I've always admired what a solid, perfectly realised design Boulder Dash had. One of those rare home computer games, like Tetris, that could hold its own in an arcade.
Heya Slope, I was a really bad alcoholic for about 5 years and I had your videos on going through withdrawals pretty often. I finally stuck with it after having a seizure, and I'm going on a year and a half sober. I'd lost my old RUclips, and just recently found your channel again. Random, but your videos were a comfort in a horrible time for me, so thank you.
Boulder Dash on c64 was a great part of my childhood. So much so if course I have other games in the series like the version for GBA and 3DS come to mind. Thanks for doing the video
I made a (admittedly quite basic) boulder dash inspired game in Microsoft Visual Basic some time in the 1990s. It was ok, nothing special, and most likely it would run far too fast nowadays, but I enjoyed the experience of designing it. Unfortunately I used a custom control in one of the configuration tabs (so it could be slowed down or sped up) and I don't have that control these days, so although it would still run, it wouldn't completely work. Stupidly, I didn't ever package it into an installer, which would have then included the control dll file. One great feature of it was that it used bitmap files for both the game graphics and levels. There's a pretty good chance it has been lost by now, but I may well still have a backup on a CDROM or floppy somewhere. I called it Simon's Boulder Game.
Fantastic detailed video. I’m the creator of a game that ended up labelled as “based on” Boulderdash, so it is interesting to learn the backstory of how the IP protection came to be.
I have no idea why I was so excited for this specific complete history but I was. this is one of those series that seems super iconic yet I think I've only played one of these games for like 10 minutes.
Doing really great , slope. I didn’t even know about this game at all besides the title , but am watching your whole video because of your magnificent ability of hooking one into the story around any given subject. Thanks my brotha!
The thing that really made Boulder Dash for me was the construction kit released in 1986, I was given that on my C64 for christmas that year and designed some pretty hellish caves that I swapped with friends. Sitting there smirking as a mate dies for the fifth time in a really nasty fashion always made me smile........I then showed him how to complete said level! Wonderful game and memories, so simple, so addictive, and SO brilliant!
A wonderful broadcast, thank you so much. Heard you on The Retro Hour podcast and have obviously subscribed to your channel. Played this on the Atari 800XL way back when and it's in my top two games of all time! :-)
Wow, thanks for this video! I played Boulderdash ALOT on my C64 in my high school days. It was so fun, that I made several sheets of Boulderdash comic strips that I passed around class and shared with my friends. I STILL have the C64, the game, AND all the cartoons! Good times! Good times indeed.
This nrings back good memories from the C64 and Amiga days. It's such a simple and timeless game. Just like Space invaders Donkey Kong and Tetris. Simple and yet entertaining.
Yet another fantastic excellent entertaining video, no doubt I will get the rest of this in a moment to watch later or just finishing one of my own ...
Creepy coincidence.. Lol.. I just recently acquired a box of Atari 800 games from a yard sale and this game was in it and looks like the only one in the box that means anything today
YES!!!! This was my FAVORITE GAME when I was a young child! Like 1988! Remember it in CGA graphics. Got that Commodore 64 mini because of it! Thanks for the video!
Fantastic documentary! I’ve always loved this game, played it endlessly on my C64. You’re reminding me of just what a great game it is. Seeing the rich, Tron-like colors on the Atari version is interesting, it reminds me of the bright colours arcade games used back then. This video makes me want to explore the Atari home computer games that I missed out on. The more sided and realistic colors of the C64 were an era in itself, just as the Spectrum’s palette defines it.
I came to this game from the C64 version. I have to admit that the theme song, though not the greatest from a _technical excellence_ point of view,* still holds a warm place in my heart. It always makes me smile. M.U.L.E.'s theme song is the same way. Kind of simple, but also genius. * Anything from Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Martin Galway and some others. The music for Rambo and The Last Ninja are just incredible.
My Dad and me played Boulder Dash countless evenings on the Speccy and both became pretty expert at it. We had a little trick whereby we hit the pause button once Rockford had run off the screen (scrolling on the Spectrum although good couldn't quite keep up when you were really going for it). Doing that made the scrolling speed up considerably to catch up with our hero. It was pretty handy on a cave like 'M'/Apocalypse.
