Ah The Ninja Warriors music. Another tune that takes me back to visiting seafront arcades as a kid back in the 80's. I think the Atari ST and Amiga had pretty good versions also but had a bit of disk swapping. Thanks for the video.
Great video again OSG! Not sure if you tried these games, but Hessian, Double Dragon '89 (which is the Ocean remake), Samurai Warrior - The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo, and a rare game called Robotron (not the arcade game) that was released, in Australia, on a compilation pack called ECP Gold Ribbon Game Pack. Nothing truly amazing, but it was a little bit of fun when I was a kid.
For a long time my copy of Shinobi wouldn’t load. But one day I found it worked if I held the play button down on the datasette for the entire load! Painful but it was totally worth it!
I used to love Fist 2 (and way of the exploding fist) back in the day - was surprised not to see it! Also that bop n rumble? Game I had it but it was called street hassle! Never did play the Bruce Lee game but I used to love zorro and they almost seem the same! Still have my c64, which I don't get enough time to play these days, but love these vids and also seeing games I never played.👍
I think bop n rumble had 3 different release names. I love way of the exploding fist too but it's more a straight forward fighter rather than beat em up or multi genre ...fist 2 could have been in there but I wasn't that keen on it..I thought the adventure bit boring...have you ever played Fist +?
I got Barbarian II with my C64, and played it before the original. I can totally understand why you'd be thrown off by how different the sequel was to the original. As someone who first played the sequel, I felt exactly the same way about the original. I thought "is this all?" Took me a while to appreciate both games. By the way, I'd love it if some indie studio developed a spiritual successor to Barbarian I, with retro-style graphics (maybe 16 or 32 bit style), tightened up gameplay, the use of multiple buttons, and beefy single player and versus modes. I think there would be a market for an indie sword-and-sorcery fighting game like that.
Great video buddy....... an the music in most of these is pure SID chip gold. Had a lot of these and i have to say your spot on with Shinobi, it may not look as good as the Amiga but the game just ran so much better. Well roll on your next video buddy so until then take it easy :-)
Funnily enough I was watching "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey" earlier today. Not just a great martial artist, but a spiritual warrior. You might want to check out another C64 release - "Bruce Lee - Return Of Fury". It's essentially a remix of the original release, with an amazing loading screen!
Loved the list. Bop n wrestle is a quite unique and wacky game. Still surprised to not see a game with a samurai rabbit (can t renember the name) that should be on the list
I loved Bruce Lee and it rightly deserves the number 1 spot but I would have included Green Beret in the list. I know its more run and gun but he does fight close up with a dagger which isnt that much different from an axe, shuriken or whatever, plus the music is very good. Great list with several games I had never heard of
Great idea to split it up to multi-genre fighting! The C64 had some weird and wonderful fighters.. a some terrible ones.. can never, ever forget Phantom Karate Devils.. actually the title was like, 20 words longer but i cant remember it..
Bruce Lee is a still good play today.....to be fair Double Dragon was crap on all ports, have you played Bruce Lee 2? Great collection of beat'em ups as well👍😀
I know people hate it when comments do this and t his is the first time I've ever done it my self, but no Samurai Warrior - The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo?
this was a real mash up mate, got a bit out of control really... but i felt i had to do it as the Beat Em Up lists will be much better when i hit the consoles and 16bits...sorry mate :-(
Demon's Kiss, now you're talking! Also hold the fire button to realease the spike on the weapon, best way to fight. Beat thyat game so many times (endings just a static screen)
Still confused by your criteria. Surely last Ninja fits in to this category. For me I'd have included the bunny samurai warrior and Fist 2 which is an acquired taste. I guess you could say first samurai fits this genre too. I'm sure there's quite a few good games missing here. :) But it's your personal faves so it's all good. :)
lol you arent as confused as me. All of these games are listed in the Beat Em Up Genre on multiple sites but after speaking with some other YTubers i changed the name as they are a total mash up of genres...if i hadnt invested so much time playing, getting the footage and editing i probably would have scrapped this video
I quite liked Vigilante on the C64, even if they did stop you from killining enemies in one hit for some reason :S But as you're doing C64 videos, have you ever thought of doing a video on the double ports it had, like it had two versions of Street Fighter, After Burner, Double Dragon Etc.
