That was the time when humanity finally split into winners and losers. I don't know if Arnold Schwarzenegger ever used a C64 to play games, but if he did, he got some exercise in the time it took to load the game.
when i was a child ~40 years ago, i was cycling 11km to next town, bought a computer magazine, cycling back home 11km. typing in the game code for VC20 for many hours, searching for and correcting my typos and then played the game. i was so happy!
@@MickeKringI remember doing that as well as typing in Machine Language and it was fun finding the typo's in that as there was no error message from Basic. I even remember building a kit that connected between the C64 and short wave radio and I could decode those weather fax and RTTY stations. That was fun times and Action Reply was a lot more fun all the stuff you would be able to do with those.
Same. I had a game that I had programmed myself actually be published in one of those magazines. I forget the name of the mag but it was the C64 exclusive one. I did so much with that machine including disassembling an Atari joystick down to the board and mounting it into the door jam of my bedroom to make a door alarm if the door was opened!! My Dad loved it.
@@LAIRDO- congratulation your game was printed in a C64 magazine! i too wrote games on then VC20, using multicolor and machine code for fast response (arkanoid and west bank style games). never seen this in a computer magazine for VC20 games. but I was always to shy to send my games to a computer magazine. :(
It's funny how many tactile memories were evoked during the process of setting up the thing to even begin loading. The click of the power button, the opening of the cassette deck lid, even the vibration on the desk of the tape rewinding. I can still feel those sensations, just by looking at the tasks being performed.
I totally agree... This was about the first time I unpacked and ran the old brick in like 35 years. But I felt 9 again. I wasn't even sure it would work. I mean old tapes that's been sitting in my basement all these years.
The counter reset button of that model of tape drive is absolutely the most satisfying reset on any cassette player. The large size of the button you can really feel the vibrations of the number rollers turning through the tip of your finger as you press.
My favorite C64 game took just over 13 minutes to load from the cassette. when we upgraded to a 1541 diskette drive it ONLY took about a minute and a half. Such incredible speed!! Ah, the good old days!
I upgraded to DMA load from USB by now but it's 2023. Ultimate 64. Have you tried timing skate or die load times? I'm not sure what version I have, but the loader disk has a turbo load option (only works on a real floppy drive, no go on emulators). It's hard to explain, but the floppy noise speeds up to insane speeds and the game loads in like 1 minute.
At least it started up the first try. Using a tiny screwdriver to adjust the azimuth tiny bits at a time and reloading the game 10+ times is where the real childhood trauma comes from.
Same thing with my brother, he came to me and said same thing. That fucking shit had no proper adjustment or some useless people ruined it to the point of no stability. Why we had to adjust it for every game or session?
"Back in the day" it was quite normal to wait 15 - 20 minutes for a game to load on the old datasette :) I can remember typing in a program from a book which took most of the afternoon and early evening, only for the computer to crash and lose the whole lot - happy days! :)
been there as well, only played 'horse races' once after typing for forever as 7-9yo or so, the pain. Also had all sorts of superstitious habits as a kid, to avoid it from crashing during loading, never dared to look at the screen while loading for example ;)
I stopped playing an online game a couple of years ago, when I realised there were games that I played on my Commodore 64 in 1985 that I liked a lot better.
I remember when it was cold outside and i stayed at home as a child, the power supply of the c64 gave you a good temperature to warm up, it also vibrated a bit to get a massage! I had the one that was a yellowish/white brick (with C64 logo on it), but also a later version which was a bit shorter and cut off (steep).
Great memories...as a teen, I liked to play Colonial Conquest. It took about 20 minutes to load. I remember one day I started the loading process, then went with my bike to a supermarket to get some lemonade and snacks. Game on when I was back! ... some months later, a friend showed me his new software called FastLoader. With that, loading was done in 3 minutes, could not believe it.... ;-)
Worth waiting every second back in the 80s. I can remember well when a friend of me showed me Action Biker the first time on the C64. I was so flashed. Great memory...
Remember the times in loading 4 games in a Saturday to play with my friends … when it was a new games the fear of having a crap one at the end after the loading … so sweet memories … thank you for the remember
I loved all the Epyx sports titles, but I was lucky to have a 1541 disk drive and World Games had a super fast loader, I can't imagine playing it on tape having to load each event separately.
I miss this so much! I had the Light Fantastic version setup in my 'office', which was basically a corner in my bedroom. I still two Dot Matrix printers but I haven't managed to make them play with my PC.
I just stumbled upn this video by chance. I'm almost 40 years old. I work as a sysadmin. Some people ask me from time to time how did I get into computers. It was the year1986 and my dad had a C64 exactly like yours. Having to learn how to type stuff in order to get a game going got me used to terminals an keyboards when I was just 4/5 years old. The rest is history. Thank you for sharing!