This game is great and I love that it is almost abstract yet you see a personnality in a square that moves or butterflies. Combining abstract, puzzles, tempatation of greediness to obtain as much diamond as possible. Also it is one of the only game where I loved to "wait for the ennemy to pass me by protected by all the diamonds I just created as if I could build myself a safe house for a moment. I hate for an ennemy to have to wait for him to start or finish his pattern but in boulder dash, being protected and surround by diamons I didn't mind at all and could wait all the timenecessary
Boulder Dash (first encountered by myself on the dear old Speccy ) has been a staple favourite of mine for near 40 years and along with Lode Runner I try and purchase every iteration.
First time I played this with my cousins Amstrad CPC and later I got the game myself for my C64. Very addicting and still fun to play which is something you cannot say about a lot of games of that era.
Ah yes. Rockford. I had this on my home computer. The graphocs were charming and the difficulty was managable. Five worlds with different themes. The jungle adventurer, the cook who fights fastfood while collecting apples, the cowboy, the astronaut who must run from black holes and the doctor who must endure and eliminate sickness. Great stuff. And then came Boulder Dash for the NES, the best version of that game ever. Nice graphics, great music. It took all Boulder Dash levels and rewrapped them,, also lending it a world oriented approach. 6 worlds with 4 levels each. And when you mastered all 24 levels, you started all over on expanded difficulty, that meant more enemies, more jewls to collect and lesser time. In total you had to survive four levels of difficulty. And when you beat the game, you got a special ending too. The NES game was truly a journey.
As an American born in the 2000's, I'd never actually heard of these games, but this is really interesting! I gotta say, my favorite designs for Rockford are the ones where he's a weird little alien thing.
I have seen THE PIT and it made such an impression with my mate and I (who played it for as long as our money lasted) we still reminisce about it some 40 years later.. the machine was at the end of the world, down in Hobart, Tasmania. So it may have been rare, but it did get around (the globe).
Another amazing SGR doc! I had no experience with boulder dash, but I used to play a game called Crystal Mines by Color Dreams on the NES that looks like it was inspired by it. Thanks again for furthering my knowledge of video games!
@@stefanswiss3760 Yeah, but I was playing on green monochrome monitor. I did have a CRTTV connected so I saw its colors. I was jealous of my former neighbor's C64 version. Smoother and better audio!
I played on an IBM 5155, it was a “Lugable” and we had a 5150 monitor connected to it. It was pretty smooth. I remember swapping from CGA, EGA, and VGA for all the different colors. The little monitor in the front of the computer was an amber display. Man what a time!
@@stefanswiss3760 I remember at school we had some IIs with a monochrome monitor but some had colored monitors and the colors were pretty vivid though simple. I also remember the colors being off on some of them though I didn't know much about technology at that time, maybe it was the monitors that made a difference ?
There were also tons of unofficial numbered Boulder Dash games on C64, I guess made with the help of Construction Kit. Don Pedro made BD parts 5 to 11.
It's very interesting to me how much they can change up the protagonist and still have it recognizably be Boulder Dash. Really shows how well the series stands the test of time. Platformer fighter game where every single fighter is one of the Rockford variations :P
One of my favorite games on the MSX1, though I also played the C64 many versions and the Amiga construction kit one. A shame there wasn't an MSX2 or MSX2+ version with smooth scrolling and more colors and maybe more game mechanics utilizing more memory or something. I remember I've recreated the square movement in Amiga Amos basic program. Good times! It was an ingenious game at the time, and it still is! Great documentary! Never knew there were so many versions, I was aware of the ones mentioned above and the PSP and java/mobile phone one but the rest, even the arcade versions I was completely unaware!
I don't know why everybody wanted to change Rockford into somebody else, especially when the new art usually ended up looking pretty awful. The ones with parallax scrolling make it look like you're walking in the sky. It's frustrating that the most recent iteration of Rockford STILL looks super fugly. Chris Gray seems to have done pretty well out of it, considering his only contribution was a dodgy imitation of The Pit written in BASIC.
