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Confessions of a Commodore Kid

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Son, let me tell you what life was like for a young man before the internet...
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R.I.P. Archer MacLean Thank you for all the joy, wonder, and excitement that you gave us.
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Welcome to November ... 1983. 40 years ago this month, Beach-Head blasted onto the C64.
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My Favourite #C64 Activision Games No.1 Ghostbusters One of the first C64 games I played, I instantly fell in love with this & the C64. The fab theme tune, cool speech, unique & absorbing gameplay & the way it captures the film’s sense of humour is fantastic. A wonderful game.
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My Top 20 #C64 Firebird Games – No.1 Bubble Bobble Simply one of the greatest C64 games ever. A flawless conversion that’s beautifully made & plays just as well today as it did 35 years ago (there aren’t many games you can say that about). 100 screens of pure joy. Magnificent.
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My Favourite #C64 Elite Games - No.4 Commando Chris Butler’s conversion is a bit of a flawed gem. Yes, it’s abridged & sometimes glitchy when there’s a lot happening on screen, but it has plenty of charm, it feels great, it’s supremely playable, and the soundtrack is AMAZING.
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Top 20 C64 Ocean Games – No.9 Rambo - 1986 Rambo is a brilliant package with superb presentation, great graphics, and one of the greatest-ever C64 soundtracks. Its Commando-inspired gameplay is instantly addictive, and loads of fun to play.
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14 Bubs from the mighty Bubble Bobble. Not sure why the AMSTRAD one is blue. The Spectrum one is my favourite. 🤣
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My Favourite #C64 Elite Games – No.1 Ghosts 'n Goblins One of the C64’s all-time greatest games, Ghosts 'n Goblins has everything - excellent backgrounds & sprites, a superbly spooky theme tune & challenging and insanely addictive, compulsive gameplay. An absolute masterpiece.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games No.1 Impossible Mission The game that changed my life! I’d never seen anything like it in 1984. The speech, the animation, the atmosphere, the depth. It blew my 11-year-old mind & ignited a passion for the C64 that’s still burning 40 years later.
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Welcome to June ... 1986 and the magnificent Leader Board. #C64
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.10 Bruce Lee Bruce might be no great shakes in the graphics and sound department but its gameplay is second to none. Superbly designed, insanely addictive and hugely enjoyable, BL is fantastic - especially with a Yamo-playing buddy.
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The 2022 #C64 Advent Calendar – Day 23 Ghostbusters (Dec 1984) Written in just 6 weeks, David Crane’s Ghostbusters is a stone-cold C64 classic. Slick presentation, nice graphics, cool music, hilarious speech and original and absorbing gameplay combine to make a brilliant game.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.2 Leader Board One of the 80's greatest games, Leader Board is magnificent. The animation is beautiful, but it’s the gameplay that makes it. Easy to pick up & play but hard to master, it’s pitched perfectly & still plays beautifully today.
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Happy 40th birthday, old friend. Man, we had some fun times when we were young.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.6 Winter Games Another awesome Olympics-inspired Epyx release, Winter Games is an innovative & engrossing sports game with ace presentation & gorgeous graphics. My favourite events are Hot Dog, Biathlon & Bob Sled. Simply wonderful.
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My Favourite #C64 System 3 Games No.4 International Karate Archer MacLean followed up Dropzone with one of the C64’s greatest beat em ups. Beautiful backdrops, liquid animation, fast & furious gameplay & one of the greatest-ever SIDs, all come together to make an amazing title.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.4 California Games The last great instalment of Epyx’s original games series is one of the C64’s most polished titles. The usual outstanding standards apply with fabulous design, wonderful graphics, plenty of humour and fantastic gameplay.
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Top 20 C64 Ocean Games – No.8 Rainbow Islands - 1990 Another cracking arcade conversion (this time from Craftgold) Rainbow Islands is a fantastic game. Colourful and superbly drawn graphics, great music (though a bit annoying after a while!) and incredibly addictive gameplay.
