20 Games That Defined The Commodore 64

[BaconLettucePickles]

Is it bad i played all but the last two?

[unrealfcy]

testdrive is need for the pack! :D

[CenTraGZor]

IK++ & LN3 no more :D

[DC180]

The last Ninja was very challenging game..

[mo21nk]

i liked arnie 2 and sner and count duckula thats all i remember

[pietepekka]

Legend of Kage? Paperboy? The other games are ok, although many of them not my favourites, and I think if I started to make a similar list it would be dozens of games long...

Anyway, thanks for two minute's enjoyable digression.

[mind70188]

katakis and giana is really missing,but good list though

[daniel70608]

old games

[quadturbo4]

The thing is that a complete list of the games that defined the 64 must have like 50 entries. I would add Red Storm Rising, Impossible Mission, Ace of Aces and many more. But this is a good list, not least because it includes both Last Ninja games and Pirates!

[Halligen1972]

Check my Video `Two times, two ninjas but one mission (C-64 / Amiga)` - Tags:"last ninja two mission"

[1861robertelee]

No Harrier Jumpjet?

[97channel]

Kikstart, Krakout, all the Dizzy games, Castle Master, Pitfall II, Rainbow Islands, Crazy Comets, Mikie, Exploding Fist, Hypa-Ball, International Soccer, Outrun, All of The 'Games' series (Summer, Winter, California, etc), Rockstar Ate My Hamster, Hyper Sports, Operation Wolf, Ghostbusters, Shoot 'Em Up Construction Kit, Bounder, The New Zealand Story.

...A worthy alternative contender for this list?

...(I know I cheated by bunching some together, but let's not get too serious about that, hey?)

[Snowcat1970]

All games mentioned were great even though I am certain some weren't original c64 games. Not that this matter very much those games were nice as well. I am missing Spy vs. Spy though.

Does anyone remember that one. And more specifically the heads up possibility the game had.

Boy did i love fighting others in this game, even losing was cool. It was possible to make dying of the opposite spy an art ;)

[kalemdor1]

@Snowcat1970 loved the wire attached to the gun off the door trap best lol ..and the lil angel that floated away after you killed them lol

also liked rampage, quake minus one , aztec challenge, gauntlet, druid, blue max, golden axe , the we are the champions game pack and kung fu master

ahh my childhood

[xBIGHARRYx]

No Hyper sports = fail list!

[73mordka]

i disagree, where giana, montezuma, green beret, rick dangerous??? just askin

[30f6]

What tune is playing in this video?

[RolandDeschain1]

Glad you included TURRICAN 2 and not just the original.

TURRICAN 2 was the absolute technical pinnacle of the system. The only game that even approached it in terms of graphics was LAST NINJA 3.

[snoojie]

Number 1 with a bullet: M.U.L.E.

Past that:

Paradroid

Phantasie

Below the Root

Raid on Bungeling Bay

Raid over Moscow

Batty

Tower Toppler

When I get home tonight, I can check my collection of which I still have in its entirety and see if I'm missing anything else that absorbed my childhood.

[snoojie]

@snoojie How could I have forgotten Jumpman?

[snoojie]

@snoojie Oh geez, and Sword of Fargoal. Okay, time to stop this before I end up here all day.

[KesMonkey]

I'm fairly sure there's a law against not including Uridium in a top C64 games list.

[dccoulthard]

I agree with all of you! What about Mail Order Monsters!!

[sharri115]

how can you not have the summer and winter games??? That was the epitome of commodore 64.

[n4pgamer]

At least Turrican was in it ....

How about Giana Sisters ?

Those were definitely NOT the games that defined C64!

[ghetty1970]

Come on, where's International Soccer, Emlyn Hughes, Summer/Winter Games, Forbidden Forest, SkyFox, Project Firestart and...Samantha Fox Strip Poker ???

Goin' to search my old C64, I miss it... :-(((((((((((((((((((((((

[Ruslakall]

What no (random c64 game) !?!?!?!?

[DWINC]

no International Soccer?