I don't think I've ever seen another character have that many drastically different designs for every game they appear in. I like the ant-like design of Rockford for the magazine ads the most.
The title page and weird music of the C64 version is something I have very nostalgic feelings for even though I didn't play the game for very long, since I was so bad at it.
Boulder Dash on c64 was a great tech demo for how good a title could be on the platform, working well within its own technical potential with a great game and overall design.
Chris Gray who I believe designed and coded the original Boulder Dash in my book is nothing short of a genius - he designed the most elegant videogame ever. I believe he went on to code a 3d application which was the predecessor to Audodesk's Maya which is the 3D animation tool used by the likes of Hollywood which I've used and it's great.
I love the Arcadia system and the history behind it. Rockford remains one of those unearthed gems (hehe) that will hopefully see the light of day eventually...There is loads of cool history behind this failed Amiga based arcade system.
I actually did grow with Boulderdash but the version of remember playing the most was actually is the Game Boy Advance version and even one time I even did a replay of the ZX Spectrum version and even the bit of the DS Port as well and well it's already going to have his 40 anniversary oh man first Sonic and Megaman in Street Fighter and now boulder bash.
I used to play Repton on the Acorn Electron in around 1985. They are similar games but Repton being a calmer puzzle game. The creator of Repton based the game on a review in a magazine he saw of Boulder Dash. Looking at this footage they were very similar!
Hahaha no worries buddy. I was going to make a mini complete history inside this complete history based on repton... That was unil I saw that there are like 20 entries :S
best game ever made one day i was playing boulder dash on Atari 800xl in the 1980s i entered the home in the last pit of a second and i got 1000 points bonus , i think this has never happened to any player before i always wanted to know the hidden history behind this game thanks alot
I can't believe official C64 releases were so few. I remember seeing tons of sequels released, I guess they were just created by 3rd parties with the Construction Kit.
So THAT’s why Boulder Dash 3 felt so different back when I played it in the ‘80s. Sad that they stopped adding new titles to the Wii eShop before they could add the rest of the C64 trilogy.
I am currently making a Boulderdash clone for the Commander X16. It’s great to implement the algorithms again and I’m getting more and more respect for the original game.
I played boulder dash on MSX1 and it was good and enjoyable but after I see all of these new version I think it was great and I prefer the old versions. Thanks
This is one of those 8-bit games that I almost got the chance to play on the Atari 800, but couldn't due to the a slight corruption of the disk. It took until finding out aboput emulating the 8-bit line for me to actually play it and enjoying it. Soon after I found the GBA port as well, also in ROM form.
i think one of the best look-a-like/inspired games by Boulder Dash is Supaplex (1991) Digital Integration ltd. Everything is perfect, the puzzles, game design, graphic, concept and music. I would hope someone would expand on that game, a supaplex 2.0 :D
Way back in my childhood, this was a "hot new game", I have an arcade version on my multicade - still like a game on occasion. Thanks for the video, really like retro gaming history content - well done.
I think there was also a cart version for Spectravideo, where all the levels were only one screen sized. Like the bonus levels in the original version.
I don’t know why, but as a kid I didn’t get it. I had Boulderdash IV with construction kit but I was merrr. Some one released a version where the whole level was on the whole screen and it clicked. What a game and I love them. Just don’t why I had no time for it in the beginning
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Don't forget you can check out the original game from 1984 for free right here... boulder-dash.com/
@@mrmysterious8124 That's not retro. :P
@@antdude It has been 14 years since Angry Birds was released. Compare that to Zero Wing, which was 10 years old at the time of "All Your Base" mania.
you could make a tune with the noises it makes when you play it
@@eldraque4556 I love its title screen music too.
I've always admired what a solid, perfectly realised design Boulder Dash had. One of those rare home computer games, like Tetris, that could hold its own in an arcade.
Heya Slope, I was a really bad alcoholic for about 5 years and I had your videos on going through withdrawals pretty often. I finally stuck with it after having a seizure, and I'm going on a year and a half sober.
