Good to see some C64 gamers on here...I don't feel quite as old now.

I remember a game called Voodoo Castle. I think it was a C64 game. It was very fun, kind of a choose your path text game.

Has anyone ever played Potty Pigeon? You flew around crapping on cars and getting twigs to make a nest. I don't think ive ever heard of anyone playing it besides me. I also used to play this Donald Duck game where you played as the nephews and got jobs to build a playground. Anyone know the name?

Nvermind, i found it, its called Donald Duck. That website mentioned earlier really is great

I made a LOT of really cool games in BASIC in the early ninties. I taught myself from looking at other programs source code. My favorite game I made was a hybrid RPG/Shooter where you traveled from planet to planet collecting rare ores and stuff. On the planets it was like a random dungeon crawl RPG, run around fight mosters (menu based) and collect items. Then when you went to another planet it went over-head shooter.

How has no one mentioned Zaxxon???? Best game ever.

-BlasTech

Lots of great mentions! I'll also throw in:

Friday the 13th - Go around and poke people with chainsaws or blunt weapons to see if they're Jason. Whenever someone dies, a picture of decapitated heads would appear accompanied with a piercing scream.

Kill Kadaffi's Children - a crappy game where you basically just move a aiming reticle and fire a machinegun on a row of different sized children. It was ridiculous, but funny in retrospect.

Strip Poker - gave me a reason to play poker...

@ RVP - Thanks for reminding me about Farmer's Daughter! Got to the end, but could never figure out how to finish it

Bruce Lee

Having a friend use the second controller (I used Atari 2600 sticks I bought from a friend) to control the Green Sumo (We called him "Hoshi") was some of the best gaming hilarity ever created.

Bards Tale 2

Many a Saturday afternoon was killed with me and 4 of my pals on this. We all had our own characters to gamble with.

May my main man "Richard Head" the Paladin R.I.P.

Archon

No one stood between me and the sniperesque attacks of my Unicorn on the battle field.

Strip Poker

Suzy, thank you for introducing me to 2 color breasts and for being so sweet to let me win. Melissa, you were a cheating whore who I will never go back to again!

Raid Over Moscow

80's Commie bashing entertainent at its best!

I could go on and on but my lunch break is about over. But the C64 still remains the best game system I've ever owned. I've never EVER had a device that has given me so much fun and entertainment before Worst thing we did was to get a C128...what was the point really? "GO 64"

1541's FOREVER!

I think there was a game called Cliffhanger that was pretty funny, too

Oh and such fond memories of me and my father typing in a billion pages of code from an issue of Compute's Gazette! to create a game such as Turnabout only to say "THATS IT!?" 20 hours later. Bonding at its best

And who could ever forget those Electronic Arts loading screens?...why I could start the disc then run up and make a sandwich, walk the dog, write a novel...and come back to say Skyfox all nice and ready to play!

Let me add:

Gateway To Apshai to my list of faves too. Alas my poor warrior was no match for a garter snake.

Questron

Was I the only one that would enter a town..grab my supplies, buy some new weapons etc and then oh...ROB THE BANK AND KILL ALL THE GUARDS before I left it? Classic.

And Legacy Of The Ancients which very well could be my favorite C64 game ever, I STILL have the packaging with the disks and the code wheel copy protection in my desk drawer at home...oh damnit I can't make up my mind they all kick ass!

BTW, if anyone could tell me the name of the game where you had to control this little yellow gondola around the watery canals of Italy catching baby ducks before they jumped into the water from the little houses while avoiding a pink hippo who would dunk you...I'll give em a cookie because I'll be damned if I can remember it Good game though!

just some of them, in no order
mule
jumpman
mars saga (available on the PC as Mines of Titan)
pirates! (pirates! gold is an update for dos and it will run in win98)
seven cities of gold (there is an updated version for dos)
autoduel
wasteland (available on pc)
starflight (also on pc)
impossible mission, never got very far but I liked it
castle wolfenstein and its sequel which was either beyond castle wolfenstein of beneath, can't remember
archon
raid on bungling bay
beach head
gunship
bruce lee (hte music was cheesy and great)

anyone remember the puzzle game where you had to guide a pinball thru a series of pipes?

The only games we had for my father's C64 were Slinky (a Q-bert ripoff) and Forbidden Forest (played off the tape drive.)

But man, I loved those games. Slinky had really funny "scenes" that played in between the levels, with Slinky destroying the monsters in funny ways.

And Forbidden Forest was BRUTALLY hard, in my memory. The damn bees kicked my ass all the time.

marble madness

...and people complain about load times today. I remember a few games in the C64 era where you type the LOAD "*",8,1 command and then went outside to play a bit instead of sit there and wait for the game to load.

I remember those days!

I think what is great is that the C64 Emulators on computers nowadays all emulate the loading time. From the CCS64 Faq:

"As the virtual 1541 disk drive is emulated to be as alike as a real 1541 disk, it is also as slow or fast as the real thing. On many games it takes several minutes on a real C64 with a 1541 diskdrive before the game is fully loaded."

I've been playing a few roms lately, and it is definitely true that it emulates the real thing!

Wizball
Turrican 1&2
IK+
Last Ninja 1 & 2

Am I the only person to play Telengard and SSI Baseball?? I loved both of those games and I could spend a ton of time trying to map out the different levels of Telengard.

Bard's Tale and Raid Over Moscow were great. Also enjoyed F-19 Stealth Fighter.

Bards Tale was on C64? I thought that was early PC days.

Almost any Infocom game. Eventhough I've tried some of the new text adventures, they don't feel the same.

Raid over Bungeling Bay

Beachhead ("Medic!")

Elite (the single best game ever made...period)

Racing Destruction Set(where's the track construction in PGR2?)

Lode Runner

M.U.L.E.

California Games

Summer Games (I miss EPYX so much)

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I loved my C64. I remember all my friends were getting game consoles and I wanted a computer. When I got the C64 all my friends wanted to play it instead of their Atari, Coleco, etc. I used to type in those basic programs as well. I was a real nerd back then. Even belonged to the Commodore club. Those were the days. Now I have an XBOX and in some ways it is so inferior.


There are so many that I played. Only a few come to mind though.

Phantasie (First RPG I completed)
Questron (help myself to the goods as well)
Little Computer People (the beginnings of real tv)
Hunchback Olympics (very funny)
Archon I & II (classic)
Mail Order Monsters
Space Taxi ("hey over here!")
Impossible Mission
Boulder Dash
Monster Trivia
Any Electronic Arts, SSI or Epyx game

My god this brings back memories, of load times.

One of my favorite games on the C64 was Micro League Wrestling and its two expansion packs. My god, I played the hell out of that game. Early crappy digitized animation...I mean primative. Nothing like a blotchy pink Hulk Hogan dropping the leg on Macho Man.

BC's Quest for tires
Lode Runner
Aztec adventure
hard hat mack
Summer/Winter Games
Spy hunter
Raid over moscow
Kareteka

Best.

Thread.

Ever.

By the way, if you haven't already done so, wander on over to the Gamebase 64 page (http://www.gamebase64.com).

- David Stein