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What do you mean, there's a Commodore museum?! How did I not know this?!
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My Favourite #C64 System 3 Games No.3 The Last Ninja TLN blew me away when I first played it. With gorgeous graphics & wonderful music, it’s hugely atmospheric & totally absorbing. Only the fiddly controls & annoying stream sections prevent it from being an all-time C64 great.
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My Favourite #C64 System 3 Games - No.1 IK+ One of my all-time favourite games, IK+ is outstanding. Beautiful animation, gorgeous backgrounds, sublime music, thrilling gameplay, loads of humour, & the pièce de résistance (the 3rd fighter) is a stroke of genius. A masterpiece.
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My Favourite #C64 Hewson Games – No.2 Uridium Smoother than a cashmere codpiece and with stunning bas-relief graphics and heart-attack-inducing frantic gameplay, Uridium is a superb game. It was like having an arcade machine in your own home in 1986. Incredible.
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My Favourite #C64 Hewson Games – No.1 Paradroid One of the greatest games of the 80s, Paradroid has everything. Incredible attention to detail, an intense atmosphere, sleek bas-relief graphics & innovative & incredibly compelling gameplay that hooks you and never ever lets go.
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My Favourite #C64 Elite Games No.2 Buggy Boy Although it doesn’t look much like the original, C64 Buggy Boy captures the spirit of the arcade game superbly. Fast 3D, beautifully responsive controls & bucketloads of super-fun playability make it one of the 64’s greatest racers.
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Between 1984 and 1990 Elite Systems released over forty titles for the C64. From some of the greatest C64 games ever made to some of the platform’s biggest disappointments, their body of work is a real mixed bag that's peppered with big-name licence games. Here is my Top 20.
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The final game to feature on the 2023 #C64 calendar is Chris Butler's conversion of Commando. Published by Elite 38 years ago (!) in December 1985, it's an incredibly playable and addictive game with great graphics and an outstanding Rob Hubbard soundtrack.
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My Fave #C64 Mastertronic Games No.1 Kikstart 2 While Kikstart could be frustrating, the sequel gets everything right. The graphics are ace, the design & gameplay are much improved and the bonus construction kit is amazing. An incredible package for an unbelievably tiny £1.99!
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Top 20 C64 Ocean Games – No.6 Operation Wolf A superb conversion of the Taito coin-op, Operation Wolf is an exciting game with great graphics & addictive gameplay. The option to play with a mouse to retain the feel of the original is brilliant, & amazingly it’s all in one load.
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Think it's time to take a break. Not closing the account, just gonna have a little holiday. Take care you lot.
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Top 20 C64 Ocean Games – No.4 Platoon - 1987 Ocean produced numerous awful movie-licence games but in 1987 they finally delivered the goods with this superb title. Brilliantly atmospheric with varied and absorbing gameplay, it’s arguably the best movie-themed game on the C64.
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Top 20 C64 Ocean Games – No.2 Wizball - 1987 An unusual and super-slick shoot-'em-up, Wizball was like nothing else when it arrived on the C64 scene in the summer of 1987. Graphics are excellent, Galway’s soundtrack is superb & the gameplay is original & incredibly compulsive.
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My Favourite C64 Elite Games No.6 Airwolf Based on the 80s TV show of the same name, Airwolf is a Fort Apocalypse-esque helicopter game in which you rescue scientists from the underground complex of the evil General Zaranov. Nice graphics & music & tough but addictive gameplay.
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Check out this Hungarian browser-based c64 emulator from Kriszz. It's still under development, but already over 300 games can be played on it. Works best (for me at least) in Firefox.
