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The 20 Worst Commodore 64 Racing Games From Bad To Worst
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
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Hey whatsup guys OSG here and as we have been looking at the cream of the crop racing games I think it’s time we looked at the sludge at the bottom of the bargain bins now….. Although using the word bargain for any of these games is a joke
Today we will be looking at the 20 worst C64 racing games that were ever made, there are some ones that we all know will be in there but when you see some of these …well all I can say is Oh My God
Anyway here it is the 20 worst Commodore 64 Racing games from Bad to Worst
Games in this video:-
Super Hang-On @ 00:41
Days of Thunder @ 01:17
The Machine @ 01:51
Go-Kart Simulator @ 02:26
Aqua Racer @ 03:02
Aspar GP Master @ 03:39
Rally Driver @ 04:15
Turbo Esprit @ 04:50
1000 Miglia: 1927-1933 Volume 1 @ 05:26
500cc Grand Prix @ 06:03
Chase HQ @ 06:38
Rally Simulator @ 07:12
Crazy Cars 2 @ 07:48
WEC Le Mans @ 08:22
Speedway @ 08:52
Rik the Roadie @ 09:28
Crazy Cars @ 10:04
Cisco Heat @ 10:38
Hard Drivin' @ 11:12
911 Tiger Shark @ 11:47
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@4:53 Turbo Esprit for ZX-Spectrum is awesome. It's is safe to assume that GTA team maybe took some inspiration from it. The game's objective is to stop a drug operation, for this you need to check the map and intercept some type of cars.
i think im gonna do a Spectrum video as someone else has said that exact same thing in the comments
I used to spend hours on the Spectrum just driving around the cities, it was pretty unique at the time (as I recall anyway). Totally agree the GTA team would have taken inspiration from it.
I think the player would rather have gone driving to FIND drugs, in this case. Powerful stimulants. Heck, even a coffee shop.
@Lassi Kinnunen Indeed. I didn't knew it 'till now. I watched a video in YT and it develops the idea further than Turbo Sprit.
Tiger Shark looks like a knoc off of The Last V8.
Yeah it does a bit but that game was playable...well... Almost
WEC Le Mans was most definitely one of the low points of my C64 life. I remember actually dishing out hard-earned cash for it, and after firing it up, wondering if i had bought a tape that was corrupt, or faulty or something because it looked like my car was moving BACKWARDS. I could not, simply not believe what was in front of my eyes.. that was one real low point I remember.
The controls were utter shite.
It's a shame too, because the Spectrum port was actuallly pretty decent, hell even the Amstrad port was a decent effort, but whoever coded the C64 port either got really lazy, or was rushed by the publisher. Either way, the port was utter shit. The only decent thing about the C64 version was the Jonathan Dunn music.
Chase HQ was huge disappointment, I remember saving my pocket money for that game! Hard drivin' is my number 1 as never heard of 911 tiger shark, yes in my case those laughs would be more frustration playing those rubbish games, other than that another brilliant job👍
Yeah I would hate to actuallybhavr to play any of these for a sustained amount of time
Chase HQ was bad, but in my opinion Shitsco Heat (yes I spelled it that way intentionally) was even worse.
Thank you OSG for enduring the pain of these games just to make this video, I know it was tough !
lol
While never owning a C64 I find these videos interesting to watch. My kick in the bollocks was when I bought Crazy Cars 1 for the MSX. It was on ROM cartridge and cost a massive £25. A fortune when you were a kid. When I got home it was just a crappy spectrum port. What a waste. I've never felt so ripped off. Utter JUNK.
Sad times mate but we've all been there
Aside from Crazy Cars 3, which was a decent game, that entire series was utter pish
@@ACanOfBakedBeans That's Titus for you!
Man that was a painful watch but another great video as always. For me I always quite enjoyed Continental Circus and Buggy Boy on the C64 :)
That 'Speedway' game's sound actually hurt my brain for real. Another few seconds and I would've had to remove my headphones! Great video, btw. Sometimes I wonder how some games ever got to the shelves like there was no QC involved at all.