Well, you're welcome. I'm a couple of years older than you, but this was also my first computer. I was 9 when I got it. And... this was what got me into computers as well. It was us nerds with the C64 against them Nintendo 8 bitz kids. :)
My cousin and I used to hack the games, pausing the load at a certain counter point and then entering in new lines of code (POKE'ing and PEEK'ing). Great memories!
Hello from Birmingham, AL, home of World Games 2022 that was held here in July. I was searching for C64s and tape drives and am loving the game you chose for your demo.
Whilst waiting for World Games to load, I went for a drive into the bush found a large tree, chopped it down, trimmed it up and taught myself how to caber toss. Upon establishing a new Australian and Commonwealth record in the discipline and soaking up all the corresponding adulation I returned to my abode and was over-joyed to see the title screen had loaded.
Thank U for this video. Im 39 year’s old, and now as i seen your video, came back for me many beauty memory-when i was ~6 years old, and me& my father couldn’t started video games in C64 :). Mybe anno was need some day when realised for our, how is working some helping by friend’s of father.
I remember we used to load a game from a cassette, or even a disk drive for the commodore 64, then go to the living room and play Atari for a bit while the game loaded after 2 to 9 minutes.
Thanks for your video!!🥰😍 Do you know if is possible to connect to a OLD PC Monitor with Vga conection? Or only is possible on a Old CRT TV with "cable de antena" connection?
Wow, I remember those days! Looks so familiar! Now I enjoy looking at and playing those same games from time to time on emulators that quick load, sharpen the graphics, and help preserve those classics!
Ah yes a gamer kid in the 80's. Set your game to load, go outside for a game of football, back in to have your dinner then run upstairs to your room to see if it's loaded yet. It hadn't, but there was a cool picture of the box art of the game you'll be playing soon.
I owned three games on cassette - Space Pilot took 22 minutes to load and every other time it failed to load, so basically 44 minutes every time I felt like playing. The other two were Hovver Bovver and Frogger.
When I got my first Amiga 500, I bought a computer magazine that featured a program with an Amiga bouncing ball. I spent an entire evening typing out the programming code to watch the ball bounce. But when I turned off the machine, everything was gone
So cool, I'm making a 3d model of the c64 cassette tape and I'll use this as a reference. I still remember my much older brothers playing with this beast, especially fist 2 and wizard or oz stuck in my mind forever. That music and aesthetics, sublime. Have a good day pal!
I remember that you could save some time by resetting the counter on the tape deck when it was fully re-wound and then noting the numbers when the level you wanted started to load. Then next time you could fast forward the tape to just before that point and you wouldn't have to wait so long !!
Greetings from Canada. Back in my C64 time, games on cartridge were uncommon and games on cassette were unheard of. Everything was on floppy disks. Sure it was expensive for the one time purchase of the drive. But once you've gone over that hurdle, you had a very wide selection of pirated games on disk available by schoolyard trading.
Yeah, I know. I got the floppy (1541) the xmas after I got the C64. Unfortunately it didn't survive history. But back when I got the C64 all my friends was cassette only (around 83-84). And, absolutely, everyone traded games. :) Even if you had the original you wanted the pirated one, since they loaded faster.
I remember being like 9 or 10 years old and going around to this kid Jarrod’s house who had the C64 with the tape deck. ….I remember a distinct sense of envy and anxious anticipation at even being able to interact with this new technology.
Yeah, when I was 8 I was incredibly jealous of my neighbor who had the C64. Tried to spend as much time with it (the C64) as I could. Fortunately for me, I got my own the next christmas.
I remember spending some time back in 1984-1986 with the kids of my father's boss, and they had a C64. I think they had that soccer game that only C64 had, and I was amazed by how good it was. Fast-forward one year, and my mom and I traveled from Belgrade to London to get my first computer. But that year (1985), we had these awful customs restrictions in Yugoslavia, where you could only bring in the computer that cost up to 150 GBP. And the Spectrum+ was 149.99 and C64 was 179 or 199. I don't recall, but it was a bit over the limit, and I could not get that C64 I dreamed of :(. I remember being very happy with the Sinclair, and then I got a PC and started to learn programming in GW Basic and Borland Turbo Pascal. Then, I moved to U.S. when the civil war started, got a Computer Science degree and started working as a programmer etc, etc. But a part of me still feels heavily nostalgic both towards the C64 and the Amiga 500's my friends had, and maybe if I'd had those instead of the Sinclair and the PC's, I would have had a much earlier start with computer music and could have gotten further ahead with it. Never too late, of course, but it sometimes makes me wonder how differently the future would have turned out.
Nice video in my days when a moped came past the house we had to start all over again (EM pollution)specially when you used speed loader program I`m so Glad we have better stuff nowadays
@@MickeKring Nice :) Your idea was brilliant to show the loading part from the beginning. Would be amazing to see more. What was your favorite game? Mine was The Last Ninja 2 :)
@@deepcloudsmusic OMG! Yeah, I loved it too. But also all the Summer/Winter/World/California games, Green Beret, Commando, Rambo, Uridium, Barbarian, Bruce Lee and lots more.
