C64 coming to VC

[thelocaluk]

Anyone old enough to remember the birth of video games and home pc's will know what the C64 is. Well Euro VC will later this year be getting the back catalogue of all these old classics from this pc priced 500 wii points a game.

[huzzellio]

I LOVE THE C64!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was the second machine I ever owned.

I want The Last Ninja 2 to appear on VC!!

[munkle]

I LOVE THE C64!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was the second machine I ever owned.

I want The Last Ninja 2 to appear on VC!!

Classic game. I'd like to play Skool Daze again! lol! or The Incredible Shrinking Fireman ;)

500 points a games a bit steep. I'd have preferred to see a half dozen downloadable bundles, or 5 for 500 points split into genres. But then they'd probably lump all the detritus together.

One of my fave games was trashman, a game about being a bin man. Who said simulations were boring?

[thelocaluk]

One of my fave games was trashman, a game about being a bin man. Who said simulations were boring?

So you've always aimed high in life, nothing wrong with being ambitious :p :D

EDIT: forgot to add I was a Skool Daze fan and would have to buy that if it came out.

[munkle]

So you've always aimed high in life, nothing wrong with being ambitious :p :D

EDIT: forgot to add I was a Skool Daze fan and would have to buy that if it came out.

I've never tried mirroring my gaming ambitions with my real life ones, thank God! Can you imagine? have you ever wanted to be a moustachioed Italian plumber? Hmmm ... Sounds quite appealing really ;)

back 2 Skool was great too, but i don't think it ever appeared on the C64. Maybe we'll also see Spectrum downloads.

[ben93]

man wii needs to get some kind of hard drive

[munkle]

Wouldn't it be great if this developed to the Amiga too? Some great memories ... Monkey Island, Sensi Soccer, Lemmings.

Bet I couldn't get 1 leg in my 26" waist jeans now! lol!

[Junior]

Was the C64 the commondore 64. The thing the old people played back in the stone age*Cough*Local,Sparky,Huzzelio,Munkle*Cough*:p

[thelocaluk]

Was the C64 the commondore 64. The thing the old people played back in the stone age*Cough*Local,Sparky,Huzzelio,Munkle*Cough*:p
Not me, I was a speccy fanyboy, thats Spectrum 48k to you junior;)

When these two machines were out in the 80's there was as much rivalry then as there is now in the next gen console wars:)

[huzzellio]

Was the C64 the commondore 64. The thing the old people played back in the stone age*Cough*Local,Sparky,Huzzelio,Munkle*Cough*:p
Ooooooh yeeeeah! Check out these graphics Junior!! PS3 isn't a patch on this!

http://www.thegamesofmylife.com/wp-content/lastninja21.png

[alibombaye]

OH wow.. Would we require a tape player plugin to the wii to load these games.. :-)

[huzzellio]

For a truly authentic feel, we should have to wait 10 mins while we watch a load of flashing multi-coloured lines onscreen. Once the 10 mins is up the flashing lines stop and the game does bugger all!! Rewind tape and try again!!!

[thelocaluk]

For a truly authentic feel, we should have to wait 10 mins while we watch a load of flashing multi-coloured lines onscreen. Once the 10 mins is up the flashing lines stop and the game does bugger all!! Rewind tape and try again!!!
hmmmm todays kids missed out on many a fustrating load time. As much as I'd like to reminise, I don't miss the tape players lol

[huzzellio]

As much as I'd like to reminise, I don't miss the tape players lol
Fantastic for piracy though lol:o

[thelocaluk]

Fantastic for piracy though lol:o
Yes, funny thing was tape may have been an easy format to copy, the originals were so unreliable and poor quality that a copy was even less likely to work, how perfect an anti piracy format can you get LOL

I use to also buy the mags that were full of code, allowing you to type away for ours to produce a very simple "stick man" game, how easily entertained we all were back then :D

[ben93]

Ooooooh yeeeeah! Check out these graphics Junior!! PS3 isn't a patch on this!

http://www.thegamesofmylife.com/wp-content/lastninja21.png

haha nice 1 huzzelio

[col]

I use to also buy the mags that were full of code, allowing you to type away for ours to produce a very simple "stick man" game, how easily entertained we all were back then :D
I used to do that aswell, pokes and peeks wasnt it. Took forever to type them in. Most of them never worked.