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My Favourite #C64 Imagine Games No.1 Hyper Sports One of the greatest arcade conversions on the C64. Excellent graphics, an outstanding Martin Galway soundtrack & instantly addictive gameplay with great longevity plus a superb 2-player mode. And all in one load! Amazing! ❤️it.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.9 Pitstop 2 Arguably the greatest C64 racer, Pitstop 2’s split-screen head-to-head action was jaw-dropping in 1985. With ace graphics & fast and furious cramp-inducing gameplay, PS2 is a fantastic game – especially when played with a friend.
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My Favourite #C64 Mastertronic Games - No.4 Kikstart Inspired by the popular 80s TV show, this head-to-head motorbike racer can be tricky, but the satisfaction of completing a course is immense & crossing the finish line a split second before your mate is as good as 8-bit gets!
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My Favourite C64 US Gold Games No.7 Summer Games 2 How do you follow the incredible Summer Games? Easy - with an even more stunning sports game. 8 brilliantly designed & incredibly playable new events all with excellent graphics, beautiful animation & superb sound. Magnificent.
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My Favourite #C64 Elite Games - No.3 Ikari Warriors Elite delivered one of the C64’s best arcade conversions with this superb effort from coding genius John Twiddy (Last Ninja/LN2). Bloody hard but great fun (esp. in 2-player mode) it’s packed with addictive run & gun goodness.
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My Favourite #C64 Imagine Games No.2 Green Beret The classic Cold War run & gun game got an awesome conversion thanks again to Dave C. Great graphics, a superb Galway soundtrack & tons of challenging but compulsive gameplay make this one of my favourite C64 arcade action games.
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I never saw the point of a smartwatch. Until now.
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Top 20 C64 Firebird Games – No.4 Elite The legendary space trading and blasting game docked onto the C64 in early 1985. The Trumbles and The Blue Danube (a la 2001) are added to the mix, and it maintains the original's brilliance. A unique and incredibly engrossing experience.
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I’m still feeling down today by the death of Sir Clive. It doesn’t matter what computer you had as a kid, if you grew up in the 80s in the UK and were into computer games, those glorious days simply wouldn’t have existed without him. (1/5)
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My favourite C64 Arcade Conversions – No.1 Bubble Bobble Firebird 1987 Simply one of the greatest C64 games ever and a flawless conversion. Beautifully made and plays just as well today as it did 35 years ago. There aren’t many games you can say that about. Magnificent.
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Welcome to April ... 1985. Elite blasts on to the #C64 .
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.30 Blue Max Take Zaxxon, develop the gameplay and switch the setting from deep space to World War One, and what do you get? The brilliant Blue Max. An absorbing and exciting game from the C64’s early years that’s still very playable today.
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My Favourite #C64 Elite Games No.12 Bomb Jack Bomb Jack has colourful graphics & nice music but with its too-big sprites & squashed playing area it doesn’t feel like the arcade original. Not totally awful but a missed opportunity. It could’ve been Bubble Bobble-level brilliant.
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My Fave #C64 System 3 Games No.2 Last Ninja 2 LN2 improves on its predecessor in every way. The graphics are amazing, the music's exceptional, the controls are much better, the fighting/puzzling gameplay is more developed & rewarding & the streams have gone. A stunning game.
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Great C64 Moments #20 – Ghostbusters David Crane's Ghostbusters was another reason why millions of kids wanted a C64. This fab tie-in had it all - brilliant music, superb speech, loads of humour & original, fun gameplay. And if all that wasn’t enough, it even had karaoke too!
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My Favourite #C64 Elite Games No.19 Paperboy A below-par conversion of the arcade original, C64 Paperboy was a disappointment. There’s some initial enjoyment to be had, but the dreary visuals, cramped play area & dodgy collision detection soon turn fun into frustration.
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A huge thank you to the enormously talented @aksel_design for creating this amazing image of my #C64 obsessed childhood. I absolutely love it. Please give him a follow and check out his art at
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Great C64 Moments #70 – Leader Board One of the C64’s all-time greats swung onto the scene in June 1986. Beautifully designed, with gorgeous animation & superb gameplay, Leader Board is easy to get into but hard to master. One of the greatest sports sims of the 80s. Magnificent.