@@MickeKring Great video I would love to have my old 64 back and the disk box with my entire collection again. I imagine that's your 64 you kept all along? They are such hard things to find now, and very tightly held onto. Would love to find one to buy.
@@bigmaxy07 Yep, but I also got a couple of spare C64 from work. They used to have the C64 as school computers back in the early 80's. I just miss my old 1541. It did not survive history.
Me and a friend were playing a game once in the living room and my mum unplugged the extension lead to plug the hoover in. She realised then tried to plug it back in thinking the game would still be there. Another long wait ahead.
I felt pretty good about myself around those that only had the cassette loader because I had a floppy drive but felt like a punk to my mates with an Amiga
I used to type all the commands in manually, then when it starts loading, Id go out and play for half the day, come back and find out I miss typed a letter and then had to do it all again. Eventually after dinner Id be able to sit down and play
Me and my friend used to spend hours typing the code into the vic20 from one of the gaming magazines of the time, just to find it didn’t work probably because we’d got 1 digit wrong out of many thousand !. Happy days.
cool i just played it myself was going to do a review but ive got a problem with the pole throwing cant get much to happen and when he drops the pole on his foot i can get anything to happen and end up hitting the restore button and it goes back to main menu.See how u go with the pole throwing will ya?? :)
My first game console was the TI (Texas Instrument)-99 which I enjoyed and still do. Also love the C64 but not the wait time with the cassette drive. Thanks for sharing and posting this video!
Thanks! When I posted the video I hade just about dug out the old C64 from my basement. An almost 40 year old computer that worked out of the box with cassette tapes that actually worked. Impressive, but the nostalgia of running it was so strong that I decided to record it. The sounds, the feeling of turning it on.... I was 9 again. :)
I found an old VIC-20, fully funtional at work like 20 years ago. It had some games on cartridge. You wanna know the worst thing in the world. I threw it away in the dumpster. I still regret it to this day.
i remember i got Wizardry on the c64 for Christmas one year and i took over and hour to load, me and my bro played it and were near the end and my dad came in turned it off! No saves back then 😞
Haha, been through that one more than a couple of times. Mom or dad came up and told it was time for bed and you begged to play for just a bit more. But no... And then you had to start all over again.
My 10 year old son was complaining because a game took 10 seconds to open on his switch. Just made him watch all of this. Welcome to my childhood 🤣 Thanks for the vid bud, brought back all those memories of reading a Beano waiting for the loading to complete!
I wonder how many dozens of kids across the United States in the 1980s or they had epilepsy when they tried to load commando on the family computer only to wake up in the hospital
Amazing how tech has advance since the days of commodore 64, remember the days getting home from school on Friday nights get together with friends from around the neighborhood trade games on disks even learned basic computer programming on the C64 those were the days.
Is it loading now? Eh, kind of... we're waiting for it to load the loader first. Good times! Never played World Games as a kid, but we played a lot of Winter and California Games, both in small and large groups of friends. Similar experience with the loading.
Feel your pain, that moment when you pumped your fist at the title screen. Gold! It seemed so random to me whether it would load or not, I got superstitious about loading games via tape. I would leave the room, pretending I didn’t care whether it loaded or not. So many wasted hours doing this. Good times 😂
And if a cassette became to old, you had a specific program to adjust the head of the tape recorder and or tape to make it work again. Those were the days! But by adjusting you needed to insert a small screwdriver in the hole that's somewhere in the middle on top of the taperecorder, turning it left or right (while playing the tape) made a stream more visible and or straight to adjust the tape. I only can't remember what the name of that program was. I think i was around 6 or 7 maybe. And once you did that, rewinding the tape again, the tape should now be working more efficiently.
The Atari I felt had insanely long loading times. I had one game that just didn't play ball, id load it thinking, maybe this time. Twenty minutes later the loading screen still on, and the tape stopped
The thing about cassette tapes on the C64 was that every once in a while you hade to re-calibrate it using a screwdriver. It slowly started to error out loading the games.
Some of my first Computing experiences were with friends and their Commodore 64 I can remember loading up plenty of programs that were on cassette tapes like calculator programs and keyboard program and we goofed around a lot ewith those units.... racing destruction set ..race cars and change the gravities and have little car Wars that was one of the funnest games we used to just laugh so hard when we hit jumps and that gravity would be set on the planet Pluto or something and your car would fly off the screen that was just the best of the best for us back then thank you Commodore 64 for that game it was so fun
The C64 formed my early years too. So much fun. Typed in programs from magazines, played games and ruined joysticks playing sports games. It was a wonderful time.
Most cracked games had a fast load routine added to the beginning, seldom was things this slow. Additionally, many had fast load cartridges that worked on everything. For the serious gals and boys, there were, and still is, Jiffydos, which changes out a chip on the main board and in the drive. Turbochameleon is probably the ultimate iteration, but there was and still is many.