[nefasest]

Pirates! greatest C64 game of all time; so much to do and great atmosphere

Also: Wasteland; amazing how a game w/mediocre graphics kept me interested through a now scoffed at system of text messages for battles; i loved reading the real-time battle results and imagining what was happening

[viciouswhips]

WHAT? No Rainbow Islands? Your list is tainted with bias!

[Ricscott]

no mayhem in monsterland!

[vubhuhjkbhubohjb]

If you're going to include Barbarian at least cut his bloody head off.

[ogdenous]

Where is Bazooka Bill

[Dahgrostabphri]

mostly good list...but there are so many games that made up the c-64 experience it would be almost an impossible mission to list them all

[campeona5]

No clumsy colin?

[niallgriffin99]

Lords of Chaos, Wonderboy, Dizzy.....Tooth Decay hahhahah

[jerste]

I find the list excellent and I'm thankful in particular for mentioning Zak. Thing is there was a hundred good games on the C64... so it's somehow easy to name a few more.

[fpvshitsonhsv]

I remember a game i used to play with my brother it was a soccer game on c64. Used to play it for hours

[McLewis4]

gianna sisters the best !!:D

[sixxdog]

When you see af C-64 list without Archon in it, you know it's failed. Archon and Archon 2 along with Pirates, are the best games ever made.

[RSOLPCSERVICES]

Surprised none of these classics made your list: Uridium, Paradroid, Summer Games II, Impossible Mission, Beach Head II, Raid Over Moscow, Commando, Way of the Exploding Fist, Gunship, Infiltrator, Sanxion, Leaderboard, Sentinel, Spindizzy, Little Computer People, Spy vs Spy, Super Cycle, Fighter Pilot, I-Ball, Pitstop II, Test Drive. And most of these were released before '86.

[anthonyjthorne]

@RSOLPCSERVICES That's a real Zzap 64 classics list (your list of C64 faves). I think the majority of the best games I played on the console are on your list.

[MPSecare]

wasteland pre dates c64 i think

[diegomifits666]

Giana Sisters?

[Purvisdavid966]

wheres dizzy??

[nickantibarney]

you ditched the 3 smerfs games from the c64? O you are in hot water!

[mikestermike]

Missing: Leisure Suit Larry, Skate or Die, Airborne Ranger and Strike Fleet.

[lordofxenon]

ELITEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[TheJewelChest]

A few that I would add... off the top... Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Summer Games 1 & 2, Winter Games, Skate Or Die, Commando, Impossible Mission

[HeathenSaxon]

control in one hand, jerkin off with the other...ahh, good times with c64.

[jacksiin1000]

Brings it all back especially Barbarian as remember rushing out to buy this as a school kid and it had a large free poster of Wolf and Maria Whittaker...

[bongo155]

Great list

[resistanceunion]

Ghost and Goblins for C64 was a bad port really

[Carbon657]

Ive heard people say that the C64s colours always looked washed out compared to the Amstrad ,all you had to do was turn up the colour adjustment on your tv though.

[FreakyXIII]

Umm no sign of Dizzy.. WTF.... :/

[trepattoni]

Where's Wonderboy? :)

[RightWingHunter666]

OMG... Wasteland totally ruled... it was the beginning of the Fallout Universe.

[eviltimeban]

If you haven't got Wizball here, you haven't got a list.

[thorstenguenther]

So sad you didn't take all original C64 games, instead you have far too many ports in this list (e.g. Lode Runner: Apple II, Boulder Dash: Atari 400/800, Elite: BBC Micro, Ghost'n'Goblins and Bubble Bobble: coin-op, Defender of the Crown. Commodore Amiga) for my taste.

[DGneoseeker1]

Ah, so THAT's what Lode Runner was like.

I had a copy for my Spectrum, but the damn tape never worked properly.

[lionsleadbydonkeys]

california games! :D just think when we where all playing these games back in the day it really was cutting edge stuff lol

[fuzzface100]

Wot no Impossible Mission? Sacrilege....