Missed most of the games on this list, some of the later C64 games look great. Kung Fu Master! great nostalgia, one of the first games I played on 64. I first played Karateka on the Atari 800, great game when you get into it. Bruce Lee No:1? deffo yeah! deserves the top spot, remember playing with a friend where one of you could play the green sumo guy, great fun :)
Loved Bruce Lee. Thought barbarian 2 would have been higher and where's IK+ and the way of the exploding fist?!! 🤷♂️ Oh yeah, usagi yojimbo?! That has to be there surely?
We had 'Bruce Lee' on the C64 back in the day. I remember when the game loaded, it played a sound bit the sounded like "HIYYAAAAAAAAA, , oof" from 'Enter the Dragon', when Bruce does a flying kick on Ohara. Somebody should remake this game.
No street fighter 2 on this list? Bullocks! I hope you make a Amiga version soon. There's a lot of crap (Dangerous streets) but also some beauty (elfmania) to be found
The problem with micro computers beat'em up was that developers were rarely able to convey a feeling of really beating the enemy, so the games felt far removed from the arcades originals. TMHT2 rarely gets any praise today but I used to think it was a great conversion. Well, I actually liked a lot Double Dragon 3 and even Last Battle on the C64, but today they are considered crap, probably rightly so. It would be great if somebody converted NES Mighty Final Fight to the C64. It sticks out like a sore thumb that only the Speccy has it.
So this list started out as beat em ups but there were so few good ones that I changed it to multi genre.. I think barbarian falls into straight forward fighter genre so when I do that series it will be in there
It could have been...but and this doesn't mean I'm right and your wrong...I didn't really like the sequel... The adventure but really bored me..loved the fighting bits and I actually own the real game
Things were much simpler in the 80s. If you wanted to 'capture the widescreen aspect' you simply didn't bother creating graphics for the top and the bottom of the screen!
I'm looking for a fighting game for the C64. I don't remember its title because I played it only a few times and the AI simply devastated me. It was a hand to hand combat game in which you could grab your opponent, throw him to the ground and even jump on him. And that's what the AI did. You could also use a syringe to boost your abilities. But before I had time to figure out how to play, I was already dead. Anybody?
Hmmmm i cant think of any game other than Frankie Goes to Hollywood with syringes in... can you describe more..was it like a street fighter type layout etc
I actually love vigilante arcade it's one of my favourites but I think all the home ports where crap compared to the arcade....I actually started a comparison on that game...think it might still be in my to do folder I'll have a look
@@oldstylegaming turbographix had a great port, amiga was ok, atari st looks like it came from the amiga but with worse music, the MSX port was really bad as were c64 and cpc464
Wow you missed out so many greats like IK, Karate Champ, all the Last Ninja's, Yeir Ar Kung Fu (sacrilege you missed this one), Budokan the list goes on you could have done a top 40. I appreciate the video but have to disagree with your list would not have been my Top 20 although there are a few in your list that would have made mine.
It's not a fighting game video Tgats why ik+ etc aren't in ...it actually started out as beat em ups but then got blurred along the way...I will however be doing a fighting game series...and yeah IK+ will probs be top of a few of those lists
There are sadly no good beat-em up for the Commodore64. They are "playable" at best. (I don't consider most of the better games of this list to be beat'em ups) With recent advances and knowledge of the system, I would love to see a modern take on the genre.
Soooo many great games on this list OSG. Great video. Absolutely loved Barbarian 2 and Ninja.
Bruce Lee was awesome. I liked to get the enemies to killed by the all the obstacles. I also liked Usagi Yojimbo, even though I couldn't get far.
Fun fact: The Simpsons Arcade was only ever ported to 2 home systems: c64 and DOS PC
Great choices, I remember playing Bruce Lee to death at my mate's house. Brilliant :)
Yeah it's pure simple brilliant fun mate ...games like this never grow old
Ah The Ninja Warriors music. Another tune that takes me back to visiting seafront arcades as a kid back in the 80's. I think the Atari ST and Amiga had pretty good versions also but had a bit of disk swapping. Thanks for the video.
Those main characters sprites in Hammerfist are proper high resolution, no chunkiness there. Pity not many games used them back in the day.
Great list OSG! you're absolutely killing it!