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My Fave C64 Coders No.1 Andrew Braybrook Diverse, original, technically astonishing & superb to play, AEB’s games have it all. From Gribbly to ace future-racer Alleykat, arcade-quality blaster Uridium & the peerless Paradroid - WOW - & his ZZAP! diary was inspirational. Legend.
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My Favourite #C64 Activision Games No.3 LCP Following ZZAP's legendary review, I couldn’t wait to get hold of this. Sadly, the tape version omitted some features, but it was still hugely enjoyable. An original concept superbly executed & packed with charm & humour. Wonderful.
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My Favourite #C64 Imagine Games – No.4 Arkanoid A fantastic conversion of the arcade classic, C64 Arkanoid is an excellent game. Lovely graphics, superb music & sound, and insanely addictive gameplay make this one of the most playable games on the system.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.14 Summer Games Released to coincide with the 1984 LA Olympics, Summer Games was a milestone in C64 gaming. Its state-of-the-art presentation, graphics and gameplay raised the bar massively and launched a series of outstanding sports games.
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My Favourite #C64 Activision Games No.9 River Raid One of the first vertically scrolling shoot-em-ups on the C64, this ancient blaster has colourful graphics, silky smooth scrolling & stacks of fast & frantic action. An absolute blast to play, River Raid is a bona fide classic.
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My Favourite #C64 Activision Games No.4 Decathlon Released in time for the 1984 LA Olympics, Decathlon is a superb athletics game. With excellent animation & addictive but punishing (who can forget the torturous 1500m?!) joystick-destroying gameplay, it's brutal but great fun.
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Weird & Wonderful #C64 Games - No.7 Ghostbusters David Crane’s Ghostbusters is a stone-cold C64 classic, but it’s also a pretty unusual game. Nice graphics, ace music, hilarious speech and odd but original and absorbing gameplay combine to make a brilliant game. “He slimed me!”
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The story behind the C64 conversion of Out Run is a thought-provoking and unexpectedly emotional one. Check out 'Outrunnning on Empty - The boy behind the biggest coin-op conversion of the 80s'
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My Favourite #C64 Activision Games – No.18 Rampage Activision spawned some of the C64’s worst-ever arcade conversions (Karnov, Quartet, Enduro Racer, Afterburner🤮) but their version of Rampage, with its cute graphics & hugely enjoyable 2-player co-op gameplay, is a smasher.
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The 2022 #C64 Advent Calendar – Day 24 International Soccer (Dec 1983) Astounding in 1983, International Soccer set the standard for C64 footy games. With large well-animated sprites & fantastic gameplay – particularly against a mate - it’s one of the 64’s all-time greats.
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Weird & Wonderful #C64 Games - No.5 Wizball A quirky & super-slick shoot-'em-up, Wizball was like nothing else when it arrived on the C64 in the summer of ‘87. The graphics are excellent, Galway’s soundtrack is gorgeous & the gameplay is original & ultra-addictive.
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Welcome to May ... 1986 and the magnificent International Karate.
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My Favourite C64 Beat ‘em ups No.3 The Last Ninja System 3 1987 Amazing when first released, The Last Ninja is one of the biggest selling games in C64 history. A stunning combination of adventuring, puzzling & fighting, it was original, exciting & totally engrossing. Awesome.
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My Favourite #C64 Elite Games – No.7 1942 The classic vertically scrolling WW2-set shooter blasted onto the C64 just in time for Christmas 1986. With simple, kill-everything-in-sight gameplay, it’s hardly complex, but it’s plenty of fun if you’re a shoot ‘em up lover.
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My Favourite #C64 Activision Games No.16 Barry McGuigan's Boxing Arguably the best boxing game on the C64, BMWCB is an absolute knock-out. With nice graphics, great animation & management elements that add a greater depth of gameplay, it’s so much more than just a beat ‘em up.