I felt happines and some stress waiting the loading game. Not allways the loading was succesful 😂😂😂. Nice memories of my commodore 64 and lot of games; spy demise, decathlon, Midway, Cobra, Rambo, Robin hood, Comandos, platoon...
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The good old days of loading a game on Friday for it to play on Sunday
Ha! Typing them out was a chore as well, or so I've heard.
Haha! :)
That was the time when humanity finally split into winners and losers.
I don't know if Arnold Schwarzenegger ever used a C64 to play games, but if he did, he got some exercise in the time it took to load the game.
I used to put it on to load then make a cuppa.
It should reffer especially to Atari 800XL and its cassette player. ;)
when i was a child ~40 years ago, i was cycling 11km to next town, bought a computer magazine, cycling back home 11km. typing in the game code for VC20 for many hours, searching for and correcting my typos and then played the game. i was so happy!
I also did that. You sat there and typed and typed, sometimes not knowing what would happen. Then dubugging... and the joy when it worked.
@@MickeKringI remember doing that as well as typing in Machine Language and it was fun finding the typo's in that as there was no error message from Basic. I even remember building a kit that connected between the C64 and short wave radio and I could decode those weather fax and RTTY stations. That was fun times and Action Reply was a lot more fun all the stuff you would be able to do with those.
Same. I had a game that I had programmed myself actually be published in one of those magazines. I forget the name of the mag but it was the C64 exclusive one. I did so much with that machine including disassembling an Atari joystick down to the board and mounting it into the door jam of my bedroom to make a door alarm if the door was opened!! My Dad loved it.
@@LAIRDO- congratulation your game was printed in a C64 magazine! i too wrote games on then VC20, using multicolor and machine code for fast response (arkanoid and west bank style games). never seen this in a computer magazine for VC20 games. but I was always to shy to send my games to a computer magazine. :(
J'ai fais la même chose, mais sur un TRS 80 de Radio Shack.
It's funny how many tactile memories were evoked during the process of setting up the thing to even begin loading. The click of the power button, the opening of the cassette deck lid, even the vibration on the desk of the tape rewinding. I can still feel those sensations, just by looking at the tasks being performed.
Exactly! :) That rewinding sound especially triggered a fantastic feeling in me. That sweet feeling of anticipation :)
I totally agree... This was about the first time I unpacked and ran the old brick in like 35 years. But I felt 9 again. I wasn't even sure it would work. I mean old tapes that's been sitting in my basement all these years.
Haha, I know. :)
The counter reset button of that model of tape drive is absolutely the most satisfying reset on any cassette player. The large size of the button you can really feel the vibrations of the number rollers turning through the tip of your finger as you press.
None of my old commodore systems work any more. You are lucky that yours did. @@MickeKring
My favorite C64 game took just over 13 minutes to load from the cassette. when we upgraded to a 1541 diskette drive it ONLY took about a minute and a half. Such incredible speed!!
Ah, the good old days!
Yeah, I remeber the xmas when I got the 1541. Copied my games from cassette to floppy and amazed myself with the speed.
Next level was "Speed Disk" (was this the name?) replaced the serial cable by a parallel one and then it was really turbo!
@@Matthias_Wagner It was called SpeedDOS innThe Netherlands.
@@RamonDeKlein you are absolutly right. Thanks
I upgraded to DMA load from USB by now but it's 2023. Ultimate 64. Have you tried timing skate or die load times? I'm not sure what version I have, but the loader disk has a turbo load option (only works on a real floppy drive, no go on emulators). It's hard to explain, but the floppy noise speeds up to insane speeds and the game loads in like 1 minute.
At least it started up the first try. Using a tiny screwdriver to adjust the azimuth tiny bits at a time and reloading the game 10+ times is where the real childhood trauma comes from.
Same thing with my brother, he came to me and said same thing. That fucking shit had no proper adjustment or some useless people ruined it to the point of no stability. Why we had to adjust it for every game or session?
"Be kind, rewind" was a great movement back in the day.
Did you watch that movie?
"Back in the day" it was quite normal to wait 15 - 20 minutes for a game to load on the old datasette :) I can remember typing in a program from a book which took most of the afternoon and early evening, only for the computer to crash and lose the whole lot - happy days! :)
I've never got to experience this machine, but the 8-bit guy describes it pretty well.
It was the 8-bit guy that made me go down to the basement and get my old C64. Love him.
Yeah! That's it! Typing and typing, getting a lot of errors, hours and hours and then... you got a ball jumping across the screen. :)
I spent days typing one to, for the bloody thing not to work. I typed it correct 🤣 I was enraged.
been there as well, only played 'horse races' once after typing for forever as 7-9yo or so, the pain. Also had all sorts of superstitious habits as a kid, to avoid it from crashing during loading, never dared to look at the screen while loading for example ;)
I stopped playing an online game a couple of years ago, when I realised there were games that I played on my Commodore 64 in 1985 that I liked a lot better.
