Commodore Gaming

[Anonymous No.5608893]

Life long C64 gamer here. Curious how many of you play Commodore games.

What are your favorites. Just looking for something in my archive that I may not have played yet.

Also, fans of the Amiga 500 are welcomed as well. Love that system.

[Anonymous No.5608909]

*european circlejerk commences*

[Anonymous No.5608937]

>>5608909

I'm actually an American. The C64 was actually kind of big over here back in the day. More people had a C64 than an Apple, IBM or Atari computer. Mostly because the C64 was more affordable and game piracy for that system was everywhere.

[Anonymous No.5609027]

>>5608937
I think he's more referring to the Amiga.

[Anonymous No.5609468]

>>5608937
Funny, I’m American too and had an atari, my school had IBMs and apples, but had never heard of a commodore until it was extinct
>actually

[Anonymous No.5609497]

Yeah, the Commodore Amiga did terribly on America, but the Commodore 64 did okay there and better on Britain, it was particularly big in Germany though.

Still, a lot of countries had their favorite big computers, France went for the Amstrad CPC, Japan for the MSX, the UK for the ZX Spectrum, Germany for the C64, America for the Apple II and the Atari computers...kinda popular in a few places i think, second place in a lot of places that aren't the UK if i recally correctly, they had some great computers with great games, but after the Atari ST failed to beat the Amiga and PC's, Atari just stopped.

[Anonymous No.5609794]

If you're favorite Commodore 64 game is anything other than Paradroid then I don't know what to tell you.

[Anonymous No.5609821]

>>5609497
>America for the Apple II and the Atari computers
Hol' up there. About 75% of Apple IIs went to schools and Atari never outsold Commodore at any point, plus their relevance ended in 1985.

[Anonymous No.5609880]

What emulator do you all recommend for the C64?

[Anonymous No.5609981]

>>5609880
VICE. Hoxs64 is pretty good too, if you're looking for something simpler.

[Anonymous No.5610016]

About 12 million C64s were sold, about 5 million were in North America.

[Anonymous No.5610028]

>>5608937
I'll agree with this anon, C64 was the most common programmable computer in homes from what I remember

[Anonymous No.5610375]

STEP ASIDE, EVERYONE. APE CRAZE COMING THROUGH.

>>5609794
Never truly got into it back in the day like my friends did. But Freedroid is now one of my favorite games.

[Anonymous No.5610384]

>>5609821
apple never outsold commodore c64 either. could not compete. this is why the c64 still remains the best selling computer of all time. apple fans really can't stand the fact that the c64 still has a large and active community where as the 8bit apple communities are tiny, release hardly anything per year and just cry themselves to sleep, later fighting haunting visions of jack tramiel and satania laughing at them in their sad itoddler dreams. it's incredibly glorious.

[Anonymous No.5610457]

>>5608937
My high school’s computer lab, as well as random classrooms around campus had Apple //es (the electronics lab had a Darth Vader.) Later replaced by PS/2s.
Intermediate school, we had Commodores, soon replaced with TRS/80s. lol
My elementary school math class had a lone TI99/4A, replaced by a pair of //es, which later multiplied to a half dozen.

My circle of computer nerd friends were mostly C64 users. Interestingly all the non computer nerd people I knew who had computers mostly had Apple //es … I was their game supplier.

[Anonymous No.5610548]

>actually playing c64/amiga shitty games and not looking at nice demos and listening to tracker music

have sex

[Anonymous No.5610549]

>>5610457
>Interestingly all the non computer nerd people I knew who had computers mostly had Apple //es
how some things remain the same and never fucking change. apple still attract the same kinds of flies to their piles of technological shit. has made them billions. sadly for them, real computer users have forever thought that they're a meme company. over the last decade they've lived up to their meme status by lowering quality controls substantially in order to increase profits.

[Anonymous No.5610745]

>>5610549
go back to jerking onto your librebooted memepad

[Anonymous No.5610760]

>>5609497
Don't forget Hungary and the C16 and C+4.

I just wish I hadn't passed up on buying a CDTV when they were selling it for bottom bin prices in the very early 90s.

[Anonymous No.5611516]

>>5610384
Apple IIs don't attract the same kind of collectors. They're more people into hacking and collecting rare and unusual hardware.

[Anonymous No.5611523]

>>5610384
>apple never outsold commodore c64 either. could not compete

I'm pretty sure though that Apple is still with us and Commodore not as much. Like with collectors, they didn't target the same customers or user base. Completely different in that aspect.

