http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707
I never actually owned one (still had a Vic-20!) but lots of my friends did.
As featured in the video, I used to love the game Buggy Boy.
My mum was clearing out the loft recently and came across my old commodore 64, boxed with games and music maker thing. Can't remember what I did with it now, think its now in our loft ready to be discovered when the apes take over the planet (its coming people, I've seen the future news)Great times spent on that. I remeber finishing Impossible Mission for the first time (withoout the cheats) and thinking how great it was!
Spectrum man myself though a few friends did have the commodore 64. Manic miner - those were the days.
The Last Ninja series, Impossible Mission, R-Type, Armalyte, IK+...
Boulder Dash on the C64 is probably my favourite game ever. Also loved Bombjack, Double Dragon, Outrun and Leaderboard Golf.
i won a zx spectrum in a competition run by the evening standard. all i ever used it for was to play their crappy version of defender, you had to load the software from a cassette tape , seems like ancient history these days.
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
BBC micro rules OK - especially Chuckie Egg.............
Wow - I remember that beige box so well! I used to love the MicroProse sims on my C64: I must have spent ages waiting for missions in Gunship, Red Storm Rising, and F-19 Stealth Fighter to load from tape: I used to read while the game was loading, play through a mission then go back to the book while the next one loaded. Aaah - nostalgia.
god be with the days, waiting ages for a game to load only to have to restart again when it didnt work
hours spent on tracksuit manager
Impossible Mission FTW!Originally Posted by tiny73
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Buggy boy... I must've spent a small fortune on that game in the local arcade...
Loved my C64. Passing Shot,Double Dragon,Last Ninja,Outrun,Shinobi,Test Drive,California Games,Microprose Soccer,1942,Barry Mcguigan etc,etc. Ahh fond memories.
A couple of years ago, I spent weeks downloading the C64 emulator and the ROMs of most of the games I could remember owning. This site was one of the resources I used:
http://www.c64.com/
I also just purchased this:
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/disp...?inlay=zzapdvd
Every issue of Zzap!64 scanned in full to DVD.
A bit geeky, but the C64 was such a big part of growing up from about 10-16 years old.
Got one for Xmas 1983, seems like a lifetime ago...
Wait a minute!
Ive got a portable C64 in the loft
I only managed to get a Amiga 500+ and the 1200, wasted far too much time trying to master Mircoprose Golf.
Ha, that was awesome. and that buzzing noise the robots made as they moved backwards and forwards. Somersault over them them, push joystick forward in front of the console, don't stay too long, somersault robot again, somersault again as he comes back push forward on joystick in front of console. Repeat until the thing was downloaded. Fantastic!
I used to have an Amstrad 6128... those were the days...
It is at that point in my life that I started wasting too much time in front of computers... I never stopped since, I'm doing it right now!
Only!! Fucking hell, i was on cloud nine when i was allowed an 'upgrade' to a 1200 and it was Super Cars II, Moonstone and a certain well known football managment game.
Loved my 1200, did my dissertion on it, animation of coastl erosion. Found the disks the other week and it looked shockingly bad, got me post grad funding at the time!
I had a C64, seems a lifetime ago. Favourite game I think it was called Aztech Challenge.
I had the 5 1\4" disc drive too, and a big musical keyboard, even though I hadn't a note in my head.
Sorry, what I meant was, that I missed the C64 and got to the Commodore party a bit later, due to various Amstrad, spectrum and the Sega master system.
C64 was the king especially if you had a 1541 disk drive for your 5.25" floppies!
Mule, Race and Destruction Set, Rocketball, Alter Ego, Archon, Bounder ........... The list goes on
Still got most of mine including my astro wars mini electronic game, what a noisy git that is. Even have my rebound in the box with all the bits
Had a commodore 16, now that was retro!
Oh yes loved it at time, spent an age typing one of the program scripts in back of user manual , only for a ball to bounce along my screen. How I contained my joy , god only knows ;)
Impossible Mission though was definitely one of the good games. I did try to copy many a game on my dual tape tech :)
Aztech Challenge was one of my favourites too, can still remember the music!
Other faves were Beach Head and Forbidden Forest. Ah, those were the days!!
Alien Breed from Team 17 was just brilliant on the 1200.
Great memories....frogger 64 and Gary linkers superstar soccer!
Another spectrum fan here, the 64 was always too expensive for me to own! Happy days though.
Jesus, I thought I'd dreamt that game! Did it really exist? No-one else has ever heard of it!
Now then, how about Jam Butty?
I used to clock chuckie egg...One of my faves.
My mate & i used to be called Anticom & used to hack C64 games. My mate went on to write bubble bobble & still gets royalties from it.
C64 Track & field..Only the trusty Atari Joystick was able to withstand such abuse
Brings back many memories of days lost in front of the TV playing Way of the Exploding Fist - and I remember the majority of the other games mentioned.
Also lost many, many hours playing Elite
Turrican, Last Ninja, Microprose Flight sims, Ikari Warriors, Rambo
Man the games were much more fun back then!!!
I remember the same issue with Daley Thomson decathlon!
There was also a Commodore Plus 4.
Were these before or after the C64 (or was it the CBM64?!)
Sinclair Spectrum - seemed like magic at the time.
Don't forget the Vic 20 which came before both I think??
Pah. Real nerds started out with a Sinclair SoC MK14
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