I was six when I used the C64. I swear that listening the sounds of this video you took me back in time and I could even smell the plastics. Tnx!
The nostalgia is strong in this one. :) You're welcome!
I remember when it was cold outside and i stayed at home as a child, the power supply of the c64 gave you a good temperature to warm up, it also vibrated a bit to get a massage! I had the one that was a yellowish/white brick (with C64 logo on it), but also a later version which was a bit shorter and cut off (steep).
Great memories...as a teen, I liked to play Colonial Conquest. It took about 20 minutes to load. I remember one day I started the loading process, then went with my bike to a supermarket to get some lemonade and snacks. Game on when I was back! ... some months later, a friend showed me his new software called FastLoader. With that, loading was done in 3 minutes, could not believe it.... ;-)
Worth waiting every second back in the 80s.
I can remember well when a friend of me showed me Action Biker the first time on the C64. I was so flashed. Great memory...
I remember buying a C64 magazine with Action Biker as a free game cassette on the cover. Classic!
Remember the times in loading 4 games in a Saturday to play with my friends … when it was a new games the fear of having a crap one at the end after the loading … so sweet memories … thank you for the remember
C64 sound effects...the good old days.
I loved all the Epyx sports titles, but I was lucky to have a 1541 disk drive and World Games had a super fast loader, I can't imagine playing it on tape having to load each event separately.
Yeah, I also loved the sports titles. Don't know how many joysticks I've wasted on them. :) Also had the 1541 back in the day.
Can't recall how many great hours I've spent with friends after school playing this game on this setup ... sweet memories!
I miss this so much!
I had the Light Fantastic version setup in my 'office', which was basically a corner in my bedroom.
I still two Dot Matrix printers but I haven't managed to make them play with my PC.
This is why c64 games had fantastic loading music 😅
I just stumbled upn this video by chance. I'm almost 40 years old. I work as a sysadmin. Some people ask me from time to time how did I get into computers.
It was the year1986 and my dad had a C64 exactly like yours. Having to learn how to type stuff in order to get a game going got me used to terminals an keyboards when I was just 4/5 years old. The rest is history.
Thank you for sharing!
Well, you're welcome. I'm a couple of years older than you, but this was also my first computer. I was 9 when I got it. And... this was what got me into computers as well. It was us nerds with the C64 against them Nintendo 8 bitz kids. :)
The Commodore 64 with the cassette deck. This was my first introduction to computer and games. I had one of these my God, this brings back memories.
My cousin and I used to hack the games, pausing the load at a certain counter point and then entering in new lines of code (POKE'ing and PEEK'ing). Great memories!
Hello from Birmingham, AL, home of World Games 2022 that was held here in July. I was searching for C64s and tape drives and am loving the game you chose for your demo.
It's a great game! That, and all the other .... Games (World, Summer, Winter...).
Whilst waiting for World Games to load, I went for a drive into the bush found a large tree, chopped it down, trimmed it up and taught myself how to caber toss.
Upon establishing a new Australian and Commonwealth record in the discipline and soaking up all the corresponding adulation I returned to my abode and was over-joyed to see the title screen had loaded.
Haha! :)
Thank U for this video. Im 39 year’s old, and now as i seen your video, came back for me many beauty memory-when i was ~6 years old, and me& my father couldn’t started video games in C64 :). Mybe anno was need some day when realised for our, how is working some helping by friend’s of father.
Memories!!!!! Wow. My family had this same setup… and boy, we thought we were hot sh*t when we got a floppy drive (5.25 inch, naturally).
Haha, yeah I know. I got the 1541 disk drive the next christmas after I got the C64. And... a printer! Hot sh*t indeed! :)
Well! Compared to cassette having a floppy drive was like having M.2 gen 4 ssd……😁😁😁😁
This brings back the memories. It also shows how far technology has come. Amazing.
When kids (ie Us) had patience. Now they skip from one thing to another if nothing happens for 5 seconds! Loved my old C64
Have you still got it? Your old C64?
@@MickeKring No I sold it a long long long time ago. Loved that machine, seemed to be the start of proper computing and gaming when that arrived
Things were simpler 35 years or so ago But they lasted longer than some of the things today
They sure do!
I remember we used to load a game from a cassette, or even a disk drive for the commodore 64, then go to the living room and play Atari for a bit while the game loaded after 2 to 9 minutes.
Also, once the program is found on the tape, you can press the C= key to continue loading without waiting ;-)
Thanks for your video!!🥰😍 Do you know if is possible to connect to a OLD PC Monitor with Vga conection? Or only is possible on a Old CRT TV with "cable de antena" connection?
Love the nostalgia. I had the vic20 with its huge 3.5k memory. I remember getting the 16k expansion feeling like I was stepping into the future !