Thanks mate
Great video again OSG! Not sure if you tried these games, but Hessian, Double Dragon '89 (which is the Ocean remake), Samurai Warrior - The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo, and a rare game called Robotron (not the arcade game) that was released, in Australia, on a compilation pack called ECP Gold Ribbon Game Pack. Nothing truly amazing, but it was a little bit of fun when I was a kid.
Ive played a few of them...but not that Hessian ill try that one mate
For a long time my copy of Shinobi wouldn’t load. But one day I found it worked if I held the play button down on the datasette for the entire load! Painful but it was totally worth it!
Lol
Love these videos.. Makes me want to buy a c64 mini and ad all the awesome games from my childhood. And all the ones I missed out on. 👍🏻
I used to love Fist 2 (and way of the exploding fist) back in the day - was surprised not to see it!
Also that bop n rumble? Game I had it but it was called street hassle!
Never did play the Bruce Lee game but I used to love zorro and they almost seem the same!
Still have my c64, which I don't get enough time to play these days, but love these vids and also seeing games I never played.👍
I think bop n rumble had 3 different release names. I love way of the exploding fist too but it's more a straight forward fighter rather than beat em up or multi genre ...fist 2 could have been in there but I wasn't that keen on it..I thought the adventure bit boring...have you ever played Fist +?
@@oldstylegaming Never heard of fist +
Is it a recent remake or old?
@@infinityeight8705 old. It's like way of the exploding fist meets ik+
Loved Shinobi on the C64. Such an impressive port.
It is..it's just missing the in game music then it would have been perfect
I got Barbarian II with my C64, and played it before the original. I can totally understand why you'd be thrown off by how different the sequel was to the original. As someone who first played the sequel, I felt exactly the same way about the original. I thought "is this all?" Took me a while to appreciate both games.
By the way, I'd love it if some indie studio developed a spiritual successor to Barbarian I, with retro-style graphics (maybe 16 or 32 bit style), tightened up gameplay, the use of multiple buttons, and beefy single player and versus modes. I think there would be a market for an indie sword-and-sorcery fighting game like that.
Great video buddy....... an the music in most of these is pure SID chip gold. Had a lot of these and i have to say your spot on with Shinobi, it may not look as good as the Amiga but the game just ran so much better. Well roll on your next video buddy so until then take it easy :-)
Glad you liking these videos ;-)
Funnily enough I was watching "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey" earlier today. Not just a great martial artist, but a spiritual warrior. You might want to check out another C64 release - "Bruce Lee - Return Of Fury". It's essentially a remix of the original release, with an amazing loading screen!
Yeah that loading screen is probably the best I've seen on the c64
Liked the packaging to Barbarian 2. When Maria Whitaker featured in the newspaper page 3 needed peeling open after I'd finished with it.
Hahahahaha....hahahahaha
Loved the list. Bop n wrestle is a quite unique and wacky game. Still surprised to not see a game with a samurai rabbit (can t renember the name) that should be on the list
Another epic video and again some games I've never heard of but must try out ❤️
I loved Bruce Lee and it rightly deserves the number 1 spot but I would have included Green Beret in the list. I know its more run and gun but he does fight close up with a dagger which isnt that much different from an axe, shuriken or whatever, plus the music is very good. Great list with several games I had never heard of
Great idea to split it up to multi-genre fighting! The C64 had some weird and wonderful fighters.. a some terrible ones.. can never, ever forget Phantom Karate Devils.. actually the title was like, 20 words longer but i cant remember it..
lol
Nice video. A lot of these I never played. I would definitely have Usagi Yojimbo near the top. How about Green Beret? Plays similar to Shinobi.
The lines are soooo blured in this list as far as genres go...I think I could have put anything in lol
Fantastic list osg👍 Loved playing Bruce Lee. Ninja wasn’t bad either 🤔 But Goddamn Bop’n Rumble was fun to play😀
Bruce Lee is a still good play today.....to be fair Double Dragon was crap on all ports, have you played Bruce Lee 2? Great collection of beat'em ups as well👍😀
Yeah I've played it it's good
That BOFH game, is that essentially a port of the NES version of Die Hard?
I know people hate it when comments do this and t his is the first time I've ever done it my self, but no Samurai Warrior - The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo?
