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Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 8:11 pm
by demyansk
For all you under 30's - this is what we grew up on, great graphics and 5 1/4" floppy drives

Oh man I still have a couple of these games laying around - oh wait I chucked them

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/34 ... g-classics

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:04 pm
by hadberz
I had Heart of Africa. I liked it. I think I played Seven Cities of Gold more though. :) I gave all my stuff to my brother-in-law, yep big mistake. :)

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:06 pm
by wings7
Awesome! Those were exciting times! [:)]

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 11:41 pm
by jamus34
Ahhh yes....many many fond memories of the C64 (well, to be honest I had the 128 but it had emulation mode for C64)

Wow though, I did not recognize any of those games.

For me it was
Mail order Monsters
Wasteland (still have the original manuals somewhere - pretty beat up though)
Bard Tale series
Ultima series
Robotech:CHI
Epyx (the "Games" series, Impossible Mission, etc)
Red Storm Rising and pretty much anything by Microprose (Gunship, Airborne Ranger, F19 Stealth Fighter)
Omega
Roadwar 2000 (to me one of the precursors to modern Rogue-likes; you literally could die after your first move)
Autoduel
4th and Inches

God I could go on and on. Many fun evenings

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:12 am
by CapnDarwin
I go back to epically great games like MULE, One onOne, Archon, anything Microprose or SSI, Carriers at War, Ultima 1-4 (including our U4 Quest of the Amazon total conversion mod - back in the mid 80s), Karateka, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Drool, Möbius, Omega (the tank building and programming game) and many more. Those were great times with a great system of that decade.

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:54 am
by demyansk
I loved all the games from ssg. I loved making those maps from the RUN5 magazine, I still have those magazines on the shelf

B1 Bomber
Some Panzer game can't remember the name
I loved Panzer East

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:52 am
by Hattori Hanzo
I still have my collection of "Computer Gaming World" magazines back from 80s and 90s.. [:)]

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 6:42 pm
by waltero
Some fun times playing MULE, Archon, Kennedy approach.

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 12:55 am
by Hattori Hanzo
"out of thread": why my avatar image do not show up in my messages ???

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:22 am
by Crossroads
I bought my C64 with my first summer job paycheck. Hunchback was the very first game I had. [:D]

Remember the joystick breakers? Daley Thompson Decathlon, International Soccer, Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics...

All Microprose games I had were pure gold. Most hours I logged were probably the Ultima series and Elite. I bought Elite Dangerous from Steam sales just for the nostalgy of having it on my disk again.

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:38 am
by chemkid
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RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:32 am
by Crossroads
Rich kid! I had a tape drive [8D]

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 10:20 am
by bairdlander2
My favs from back then Panzer Grenadier,Fields of Fire,Knights of the Desert

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 10:44 am
by wings7
ORIGINAL: chemkid

please remember what the 'android/ios-generation' is missing here - weekends were REAL WORK!!!
never visit friends without one(or 4!!) of these boxes!!! [:D] (...and enough fresh/free 664 blocks)

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the SWEAT!! [8D]

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That is great! [X(][:)] In the end, it all belongs in the Commodore museum! I still have most of my Apple II, DOS & early Windows game discs (and game boxes too!) [:)]

Patrick

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 10:55 am
by zakblood
was a BBC, and spectrum 48/128k boy myself, then went onto the Amiga and Atari ST, before moving to DOS, then windows 3.1, and then never came off windows for gaming again

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 6:35 pm
by Qwixt
I had the C64, then sold it off once I got the C128.

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 8:30 pm
by Zorch
My Atari 800 still works; it's very much like the C64.

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 9:40 pm
by jday305
My first computer was the commodore 64. My favorite games were the Ultima III & IV and Red Storm Rising. Spent many late night hours playing them.

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:13 pm
by Rosseau
I was too dumb to play ASL solitaire, and then came the Atari 800 48k, and Chris Crawford's Eastern Front 1941. That Atari must be worth something, Zorch!

RE: Commodore 64 - A Look back

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:58 pm
by Richie61
I spent days on Microprose F-15 Strike Eagle [:D] Oh and Red Storm Rising [&o]