[lucylovesguitar]

@fuzzface100 IKR! And what about M.U.L.E.? I can still play M.U.L.E. for hours.

[gjc82071]

@lucylovesguitar I would play M.U.L.E. with you online. I love retro gaming. Do you have any emulators? There are emulators for Atari: 2600, 5200 400/800, Intellivision, Commodore 64, Nintendo: NES, SNES, N64 & Sega: Genesis/32X, Master System, Game Gear. There is also MAME, a coin-op, arcade game emulator. All those systems have emulators with free netplay support, for online gaming. I'd love to play Summer Games again, VS a real person! :-)

[cadmus98]

Forbidden Forest?

[Puddi77]

1:29 : I remember there was weapon or something hidden in that toilet in the park.

[Zynyster]

Lode Runner and Boulder Dash were great games. I had so much fun with those. But the game that I love on my Commodore 64 was 'The Bard's Tale' - that game blew me away as it was my first Role playing game. I remember using the square graph paper to draw the dungeons so I won't get lost. Good times.

[crusher143]

I really loved Maniac Mansion back then, I was a kid and always was so fuckin scared especially when the doctor, ed or edna was running behind me lol.

[Simon0]

TURRICAN!! I fudging love turrican.

[Filipsaccount]

Commando?



[TeamRocketReviews]

Where's Impossible Mission? The definative C64 game? Definately.

[azuarc]

Most of these aren't true C-64 games so much as ports to the Commodore. Half that stuff was Arcade (Paperboy, Ghosts and Goblins), quite a bit of the rest I don't think of as being for Commodore (Bubble Bobble). Get some more Epyx games on there and maybe a few games that can rightfully call themselves a C-64 game first.

[applemctom]

@azuarc: like California Games (Epyx) & Last Ninja 1&2?

[azuarc]

@applemctom yes, like those. I suppose to be fair there's a couple games on the list I outright don't recognize. Since I don't recognize them, I suspect they're C-64 only. (Defender of the Crown, Barbarian, Elite)

[ofdiscordia]

@azuarc all of those games had Amiga versions, most of them had versions on Atari ST and IBM compats. Elite probably started on C64 and the IBM machines at the time but I can tell you for sure Cinemaware released Defenders of the Crown to Amiga before anything else and if you're wanting to play that game, that's the version to look for, it's excellent.

[FizzlegearSchumacher]

@ofdiscordia Yeah they all had, but most of them came later. My fav here is Turrican. Developed for C64 and after it slowly died the entire crew cancelled C64 development after T2, switched to other systems, and the entire Saga more or less died in agony as sequel after sequel failed to be good. And although the Amiga and PC Versions of T2 are way better than the C64, i still prefer that one =)

[ofdiscordia]

one word: Trapdoor

[PoisonousDart]

@applemctom: Where's Omega Race? Richtofen's Revenge? Elevator Action? Jumpman? Jumpman Jt? International Soccer? Karateka? The Way Of The Exploding Fist? Bruce Lee? Hardball? 4th & Inches? Silent Service? Beach-Head? Archon? Any of the Ultima series? No D&D Pools Of Radiance? Gorf? The golden age of the Commode 64 was the early to mid 80's. In '85 we mostly used Nintendo's or Sega Master Systems for home gaming...

[RSOLPCSERVICES]

@PoisonousDart Omega Race was a cartridge game on the Vic 20, not the 64 as I recall.

[PoisonousDart]

@RSOLPCSERVICES: I had the cartridge. For Commodore 64. That's why I mentioned it...

[snoojie]

@RSOLPCSERVICES Omega Race was the second cartridge I ever bought for my C64, so it was indeed available. First one: Gateway to Apshai.

[5up3rk1w1]

@azuarc I guess the statement is true if when C64 gets mentioned, all those titles that were ports still get mentioned alongside C64. This statement is given more credibility because its says "Defined" and not "Made by"

[ogrejd]

Amazing what we thought were good graphics back then, eh?

