Commodore 64 Rambo - Real C64

[doyougototowndriver]

Shift and run stop!! I WANT TO RE LIVE  MY YOUTH

[DommageCollateral]

was there a software to capture the screeen?

[BrutalBassBB]

This makes me wanna go back into time.. Love it!!!!

[staffgrido]

born in 1969...my god i can't believe how many years were passed

hours and hours to play rambo on c64 in years 80

sid, code in lm, basic, fun...

10 print"goodbye c64",

20 goto 10

[kalemdor1]

error . rewind tape

[erfer666]

Analogue harmonics - can't beat 'em!

[erfer666]

Galway - 2nd only to Rob Hubbard!

[DommageCollateral]

i love the sound of the old shapers, so clear :)

[zetareticuli4]

4 people were born after 1990.

[fortressofcomfort]

I believe the beginning is Morse Code for "Martin Galway." C64 4ever!

[henkvanderlaak]

@fortressofcomfort

Yup, this is the complete transcription....

BELLBARNADAVEDCOLLEERMARTENGAL­WAYTONYPOMFRETSTEVEWAHED

[haxorseidis]

Real men use real C64 !

[bahazardman]

time is cruel because this sort of thing is no longer around....i used to load up these just to hear the tunes, there was one game where you could alter the bass etc on loading.....then there was one called micro rhythm where you could create your own sid tunes......amazing how it makes your hairs stand tall........

[1970joules1970]

i have this ony ipod shule with normal tunes, and when it comes on it is pure indulgance, this is one of the best chip tunes ever for so many reasons, and i still love it so much, sheer genius, martin galway, if u were born about 200 years ago you would have been bigger than beethoven, you wont get the credit he got in years to come but you should, you are a living legend..

[TheIronDream]

THE best loading tune ever - also one of my top 3 c64 tunes, alongside Delta and Lightforce

[giacjack]

this is the awesome "ocean loader 2 " from Martin Galway!

what a great tune!!

[henkvanderlaak]

@giacjack

Simply brilliant, what in those days could be done with only three analog oscillators. His uncle James isn't too shabby neither :-)

[Kiopineapple]

Think your PlayStation 3 take forever to load? You haven't seen shit.

[RownyV]

I have a C128d still on my desk here at home :D I Sometimes fire it up , Also recently got a C64 tape recorder, but doesn't work, friend who I got it from said it wasn't broken :( The power led doesn't light up :<

[19FD89]

@RownyV my dad has a C128 + 2 5.1/2" floppy + c64 tape recorder + genuine competition pro joystick... And everything still works fine

[rtmf]

00:03  Shift + Run Stop

[luissanchezHD]

Holy shit, the music is AWESOME

[jarekjarosz]

3.33min !!! FULL VOLUME

[ToriRocksAmos]

WTF?! where is the game?! this whole vid was just a giant loadscreen LOL

[Physsicz]

If only today's programmers were as dedicated.. Seems now it's all about mass produced profit than quality (and I mean quality as in pushing the hardward to it's limit and still finding more, not using c++ to produce standard cross system support, we need pure assembly games for dedicated hardware be it amd or intel, ati or nvidia.. imagine how good pc games would be if that were the case.. right im going to have another beer and enjoy some more old memories and game vids :D

[ZEUSDAZ]

I can vouch this is the real hardware, simply because the real c64 leaves a vertical thin grey line down left hand side of video, the same goes for my c64 upload of Target Renegade.

Emulators never produce the correct sound.

Check my un-emulated game site out...ZEUSDAZ!!! All dedicated to the real game hardware Amiga, Spectrum, C64, Atari ST/800XL and others :-),

[SPeacock]

I remember recording the loading track from the TV and then digitising it via Audacity. :)

[bigmaxy07]

fantastic. The long drawn out wait followed by dispair when your game failed to load. It was enough to send a 14 year old mad.

[CaptainCheq]

The music alone sends shivers down my spine, and i was about 5-8 playing these games.. amazing. I will never forget this.

[kzbxvz]

Tell that to our children that we waited 10 or 30 minutes for a game to be loaded.

[bichomaldito]

"Press play on tape" <--- LMFAO. Man, I miss those days. Fo real.

[blisteryrash]

I love that you kept the whole loading process in the video. Such agonizing memories! :-)

[Corbon440]

SEARCHING

FOUND RAMBO

[chiefmungomartin]

I remember seeing this for the first time and couldn't believe how good the music sounded or how realistic the artwork looked. Kids today are spoilt.

[lewispeter25]

I was sad enough to stop the tape to listen to this loading track all the way through as it does continue for longer.

[clownnookie]

Love the portamento and the SID programs!

[OmegaKent]

Apparently, at the beginning of this track it starts with some army Morse Code.

[d00jolta]

@OmegaKent Yes, he's spelling out the names of the programming team if I recall correctly.

[gary72carol61]

Oh wow! I was 13 when this came out, I remember the music it was awesome and I especially liked the highscore music screen. Uploader I loved the way you started the video from the front screen of C64 and showed us the Press play on tape and searching found Rambo, that really made a difference in bringing back the memories, Thank you very much for uploading this well done. Oh by the way was it me or where games in those days borderline impossible to complete, although I did complete this game.