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My Favourite C64 Beat ‘em ups No.1 IK+ System 3 1987 IK+ has it all. Gorgeous, fluid animation, an awesome Hubbard soundtrack, infectious playability, a wicked sense of humour, fun mini-games & a ground-breaking 3rd fighter adding infinitely more varied gameplay. Outstanding.
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My Favourite #C64 Activision Games No.13 H.E.R.O. Exploring caverns for lost miners with a prop pack, dynamite & laser is terrific fun. A seemingly simple game initially, you soon discover it has considerable depth (sorry). A superb combination of exploration & arcade action.
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Top 20 C64 Ocean Games – No.1 Frankie Goes to Hollywood A mix of adventure, shooter & detective game, Frankie is unique. Graphics & music are fab but it's the compelling gameplay, that superbly captures the 1980s fear of nuclear war, that makes it an experience like no other.
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My Favourite C64 Beat em ups No.2 Way of the Exploding Fist Melbourne House 1985 Although later games surpassed it technically, nothing matched the initial wow-factor of Fist. Outrageous in 1985, it was a computer game the likes of which hadn’t been seen before. Magnificent.
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Top 20 C64 Firebird Games – No.3 Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo So much more than a beat ‘em up, Samurai Warrior is a beautifully presented, inventive & absorbing game with ace graphics, a cool zen atmosphere & superb, varied gameplay. One of my fave C64 titles.
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My Top 20 #C64 Firebird Games – No.2 The Sentinel Breathtaking in conception & execution, The Sentinel was like nothing I’d seen before. A stunning achievement & an outstanding game that’s compulsive & utterly absorbing (sorry, couldn’t resist). Unique & unforgettable.
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My Favourite Games of 1987 - No. 7 The Last Ninja Brilliant graphics, an awesome atmosphere and immersive gameplay make this isometric arcade adventure / beat 'em up an unforgettable experience. A stunning achievement, an excellent game and a true 80s classic.
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My Favourite #C64 Imagine Games – No.6 Yie Ar Kung Fu The hugely influential beat ‘em up received a fine arcade conversion by Ocean/Imagine stalwart Dave Collier. Nice, colourful graphics, a fantastic Martin Galway soundtrack and stacks of fast and furious fighting action.
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My Favourite C64 Tie-in Games No.4 Ghostbusters Activision 1984 One of the first C64 games I played, Ghostbusters blew me away with its amazing speech, funky theme tune & innovative gameplay. A feel-good game that's almost as enjoyable as the film. Bustin’ makes me feel good!
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My Fave C64 Arcade Adventures No.2 Last Ninja 1/2 System 3 1987/8 The Last Ninja’s mix of combat & isometric arcade adventuring was stunning in 1987 & in '88 LN2 was even better. Brilliantly designed with awesome graphics, ace music & enthralling gameplay, they’re outstanding
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My Fave C64 Race Games No.1 Pitstop 2 Epyx 1984 Part-coded by Impossible Mission’s Dennis Caswell, PS2 was mind-blowing in '84. The speed, the exhilarating cramp-inducing head-to-head action & the risk/reward pit stop strategy put it in pole position on my list. Magnificent.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games No.22 Beach-Head The first of many brilliant titles from the Carver brothers (and the first US Gold release) Beach-Head’s innovative mini-game design put it head & shoulders above its 1983 contemporaries & established it as a landmark C64 game.
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My Favourite C64 Beat ‘em ups No.6 Last Ninja 2 System 3 1988 The superb sequel took the original and super-charged it. The graphics are outstanding & superbly detailed, the soundtrack is awesome and the gameplay is utterly absorbing. A very worthy sequel to a legendary game.