I'd lost my old RUclips, and just recently found your channel again.
Random, but your videos were a comfort in a horrible time for me, so thank you.
Boulder Dash on c64 was a great part of my childhood. So much so if course I have other games in the series like the version for GBA and 3DS come to mind. Thanks for doing the video
The theme song from the Atari 8 bit version is one of my favorite game themes of all time.
It's really really good
I made a (admittedly quite basic) boulder dash inspired game in Microsoft Visual Basic some time in the 1990s. It was ok, nothing special, and most likely it would run far too fast nowadays, but I enjoyed the experience of designing it.
Unfortunately I used a custom control in one of the configuration tabs (so it could be slowed down or sped up) and I don't have that control these days, so although it would still run, it wouldn't completely work. Stupidly, I didn't ever package it into an installer, which would have then included the control dll file.
One great feature of it was that it used bitmap files for both the game graphics and levels.
There's a pretty good chance it has been lost by now, but I may well still have a backup on a CDROM or floppy somewhere.
I called it Simon's Boulder Game.
Fantastic detailed video. I’m the creator of a game that ended up labelled as “based on” Boulderdash, so it is interesting to learn the backstory of how the IP protection came to be.
That's awesome :D
I have been anxiously waiting on a new complete history video for months! Thank you for making my day DJ Slope! I needed this.
I promise the next one will be a lot sooner
@@slopesgameroom What game and when? ;)
@Slope's Game Room absolutely CAN'T WAIT MAN! Thank you!!
Brilliant documentary. I loved Boulder Dash as a kid and have recently gotten back into it, so this was a perfectly timed video for me. Loved it!
Appreciate it mate
I have no idea why I was so excited for this specific complete history but I was. this is one of those series that seems super iconic yet I think I've only played one of these games for like 10 minutes.
Because you're a real game fan who's curious about all of gaming history. Cheers fellow nerd 🤓
You're criminally under-subbed. Thanks for the great video.
Cheers buddy :D
Doing really great , slope. I didn’t even know about this game at all besides the title , but am watching your whole video because of your magnificent ability of hooking one into the story around any given subject. Thanks my brotha!
Ahhhh thanks buddy
The thing that really made Boulder Dash for me was the construction kit released in 1986, I was given that on my C64 for christmas that year and designed some pretty hellish caves that I swapped with friends. Sitting there smirking as a mate dies for the fifth time in a really nasty fashion always made me smile........I then showed him how to complete said level! Wonderful game and memories, so simple, so addictive, and SO brilliant!
I had all versions of Repton on the BBC, basically the same game and I absolutely loved them.
A wonderful broadcast, thank you so much. Heard you on The Retro Hour podcast and have obviously subscribed to your channel. Played this on the Atari 800XL way back when and it's in my top two games of all time! :-)
It's been a while since the last complete history video DJ Slope! This will be a fun one!
Grew up with the Apple 2e version. Very colorfull. Loved this game with Mr Do too. :D
My lasting memory of this game is the world map music on the NES. What a jolly little ditty that is.
What a great documentary! Thanks a lot for making this! So many memories
I played it mostly on a ZX Spectrum clone and a bit less on the PC. To this day, I abslutely love Boulderdash.
What a fantastic documentary!!!! Thanks a lot!!!!!
I loved playing this on my Commodore 64. But till now I never knew the games history. The history is great to learn about.
Wow, thanks for this video! I played Boulderdash ALOT on my C64 in my high school days. It was so fun, that I made several sheets of Boulderdash comic strips that I passed around class and shared with my friends. I STILL have the C64, the game, AND all the cartoons! Good times! Good times indeed.
This nrings back good memories from the C64 and Amiga days. It's such a simple and timeless game. Just like Space invaders Donkey Kong and Tetris. Simple and yet entertaining.
Yet another fantastic excellent entertaining video, no doubt I will get the rest of this in a moment to watch later or just finishing one of my own ...
Creepy coincidence.. Lol.. I just recently acquired a box of Atari 800 games from a yard sale and this game was in it and looks like the only one in the box that means anything today
Awesome game with amazing mechanics. Simply great.