[Anonymous No.5611524]

I'm still waiting for the Giana Sisters 30th Anniversary Edition, if it's still in the making. I played the extended preview, and it looked effen amazing.

[Anonymous No.5611530]

>>5608893
Bards tale RPGs (actually bought the remade versions for PC from GoG)
Tetris
Gradius
Apache longbow
Who Dares Win
Green Beret

[Anonymous No.5611572]

>>5610457
From a programming/hacking standpoint the C64 was much more interesting than an Apple II.

[Anonymous No.5611597]

>>5610457
Apple IIs attracted people who wanted a machine with top-quality productivity software (eg. Appleworks) and Apple's excellent support/tech service. Arguably the TRS-80 attracted a similar market for people who just wanted to type documents and letters on Scripsit.

[Anonymous No.5613185]

how do I emulate C64 and why does retroarch suck SO MUCH

>vice core ignores keybinds and does whatever the fuck it wants
>onscreen keyboard controlled by mouse cursor that is actually moved by gamepad
>CRASH

[Anonymous No.5613189]

>>5613185

CCS64.

[Anonymous No.5613191]

>>5611572
C64 was long before my time and I only played games on one once, but I am truly amazed by what demoscene programmers pulled off on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzQVECn3tY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYlPcHwdhvM
I remember talking to some Finnbro who goes to demo competitions and he showed me all kinds of crazy shit that I cant think of at the moment

[Anonymous No.5613193]

>>5608893
Loved Space Taxi

[Anonymous No.5613205]

>>5613189
>maximized window doesn't preserve aspect ratio
>can't load games from zip

yep, it's made by a boomer

[Anonymous No.5613207]

>>5613191
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYlPcHwdhvM
This is a pretty basic demonstration of using parallax scrolling via scanline interrupts. Nothing too special here.

[Anonymous No.5613220]

>>5613207
Have you made some demos that showcase the hardware better? I'd like to see, if you don't mind sharing.

[Anonymous No.5613228]

My current Amiga set. Running Amiga Forever.

[Anonymous No.5613276]

>>5611572
It's interesting from an engineering POV to see how many clever tricks Steve Wozniak used, but from a programming POV it's less so.

[Anonymous No.5613381]

Superior Amiga power.... with almost the same EGA grafx...

[Anonymous No.5613732]

>>5613220
cringe

[Anonymous No.5613753]

>>5611530
I played a ton of Below The Root. Who Dares Win. Space Taxi. Toy Bizarre. Impossible Mission 1 and 2.

[Anonymous No.5613827]

>>5611523
Commodore was run by a bunch of incompetent people after a while, seriously, a lot of computers that were just a slightly better C64 at a time where it was outdated, refusing to invest in new technology or upgrading the Amiga with such things as a CD-Rom drive for way too long.

And let's not forget the consoles like the C64 GS, a Commodore 64 console released after the Genesis had come out with a game that didn't work because it required a keyboard being packed in.

Seriously, when Commodore shut down, there was a reason why employees made effigies of Commodore executives and filmed themselves burning those and even peeing on them, the CEO and other executives were just amazingly incompetent.

[Anonymous No.5613890]

>>5608893

[Anonymous No.5613897]

Law of the West is one of the coolest C64 games.

[Anonymous No.5613914]

>>5613732
>when you don't have cool demos you've made to back up your claims that other peoples demos aren't impressive
k

[Anonymous No.5613939]

>>5608893
Was never really a fan of the C64. Always wowed by the SID, but the hideous colour palette and rectangular pixels put me off.

[Anonymous No.5614283]

>>5613914
No one needs to "back up claims" of actual facts to some kid on the internet by meeting his made up requirements of proof. According to your kidlogic all anyone has to do is claim they have the biggest dick in the world and you have to disprove it by posting a video of you sucking a bigger one. But you'd probably enjoy that.

[Anonymous No.5614384]

>>5613827
The purchase of Amiga had been very expensive and Commodore's R&D budget almost ground to a halt for a while as they were trying to pay it off.

[Anonymous No.5614410]

>>5613897
There's a Famicom version of this, it looks horrible and there's no translated ROM.

[Anonymous No.5617019]

Montezuma's Revenge? IDK.

[Anonymous No.5617026]

>>5608893


Was a diehard c64 guy for most of the 80s.