Hey that's what the comments are for mate..your input is important to me and my channel
Lots of interesting games here. Shinobi is brilliant
I would have added Hysteria
this was a real mash up mate, got a bit out of control really... but i felt i had to do it as the Beat Em Up lists will be much better when i hit the consoles and 16bits...sorry mate :-(
Demon's Kiss, now you're talking! Also hold the fire button to realease the spike on the weapon, best way to fight. Beat thyat game so many times (endings just a static screen)
I thought 'Chambers of Shaolin' was the licensed game of the film 'Fame' until he kicked the guy.
lol
"but it's missing what made that game stand out: the ability to play in multi-player, which is a real shame."
Spectrum version: "*cough*" :)
Still confused by your criteria. Surely last Ninja fits in to this category. For me I'd have included the bunny samurai warrior and Fist 2 which is an acquired taste. I guess you could say first samurai fits this genre too. I'm sure there's quite a few good games missing here. :) But it's your personal faves so it's all good. :)
lol you arent as confused as me. All of these games are listed in the Beat Em Up Genre on multiple sites but after speaking with some other YTubers i changed the name as they are a total mash up of genres...if i hadnt invested so much time playing, getting the footage and editing i probably would have scrapped this video
Thanks mate :-)
I quite liked Vigilante on the C64, even if they did stop you from killining enemies in one hit for some reason :S
But as you're doing C64 videos, have you ever thought of doing a video on the double ports it had, like it had two versions of Street Fighter, After Burner, Double Dragon Etc.
I did a one on EU vs US releases which was I bit like that
+ Usagi Yojimbo, Exploding Fist 2, Last Ninja series, Vendetta
Way of the Exploding Fist, International Karate.
Missed most of the games on this list, some of the later C64 games look great. Kung Fu Master! great nostalgia, one of the first games I played on 64. I first played Karateka on the Atari 800, great game when you get into it. Bruce Lee No:1? deffo yeah! deserves the top spot, remember playing with a friend where one of you could play the green sumo guy, great fun :)
Bruce Lee is a timeless classic ..never gets boring no matter how many times you play it and that's the mark of a good game
Maria Whittaker... God bless her. Such a lovely set of... eyes.
Yeah....eyes ...
Loved Bruce Lee. Thought barbarian 2 would have been higher and where's IK+ and the way of the exploding fist?!! 🤷♂️
Oh yeah, usagi yojimbo?! That has to be there surely?
BOP N RUMBLE! Oh yeah! I played so much of that game on c64 but I have to wonder if it ever ends?
Nice list, I also liked Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo, Fist II, Renegade, and Storm Warrior, Not sure if they all fits this category.
I think they probably fit the list better than some of these tbh
As long as you didn't say Renegade III. LMAO
We had 'Bruce Lee' on the C64 back in the day. I remember when the game loaded, it played a sound bit the sounded like "HIYYAAAAAAAAA, , oof" from 'Enter the Dragon', when Bruce does a flying kick on Ohara. Somebody should remake this game.
They have remade it last year its called Bruce Lee 2
IK+ Surely hands down the best of the bunch
Ahhh...Karateka. I couldn't wait for the C64 version after playing it on the Apple IIe. Still a great game.
It is mate. Maybe not everyone's cup of read but I love it too
I play it down with the emulation speed sped up
No street fighter 2 on this list? Bullocks! I hope you make a Amiga version soon. There's a lot of crap (Dangerous streets) but also some beauty (elfmania) to be found
They will be in the fighting game series this (all though messed up is the beat an up series)
The problem with micro computers beat'em up was that developers were rarely able to convey a feeling of really beating the enemy, so the games felt far removed from the arcades originals. TMHT2 rarely gets any praise today but I used to think it was a great conversion. Well, I actually liked a lot Double Dragon 3 and even Last Battle on the C64, but today they are considered crap, probably rightly so. It would be great if somebody converted NES Mighty Final Fight to the C64. It sticks out like a sore thumb that only the Speccy has it.
IK+ has got to be on the list.
Some great games that I never knew about on this list.. time to fire up the emulator
Great idea I love that in this day and age it's so easy to play all these classics
@@oldstylegaming absolutely! I've got them all in my pocket 24/7 on my galaxy note10 with c64.emu
Brad Dean what do you use for the controls?
@@patsfan4life I tweak the on-screen ones if on the go but otherwise I have a mini Bluetooth keyboard that I use for DeX
Awesome video OSG ! Bruce Lee had to be number 1. I played the shit out of that game. And shinobi ❤️ Why no Barbarian?