Money was involved that's how lol
It was a type-in from an Italian magazine. You get what you pay for...or type-in I guess
Forgot how terrible chase h.q was on c64, who did the sound effects they were the worse ever
"Oh man!" "Oh nooo!"
the sequel was very playable
@I Live In A Van Down By The River The music was done by Matt Furniss who did some great music on the ST and Amiga, but I always felt his C64 stuff was pretty mediocre to be honest
Another great video. Thanks for going through the pain of playing these. Unfortunately I have a couple of these - Aqua Racer and Turbo Esprit. Hopefully your next video will be more pleasurable to make!
I doubt it I have to play outrun on the Amiga .....
@@oldstylegaming I always wanted an Amiga but never got one.
I wish we had videos like these back in day so I wouldn't have spent my pocket money on some real tat. Superbowl XX springs to mind. £10 for dots on the screen. How they got away with it.
@@richardm6332 Rise of the Robots was the one that annoyed me so much after spending my birthday money on it
I didn't have many racing games for my C64 and none from that list thankfully!! I had Power Drift, Kikstart 1 & 2 and finally Stunt Car Racer...Phew!!!
at least you had the good games...imagine being stuck at home with Hard Drivin lol
@@oldstylegaming I wouldn't have been Head over Heels! ;)
Kickstart 2 was fantastic.
@@earthstick it's gonna be in my next video on mastertronik games
C64 sounds designers sure loved high pitched squeals. I don't miss that. I remember my grandparents making me quit games because of it.
Wait what you had to re-up the video. Now I will deffo have nightmares watching it again haha. Great video still and nice to see a fair few games on here I had as a kid lol. Roll on the next video 😀
yeah sorry about that mate...but thanks for watching again i appreciate it
@@oldstylegaming haha no probs :-)
Absolutely love these videos, OSG!!! Please keep doing them!!!! 🙂
Thanks mate ...ill probs do the Amiga one of this next ...theres loads on the Amiga
@@oldstylegaming The Spectrum & Amiga are my favourite machines of all time and I've still got both. This is a brilliant channel, mate!!
ill do some Spectrum stuff if you want
@@oldstylegaming Would love that, although I know Amiga content is nicer to look at on here. 🙂
Well done getting through that mess! :D
Great vid. I know every system had their turds but some of them were painful to watch. It did bring me a bit of joy being a cpc fan.
911 Tiger SHART. Had to revisit this video after 2 years and have a great laugh again :)
the irony of a game called speedway running at 2 frames a year makes me chuckle
High amusement levels, thank you! Lucky there were some good ones, I seem to recall Pit Stop was pretty cool?
Car companies are usually pretty particular about how their cars are portrayed in games. I'm surprised that they let some of these games slip thru.
Well i thought that especially about the 911 Tiger Shark game....but then after a quick google there is no such car...so maybe they changed the name for that reason...cant see Porsche allowing themselves to be connected to that dross
Games weren´t that big at that time as they are today. I just guess they weren´t just aware of most of them or even all. Or didn´t even bother.
The corners in Days of Thunder had me pissin me pants 🤣🤣
My freaking ears! And eyes!
Try playing the feckers...nightmare
i remember getting a couple of them games as presents .proper crap games .and then getting the guilty feeling for not playing them when the person who bought them for me asks you about your new game.i love the c64 it was my first computer but we got ripped off with crap games sometimes .
Nice vid, I remember most of these unfortunately. A bit off topic, do you remember psycho pigs? We loved that game on Spectrum and C64, but noone ever mentions it.
hmmmm it sounds familiar... ill check it out
That was one of your funniest videos. Not enough reviews make use of the word "tripe" 😂
Lol
Turbo Esprit, Chase HQ and WEC Le Mans were all excellent on the Spectrum though, believe me!!!!
maybe thats the video i will make :-)
@Critter Hunter yeah that cartridge le mans was awesome - our c64 actually came bundled with that and a really fun soccer game too.great fun memories playing those
To be honest the C64 version wouldn't have been so bad if the controls were responsive. Dear God, they were horrible.