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My Favourite C64 Coders No.3 Archer MacLean Archer only made 3 C64 games, but my goodness they were awesome. Dropzone is a thrilling blaster, International Karate is a flawless one-on-one fighter and IK+ is one of my all-time faves & IMO one of the greatest ever C64 games.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.18 Raid Over Moscow The follow-up to Beachhead is another, even better, war-themed arcade game. Its 6 mini-games (a la Beachhead) capture 80s Cold War tensions brilliantly. Extremely atmospheric and incredibly playable, it’s a quality game.
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My Favourite C64 Platformers No.1 Impossible Mission Epyx 1983 My all-time favourite C64 game. When I first played it in 84 it blew my mind; the speech, animation, depth of gameplay was like nothing I'd ever seen. It still plays superbly today, and I still absolutely adore it.
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before there was CGI...
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My Favourite C64 Platformers No.3 Bruce Lee Datasoft 1984 This combination of platforming, collecting, and beat ‘em up-ing is an absolute beauty. Like Lode Runner, graphics and sound are functional, but the design and gameplay are outstanding. A stone-cold classic.
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Got to admit, this AMSTRAD keyboard is rather nifty.
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Great C64 Moments No 10 – International Soccer Its early killer app, I.S. must've sold millions of C64s. Amazing in 1983, it didn’t just look good, it played like a dream, showed off the C64 as a superb gaming platform & set the bar for footy games for the rest of the decade.
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My Favourite Arcade Games of 1987 – No.2 Operation Wolf Your mission: Infiltrate enemy base. Shoot the shit out of it. Rescue 5 hostages. The ‘gun’ on the front of the cab was what made Op Wolf so cool, transforming nerdy kids into Rambo for a while for just 20p. Marvellous.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.3 World Games Picking your favourite of the Games series is tough but World just edges Cali for me. I love its innovation, its humour, its attention to detail, its presentation and most of all its wonderfully varied and joyful gameplay.
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Releasing over 100 C64 games in just 5 years, Firebird were one of the most prolific publishers of the 1980s. From budget belters to magnificent masterpieces, they did it all. Here are my Top 20 C64 Firebird Games.
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Top 20 C64 Firebird Games – No.5 Thrust This Gravitar-inspired title is one of the greatest budget games ever. Easy to pick up and play but almost impossible to put down, with a stonking-good Hubbard title track and simple but atmospheric graphics, it’s a magnificent game.
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The 2022 #C64 Advent Calendar – Day 21 Commando (December 1985) Imperfect but incredibly playable, Commando is something of a guilty pleasure. Yes, it has levels missing and is glitchy at times but the music is awesome, the controls are superb and it’s tremendous fun to play.
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games No.15 Spy Hunter Developed initially as a James Bond tie-in (see cars with guns/tyre-slashers & amphibian vehicles) Spy Hunter transitioned to the C64 very well. A quality conversion with nice graphics, a funky theme tune & fantastic playability.
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My Favourite Games of 1988 – No. 2 Last Ninja 2 Beautiful graphics, 12 incredible tunes, & ultra-absorbing gameplay, Last Ninja 2 is a magnificent combination of martial arts & arcade adventure puzzles. One of the C64’s greatest ever games, it is, in every way, a true classic.
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My Favourite #C64 Activision Games No.17 Rescue on Fractalus Not for those of a nervous disposition, RoF is rammed with suspense. Blasting Jaggis, saving pilots & being terrorised by aliens is ace! (Knock-knock) Sorry, someone’s at the door. I won’t be a second…. AAARRRGGGHH!
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I'm a bit tardy this month, but better late than never, eh? Welcome to July ... 1986 and Green Beret from Imagine. Woooooo! Wooooo!
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My Favourite #C64 US Gold Games – No.37 Kung Fu Master A solid conversion of the classic scrolling brawler, Kung Fu Master has decent graphics & a nice rendition of the classic dum-diddy-dum-diddy theme tune. The gameplay is spot on & it's very faithful to the source material.
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