[LMMEjsmith]

we used to have one of these... Bubble Bobble, Zak McKraken, Battle Chess, there were some others as well, i can't remember all the names of them. One was a side view (not scrolling) cooperative airplane game, you had to use bombs and shoot down enemy planes to sink ships, i think it was Island of Dr. Destructo. Ad Infintum was good, and we had a medieval game, kinda like that Barbarian one, but you could pick different weapons and enter different challenges.

[Omegalore]

Commodore 64? Never heard of it.

[ROBLOXingHabbo]

@Omegalore

It's a piece of shit.

[prescribedrecords]

@Omegalore

The biggest selling computer of all time.

[SuperSmooth69x]

never had the pressure of playing this console

[shairaptor]

These games as a kid, made a much bigger impression on me, than todays "fancy looking" 3d games which have no spirit at all (mostly)! Or is it because I'm grown up? Nah, no spirit is correct :)

[axiomlt72]

I'm not seeing Battletech..... That was a pretty epic game.

[R3trogam3er77]

Hmmm what about these classics. Impossible mission, Creatures 1 & 2, Rainbow Islands, IK+ (instead of standard IK), Flimbo's Quest and Ghostbusters. Legend of Kage and Paperboy were Crap C64 ports and shouldn't even be on this list

[psmccallion]

OMG where's  Salamanda?

Turrican, International Karate...best games in the world lol

[BlackBarMusic]

A rather martial collection, but not so bad.

[hippocrates72]

Great selection ! Could you add starting times of each game ? Thanks!

[kingsman565]

They relly need to make a remake of Barbarian.

[TZMIndy]

Skate or Die, Kung Fu Master, 4th and Inches, Up&Down, River Raid, Ultima 2,3,4... Man... Loved those games.

[JDonahue79]

I think that it should be on the 20 games include Summer/Winter Games, Below the Root, Alice in Wanderland, and Ultima 4, as well as Kung Fu Master.

[Gosumoni]

@JDonahue79 Agreed. Archon aswell.

[inphanta]

Why on earth would you put Legend of Kage in this list? That game was shite. Elite was also better on other systems. Impossible Mission, Armalyte, Creatures 1&2 and IK+ should've also been on there.

[flamesdemon19]

I believe you mean "20 games thet defined the commodore 64 for me".I never owned a commodore 64 but if I did I would certainly have a different list and I'm sure the other people that own one have other lists too.

[march12314]

WHERE CAN I GET THIS AGAIN. :(

[7heAre7s]

Ghosts n' Goblins...I remember the "Super Ghouls n' Ghosts" game on the GBA just as well. On the GBA version, it was one of the hardest game I have ever played.

[OceanLoader]

Spot on with Elite, LN 1&2, Turrican 1&2 and Zak. I'd say you're missing Cybernoid, Monty, Delta, Armalyte, CREATURES 1&2, Myth, Wizball, Mayhem in Monsterland, Giana Sisters, Microprose Soccer, Turbo Outrun, Ghouls n Ghosts, Impossible Mission and more than a few other excellent 64 titles!!!!!

[rainydaymoon]

what about beachead I and II, d&d goldbox series, bards tale series, impossible mission, summer, winter, world and california games.

[Tottibytes]

Could be boring and argue the toss over what you did and didn't include, but everyone has a different list. A few in there that really worked for me, including Last Ninja which was way ahead of it's time. Would have liked to see Saboteur though.

[activesack]

Wow. Not one Accolade or EA game on the list?

[agentalbert]

I was so obsessed with Elite back when I had my C-64. I probably spent more time playing that game than any other my whole life.

[HardWarUK]

Your pretty much on the ball with these games. You know your C64 market of the mid 80's! :) And Bitlife70: These are the games that defined the C64 not originated. It's just that when 100,000 have played the arcade and 5 million the C64 version - it's the C64 version that's remembered! :)

[aei05h1]

The quality in these videos is terrible!

[bitlife70]

ah, good old commodore64.

But most games introduced here are based from arcade, commodore128 etc..

[TheLordgene]

maniac mansion looks awsome