Some favorites off the top of my head

Legacy Of the Ancients
Pirates!
Spelunker
Defender of the Crown
Test Drive 2
Gauntlet 2
4th and inches
California Games

[Anonymous No.5617113]

>>5617026
>Never Twice The Same Colour anon
Pants.

[Anonymous No.5617129]

>>5617026
>Never Twice The Same Colour games

Giana Sisters
Manic Miner
Henry's House
Dragon Ninja
Creatures 2
Turrican
Dizzy series
Rockstar Ate My Hamster
Football Manager 2
Hawkeye

You may thank me later.

[Anonymous No.5617156]

Paradroid and also Paradroid

[Anonymous No.5617157]

>>5617129
Someone post the Zniggy comic. You know you want to.

[Anonymous No.5617168]

Pity the C64 didn't have a Japanese scene.

[Anonymous No.5617174]

>>5617168
Knowing Japanese PC games at the time, it would have just been more boring hentai storybooks.

[Anonymous No.5617205]

>>5617129
>Hawkeye
It's a glorified tech demo with hardly any actual gameplay.

[Anonymous No.5617210]

>>5617205
It`s the Shadow of the Beast of the C64.

[Anonymous No.5617221]

>>5617157

[Anonymous No.5617226]

Hawkeye and Flimbo's Quest both used the same engine IIRC. The graphics effects and music are neat but the gameplay is a very one dimensional collectathon.

[Anonymous No.5617237]

>>5617226
Yeah because most of the programmers were demoscener guys with no concept of game design.

[Anonymous No.5617270]

So...what's better? American dungeon crawler shit aka dice rolling simulations with a Tolkien setting?

[Anonymous No.5617278]

Are there any best-of images for recommended c64 titles, or do I have to resort to top10 lists on blogs from 2007?

[Anonymous No.5617286]

Try the Lemon64 Top 100 list.

[Anonymous No.5617305]

>>5617286
Yeah I also found that list, I will go with that.

[Anonymous No.5617315]

Also lyl at how Lemon64 is mostly Euros but the top 100 list is predominantly NTSC titles.

[Anonymous No.5617340]

Zniggy-free c64 games that personally impressed me:

>Uridium (shmup)
>Paradroid (GOAT)
>Wizball (shmup-platformer hybrid)
>Bounder (advanced ball simulator)
>Little Computer People (life sim)
>Lazy Jones (parody, minigame comp, like a latter-day Suda51 game but British)
>Stunt Car Racer (racing game with hair-raising jumps, probably better played on Amiga though)
>The Train: Escape to Normandy (you're in a train and you escape to Normandy)
>Alter Ego (remember Real Lives, that game /v/ has an on and off relationship with? It's like that)
>Katakis, Enforcer, Armalyte (the holy trinity of the system's Gradius/R-type style shmups. Mostly free of euroshmup tropes)
>IO, Lions of the Universe (a tier below the above 3 but still pretty good)
>Laser Squad (turn-based strategy, the predecessor to X-Com)
>Supremacy (strategy, a sci-fi take on Sim City)
>Cyberdyne Warrior (action platformer, by the devs who would later make Mayhem)
>Arnie/Arnie 2 (pretty mindless but enjoyable action games, think Contra but isometric)
>Hudson Hawk (one of the many, many licensed platformers Ocean shat out, better than most)
>Deflektor (the original "rotate mirrors to manipulate a laser", I can't get that fucking Arcade Fire song out of my head when I read the title)
>Oil's Well (Pac Man but you're a snek)
>Hyber Blob (a predecessor to Lemmings in which you manipulate the level itself to guide bouncing Frank Sidebottom heads to the exit)
>Escape from Fractalus, Kornois Rift, The Eidolon (tactical-ish FPSes based off the mind blowing Fractalus engine)
>Ancipital, Get Off My Garden (SO RANDOM XD-core, fun to play regardless)

[Anonymous No.5617349]

>>5617340

Also, why is Lemon64's search feature so limited compared to Lemonamiga when they're run by the same people. The former has much better taste in games, so a search by rating would actually be useful

[Anonymous No.5617368]

>>5617340

On second thought, Supremacy is more like Master of Orion lite than Sim City. Still worth checking out, though

Also, why is Lemon64's search feature so limited compared to Lemonamiga when they're run by the same people. The former has much better taste in games, so a search by rating would actually be useful

[Anonymous No.5617375]

>>5617340
Ocean Batman is alright.