[mrsqonk]

@gary72carol61 I think the only thing that made the games so bloody hard was the blooming waggling joysticks mate..Fortunately because they were RS 232 ports you could easily plug in a megadrive D pad. They made all the difference....

[angelodomino]

used me to keep me from Homework too :-D

[mrsqonk]

Just when you thought things couldn't get any better..Then came along the fast loader:) They were the great days of gaming..

[blade004]

@mrsqonk You mean those "Turbo" Dataset Tape Decks, or something else?.

[riogrande100]

I can imagine modern producers wanting to use this in their songs :)

[THESKULL1979]

IT WAS ALL FUN TILL EVERYTHING ENDED UP AS A FUCKIN TAPE LOADING ERROR.

[mrsqonk]

@THESKULL1979 Worse still, you could have typed in a bleeding great big listing that took a whole week only to either loose the data due to corruption or the listing was hailed with errors...

[GabmanDK]

You should upload the video in HD.

[Mastertronic]

Hammer Sound einfach geil :)

das waren noch Zeiten.

[Raunchola]

That Beeping at the Loading-Screen is actually Morse-code and spells the programmer's names. just google "rambo c64 easter egg" ;)

I like Galway's track here but i love the one he did for Miami Vice

[riogrande100]

Music is epic!!! I remember when the graphic loaded it would freeze on the last line for a moment and then start up again

[77Fortran]

sounds a lot like the theme from the Truman Show, maybe Philip Glass was playing a lot of Rambo?

[6344Dragonkingon]

I'm 12 and I love 8-bit consoles!

[angelodomino]

@jatimatiktimoska...soo true...at least 50%,more like 70% ;-) ...i love(d) the music from Rob hubbard, and Richard Joseph...also alot..

[jatimatiktimoska]

music was at LEAST 50% of the whole experience. we used to just load this over and over again for the awesomeness.

[bargainboymakem1]

one of the few good things about being older is that we appreciate the likes of battlefield et al..coz we've seen games progress from manic miner to modern day. this equals more satisfaction. the only thing i can compare it to..  for kids nowadays to buy a game and inputi a cheat to gain instant access to everything. dont know they're born etc. i remember when all this were fields etc..

[jet5fi]

It's been like 20+ yrs, I have goose bumps right now. I just have to get my old C64 back :'(

[HerrHIVEMIND]

Ready.

Start "*", 8, 1

Loading.

Ok.

[MetalApe]

READY .

LOAD

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

OK

[Malcolm238]

Thanks for uploading this!!!! Can't believe how much time has passed....

[Solarfactor]

The music in this game was sooooo good.

[rnrbishop]

*joy overload* one of the first computer games I ever played, age 6-7. My dad swears to this day the C64 was the best money he ever spent on anything ever!

[EvilestGem]

Love it, check out also LAST NINJA II mixes

sick games from an even sicker era .... I was there where you?

[angelodomino]

Galway is one of my hero's......Hubbard is the king..but Galway, is my god ;-))

[CitroenC407]

This is one of the best games I have ever played. End of story. Was one hell of a challenge too!

[hairyhoff]

oh man the rambo pic used to take A LOT longer to load on my commodore!

[keketonttu]

@hairyhoff This is from the original tape :)

[hairyhoff]

@keketonttu luckyyyyyyy

[electrictroy2010]

@keketonttu I am soooo glad I bought the disk drive, even though it cost twice as much. The games only took 1 minute to load... less 10-15 seconds if the game had a disk drive accelerator (fast load)

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Having to wait for a tape load would have frustrated me to no end

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[AoDProd]

like the fade to the great oceanloader-basemelody at 2.32 ;)

[RavSingh]

F**king classic, the kids nowadays wont apprepriate real gamming and where it all started from!!! and yea i remember waiting ages and praying the games would load. and sometimes they wouldnt }:-(

[supernickyX45]

@RavSingh Im a kid and I love old video games!

[Cruiseblackpool]

@RavSingh: I agree buddy. And the music was amazing!! Rob Hubbard and so many more with their SID music! Truly awesome!!

[TheRealDutchOwner]

@RavSingh, That's NOT always true. I got my C64 when i was 10, i just turned 13. I always LOVE C64 games.

[spiff1003]

@RavSingh Yeah, holding your breath while it was loading, perhaps adjusting the tapeplayer a bit to tune it in.... And when one tape was working, the other games were unloadable.... Yeah, those were the days.... Kids now don't learn what a computer REALLY is. :)

[swanyofrug]

classic...absolute classic!

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥ .

[LAnonHubbard]

Bloody awesome! I never had a C64 but a friend did and I was amazed at the loading music. There was an audio tape called Data Hits which was the result of taking a C64 into a professional studio and enhancing some music. Rambo was one of five tracks on it. It's well worth a listen - do a Google search for "datahits" if you want the MP3 files.

[patgalway1]

Used to keep me from Homework....:-)

[cha0sss]

@patgalway1 i used to do homework while it was loading :D

[Remeli]

i remember that many times some game take over 20min to start and somethimes it satrt but it crash :D

u cannot compare c64 gold tiime todays games.

[lorespamlore]

It took minutes and minutes to load, but once it was loaded, it was much fun to play the game.

[lyoran]

sa Weet