Wow, I remember those days! Looks so familiar! Now I enjoy looking at and playing those same games from time to time on emulators that quick load, sharpen the graphics, and help preserve those classics!
Ah yes a gamer kid in the 80's. Set your game to load, go outside for a game of football, back in to have your dinner then run upstairs to your room to see if it's loaded yet. It hadn't, but there was a cool picture of the box art of the game you'll be playing soon.
I owned three games on cassette - Space Pilot took 22 minutes to load and every other time it failed to load, so basically 44 minutes every time I felt like playing.
The other two were Hovver Bovver and Frogger.
the fact you can run anything off of a casette tape other than music blows my mind. even with a long wait.
I totally agree... :)
When I got my first Amiga 500, I bought a computer magazine that featured a program with an Amiga bouncing ball. I spent an entire evening typing out the programming code to watch the ball bounce. But when I turned off the machine, everything was gone
So cool, I'm making a 3d model of the c64 cassette tape and I'll use this as a reference. I still remember my much older brothers playing with this beast, especially fist 2 and wizard or oz stuck in my mind forever. That music and aesthetics, sublime. Have a good day pal!
Thanks Gabriele! The nostaligia is strong in this one.
I remember that you could save some time by resetting the counter on the tape deck when it was fully re-wound and then noting the numbers when the level you wanted started to load. Then next time you could fast forward the tape to just before that point and you wouldn't have to wait so long !!
Yup, that's what you did. :)
I had an Apple IIGS back in 1989. A buddy of mine and I would play Mean 18 golf.
It literally took 10 full minutes to load from 3.5" floppy. lol
Greetings from Canada. Back in my C64 time, games on cartridge were uncommon and games on cassette were unheard of. Everything was on floppy disks. Sure it was expensive for the one time purchase of the drive. But once you've gone over that hurdle, you had a very wide selection of pirated games on disk available by schoolyard trading.
Yeah, I know. I got the floppy (1541) the xmas after I got the C64. Unfortunately it didn't survive history. But back when I got the C64 all my friends was cassette only (around 83-84). And, absolutely, everyone traded games. :) Even if you had the original you wanted the pirated one, since they loaded faster.
I remember being like 9 or 10 years old and going around to this kid Jarrod’s house who had the C64 with the tape deck.
….I remember a distinct sense of envy and anxious anticipation at even being able to interact with this new technology.
Yeah, when I was 8 I was incredibly jealous of my neighbor who had the C64. Tried to spend as much time with it (the C64) as I could. Fortunately for me, I got my own the next christmas.
I remember spending some time back in 1984-1986 with the kids of my father's boss, and they had a C64. I think they had that soccer game that only C64 had, and I was amazed by how good it was. Fast-forward one year, and my mom and I traveled from Belgrade to London to get my first computer. But that year (1985), we had these awful customs restrictions in Yugoslavia, where you could only bring in the computer that cost up to 150 GBP. And the Spectrum+ was 149.99 and C64 was 179 or 199. I don't recall, but it was a bit over the limit, and I could not get that C64 I dreamed of :(. I remember being very happy with the Sinclair, and then I got a PC and started to learn programming in GW Basic and Borland Turbo Pascal. Then, I moved to U.S. when the civil war started, got a Computer Science degree and started working as a programmer etc, etc. But a part of me still feels heavily nostalgic both towards the C64 and the Amiga 500's my friends had, and maybe if I'd had those instead of the Sinclair and the PC's, I would have had a much earlier start with computer music and could have gotten further ahead with it. Never too late, of course, but it sometimes makes me wonder how differently the future would have turned out.
I remember having the cassette for Pogo Joe (QBert knock-off), it took 11 minutes to load the game.
That why all of us had the pirated versions even if we owned the originals. :)
Nice video in my days when a moped came past the house we had to start all over again (EM pollution)specially when you used speed loader program
I`m so Glad we have better stuff nowadays
What a great video!
Thanks! And yeah, it was the same for me when I unpacked the old brick and fired it up again. Instantly was 9 years old again. :)
@@MickeKring Nice :) Your idea was brilliant to show the loading part from the beginning. Would be amazing to see more. What was your favorite game? Mine was The Last Ninja 2 :)
@@deepcloudsmusic OMG! Yeah, I loved it too. But also all the Summer/Winter/World/California games, Green Beret, Commando, Rambo, Uridium, Barbarian, Bruce Lee and lots more.
@@MickeKring Yeah those are all incredible! There´s so many great ones! 🙂
I lived with this for about a week on an Apple II before purchasing a floppy drive as quick as I possibly could. LOL!
Rule of thumb, the thinner the lines during loading, more chances to load successfully
Impossible mission took half an hour to load. I remember going and having lunch. Luckily by the time World Games came around I was on the disk drive.
And that's why you played the cracked games, even if you owned the originals. :) And also, I got the 1541 a year later. What a relief.