[Anonymous No.5617492]

>>5617340
That's a pretty good list. Some more:

Sacred Armour of Antiriad - interesting mixture of "willyvania" (urgh) and early so called cinematic platformer
Super Pipeline 2 - charming and frantic single screen platform/puzzle game
Snare - Unusual maze/puzzle game
Navy Seals - Definitely one of Ocean's best efforts, cartridge only platform game with nice movement mechanics
Exile - Incredible open world puzzle/exploration game with realistic physics with nothing like it made before or since.
Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo - Really intriguing simplistic fighting game/open world game hampered by clumsy controls. Crying out for a modern remake
Trapdoor - Aesthetically ugly but quite clever arcade puzzle game based on the old cartoon where you have to cook grotesque meals from monsters captured in elaborate ways for your sinister master lurking upstairs
Slicks - Decent Super Sprint clone

[Anonymous No.5617658]

With a few exceptions (Commando, etc) avoid arcade ports. Most are trash.

[Anonymous No.5617839]

great lists so far, making a backlog file for them

[Anonymous No.5617851]

>>5617658
Commando was a good port but still omitted two whole levels of the arcade. They did a remaster though with the missing levels added in.

[Anonymous No.5617893]

>>5608893
Eurocuck here. Never owned a C64. Didnt get into computers before the Dos era and Windows 1.0. Before that they were just ridiculous calculators to me. But with spreadsheets and typing programs, printers and diskettes, actual user friendly interfaces, I began seeing the use. I eventually bought myself a home computer with windows 3.1. I spent hundreds of hours playing colonization. I still have the ol thing, purrs like a cat when I boot it.
I did consider one of those atari amigas tho, but glad I didnt as it died pretty fast. yeah *sips* unironic boomer here.

[Anonymous No.5617939]

>>5617893
>But with spreadsheets and typing programs, printers and diskettes,
Wait, C64s didn't have any of this stuff? Looking at scanned magazines seems to contradict your claim.

[Anonymous No.5617950]

>>5617939
I don't know what you did in America but in Sweden the C64 was marketed as a toy for (literal) kids and an alternative to Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.5618003]

I feel sad for Euros knowing they couldn't do anything with their C64s but play crummy little cassette games made in six weeks by one guy.

[Anonymous No.5618603]

>>5608893
Archon is one of my favorite games of all time, but I can't find anyone good enough to challenge me :(

Other greats include
Lords of conquest, beach head, Impossible Misison, Space Taxi, jump man

[Anonymous No.5618605]

>>5608909
you don't know anything

[Anonymous No.5618618]

>>5609794
Holy fuck dude
I have memories of watching my brother play this game but I could never ever fucking find it.

awesome

[Anonymous No.5618624]

>>5608909
This is /vr/, son. Everything's a circlejerk round these parts.

[Anonymous No.5618651]

>>5617019
I love that game,

never beat it tho,
when you get to the end it just restarts you in a harder version

[Anonymous No.5620135]

>>5608937
North Eastern American Here. We had a Commodore 64 with a Disk Drive at Home. Elementary School had Apple II's with Green Screens.

Never saw anything but pirated games for the 64 growing up. Not once did I see anything in the stores for it.

We skipped the Amiga and went to a 386. Then my Memory gets Fuzzy until we had the P5. The Pentium 55C 233MhzMMX With a Voodoo 2 Creative 3D Blaster.

[Anonymous No.5620138]

>>5620135
>Not once did I see anything in the stores for it.
Dude wut. Any department store back then would have had C64 software.

[Anonymous No.5620139]

>>5608893
Superman on it is cool and may be the only good Superman game ever made. I loved playing Mechwarrior and Tomahawk still to this day and I think that Raid on Bungeling bay for the Commodore 64 was the best version.

[Anonymous No.5620159]

>>5618624
Oh, I know. Just wanted to get the ball rolling in the right direction.

[Anonymous No.5620172]

>>5620138
Not from my Memory in North Western PA. Everything we got was Pirated by the Engineers my father worked with at his plant.

[Anonymous No.5620181]

>>5620135
I got tons of NES Games and it wasn't like we were poor at the time either. I really don't think anything for C64 was on store shelves in my area unless you went to Pittsburgh. Which we didn't do that hardly ever. In fact I still hate that degenerate City.

[Anonymous No.5620358]

>>5620139
>and I think that Raid on Bungeling bay for the Commodore 64 was the best version.
There were only two versions--the C64 original and the NES.