Krazy Kong on Commodore Vic 20 vintage home computer

[SarahSmith666]

This aint the vic 20 game i remember. the vic20 one had better graphics and barrells

[rainydaymoon]

i got paid shit for my games that were featured in magazines. I was 17, but you steve makes me think you are full of shit for such a plop of crap. they have ppl that can make better basic programs than that. On a good point point i thought the graphics were quite good for basic.

[SteveBenway]

@rainydaymoon You think I am full of shit? Excuse me? I didn't program this. I just played the game and recorded my thoughts while playing it. I suggest you think carefully before commenting again, coz I don't care to be insulted on my own channel thanks.

[RossJams]

what is Crazy Kong doing up there - looks like a perv in a raincoat

BUT

written by a 14 year kid - got to give him some credit - is this the same person that wrote HardHat published in Compute's Gazette? reminds me of that - loved that game and probably would have enjoyed this one as well

Hell I still have my old Vic ... where can i get me a copy of this?

[fjccommish]

@utterbilge I agree with Steve. It isn't a bad job of programming, especially given you were 14.  But this isn't a commercial game, even for the time. The publisher is to blame. With more time and pay you would have probably been able to make it a lot better.

[HD8Track]

This is pretty cool for a kid...on a V20...in the 80's before Internet tutorials. Good Job!!

[MrV902]

@utterbilge What's a "quid"?

XD

[SteveBenway]

@MrV902 It's slang for the UK currency. A quid is one pound sterling :)

[MrV902]

@SteveBenway I've always wondered why they called it "pound sterling"; now I know from reading. Is it true that sterling consists only of coins?

70 of those sound like a lot to carry around :D

[SteveBenway]

@MrV902 We have notes too. The largest coin is £2. We have notes from £5 to £50.

[MrV902]

@SteveBenway That's actually quite interesting. Not as funny as carrying 70 quid in coins, but interesting :D

[itsabomberscope]

@utterbilge Impressive for a 14 year old. At least you have created something, which still lives on to this day. Well done.

[chicoflaco]

@utterbilge when the vic20 first came out, way before there were PS3 games in 3D, this game would've rocked my world when I was young, so programmers today have this 14-year-old kid to thank as the progenitor

[SteveBenway]

@utterbilge Ah, I suspect I'm going to pay for speaking my mind without thinking on a fairly regular basis.

I apologise for offending and most certainly didn't make this video for that purpose.

That was just my honest reaction upon playing what was a commercially released game.

But I will say this, at 14 you did a better job than I can do at 42, and for that I commend your skills.

[summer20105707]

Well at least it's better then Atari's shitty ET game. Lol ha ha haa :-)

[a3HeadedMonkey]

Oh wow! The Vic 20. I had one of these as a kid before we got an Amiga. Have you ever heard of a game called Mickey The Brickie? I'd love to see that game again.

I'm spending the day hungover sifting trough your old vids. :)

[mrpisterman]

my dad bought me one of those.the basterd!

[mgsnv2]

Wow...this is the worst I have ever seen.

[RetroVGamer]

It's so bad it makes the 2600 version of donkey kong look like the arcade version.

[fuzzywzhe]

@RetroVGamer This was some kid's attempt at making Donkey Kong. This wasn't sold, it was probably from a magazine.

The VIC=20 version of Donkey Kong was OK.

[SteveBenway]

@fuzzywzhe This was sold. It's true that it was programmed by a 14 year old, but it was on a commercially released compilation cassette, not on the cover of a magazine.

[fuzzywzhe]

@SteveBenway Well, I don't know the history of it to be honest. It's true a lot of crappy games for the C=64 for sold, at the beginning and end of the lifetime of the C=64.

It's possible this was sold, but not as standalone. Compilations were pretty common - ever hear of "Action 52" or Cheetahmen?

[SteveBenway]

@fuzzywzhe This was on the Cascade Cassette 50 compilation... probably similar to the Action 52 thing you mentioned. I know this as I loaded the game from the original cassette :)

[fuzzywzhe]

@SteveBenway I don't see why people concentrate on bad games on the computer. Lot of fun games still playable today.

I used to type in games when I was a kid in machine language. I typed in Crossroads and the followup to it Pandemonium. I don't know if it was available on the Vic, but they were fun games on the C=64

[SteveBenway]

@fuzzywzhe It's not about concentrating on bad games. I'm simply showing all the games I have, whether they're good or bad, and expressing my thoughts as I play them.

[fuzzywzhe]

@SteveBenway "I'm simply showing all the games I have"

Oh - that never occurred to me. I have somewhere on the order of 10,000 games or so.

Want some?

[SteveBenway]

@fuzzywzhe Blimey, that's a lot of games.

I'm finding it takes a huge chunk of my spare time just putting up vids of the games I have... over 600 vids and counting. Thanks for the very kind offer though :)

[fuzzywzhe]

@SteveBenway Well, somebody has to archive them. To be honest, I haven't even played most of them, I simply collect.

Need help running an emulator? If you do, I can help you with that.

[madderscientist23]

Were there any 64k vic games? Do you have any? looking at the quality of these games, I'm thinking the Vic could give the spectrum 48k a good run for it's money in a lot of ways!

[gamewizard]

@madderscientist23

There wouldn't be, at least not from that time period. The Vic-20 only had something like 5k RAM and 2K of that was used by the operating system. I'm not sure how big the cartridge space was, but making a cartridge with 64k worth of chips on it would have been outrageously expensive in the late 70's-early 80's. Homebrewers today might be able to do it because the cost of the chips is nothing, the real expense today is doing a run of plastic cartridge shells.

[Asterra2]

Things are actually moving a bit faster than I would expect of Basic.

[DocHackenbush]

Is it the only level...?

[SteveBenway]

Yes. It's only a 4k game, so there'd be no room for any other levels.

[DocHackenbush]

Wow. :D