Obstacle dodging top-down crap lol
5:30 Weirdly, the trackside objects move amazingly smoothly (and fast) for the C64, so there was clearly some technical nous behind this game, just no _design_ nous.
Love these videos bring back so many memories 🕹
memories is what this channel is all about :-)
Some of these games ran at 1 fps. It's amazing what we used to accept in a driving game 😂
i dont think we did accept it...we just didnt know until it was too late as we could only go off screen shots back then
Some absolute turds there, mostly from the era when a lot of Software Houses had moved on to develop for the Atari ST and Amiga and some of the software houses still developing for the 8-bit machines had no shame trying to cash in on shit game development.
I'll give Aspar GP racing credit for one thing....
the music by Jeroen Tel is class
Ladies and gentlemen...the bottom of the barrel has not only been scraped, it's been completely obliterated
I know
Some shocking racing games on the c64, but things like turbo charge and powerdrift showed it could do it when they made an effort
Very good video Dad Keep it up and anyone who disliked either was not looking when they where gonna like or just clearly jerks. BTW i liked :) ❤😁😁😁😁
Thanks Ben
@@oldstylegaming Np i just wana help u and your great channel grow😘😁😁
20: Ugh
19: Never knew there's a C64 port of that.
18: Looks like a poor man's version of Grand Prix on Atari 2600
17: It's a weird way of saying a crappier version of Rally-X
16: I love the fact that your boat just sinks after hitting everything.
15: That's some fine music, but that ugly title screen, though.
14: G L A C I A L S P E E D
13: ....
12: This looks alright...
11: Meh
10: I'll take notes on that
9: It could've been better if the levels aren't so tight.
8: So Titus is still shit back then, too?
7: ...
6: It's even slower than #10
5: So you just dodge the same few cars at "30mph" over & over...
4: ...
3: Quality scaling, right there.
2: Can't really find a quality port of Hard Drivin apart from the DOS version.
1: Shame that it wasn't listed as one of the worst games in general.
No 1 is a contender for worst game ever I think
Ah yes, Hard Drivin'. I remember the ST version, where you had to control your car using the mouse. Somebody somewhere thought that was a good idea.
@ I could never get the hang of it. It was my mate who owned the game, could never fathom why he liked it.
Some mouse control games were good ...no second prize for one
Powerdrome also uses mouse controls by default. In Powerdrome's defense, though, it actually plays better with the mouse than with a joystick or keys. It's not a bad game once you get used to the mouse controls, this however is awful
The Machine reminds me so much of Grand Prix for the Atari 2600 that it borders on the plagiaristic. Only difference being is that game actually looks a hell of a lot better despite coming out six years earlier . And on a console with limited capabilities to boot...
So glad you had Wec Le Mans on this list! Would be easier to navigate a fighter jet through a field of missiles than avoid the homing cars on this steaming pile of dung! What a let down...that was a grim Saturday. When I get to heaven I'm asking for the time i spent waiting for this to load back so I can use it more wisely 🤣🤣
lol
Number of these I had: 0.
Wow, theres some real turds in there. Some ive never heard of, and im very thankful for that. Lol
do something decent next vid - cheer us all up (we sure need it 🐹)
maybe some of the Mastertronic or CodeMasters games - everyone loved spending their pocket money on a £1.99 game back in the day.
tears flowing... all those repressed memories from childhood flooding back... all that PAIN from terrible racing games... DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH PAIN I AM IN?!!? *weeps inconsolably for hours*
I know the pain mate...ive endured it all over again while making this lol
@@oldstylegaming you are a brave man to go through all these games and make this vid.. a brave man.. I salute you, sir!!
I would have thought Slicks or Carnage would have made it on here, but then I remembered Cisco Heat and Hard Drivin exist.....
