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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 10:31:01 AM   
wodin


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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 12:51:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		How could I forget Pirates! and Red Storm Rising? I´m getting so old.

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 3:23:14 PM   
carnifex


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Status: offline 		Just want to make sure everyone knows that there are free C64 emulators like http://www.ccs64.com/ available and you can find pretty much every single game on various websites and they play just like they did back in the day. Load "*",8,1 and all that crap. Your main difficulty will be archaic copy protection like "what is the third word on page 34 of the manual" :)

That and finding out just how crappy 320x200 resolution really looks like on modern monitors :)

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 3:51:30 PM   
Zakhal


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Status: offline 		I learned english by reading Red Storm Rising manual. There were many good rpgs and others games but they were available only on disk and there was no way I could afford that. I read pool of radiance review through like 25 times dreaming I had a disk drive. I actually played the game through 20 years later.

Som good games were released on tape too but since I got c64 in 1988 many of them were no longer sold and the computer games mags had no info about them so I didnt even know they existed. It was not until like 20 years later that I found out that there were som good rpgs available for tape too back then.

I did know about Roadwar 2000 for tape since it was avaible for C64 tape in one store but only so shortly that I didnt manage to get a copy: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/26245/Roadwar+2000.html. Most of my games were just platformers like batman the movie or som sports games like football. I also played lots of 2d shooters like "who dares wins" (I actually finished that game).

After getting pc I never played platformer/sport-games again.


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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 4:45:51 PM   
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2. Pirates!
3. Defenders of the crown
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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 6:26:37 PM   
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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 6:32:57 PM   
Joram

 

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Status: offline 		Ahh, the dawn of computer games.  In some ways the golden age too

1. Crusade in Europe - logged the most hours by far
2. Pirates!
3. Gunship
4. Defenders of the Crown
5. Starship Troopers
An honorable mention. Some soccer game that worked exactly one week before crashing.  Returned it to the store and they said 90% of the copies had been returned but it was awesome and perhaps the predecessor to all the modern management games (though in this one you actually played as well).


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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 7:07:53 PM   
a7v


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Status: offline 		My favourites:

1. Elite
2. Kampfgruppe
3. War in the South Pacific
4. Pirates!
5. Wizards Crown

ok, not to forget Battles of Napoleon, Summer and Winter Games, Defenders of the Crown, Seven Cities of Gold and countless more jewels of computer gaming

Btw, most of these games were finished when they were published and didn´t need patching (ok, maybe I just forgot the bugs over the years...)

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 7:17:44 PM   
Obsolete


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Status: offline 		I still have the Red Storm Rising box here, (PC Version).  Though by the time I got it as a present, I didn't have any 5.25" diskette drives anymore.  I think I may have installed a version from abandonia just to get it to play on my box, but by then E.A. had SeaWolf released. 

Maybe I should give it another chance?




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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 7:22:46 PM   
Jeffrey H.


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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 7:48:10 PM   
E

 

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ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

The discs really were floppy back then !


According to the spam I've received in the past, they can fix that for you now. *off-color-grin*

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 9:52:25 PM   
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I think I played Pirates on an Atari ST I have the Xbox version but it all seems too fast.

Cheers

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/4/2010 11:13:41 PM   
wodin


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ORIGINAL: Jevhaddah

Ye Gods I forgot about Elite... took me a year to get Elite Status



Jev


well imagine your save game getting chewed....sorry to harp on about it but I still havent got over it 26 years later.

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/5/2010 2:04:06 AM   
diablo1

 

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/5/2010 5:41:17 PM   
a7v


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Da da da da damm damm damm damm daah..

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/5/2010 11:24:27 PM   
Raverdave


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Status: offline 		Elite.............played that game to death.  Remember how you used to have to sync your roll to enter the hanger?

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/6/2010 10:34:36 AM   
invernomuto


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Ultima IV
Defender of the crown
Barbarians
Golden Axe
Pirates!

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/6/2010 11:02:56 AM   
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2. Battles of Napoleon
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4. Battle of Chickamauga
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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/6/2010 7:51:57 PM   
wodin


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Elite.............played that game to death.  Remember how you used to have to sync your roll to enter the hanger?


Yep....luckly I had a joystick that you could leave at any point it didnt recentre.

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/6/2010 7:59:11 PM   
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ORIGINAL: wodin


quote:

ORIGINAL: Jevhaddah

Ye Gods I forgot about Elite... took me a year to get Elite Status



Jev


well imagine your save game getting chewed....sorry to harp on about it but I still havent got over it 26 years later.



Wodin my heart goes out to yoo, that must've been horrible. I was lucky and had a double tape deck on my stereo and backed up my saves that way.

Cheers

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RE: One for the Commodore64 veterans...Your Top 5 C64 G... - 3/6/2010 11:22:42 PM   
Obsolete


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Oh jeeze, does that bring back memories....


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