Ooooooh yeeeeah! Check out these graphics Junior!! PS3 isn't a patch on this!

http://www.thegamesofmylife.com/wp-content/lastninja21.png
Wow that brings back memories.

Dont think i will waste points on buying these, as you can get these for free to play on your pc.

[ben93]

well u can get all the other for free on pc as well lol

[col]

One of my favourites. Which in later years i found out it was impossible to complete.

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/J/Jet_Set_Willy_1.png

[ben93]

lol why was that?

[huzzellio]

Ooooh, nostalgia fest:

http://www.thegamesarena.co.uk/video%20game%20pictures/c64a.jpg
Emlyn Hughes International Soccer anyone?

http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/assets/images/EHIS15.gif

[col]

lol why was that?
The game was about some bloke who had a party in his mansion and his wife was p****d off with him because of the mess. Well you had to go around all of the rooms in the mansion collecting glasses and bottles before you were allowed to go to bed. The bug was something to do with the attic room, when you entered it triggered off coruption in the game meaning you die instantly in other rooms.

[col]

The way of the Exploding fist.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/C64_explodingfist.png

Rambo
http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/assets/images/RamboLoading.gif

[ben93]

lol this is funny to look at

[col]

My dad still has the Commopdore 64 with loads of games in his loft.

Best footie game on the C64 IMO
http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/assets/images/microprose_soccer.jpg

[ben93]

lol well its gotta be better than fifa o8 and pro evo 08 lol

[Wii Spark]

Wouldn't it be great if this developed to the Amiga too? Some great memories ... Monkey Island, Sensi Soccer, Lemmings.

Ahhhhhh, Monkey Island, brilliant, I remember playing MI2 on the Amiga. I think I've still got the original discs as well, (all 12 of them, :o ) and all of them for pc.


Was the C64 the commondore 64. The thing the old people played back in the stone age*Cough*Local,Sparky,Huzzelio,Munkle*Cough*:p


Cheeky young whippersnapper, if it wasn't for us old uns buying the games for these classic systems, then maybe the consoles we have today wouldn't be around.


Not me, I was a speccy fanyboy, thats Spectrum 48k to you junior;)

When these two machines were out in the 80's there was as much rivalry then as there is now in the next gen console wars

Speccy 48K starter pack with four game tapes, the only ones I can remember though are Punch & Judy (side scrolling platform game) and Treasure Island (rpg, with pirates & treasure) Oo Arr Jim lad, :-D.
I think another was Chucky Egg, but can't remember much about that one.

[ben93]

this is before the nes right?

[Wii Spark]

this is before the nes right?


Well before the NES.

[ben93]

just as i suspected

[huzzellio]

The way of the Exploding fist.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/C64_explodingfist.png

I couldn't get passed 5th dan on that game :(

[ben93]

lol from that to brawl, what a jump

[huzzellio]

My favourite racer of its time:

Stunt Car Racer
http://www.tdubel.com/emulaattorit/kuvat/c64pelit/stuntcar.gif

[ben93]

man these games look weird lol, how can you get peaseure out of it?

[huzzellio]

man these games look weird lol, how can you get peaseure out of it?
I know you don't believe it but at the time this was cutting edge. We looked at these games in the same way that you look at games now.

In 24-25 years you will look back on todays games with your rose tinted specs saying how great they were. Then a teenager will say "man these games look weird lol, how can you get pleasure out of it?"

It will happen!

