C64 owners - speak up!
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I got one. 
Bought it just as I left college as my childhood one died. Got it for £20 and a sack load of games.
My faves are Denaris, Armalyte, Turrican series, Impossible mission, Dizzy series etc.
I fancy one of them adaptors to enable the use of SD cards to load games.
Have you seen this:
http://www.lemon64.com/
Or heard this:
http://www.slayradio.org/home.php#queue
Bought it just as I left college as my childhood one died. Got it for £20 and a sack load of games.
My faves are Denaris, Armalyte, Turrican series, Impossible mission, Dizzy series etc.
I fancy one of them adaptors to enable the use of SD cards to load games.
Have you seen this:
http://www.lemon64.com/
Or heard this:
http://www.slayradio.org/home.php#queue
We had (have) one with the tape loader, lost hours to it as a kid. We had more games for it than I could count, alongside all of the cassettes full of demos that you got with the weekly/monthly magazines.
My personal favourites though were Xenon, 1943, and the Dizzy series.
The latter must be up there as one of the most brutally frustrating games series ever conceived. One fractionally mistimed jump and an entire morning's worth of progress wiped out in an instant. Even with the detailed walk-throughs printed in the magazines we never even got close to finishing any of them. The sheer frustration those games could produce was like nothing I've experienced since, I'm surprised I can still eat eggs.
The worlds were so richly detailed though, we just kept going back for more. Treasure Island Dizzy & Fantasy World Dizzy were the ones we made the most progress with, but we had a boxed set with 6 (I think) of them in.
Xenon was the game that I remember blowing me away in terms of the graphics, I played that game so much the tape stopped loading eventually
Many years later I got a PC version of it and it was awful in comparison.
We never got rid of ours and it is still packed away properly in my parent's loft along with all of the games. It hasn't been setup for years though. I remember getting Dune and subsequently Dune 2 for the first ever PC my parent's had and that marked the end of the C64 (and about 3 years of social life) for me.
I might have to dig it out now!
My personal favourites though were Xenon, 1943, and the Dizzy series.
The latter must be up there as one of the most brutally frustrating games series ever conceived. One fractionally mistimed jump and an entire morning's worth of progress wiped out in an instant. Even with the detailed walk-throughs printed in the magazines we never even got close to finishing any of them. The sheer frustration those games could produce was like nothing I've experienced since, I'm surprised I can still eat eggs.
The worlds were so richly detailed though, we just kept going back for more. Treasure Island Dizzy & Fantasy World Dizzy were the ones we made the most progress with, but we had a boxed set with 6 (I think) of them in.
Xenon was the game that I remember blowing me away in terms of the graphics, I played that game so much the tape stopped loading eventually
Many years later I got a PC version of it and it was awful in comparison.We never got rid of ours and it is still packed away properly in my parent's loft along with all of the games. It hasn't been setup for years though. I remember getting Dune and subsequently Dune 2 for the first ever PC my parent's had and that marked the end of the C64 (and about 3 years of social life) for me.
I might have to dig it out now!
Best soundtrack? Hard to not be impressed by how accomplished it still sounds and he's recently done a modern version. Can't beat the original though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daI0CFZa9Ww&li...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daI0CFZa9Ww&li...
Ved said:
You down with the 8-bit?
You could say that 
davek_964 said:
My main memory of C64 is "Way of the exploding fist". I suspect if I saw it now, it might not live up to my memory of it!
I got that and Fist II with my C64 way back when, loved them both. Fist II seemed to be an adventure, you had to go through forests and stuff, fighting opponents of varying degrees of difficulty. Never quite got my head around what I should really be doing, will look it up one of these days...I had one back in the 80's, but my other half killed it by plugging the 5 pin DIN power supply lead into the 5 pin DIN serial port! Why on earth they thought it was a good idea to use a DIN plug for the power supply is beyond me.
The funny thing about the incident was she said "I don't know how it broke, I never switched it on", completely missing the point that the power switch operated the power socket, not the serial port!
Cheers,
Steve
The funny thing about the incident was she said "I don't know how it broke, I never switched it on", completely missing the point that the power switch operated the power socket, not the serial port!
Cheers,
Steve
Had one from 1984 to around 1991 when I moved to the Sega Megadrive after one too many tape breakdowns!
Some of the soundtracks were remarkable, especially the stuff by Tim Follin and Rob Hubbard.
Turrican, Last Ninja and Wizball were the best games for me.
Some excellent games for the time with good playability / design.
Most of the games were hard as hell - most of the time when you ran out of lives you went back to the start.
Some of the soundtracks were remarkable, especially the stuff by Tim Follin and Rob Hubbard.
Turrican, Last Ninja and Wizball were the best games for me.
Some excellent games for the time with good playability / design.
Most of the games were hard as hell - most of the time when you ran out of lives you went back to the start.
I don't have one any more (due to house fire), but the first computer I played on, and the one I've possibly played most on (although did play CM2 a lot on an old PC) was a C64.
We never had many games, my favourites were Paperboy, Turrican 2, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, SWIV and Flimbo's Quest. We had another 20 or so games but that was it.
So many great soundtracks out there. Aforementioned Paperboy and Emlyn Hughes' International Soccer, but also Barry McGuigan's Boxing, Miami Vice, and an American Football game I can't remember the name of.
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing; and there's no doubt I'd still play on and listen to a few of these now.
We never had many games, my favourites were Paperboy, Turrican 2, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, SWIV and Flimbo's Quest. We had another 20 or so games but that was it.
So many great soundtracks out there. Aforementioned Paperboy and Emlyn Hughes' International Soccer, but also Barry McGuigan's Boxing, Miami Vice, and an American Football game I can't remember the name of.
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing; and there's no doubt I'd still play on and listen to a few of these now.
Used to have a c64 with the huge floppy drive and a final cartridge 2.
I presently own a plus4 with about 15 games, 1 button joystick and have the standard manual and the programming manual for it.
My favs on the c64 are spindizzy, head over heelz, outrun, operation wolf, theatre Europe, kick start 2 and masters of magik.
I presently own a plus4 with about 15 games, 1 button joystick and have the standard manual and the programming manual for it.
My favs on the c64 are spindizzy, head over heelz, outrun, operation wolf, theatre Europe, kick start 2 and masters of magik.
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