@@MickeKring Great video I would love to have my old 64 back and the disk box with my entire collection again. I imagine that's your 64 you kept all along? They are such hard things to find now, and very tightly held onto. Would love to find one to buy.
@@bigmaxy07 they are not hard to find. Plenty of them to order online.
@@bigmaxy07 Yep, but I also got a couple of spare C64 from work. They used to have the C64 as school computers back in the early 80's. I just miss my old 1541. It did not survive history.
Me and a friend were playing a game once in the living room and my mum unplugged the extension lead to plug the hoover in. She realised then tried to plug it back in thinking the game would still be there. Another long wait ahead.
I still remember having a Vic20 and the Commodore datasette.
I felt pretty good about myself around those that only had the cassette loader because I had a floppy drive but felt like a punk to my mates with an Amiga
I had the dattasette for the vic 20 but it didnt make any sense to use it on the 64.
I got my C64 for my 9th christmas and I think I got the 1541 the year after... I was more than happy to see the datasatte go. :)
I remember a space themed game, it was called Zins if I'm not mistaken.
This video gives me the feels. I'm so glad i grew up in this pioneering era. The C64 and Amiga were incredible pieces of hardware.
I feel this. My older bros got the amiga when I was 6 and had the c64 before that. I feel so lucky I grew up watching them play. It was amazing!
I didn't have a cassette on my first computet. I had to enter game code by keyboard each time I wanted to play.
I used to type all the commands in manually, then when it starts loading, Id go out and play for half the day, come back and find out I miss typed a letter and then had to do it all again. Eventually after dinner Id be able to sit down and play
Me and my friend used to spend hours typing the code into the vic20 from one of the gaming magazines of the time, just to find it didn’t work probably because we’d got 1 digit wrong out of many thousand !. Happy days.
cool i just played it myself was going to do a review but ive got a problem with the pole throwing cant get much to happen and when he drops the pole on his foot i can get anything to happen and end up hitting the restore button and it goes back to main menu.See how u go with the pole throwing will ya?? :)
I’ll try it out later and will keep you posted. 😀
I remember Starleague Baseball taking like 15-20 minutes. LOL. God those were great times. Made you appreciate playing the game more.
And when you're just about to start playing you hear :
- Miiike! Dinner's ready!
-damn! 😂😂
My first game console was the TI (Texas Instrument)-99 which I enjoyed and still do. Also love the C64 but not the wait time with the cassette drive. Thanks for sharing and posting this video!
Thanks! When I posted the video I hade just about dug out the old C64 from my basement. An almost 40 year old computer that worked out of the box with cassette tapes that actually worked. Impressive, but the nostalgia of running it was so strong that I decided to record it. The sounds, the feeling of turning it on.... I was 9 again. :)
@@MickeKring indeed, very cool! Lots of great memories with the old consoles and just that time period in general.
Does anyone recall the first batch of Ghostbusters cassettes having a 30% failure rate? I can still feel the pain..
I had a VC20 as a young boy and it took ages to load winter games 😂
I found an old VIC-20, fully funtional at work like 20 years ago. It had some games on cartridge. You wanna know the worst thing in the world. I threw it away in the dumpster. I still regret it to this day.
this is going back some years,Console I had in the 1980's,Put the casette tape in,Type in load game,Took for ever for a game to load up
i remember i got Wizardry on the c64 for Christmas one year and i took over and hour to load, me and my bro played it and were near the end and my dad came in turned it off! No saves back then 😞
Haha, been through that one more than a couple of times. Mom or dad came up and told it was time for bed and you begged to play for just a bit more. But no... And then you had to start all over again.
When commodore came out with the floppy disk, it was fast like lightning! Or at least it’s what I remember…😅
Yeah, that's what I thought as well. Got it the xmas after I got my C64.
I remember even with the 1542 floppy drive sublogic flightsim 2 took ages to load.
Thanks for putting a timer on the screen. If only RUclips had a similar feature where you could see the duration of the video..
I had that exakt TV-model back in the 80/90s!
My 10 year old son was complaining because a game took 10 seconds to open on his switch. Just made him watch all of this. Welcome to my childhood 🤣 Thanks for the vid bud, brought back all those memories of reading a Beano waiting for the loading to complete!
I wonder how many dozens of kids across the United States in the 1980s or they had epilepsy when they tried to load commando on the family computer only to wake up in the hospital
Amazing how tech has advance since the days of commodore 64, remember the days getting home from school on Friday nights get together with friends from around the neighborhood trade games on disks even learned basic computer programming on the C64 those were the days.
Yup. No internet, so all the knowledge you got was from someones older sibling. But here's where the love for coding and gaming started.
Nice :) I didn't have a C64, but I had a speccy clone when I was a kid, so I can relate to slow loading times.
Is it loading now? Eh, kind of... we're waiting for it to load the loader first. Good times!
