. It was not until like 20 years later that I found out that there were som good rpgs available for tape too back then.

I did know about Roadwar 2000 for tape since it was avaible for C64 tape in one store but only so shortly that I didnt manage to get a copy: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/26245 ... +2000.html. Most of my games were just platformers like batman the movie or som sports games like football. I also played lots of 2d shooters like "who dares wins" (I actually finished that game).

After getting pc I never played platformer/sport-games again.

1. Wizards of War
2. Pirates!
3. Defenders of the crown
4. Yi are Kung Fu
5. Track and Field

real computers had a membrane keyboard like the Atari 400!

[:D]

Ahh, the dawn of computer games.  In some ways the golden age too
 
1. Crusade in Europe - logged the most hours by far
2. Pirates!
3. Gunship
4. Defenders of the Crown
5. Starship Troopers
An honorable mention. Some soccer game that worked exactly one week before crashing.  Returned it to the store and they said 90% of the copies had been returned but it was awesome and perhaps the predecessor to all the modern management games (though in this one you actually played as well).
 
 

My favourites:

1. Elite
2. Kampfgruppe
3. War in the South Pacific
4. Pirates!
5. Wizards Crown

ok, not to forget Battles of Napoleon, Summer and Winter Games, Defenders of the Crown, Seven Cities of Gold and countless more jewels of computer gaming

Btw, most of these games were finished when they were published and didn´t need patching[8|] (ok, maybe I just forgot the bugs over the years...)

I still have the Red Storm Rising box here, (PC Version).  Though by the time I got it as a present, I didn't have any 5.25" diskette drives anymore.  I think I may have installed a version from abandonia just to get it to play on my box, but by then E.A. had SeaWolf released. 

Maybe I should give it another chance?

I still have a 5.25" floppy drive in my closet. I don't know how it would work with new motherboards. The discs really were floppy back then !