Commodore 64 - Action Biker Remix

[MrGiovannischiavone]

this game drove me mad. The tune the everything. I want to kill the crew for making this game. (lol)

[ZeFluxCapacitor]

Wow, this brings back memories! I remember completing this and thinking, what, that's it?! Class (non-)ending :D

Almost as good as Starquakes...

[kasabian8888]

Thanks for this

I never did complete this game, after all that hard work and not to mention SKILL it just ends without even a 'well done'????

shameful LOL

[LloydBosch]

Wow, an Action Biker Pro :)

[stujwilson]

@LloydBosch What the video doesnt show is how many attempts it took me to do it without crashing/running out of fuel, and remembering where each of the items were! LOL

[LloydBosch]

I used to have a map for the items (created myself). But I never drove around like that without crashing :)

[alicsbc]

OMG, crunchy colin, quavers, misspent youth :)

[tomtuckergregory]

It was like a non violent GTA.... almost.

[laughingfurry]

More like 720 with bikes.

[laughingfurry]

*720 degrees.

[iammoog]

@tomtuckergregory lol --- it really was... nice

[AgaMbadi]

At 3:15 "Go Faster Stripes"

HEEHEE!!!! I remember getting them! Wow, what warm, fuzzy memories. Thanks so much for posting. I loved my C64c. The first system I learned how to rip games for. :) :) :)

[critanime]

@AgaMbadi All games from that era give me a warm fuzzy feeling :)

[GamesEmotions]

great GREAT work!! Congratulations!!! 5 stars!

[NotQuarex]

I spent so much time playing that game as a child. I got to the end only once; when I was about to pull up to the starting line, the game told me that I was too slow, and that I had to start over. I pulled the disk out, tried and failed to rip it to pieces, smashed my joystick against the wall, screamed for about ten minutes, and generally vowed to never play again. I think I never did, and now I can see how truly thrilling the conclusion that I missed was. Haha.

[AlanSessler]

Rob Hubbard rules. I always thought this was the one game the music didn't necessarly seem to fit but it's still a great song- kinda Chet Atkins, Motel 6-ish. Nice remix- though I pictured it being an old time jazz band playing it- maybe with acoustic guitar, upright bass, clarinets/oboes, all that jazz. I wish there was a rock band that did Rob Hubbard covers- namely Chimera!

[bombdog]

Thank you for writing this game. We had great fun with this, and thanks to emulation I still play it occasionally. Think I've still got the cassette in the cupboard..

[stujwilson]

Hi. Thankyou for your kind comments.

I can't take the credit for writing this great game though - It wasn't me!! I only wrote this remix to the main theme tune.

[nivavalin]

This game is amaizing!!!

Thanks for upload :)

[NotATube]

Your reworking kind of emphasises the slight similarity of the music to the theme of the BBC's show "Kickstart" which was about.... stunt biking, coincidentally enough. :-)

BTW, the C64 version (which I think you based this on?) seemed to have more music than the Atari version which just repeated the main melody in a simple loop. Maybe the Atari programmers were trying to retain compatibility with older 16-48K models, maybe they were just lazy, who knows :-)

Nice work anyway!

[orangie84]

oh I also have (yes and I still have the pong console!!)

pong

Anyone remember that console?

it was simply called pong..

[orangie84]

this was one of my most played games..

this and jumpman.. (jumpman jr. as well)

I also loved maniac mansion and zac mc.crackin (if I spelt it correctly)

Then again I always thought it was spelled I-T! lol..

I think as simple as the C64 was.. It brought hours of enterainment to me.. I think I used the C64 more than any other game console or computer (and it lasted longer than any of them too!!) There was also the atari and the collico-vision (again I hope I spelled it correctly!)

[orangie84]

The thing I remember alot is the old commodore 64 tv commercials..

They used bach's classical piece "invention number 13" as the C64 theme music..

It ended up in a lot of the software you could buy for the computer as well..

I used to drive my friends nuts asking them if they remembered the commodore theme music.. They had no idea what I was talking about! now that I know it's a classical piece it's easy to explain.. Now every time I hear bach's invention no.13 I think of the commodore 64!

[NotATube]

My Atari 800XL used to use the first bar of "Promenade" from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition".

I grew to like the full version because I had a type-in BASIC listing that played it in the same beepy style. :-)

[NotATube]

(Oops... I meant that it used the first bar for the audio part of the Self Test mode).

[matywaldy]

ill never forget the game coz I had a dream on how to complete it,on the spectrum you had to find someone.I dreamt he was next to the butcher shop and he was.

[matywaldy]

I had it on the zx spectrum,it was well diferent,your good at it

[euskadita]

Woe, it took a block to write all 40 items one had to take in the park. This game was great! You played really fantastic. I remember my commodore changed the colors sligtly from red to purple as it was heating up while I played so many times this game

[MontereyMatt]

Thank you for this video and for taking me back 20 years. I remember how hard it was to stay on those platforms and to jump those ramps. And the further I made it, the more nerve-wracking those risky maneuvers became. Needless to say, you beat the game slightly faster than I did.

[w0ppe]

Amazing work as always!