[ben93]

will irt, i honestly doubt that because i dont think were gonna get much better, at least in graphics anyway, maybe soon theyll do fully motion sensitive maes where you wear a suit

[huzzellio]

When we hit the graphical wall (which still isn't that close yet) developers will consider other ways to improve gaming.

Oh, and I remember saying "I don't think graphics can get better than this" lol.

The Games: Winter Edition - Ski Jump. WHOOP WHOOP
http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/the_games_-_winter_edition_06.gif

[ben93]

do you seriously think were far from the graphical wall? i think were nearly there now, your not gonna get much better than ps3, after tht itll turn to processing power

[huzzellio]

Don't get me wrong, I think graphics do look very detailed but I don't believe we are that close yet. It's funny, when I first got a 360 I though "jesus, that's realistic", but the more I play the more I can see that they're just graphics. When you really look at it, we aren't that close.

[ben93]

well they can already mae characters look quite life like now, when you look at the people on the ps3 they look almost real, i admit that we can improve but i dont think we can have muh more of an improvement

[huzzellio]

I think proper photo realism in games will come when they can finally put proper textures on surfaces. At the moment if you look at a brick wall in a game you simply get a flat surface with a wallpaper skin to make it look realistic.

When all textures finally have real textures then graphics will have truly achieved photo realism.

Unfortunately with processors hitting a development problem, I fear it's a long way off.

[ben93]

i see what you meen with the textures, but to be honest photorealism in agmes would be really weird to me

[huzzellio]

It would be a bit surreal but that will happen in the end :)

[ben93]

it would make you feel bad as itll look like ure killing a real person in shooting games and itll have lifelike reactions

[munkle]

I wouldn't want to see graphics photo-realistic, I'd rather there be a clear distinction between real-life and gaming. It's all becoming a bit too dystopian and cyber-punkish for my liking.

But, this thread has got me sooooo damn nostalgic. Treasure Island Dizzy, endless text adventures (The Helm, LOTR, The Hobbit etc) Hungry Horace, Frak, Head Over Heels (and various other isometric adventures). Paradroid.

Some great additions guys, particularly Emlyn Hughes and Stunt Car Racer. Loved those games.

In addition: It'd be great to have a photo-realistic game called Celebrity Ass-Kicker. I'd love to sort some of those self-indulgent *******s out.

[huzzellio]

Yeah, Emlyn Hughes was one of my favourite games.

Munkle mentioning Treasure Island Dizzy (made by Codemasters) reminded me of another classic game by Codemasters:

BMX Simulator
http://www.classicamiga.com/images/stories/jreviews/games/B/bmx_simulator_03.png

In addition: It'd be great to have a photo-realistic game called Celebrity Ass-Kicker. I'd love to sort some of those self-indulgent *******s out.
Wouldn't it be great to punch a realistic looking Vernon Kay into oblivion!!!!

[munkle]

Lol! Classic! I used to have something called the Graphic Adventure Creator, which enabled you to (believe it or not) create graphic adventures. Quite a cool kit. I remember trying to do a Bill and Ted adventure on it. Talk about copyright infringement! lol!

I'd tell myself I wouldn't want to play these games again, that nostalgia and reminiscence blurs things, that time and change mean we should leave such things alone ... But come on, these games really were great. And I think the best thing was that they made us use our imaginations more.

In my humble opinion anyway.

Anyone remember Creatures? Or creatures 2? By Thalamus I think.

Huzzellio, just noticed your Vernon comment and couldn't agree more. Or put a bullet in that freaky Winehouse creature ;)

[huzzellio]

Anyone remember Creatures? Or creatures 2? By Thalamus I think.

No, I don't remember that actually, I thought I'd heard of all the C64 games under the sun lol.

Huzzellio, just noticed your Vernon comment and couldn't agree more. Or put a bullet in that freaky Winehouse creature ;)
I bet if she shook her beehive out she'd find loads of bullets falling out. WHY DO THEY ALWAYS MISS??

[munkle]

I bet if she shook her beehive out she'd find loads of bullets falling out. WHY DO THEY ALWAYS MISS??