Loved the construction kit.
YES!!!! This was my FAVORITE GAME when I was a young child! Like 1988! Remember it in CGA graphics. Got that Commodore 64 mini because of it! Thanks for the video!
AWE! Super Boulder Dash! That’s the one! 30:39
Thanks again!
Fantastic documentary! I’ve always loved this game, played it endlessly on my C64. You’re reminding me of just what a great game it is.
Seeing the rich, Tron-like colors on the Atari version is interesting, it reminds me of the bright colours arcade games used back then. This video makes me want to explore the Atari home computer games that I missed out on. The more sided and realistic colors of the C64 were an era in itself, just as the Spectrum’s palette defines it.
I came to this game from the C64 version. I have to admit that the theme song, though not the greatest from a _technical excellence_ point of view,* still holds a warm place in my heart. It always makes me smile. M.U.L.E.'s theme song is the same way. Kind of simple, but also genius.
* Anything from Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Martin Galway and some others. The music for Rambo and The Last Ninja are just incredible.
Hey DJ Slope I'm a Retro Gamer myself and I love watching your Complete History Series! Awesome Stuff!👍🕹🎮
Huge thanks mate, as this had so many interviews involved it ended up taking a long time. I plan to do a lot more complete histories a lot sooner
My Dad and me played Boulder Dash countless evenings on the Speccy and both became pretty expert at it. We had a little trick whereby we hit the pause button once Rockford had run off the screen (scrolling on the Spectrum although good couldn't quite keep up when you were really going for it). Doing that made the scrolling speed up considerably to catch up with our hero. It was pretty handy on a cave like 'M'/Apocalypse.
This game is great and I love that it is almost abstract yet you see a personnality in a square that moves or butterflies.
Combining abstract, puzzles, tempatation of greediness to obtain as much diamond as possible.
Also it is one of the only game where I loved to "wait for the ennemy to pass me by protected by all the diamonds I just created as if I could build myself a safe house for a moment.
I hate for an ennemy to have to wait for him to start or finish his pattern but in boulder dash, being protected and surround by diamons I didn't mind at all and could wait all the timenecessary
Have some fond memories of this game. Actually Rocks 'n' Gems from the playstation magazine demo discs but whatever.
Saturday night Slopes? I’m pausing it, freeze chilling an IPA and getting a Chinese. Best thing on TV all day 👑 Back soon 😂
Hahaha yeah, nothing else of importance today... What what
A Chinese ?
A Chinese what ?
A succulent Chinese meal ?
I've got such fond memories of Boulder Dash on my C64. It used to load in 29 "seconds" on the timer on my C64 tape drive.
Boulder Dash (first encountered by myself on the dear old Speccy ) has been a staple favourite of mine for near 40 years and along with Lode Runner I try and purchase every iteration.
First time I played this with my cousins Amstrad CPC and later I got the game myself for my C64. Very addicting and still fun to play which is something you cannot say about a lot of games of that era.
Ah yes. Rockford. I had this on my home computer. The graphocs were charming and the difficulty was managable. Five worlds with different themes. The jungle adventurer, the cook who fights fastfood while collecting apples, the cowboy, the astronaut who must run from black holes and the doctor who must endure and eliminate sickness. Great stuff. And then came Boulder Dash for the NES, the best version of that game ever. Nice graphics, great music. It took all Boulder Dash levels and rewrapped them,, also lending it a world oriented approach. 6 worlds with 4 levels each. And when you mastered all 24 levels, you started all over on expanded difficulty, that meant more enemies, more jewls to collect and lesser time. In total you had to survive four levels of difficulty. And when you beat the game, you got a special ending too. The NES game was truly a journey.
As an American born in the 2000's, I'd never actually heard of these games, but this is really interesting! I gotta say, my favorite designs for Rockford are the ones where he's a weird little alien thing.
Wow! I wish I went back in time and made Boulder Dash
I have seen THE PIT and it made such an impression with my mate and I (who played it for as long as our money lasted) we still reminisce about it some 40 years later.. the machine was at the end of the world, down in Hobart, Tasmania. So it may have been rare, but it did get around (the globe).