Never played World Games as a kid, but we played a lot of Winter and California Games, both in small and large groups of friends. Similar experience with the loading.
Always those rich kids with their tape decks! I have to type my games from the '64 magazine listing.
Haha, yeah, we did that too. Typing for 20 hours only to get one character wrong and the whole thing errored out...
Lol we all did.
@@MickeKring yep! There was always a problem in the peek and poke.
Feel your pain, that moment when you pumped your fist at the title screen. Gold! It seemed so random to me whether it would load or not, I got superstitious about loading games via tape. I would leave the room, pretending I didn’t care whether it loaded or not. So many wasted hours doing this. Good times 😂
I had a Commodore 64 and the joystick shown. I believe it was made by Wico.
You are correct!
And if a cassette became to old, you had a specific program to adjust the head of the tape recorder and or tape to make it work again. Those were the days! But by adjusting you needed to insert a small screwdriver in the hole that's somewhere in the middle on top of the taperecorder, turning it left or right (while playing the tape) made a stream more visible and or straight to adjust the tape. I only can't remember what the name of that program was. I think i was around 6 or 7 maybe. And once you did that, rewinding the tape again, the tape should now be working more efficiently.
Bards of tale, Defender of the Crown, Last Ninja, Green Barret and Giana Sister was some great title also.
So many of them 🙂
Those were the days. Praying to the C64 gods that your tape would load.
And all those times it didn't, adjusting the azimuth screw with the tiny screw driver.... Those were the days! :)
"Forbidden Forest" seemed to take HOURS to load from the Datasette...and that's IF it worked the first time!!
The Atari I felt had insanely long loading times. I had one game that just didn't play ball, id load it thinking, maybe this time. Twenty minutes later the loading screen still on, and the tape stopped
The thing about cassette tapes on the C64 was that every once in a while you hade to re-calibrate it using a screwdriver. It slowly started to error out loading the games.
@@MickeKring I was fast to young, and no internet, meant they stayed broke lol
What nostalgia. I can't believe we could wait that long before we could start gaming.
I was going to say we had nothing to compare it to, but... my class mate had the Nintendo 8-bit and you put the cartridge in and just played....
Didn’t you supposedly use screwdriver I remember loading my games way faster!
Some of my first Computing experiences were with friends and their Commodore 64 I can remember loading up plenty of programs that were on cassette tapes like calculator programs and keyboard program and we goofed around a lot ewith those units.... racing destruction set ..race cars and change the gravities and have little car Wars that was one of the funnest games we used to just laugh so hard when we hit jumps and that gravity would be set on the planet Pluto or something and your car would fly off the screen that was just the best of the best for us back then thank you Commodore 64 for that game it was so fun
The C64 formed my early years too. So much fun. Typed in programs from magazines, played games and ruined joysticks playing sports games. It was a wonderful time.
Usually the game is recorded on the other side of the tape as well. No need to rewind so much.
A joy for life.
Never had one. From Pong to atari2600 to colecovision to Commodore PC XT.
*EPYX were STILL making cassettes back in 1987?!?!*
In 1990, I made such a computer myself (Sinclair). So my children stayed with him for hours.
I remember it took not so long to load a game. Mine was quite fast. Maybe it depends on the cassettes?
Most cracked games had a fast load routine added to the beginning, seldom was things this slow. Additionally, many had fast load cartridges that worked on everything.
For the serious gals and boys, there were, and still is, Jiffydos, which changes out a chip on the main board and in the drive. Turbochameleon is probably the ultimate iteration, but there was and still is many.
Need to be very patient with the older units. Same with the Amstrad CPC464 and Sinclair Spectrum.
had one myself was a nightmare to load tapes you could also buy cartridges which where quicker to load but cost alot more
This was my childhood. Wizard of Wor was my game! Also Hillsfar and Maniac Mansion!
I remember buying the game from the shop copying it onto another cassette and taking it back saying it don't work
Haha... :)
@@MickeKring👍😂
Loved my c64, still a tape man for my listening media.
Sensational. Makes me sad I didn’t look after my C64 as good as you did and it ended up in trash
And I even had a fully functional VIC-20 at my job that I threw away. Oh, how I regret that.
You think that’s bad I trashed my amiga 1000 & 2000 plus monitor due to not having any space in my bedroom. God! I wish I didn’t
the west was fortunate to have full tape versions. behind the curtain there were only frozen separate events iirc - still better than nothing ;)
I felt happines and some stress waiting the loading game. Not allways the loading was succesful 😂😂😂. Nice memories of my commodore 64 and lot of games; spy demise, decathlon, Midway, Cobra, Rambo, Robin hood, Comandos, platoon...
Haha, I know. Will it work this time? Is something wrong? Yeay, it worked this time!
And yet back then, it all seemed so magical. That said, the majority of us in Australia quickly got 1541 disk drives.
Surprisingly good breathing sound effect.
Wow it really makes you think about the things we now taking for granite