Lmao! It's cos she's got the shakes, it must be hard to plug someone who can't stand still for more than a millionth of a second! ;)

Creatures were great games. The last one had graphics to rival the NES, seriously. Great stuff. I'd certainly recommend those if they came out.

Wonder what other consoles I'd like to see. Maybe Atari ST, Sega Mega-CD (Snatcher, for sure). Atari Jaguar, 3DO. The latter two were pretty decent machines let down by duff games. But there were some decent games on them. Alien Vs Predator on Jag was good. Space Hulk on 3DO I remember being cool.

[huzzellio]

Oh wow! I just remembered (I'm truly salivating at the prospect of this one lol):

BEACH HEAD!!

http://dailyscreenshots.de/screenshot/beach-head/c64-1433511
http://user.tninet.se/~lrv840n/uncategorized/beachhead2.gif
http://dailyscreenshots.de/screenshot/beach-head/c64-1433731
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/c64/a/beach-1.gif

I'd like to see Final Fight CD on the Mega-CD or Silpheed!

[munkle]

Oh man! Beach Head was amazing! lol! Good memory! Though I don't know if I'd have as much fun shooting paratroopers out of the sky after watching the Band of Brothers! ;)

I'm sure there was a Beach Head 2 as well.

Monty Mole was a good game. Oh man, and Jack The Nipper! Remember them? Manic Miner? Paper Boy? lol! The list goes on!

[huzzellio]

This is hilarious, my eyes keep lighting up at the thought of these games lol!!! It's like I'm eight years old again :D

Right

I'm sure there was a Beach Head 2 as well.
Oh yes!!
http://www.c64.com/games/screenshots/b/beach_head_2_05.gif

Monty Mole was a good game. Oh man, and Jack The Nipper! Remember them? Manic Miner? Paper Boy? lol! The list goes on!

PAPERBOY!!!!!

http://spyhunter007.com/Images/paperboy_classic_car.jpg

Spy Hunter

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/S/xSpy_Hunter.png

[munkle]

It's hilarious, isn't it? Laughing like a kid again! ;) The games don't look as naff as I thought they would. It'd be interesting to see how they played.

Oh man, Saboteur! What a game! I used to love playing the Ninja, I think that was before the amazing Last Ninja series came out.

I'm also remembering Parallax, Mikie, Bombjack, Boulderdash, Turrican ... heh heh! And fighting with my brothers! lmao!

[huzzellio]

I'm just wetting myself laughing, this is great!

Pitstop 2
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42684000/jpg/_42684675_pitstop2_c64.jpg
Action Biker
http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/4/actionbiker/Action_Biker_1.gif
http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/4/actionbiker/Action_Biker.gif
It was a £2.99 game but it was good!

[munkle]

I'm just wetting myself laughing, this is great!

Action Biker
http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/4/actionbiker/Action_Biker_1.gif
http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/4/actionbiker/Action_Biker.gif
It was a £2.99 game but it was good!

You've just made my year! :D I spent weeks playing this game, and not really knowing what the hell I was supposed to be doing! lol! Brilliant! And back when, like you say, games cost a couple of quid. There was another one like this, you played as a boy and girl, trying to keep them from getting eaten by ants. Ant Attack or something (pure guess at the title!)

I've just been watching a vid of Ultima IV on Youtube. Another one of my faves at the time. Looks exactly how I remember it. Pure class! haha!

[huzzellio]

Remember playing this? The best film tie in ever lol.

http://user.tninet.se/~lrv840n/multigenres/platoon1.gif
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Platoon.jpg
I walked around that jungle for hours.............LOST!!!

[munkle]

Yeah, me too! God knows where you were supposed to go, much like Sabrewolf! Or Feud! Or Finders Keepers! hehehe! The more games I think about the more come flooding out! lol!

