C64 longplay - Asterix

[KingN123]

2:40 civilization 4 song. This game was so hard when I was a kid

[eMKayJR]

@KingN123 actually its Antonin Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No. 7 (Op. 46/7)

[Carbon657]

Lol just as the game slowly manages to load the screen your on to the next screen, it cant keep up with you lmao

[moondancer1981]

too bad old games have shitty ending

[saddq1]

LOL @ all the 2D pop-up

[VinylLad]

@spire81 For some reason, I thought it was a train! LOL Yeah, weird effects there. I love the music for the game. What is the classical piece used in the intro and camp compendium? Or the name of the music that plays like the "sailor music"?

[esathegreat]

Coded in Basic?

[mobilitymind]

Wow, I loved this game when I was young, but also never could solve it. I played it sometimes just to listen to the Dungeon music. Never knew it's a real Dvorak classic.

Sadly this music is mostly found now just played on piano - where it does not have the energy like in here.

[KingN123]

@mobilitymind About the dungeon music, you're right! That's same song is actually played in Civilization 4 too once you get in reneissance era, haha.

[rvounik]

I hated this game. the music is annoying, the screens load too slow..

[SaltTheFries86]

Man...I played this as a kid, of course had broken version and could never finish it. I never knew it was Dvorak's Slavonic Dance in the Roman Dungeon either.

[roskildahphreak]

I never got this game as a kid. So that was it? All you had to do was walk around and gather pieces of a cauldron and smack down romans?

Now i feel raped and fucked in the ass!

[Cobrecileno]

the music played on roman dungeon is by Dvořák (Slavonic dance, 7th movement) !!...

[jumpingboyjr]

The music in the roman dungeon is great. I'm glad to hear again what was deep in brain!

[DarthIvan3]

i used to play this but i gave up since i didn't know what to do...also, obelix was a jerk, just walks around and gets in your way. i just get rid of him instantly, in the village.

[FlowerFlo1983]

sounds like they put some badass speedmetal-drums on that music.

[IgoSplashman]

Obelix is such a lazy bastard in this game. Just follows you around, doesn't bother helping you in the fights, and is MIA from half the game...

[marcusmalone]

Zzap 64 was right. The backgrounds just take too damn long to draw up each time you enter a new screen!

[Sarato]

I even got one more to say! When you are in the dungeon cell, I thought i recognized that music. That music also plays on the game Dragon Slayer for the Game Boy. It is only a bit slower.

That is so cool. Instant favourite on this. =)

[Meteorotaki]

haha, I've never heard it that way, but that's too funny now that I picture this

[kieranfletch]

cost too much and had many issues, i think tho that it mustve been a good system for its time it had competitors in the Atari and Amiga and Apple Mac

i know id rather buy a Nes or an Amiga or an Apple

ive been using pcs since a 200mhz pentium 1 but i aint C64 old school

[soksavik]

The Amiga was not around at the time. The Macintosh barely was (if you were content with a 9" black and white screen), although the Apple II was a competitor.

The Pentium was nowhere to be seen; the 80386 was a brand new chip at the time.

[workon1t]

What is the name for the classical tune played while in the Roman dungeon scene? Heard it once on the radio many years ago, being aired nationwide. So it must be a famous one. I had remembered it ever since I played the game. Funny game.

[Sarfael]

Slavonic Dance Op.46 Number 7

[workon1t]

Thanks! I knew I had come close to an answer when I heard the tune playing while playing Civilization IV. And that just about a week before getting this answer as to who is the composer behind the song.

[Sarato]

@Sarfael

Thank you so much! I have been looking for so long!

I know it's about 7 month too late, but thank you. =)

[SaltTheFries86]

How to get this bugfixed version then? I played this game when it more or less came out. I never got through this game back then :)

[Vampyreboy23]

Commodore c64 rules :) I have the c64 emulator and i play it all the time and i suuure play the Commodore128D i have it gjett and i play it with my friend we always played Usagi yojimbo grate music + green beret cool game asterix summer games world game last ninja and Rambo first blood part 2 . i never will let go commodore 128d :)

[sakemaki]

Lol well played =) The music has been burnt into my head through the ages lol.

[elnurgling]

Hehe, me too, I played this a lot when I was a kid. I never noticed the missing seventh piece because I always ended up getting killed by those ^#&*&% boars much earlier. =0p

[MeatMaggot]

@sakemaki Hardcore Gaming 101 describes the theme as "sea shanty with death metal drums". Describes the sound quite adequately :D .

[inphanta]

@MeatMaggot: Those drums sound more like maracas to me!

[nnramm555]

@sakemaki Yeah like all good C=64 tunes!

[kieranfletch]

god look how the consloe has to load up each individual set peice

PS c64 r gay why do people love them so much

PPS i thought that the asterix and obelix game on sega master system was kinda good

PPPS i played a c64 in town in the gamesstation(i go to geforce but gamestation has old consoles) so i know what im talking about when i say its a frustrating machine even with the gay pad it had as an extra

[SteppingWolf]

Although c64 has its limits, people made clever games for it, and excellent music. Check out Space Taxi... it has realistic physics engine, speech sound effects, accurate controls and a nazi in the last level.

[dedeschwede]

Youre 17 years old, not your generation.

I happened to have that thing when I was 3 years old so I also hold a personal value to the C64.

[Svenson79]

AWESOME!i neber get trogh the game back then!:-))

[mbrauer]

OMG How I remember this! Thank you!!

[Sabocalypse]

Thanx for vid, I never understood how to finish it

[DerSchmu]

This is the bugfixed version. In the original game you need all 7 pieces to solve the game but there are only 6 pieces. So the original game wasn`t solvable.

[Sarato]

How come that they managed to make a bug like that? So that means that everyone who bought this game actually couldn't solve this? =O

[damianos0018]

@DerSchmu Its very frustrating if I dont know that i was bug game and I was can"t finish this game

[McLarenMercedes]

So there were 7 pieces of the cauldron.I thought I had them all when collecting 4.It was by no means an easy game as i recall.Love the catchy tunes.

[Keyser037]

quels souvenirs... ^^