Slicks? Slicks is on my best racing games video....that game is awesome, maybe not when you first fire it up but take an hour or so playing it and getting used to the control and speed and its an absolute gem of a game
@@oldstylegaming I tried playing it recently and the controls were murder, lol. But, far better than the games on this list.
Get back on it mate give it some time it ends up being class
The music from the game The Machine sounded awesome
yeah if it had that in game it would have made it more bearable
Never played a single game from this list thank feck! Noticed a good few of em was released very late in the C64s life so there's no excuse for shoddy work like this! A lot of em look like betas, 3&2 look like they've crashed ffs! Respect man, it must've been a reet shitshow playing through this pile of crud ;)
Yeah mate not one of my best experiences...but you gotta take the rough with the smooth...I think it will be a funny one to watch as they are so bad...and wtf was going on with that 911 tiger shark lol
@@oldstylegaming Feck only knows! but I'm with ya, every single person involved in it's creation, even the lad who made the brews, should be shot at dawn!
Hard Drivin is the worst. The draw distance is two car lengths which are run at 1fps with the nails down the blackboard sound effects. You are being generous putting it at number 2.
hard driving was never sold, it only appears on compilation packs, they knew it was too bad to sell.
14 year old me bought it in Australia. I’m still disappointed to this day.
@@janr76 hahaha. You'll be haunted for many more years to come.
I only ever played Chase HQ off this list, then instantly wished I hadn't :) (shame really as chase HQ 2 on c64 was so much better) I seem to remember Commodore Format slaughtering Cisco Heat so i stayed clear of that one too lol
Nailed it....They were all shockingly bad. I paid good loot for a couple of them, Hard Drivin' was abysmal and I cant understand how a reputable software house like Domark released it.
One frame per second frame rate on some of these. What a load of crap we paid for..
Go-Kart Simulator looks strikingly similar to that chimney sweeper game from an earlier video.
??? One of my videos?
@@oldstylegaming I think so yes. Could be an Amiga game though, it was also a top worst games video.
@@oldstylegaming Or maybe it was a video of Kim Justice, now that I think about it.
I used to invest my pocket money on Zzap 64 and later C&VG to avoid this dross.
Maybe you should track some of these game designers down and hold them to account of them upsetting small children. These game developers should do time for there crimes.
I had a lot of fun with Aspar GP, it's a good game in my opinion.
thats ok mate, i never really minded Chase HQ tbh its only recently after playing the rest of the versions that i realise how bad it is
Yeah, me too. I played the hell out of Aspar in my MSX back in the day. Criville always finished 2nd. If you won every race but DNF in the last, you'd lose the championship.
Sorry, but the gameplay area of a game should take a MINIMUM of three quarters of the screensize. Jesus, it's even less GP area than Last V8
Thanks God, I only played Cisco Heat. ^^
Will you show games, that combined different Genres? Something like Technocop
can you expand on what you mean?
@@oldstylegaming , Technocop is a racing game and a side scroller.
www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=https%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D2611
Infiltrator 2 combines a Heli Sim with an adventure game.
www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=https%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D2611
You may know more games
@@oldstylegaming He means games that combined being a racer and a shooter for example
Good video
*You sound like Dynamo the magician! LOL*
1000 Miglia should probably be called Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles).
Sorry best version of chase hq is the speccy version.
Yes....But only the 128K version since that has music
In the Machine's defense, it was essentially a type-in, most of which suck ass anyway
Commodores catalogue of appaling racing games followed suit with the Amiga and msny of its offerings.
im surprise that Tiger Shark is using the Lazy Jones song
It's an old tune called Popcorn. A lot of early games borrowed that theme.