I also remember Arnie and Operation Wolf. Lords Of Chaos! Jesus, LoC was probably my fave game for a while, you could even buy expansion tapes with extra scenarios and wizards on. Fabulous :)

http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/wosfiles/ingame/LordsOfChaos.gif (http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/cgi-bin/zoompic.pl?orgsize=256x192&url=/wosfiles/ingame/LordsOfChaos.gif)

And Wizball!

http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/assets/images/WizLev2.jpg

[Junior]

Ooooooh yeeeeah! Check out these graphics Junior!! PS3 isn't a patch on this!

http://www.thegamesofmylife.com/wp-content/lastninja21.png


lol it burns my eyes to see that lol.

[huzzellio]

Loved this game but it was the cause of my mum and dad having to buy about 5 joysticks lol.

Combat School:

http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/combat_school_01.gif
http://www.c64gg.com/Images/C/Combat_School.ss.gif

The actual combat mission after the training was rock hard though. One shot and you were dead lol!

[ben93]

man what is it with all these pics

[huzzellio]

man what is it with all these pics
My childhood that's what lol.

[ben93]

man you guys were easily pleased

[huzzellio]

Like I said before, these were cutting edge at the time. The stuff I felt playing these games when I was 8 years old would be exactly the same as the stuff you felt playing your first video game.

At the time there was nothing better around so what the mind doesn't know, it can't miss. Obviously we wouldn't want games to go back to this standard now, but it would be nice to just have a play occasionally.

[ben93]

i cant remember what my 1st video game was lol, although i was the only 1 in the family to complete diddy kong racing on the n64

[munkle]

i cant remember what my 1st video game was lol, although i was the only 1 in the family to complete diddy kong racing on the n64

I had to re-read that, Ben. I thought you said you were the only one in your family to be mistaken for Diddy King :p lol!

I'd love to go back to some of these games. Especially Lords Of Chaos. It wasn't as much to do with the gra[hics as the game behind them. Lords of Chaos was a great strategy game. And there were many more.

Huzzellio, Combat School was up there with Daley Thompson's Decathlon for destroying joysticks! lol!! That game could often tear your arms from their sockets ;_

[Junior]

Their reliving their childhood Ben. Which was 40 years ago lol.


Wow is this what I will be like in 40 years time showing pics of the N64 .

I think my first proper video games I can remember were SM64 and zeld OOT

[thelocaluk]

This thread is taking me back to some of the best days of my life, I use to love playing all the games you guys posted even though I played the speccy versions.

[huzzellio]

If anybody wants to know how these games looked while moving, check out this video of The Last Ninja 2, my favourite C64 game ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCNMcUzQ3Ws

(sorry, it won't embed for some reason)

[alibombaye]

Woooh I remember playing paperboy loved that game and also way of the exploding fist. Was that the game where some balls would bounce towards you and you'd have to defend ya self with a board? that was so addictive.

Also many long hours playing cricket 64 and derby day which I think was horse racing but u just place bets and thats it. Simple fun.

[thelocaluk]

Heres 100 C64 games in 10 minutes, kinda pleased things have moved on since these hazey days :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY2gK1MPgh8

[huzzellio]

derby day which I think was horse racing but u just place bets and thats it. Simple fun.
I had a game like that, it was called Classic Punter!
Heres 100 C64 games in 10 minutes, kinda pleased things have moved on since these hazey days :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY2gK1MPgh8
Nice find local!! I'm still really loving seeing these again. Nice to see classics like Ghostbusters in there as well as a lot of games I already mentioned :D

[ben93]

so your talking about these but are any of you actually gonna buy em?

[col]

so your talking about these but are any of you actually gonna buy em?

Dont know how Nintendo have the cheek to sell these, when they are legitimately free to download off the internet.

[ben93]

*cough* illegally*cough*

[munkle]

*cough* illegally*cough*

Have you tried anything for that cough of yours, Ben? It's getting worse. Hope it's not contagious. The last time we were hit by the superflu we lost half of the Wiifind members :p

I'd buy some of the classics. Why not? It'd be great to revisit some of those games. I'd even invite my brothers round so we could fight over who gets to play them ... Ahhhh ... The good old days!!