So this list started out as beat em ups but there were so few good ones that I changed it to multi genre.. I think barbarian falls into straight forward fighter genre so when I do that series it will be in there
Hammerfist 😊 👍
Hammerfist is a totally awesome game mate i especially like the Loader music on it too
"Fist 2 the legend continues" is not on the list ? That's a damn shame !!
It could have been...but and this doesn't mean I'm right and your wrong...I didn't really like the sequel... The adventure but really bored me..loved the fighting bits and I actually own the real game
Nice collection. I still don't understand the game Bruce Lee though, it looks like some 2600 game.
That's the mark of great gameplay right there mate. Yeah it looks basic but plays class
My time!!! 👍👌😊😉🙏👋
Would ‘Tiger Road’ by Capcom fit into this category?
Yeah it could have I suppose ...it's not that much different to ninja spirit in game style
Wow The C64 did a decent job with The Simpsons Arcade game, It's a shame it never came out on the Mega Drive or Snes
Yeah only on c64 and dos apparently..which is a shame because we all know what a good job the Snes and megadrive did with the turtles games
Loved Bruce Lee, but guess I played it on the Amstrad CPC464 not C64.
I love Ninja.
Bruce Lee was such a good game!!!
surprised so many people like Bruce Lee, the game never won me over.
Have you played it now your older? I wasn't that keen as a kid either
@@oldstylegaming I never played it as a kid, maybe that's the reason. I don't dislike it, it's still a good game.
I LOVE C64 👍🥂🎩
That's twenty more than the Atari 8 bit got There was hardly any even from the budget software support companies
Things were much simpler in the 80s. If you wanted to 'capture the widescreen aspect' you simply didn't bother creating graphics for the top and the bottom of the screen!
No Way of the Exploding Fist or IK+? 🤦🏻♂️
I'm looking for a fighting game for the C64. I don't remember its title because I played it only a few times and the AI simply devastated me. It was a hand to hand combat game in which you could grab your opponent, throw him to the ground and even jump on him. And that's what the AI did. You could also use a syringe to boost your abilities. But before I had time to figure out how to play, I was already dead. Anybody?
Hmmmm i cant think of any game other than Frankie Goes to Hollywood with syringes in... can you describe more..was it like a street fighter type layout etc
@@oldstylegaming No, nothing like Frankie. There were two half-naked guys fighting, that's all I remember.
let me have a search through my games ...ill report back
@@oldstylegaming Ok, thanks. I looked for it some time ago, but to no avail.
@@oldstylegaming I think it was Pit Fighter! But there were no syringes, those were knives! :)
I enjoyed Bruce Lee gameplay itself (way better than the homonym Xbox title), but I never appreciated much its minimalist graphics style.
I think you should include International Karate and Bangkok Knights, these were really good games.
that would be pure fighting Genre though ...sorry this was such a hash up
@@oldstylegaming Ok, no problem :)
@@snipe1973xxl I am going to do a fighting series ...I love IK+
@@oldstylegaming Cool! :) I loved it and played it a lot.
you have kung fu master, but no vigilante, which is a more advanced version
I actually love vigilante arcade it's one of my favourites but I think all the home ports where crap compared to the arcade....I actually started a comparison on that game...think it might still be in my to do folder I'll have a look
@@oldstylegaming turbographix had a great port, amiga was ok, atari st looks like it came from the amiga but with worse music, the MSX port was really bad as were c64 and cpc464
Wow you missed out so many greats like IK, Karate Champ, all the Last Ninja's, Yeir Ar Kung Fu (sacrilege you missed this one), Budokan the list goes on you could have done a top 40.
I appreciate the video but have to disagree with your list would not have been my Top 20 although there are a few in your list that would have made mine.
It's not a fighting game video Tgats why ik+ etc aren't in ...it actually started out as beat em ups but then got blurred along the way...I will however be doing a fighting game series...and yeah IK+ will probs be top of a few of those lists
No zorro
Sorry mate
There are sadly no good beat-em up for the Commodore64. They are "playable" at best. (I don't consider most of the better games of this list to be beat'em ups)
With recent advances and knowledge of the system, I would love to see a modern take on the genre.
Yeah that's why I changed the title mate.
Had Bruce lee back in the day. Sort of liked it back then but now it’s looks like a real turd
LIAR!!!!
You bought Barbarian 2 because of Wolf on the cover, admit it!
yeah you got me