/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2625916
Kickman

>>2625916
Paradroid. Hands down the pinnacle of the system.

>>2625916
Below the Root and Little Computer People

>>2625916
The Goonies

Crossroads II

Flintstones Fun Show

Just make sure to avoid NTSC games as most of them are rubbish with bleeper sound.

>>2627548
I don't understand why American devs were unable to use anything but the default SID envelopes.

Flimbo's Quest, it is extremely under rated, but easily the smoothest platform game on the machine. Also the most console-like.

>>2627572
Because American devs did games as a job and nothing more, while Europeans did them as a hobby (that they made money out of).

It's rather astounding to compare C64 games from the beginning in 82-83 to ones released in the early 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClk0ok-LiY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiCxXMquPKs

>>2627628
Americans did both, with a hobby scene that dwarfed Europe's as well as a commercial scene.

America is literally the greatest country ever to exist on the planet Earth.

>>2627742
Say that to my face, not online and I'll send ye and the memes that spawned you back to the land of Mordor.

These are a handful I've played and liked. The C64's library is fucking huge, but its library of exclusives wasn't that big. Even the games on this list might be better played on other systems.

>Cybernoid series - flip-screen shooters known for their brutal difficulty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UoEqEbxra4

>Creatures series - these, Great Giana Sisters and Mayhem in Monsterland are pretty much all you're getting in terms of good Mario-style platformers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDDkxfJCB9Y

>Wizball - I loved this game, but I could not tell you what the fuck it's about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK82X9VlE38

>Monty On The Run - Classic platformer in the style of Jet Set Willy. British as fuck, GOAT soundtrack. Make sure you look up the items for Monty's "freedom kit" online, or the game will be unplayable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAyDCti2XAc

>Stunt Car Racer - 3D racer that plays like an early version of Trackmania. The camera's visceral reaction to hitting the ground makes the game hold up surprisingly well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMgjmIW8fd8

Armalyte
Denaris/Katakis
Last ninja 1 + 2
International Karate+
Turrican 1 + 2
Street sports basketball
Great giana sisters

Noob question, what's the easiest way to remap keys? Last time I tried setting up an emulator my key bindings ended up looking like this: ctrl + o and ctrl + p to move up, ctrl + m and ctrl + n for left and right, etc. That's just unreasonably complicated.

>>2628246
>The C64's library is fucking huge, but its library of exclusives wasn't that big.
I noticed that too, not to sound like a critic but most of my contact with c64 games were actually on the MSX. Sadly I missed out on those awesome chiptune soundtracks.

You have either PAL stuff which is mostly quirky shmups with badass soundtracks or NTSC stuff which looks and sounds a lot more sterile, but consists of bigger, slower-paced multiload games.

>>2628246
Observe that the best games are invariably PAL ones and not Murriburger rubbish.

C64 games in a lot of cases had problems with the music and game not meshing very well. This was because a lot of SID tracks were made by freelancing composers-for-hire which is quite unlike Famicom devs who had in-house musicians.

>>2628246
Cybernoid here is just such an example. Maniacs of Noise were some of the many British SID composers who simply did work for any programmers that were willing to pay.

Yuropoors did overdo it a bit with shmups, but then again it's not like American games were that diverse as the vast majority of them were CRPGs, adventures, sports, and war sims.

>>2628246
>Creatures series - these, Great Giana Sisters and Mayhem in Monsterland are pretty much all you're getting in terms of good Mario-style platformers

More importantly, in terms of taking the VIC/SID to the limit and making them do things that shouldn't even be possible. In the early days of emulation, Thalamus games wouldn't work at all because they utilized tricks like the Virtual Screen Position register for super-fast scrolling. Eventually emulators got good enough to cover some of the more obscure hardware features.

>>2625929
This nigga gets it.

Paradroid is one of the best games of its time.

>>2628820
Why? What's so great about it?

Don't forget Laser Squad, the ancestor of X-Com.

Recommended C64 emu?

>>2627572
I don't understand why UK devs always had to do a bunch of shitty overcooked SID tunes in their arcade ports.

>>2628824
Absolute classic, combines shooting and strategy extremely well and the hacking other droids is incredible tense but fun. It's a really well put together game and just a joy to play.

>>2628843
Because >>2628291

Way too many British games were generic shitty shmups that were just vehicles for some cool SID tune. Yes, we had too many dungeon crawlers on this side of the pond but at least they were real games and not a glorified tech demo.

It's almost as integral to computer gaming history as the Famicom is to console history.

>>2628842
WinVice 1.17
think you can still get it from the Arnold FTP site.

lets me play my C64 games on fullscreen on my 32" perfectly

>>2628867
>Americlaps
>Home computers

Don't be silly.

>>2628982
Say what?

>>2628987
>talking to a Yuropoor

>>2628987
The Holy Trinity

Relax, I'm just fucking around.

>yfw the guy who invented the Commodore computers was a Jew who survived the holocaust

Is it too much to ask that we not have a Yuropoor vs Amerifat flamewar in every C64 thread?

I dunno bout how it went down in the US, but in Europe, the C64 games market was an absolute free-for-all!!

literally a pirate market. probably cause of a lot of us used cassette tapes as opposed to floppys, so we all just copied each others' games!! I don't know how the C64 did as well as it did in Europe considering how much flagrant piracy went on. it wasn't like it was only a small minority doing it either. Everyone was!!

>>2629047
Don't copy that floppy? Okay, I'll just copy this cassette instead.

>>2629047
Yes there was piracy in NTSC land. Lots and lots of piracy which led to many games having horrifically excessive copy protections.

>>2629060
>having to recalibrate your dd because the copy protection thrashed the head so hard it went put of alignment

>>2629060
This is why I have an incredible amount of 5 1/4" floppies with a dozen games on each. Copy protection drove me too it ironically enough.

>>2628961
Nice hi-fi tower. I think my sister had the same one.

>>2628961
>lets me play my C64 games on fullscreen on my 32" perfectly

Why not just hook up your C64 to your TV directly?

>>2629087
The colours on a C64 are so simple that it actually doesn't even look bad on a modern TV, it upscales pretty well.

That aspect ratio though, fix it.

>>2629087
>no disk drive/Datasette in the pic

Flash floppy emulator?

>>2629104
Could be cartridge. I had a cartridge version of T2

>>2629087
my TV didn't like my C64. had to switch it from digital to analog just so it would display. I got the picture (albeit a really shitty grainy one) but no volume

besides, my C64 was barely working at that point. most of my games wouldn't load or didn't work if they did, plus my QuickShot only moved left and down by the end. even the fire buttons didn't work
>I had the all black one

I respect those who hold on to physical media ... but sometimes you just got to let shit go man!! don't fear the emulator

I just realized that the 1701 monitor was probably named because of Star Trek

>>2630024
The original series is responsible for a lot of life imitating art :)

>>2630024
Given that William Shatner was also a Commodore spokesman...yeah.

Impossible mission
All infocom games
Epyx sports games
Farmers daughter