HA Ha ha, didn’t know most of these poor excuses existed; thank goodness 👍
OSG you never played Richard Pettys Talladega. The car controlled like it was on a stick sliding from side to side, time would run 5-6 times as fast if you slight nudged off road and the sound was horrifying to say the least.
lol i did play it it nearly made it in...but and dont hate me for saying this...i quite enjoyed playing it when making this list ...yeah its bad for all the reasons you say but once you get used to controlling the car like its on black ice its quite playable....but maybe thats just me lol
Tiger shark _does_ have some good SID sounds though.
Yeah especially the intro
I actually loaded it up the other day just to listen to Mark Cooksey's cover of Popcorn
Speedway looks like turn based racing lol!
I didn't have any of those, thank goodness. What I did have was the great American cross country road race, which I really enjoyed. City limits 😎
Some of these games look like the racing game I wrote in BASIC. If I knew you could publish stuff this bad I might have had a slightly different career.
I'm quite positive that "The Machine" was originally a type-in listing. With the execption of a mere few games, type-in games were generally awful anyway (didn't matter if they were in BASIC or assembly)
when you think what some developers could push out of this little machine, these are an absolute disgrace. Btw, not technically a racing game, but can you remember a title called action biker with clumsy Colin? Great SID music and quite fun, I think Skip crisps sponsored it
I have it on original, its a great game and it was budget too :-)
The only decent thing about 911 Tiger Shark was Mark Cooksey's excellent cover of Popcorn for the title music. Other than that, that's the only decent thing about that turd.
It's a shame it was used on such a turd of a game
i still cant believe that was released in that state tbh
What about Roadblasters? There were lots of hype about it before its release, because the arcade game had been really good. But the C64 version was quite awful.
Surely, at least one of these games is better than The Last V8.
What's next, a list of the best RPGs?
Last V8 would not have been so bad if the playing area was larger. Jesus Christ, the stuff on the bottom was far larger than the actual gameplay area. I kind of hate when developers splash the name of the game on the screen anyway, it's not like nobody knows its name.
I’m not sure Turbo Esprit is technically a racing game, also you don’t pronounce the “g” in Miglia 👍🏻. To be fair I’d put all these games at joint 1st (last) place lol
I pronounce it like that always have
Did you play Scalextric? That was an abomination.
My bet was on 911 Tiger Shark bring on top. I'd hardly call it a game, let alone a racing game.
It's terrible mate
The Spectrum game was actually pretty decent, but the C64 version is a rushed unfinished mess.
I can put up with the ugly graphics in Chase H.Q. It's the lack of any sense of speed that completely ruins the game IMHO
true maybe if i run that sped up it might feel better...im gonna try that later
Not my way or the highway. Just no way.
That Speedway should be renamed as "Slowway".
lol
I'm surprised to see here a couple of System Editoriale games, not because they don't deserve to be on this list (they truly are terrible), but because these games were only released in Italy and only on disks or tapes attached to magazines. See, System Editoriale was a very influential publishing company in the early days of computing in Italy and they would issue various magazines each month with a focus on hardware, utilities, programming and other hobbyist themes (mostly for the C64 but also for the Amiga and the PC). They wouldn't usually review games but they would regularly publish homebrew games sent by readers along with a bunch of utilities and basic programs on cover disks or cover tapes. Editors and writers weren't gamers themselves, so the quality control of such published games was quite lacking. On the other hand their utilities were great and often made by professional programmers. In the early 90's they published an MS-DOS "emulator" for the C64 which faithfully simulated a DOS/GW BASIC environment in order to let readers familiarise with the commands of the computer they would most likely buy or use at work next.
Is that emulator available anywhere do you know ?
@@oldstylegaming I'm not really able to locate a copy of the software, sadly. But you can read an interview with one of the developers on the website Ready64. It's in Italian but Google Translate does a decent job at translating it into English I think. translate.google.it/translate?hl=&sl=it&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fready64.org%2Farticoli%2Fleggi%2Fidart%2F54%2Fintervista-ad-umberto-colapicchioni
Some like there sound FX are just big guffs ! totally disipointing and not worth the time it took to load . chase HQ was really good for the 48k super hang on was really good .. but I really can't believe some of these games even got on the shop floor lol
simply down to money
Think I had a game called BMX for the specky it was crap old grannies got run over that was the best bit but you ended up looking like a blue splodge with a walking stick ! ATV codemasters was my fav
A lot of it was just lazy and/or rushed coding. 911 Tiger Shark for example is actually not a bad game on the ZX Spectrum, but the C64 version is just an unfinished dog turd.