[legendb]

Ah reminiscing are we guys...

Does anyone remember Dragons Breath? Top game and woe betide you if you tried to fly the dragon raiding missions yourself, always end up dead.

[Fr@nk$t@]

I only remember playing Simpsons Arcade Game and Paperboy on my older brother's Commodore. Oh those memories.....

[hilly]

some great games and great memories in this thread folks :) spy hunter,jetset willy,dizzy and emlyn hughes international soccer (the only footy game ive ever loved) if only the speccy gets a vc release now i'll be back in gaming heaven

a couple of games not mentioned were indiana jones clone rick dangerous and another game called atv pure classics :)

[huzzellio]

Aaaah Rick Dangerous:

http://www.rickdangerous.co.uk/c64-11.png

If I remember correctly that was one hard b****rd of a game!!!

[munkle]

Check this out, I stumbled across this and thought for a moment that I was watching TV ;)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYUZECWeG4

As everyone says, great memories :D

[thelocaluk]

Check this out, I stumbled across this and thought for a moment that I was watching TV ;)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYUZECWeG4

As everyone says, great memories :D
The dribbling I've ever seen :p tell you what, I forgot about that game but the graphics are pretty good for that time.

[huzzellio]

I lost so many hours of my life to that game! The thing that sticks out in my mind is that it was the first footy game I saw where the goal kick went past the half way line lol. Pure realism ;)

[munkle]

I also like the way the keeper just collapses face first onto the ground rather than attempt to dive for the ball. The guy is either insane or drunk! lol!

Remember playing this back in the olden days? ;)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uanoMRwYlmk

It's still one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard! lmao!

[thelocaluk]

I also like the way the keeper just collapses face first onto the ground rather than attempt to dive for the ball. The guy is either insane or drunk! lol!

Remember playing this back in the olden days? ;)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uanoMRwYlmk

It's still one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard! lmao!You'll be pleased to hear that they are bringing that game to the Wii with online play as well, hopefully they stick with the same music ;)

[huzzellio]

Loved the game! I was s**t hot at the footbag!!

[munkle]

You'll be pleased to hear that they are bringing that game to the Wii with online play as well, hopefully they stick with the same music ;)

Lol! Online play? Really? That's awesome. I've just been watching footbag and some other events, forgot just how cool it was. It's tempting to download it but would it still play as well? These things are usually best off left to memory but ... ;)

[huzzellio]

I've lost count how many times I wowed people by performing an 'Axel Foley' lol.

[munkle]

I've lost count how many times I wowed people by performing an 'Axel Foley' lol.

Lol! Brilliant! It's good to see a man who takes his footbag seriously! haha!

[thelocaluk]

Lol! Online play? Really? That's awesome. I've just been watching footbag and some other events, forgot just how cool it was. It's tempting to download it but would it still play as well? These things are usually best off left to memory but ... ;)
Here's the proof http://palgn.com.au/article.php?id=7643 8)

[munkle]

Here's the proof http://palgn.com.au/article.php?id=7643 8)

Think I might be sold on this. At least I know what those star points will be going towards ;)

Thanks for the link, Local (not to say I didn't trust you anyway! Haha!) :)

[munkle]

I went on the Wii Shop Channel last night, and California Games is already available. No mention of online content in the description though. Very strange. Also noticed World Games is available on there, that was another classic if I remember correctly.

[thelocaluk]

I went on the Wii Shop Channel last night, and California Games is already available. No mention of online content in the description though. Very strange. Also noticed World Games is available on there, that was another classic if I remember correctly.
Is that the old classic version? May be they plan to release a Wii version :confused:

[munkle]

Is that the old classic version? May be they plan to release a Wii version :confused:

You're probably right. It's just me being a dummy! lol!