Most of these have a decent title screen, then it all goes wrong. Great shame.
Noticed you never included Led Storm in this or either your best racing games list either you don't know about it or you consider it mediocre.
Should be on a list for it's music alone.
while i think music is important the gameplay is the clincher for me when it comes to car games...i dont think LED Storm is a bad game so it wont have been on this list but i also dont think its good enough to make it into my top 20 either
@@oldstylegaming Fair enough dude.
Turbo Esprit isn't a racing game, you're supposed to track down the criminals and disable or destroy their cars.
Its genre is racing / cars, same with chase hq etc. They still classed as racing games i think
Did Dunlop actually sponsor that 911 shark game? If so, yikes 😬
Yes they did. The game's only good point was the title screen music
@@ACanOfBakedBeans Oh the irony, zero traction and handling in the game 😂
@@peterparker1615 surely someone just stamped the form saying yes though from Dunlop without seeing the game.... unless they mocked up some screen shots
@@peterparker1615 It's kind of funny because the Spectrum version is actually pretty decent, and is an actual racing game, the C64 version is a rushed unfinished mess
It's the cream of the crap!
Lol true
19 The Machine is a poor rip off of Grand Prix by Activision on the Atari 2600
There's a LOT worse out there!
Which ones? Not homebrew
1000 miglia LOOKS good for a C64 game though.
It might LOOK good, but it plays like SHIT
Go Kart Simulator, Just wow lol It looks so bad!
It is bad
Who remember of Mackrider?
Top 3 was pure t rum p
Hard driving is the best of the bunch
Jesus they were indeed terrible games, thankfully I played non of them in my day :p
Yeah thank the lord :-)
20. Only good thing is the title screen and the music
19. Absolute rubbish, although the Amiga version ain't much better, in fact in some ways it's actually worse
18. Luckily this was a public domain game, so at least nobody had to pay for this rubbish
17. Looks like a shitty wannabe Rally-X without all the excitement
16. Ugh
15. The vast majority of Dinamic's games were fairly mediocre anyway
14. Dear God
13. I actually (unfortunately) owned this pile of rubbish. Luckily I never paid full price for it though as I bought it second-hand
12. Played this one the other day...deleted the ROM immediately. LMAO
11. Horrible
10. God awful port
9. Shite controls
8. Crappy Cars 2
7. Would have been decent if the controls were responsive
6. boring
5. Ugh
4. Crappy Cars
3. Cisco Shit
2. Luckily it was only available in a compilation pack
1. Is this even a game at all?
I would also like to throw in a few (dis)honourable mentions:
Brands Deluxe
Give My Regards to Broad Street
Elektra Glide
Wheelchair Race (don't ask)
Howay man.
Some very bad games. Did you have stunt car driving it was just as bad as your no2
at least hard drivin had some actual speed.. as opposed to speedway....
That speedway was actually ok when sped up... weird that they made it that slow
Putting Turbo Esprit on the list because you couldn't work out what to do is a bit unfair. It's not a straightforward racer. You have to use the map to find the drug dealer's cars, then ram into them or shoot them, before they flee the city after the deal takes place. There's a bit of strategy involved & it's definitely a precursor to GTA. Having said that, I had this on the Spectrum, so can't really comment on the playability of the C64 version.
Yeah it's more than a racer and apparently the spectrum version is really good...and maybe the amstrad but the c64 is rubbish...it actually only scored 9% in Zzap64!
Where's Test Drive?. God I hated that game and it's 4 FPS..........
T^hat's on his BEST racers list
Actually going to play the top 5 because they are so crap