Wow, that's a long documentary. Excellent research work there.
The first time I ever played this was Boulder Dash on NES.
I’ve since gone back and played other versions but still fond of that one.
Another amazing SGR doc! I had no experience with boulder dash, but I used to play a game called Crystal Mines by Color Dreams on the NES that looks like it was inspired by it. Thanks again for furthering my knowledge of video games!
Cheers mate. I know this one is a little less known, but for the hardcore fans it's very well respected
Another gem by slope. Cheers
I loved Boulder Dash on my Apple //c!
me too, I remember the colors on apple 2e being more vibrant and saturated than the videos I see on youtube (nostalgia bias?)
@@stefanswiss3760 Yeah, but I was playing on green monochrome monitor. I did have a CRTTV connected so I saw its colors. I was jealous of my former neighbor's C64 version. Smoother and better audio!
I played on an IBM 5155, it was a “Lugable” and we had a 5150 monitor connected to it. It was pretty smooth. I remember swapping from CGA, EGA, and VGA for all the different colors. The little monitor in the front of the computer was an amber display. Man what a time!
@@stefanswiss3760 I remember at school we had some IIs with a monochrome monitor but some had colored monitors and the colors were pretty vivid though simple. I also remember the colors being off on some of them though I didn't know much about technology at that time, maybe it was the monitors that made a difference ?
@@Gatorade69 I think I was playing boulder dash II, seeing the video in full, the graphics and levels of boulder 2 ring a bell :)
Always had a soft spot for a good boulder-dash game, thanks to this vid - I've got a few more to check out. :)
I played this on the C64 when I was 9.
Had no idea what I was doing but I loved it
There were also tons of unofficial numbered Boulder Dash games on C64, I guess made with the help of Construction Kit. Don Pedro made BD parts 5 to 11.
It's very interesting to me how much they can change up the protagonist and still have it recognizably be Boulder Dash. Really shows how well the series stands the test of time.
Platformer fighter game where every single fighter is one of the Rockford variations :P
This may have been the first video game I ever played. Loved it
One of my favorite games on the MSX1, though I also played the C64 many versions and the Amiga construction kit one.
A shame there wasn't an MSX2 or MSX2+ version with smooth scrolling and more colors and maybe more game mechanics utilizing more memory or something. I remember I've recreated the square movement in Amiga Amos basic program. Good times! It was an ingenious game at the time, and it still is!
Great documentary! Never knew there were so many versions, I was aware of the ones mentioned above and the PSP and java/mobile phone one but the rest, even the arcade versions I was completely unaware!
LOL Just as I was building up to a Repton rant you mentioned Repton.. well played Slope my friend, well played!
Great really enjoyed the history here! Love the detail!
I would love to see a Complete history of Ultima going back to Akalabeth. Lots and lots of good drama in that story.
Amazing evergreen game! Boulder Dash and Lode Runner were my favorite puzzle-platform games on the Commodore 64.
Both great titles
Not a series that ever really interested me but I think I’ll give it a shot.
What a fantastic documentary!
I don't know why everybody wanted to change Rockford into somebody else, especially when the new art usually ended up looking pretty awful. The ones with parallax scrolling make it look like you're walking in the sky. It's frustrating that the most recent iteration of Rockford STILL looks super fugly.
Chris Gray seems to have done pretty well out of it, considering his only contribution was a dodgy imitation of The Pit written in BASIC.
Played it for ages on my C64 - truly a classic little game. :)
My DAD LOVED this game...Since I had the C64 in my room when I was in High School - He kept me up for HOURS on school nights...
Hahaha. My parents did the same with galactic plague
I don't think I've ever seen another character have that many drastically different designs for every game they appear in. I like the ant-like design of Rockford for the magazine ads the most.
Yeah, it's crazy and I guarantee I missed loads from random game covers
The title page and weird music of the C64 version is something I have very nostalgic feelings for even though I didn't play the game for very long, since I was so bad at it.
I was the same. However since making this video I have become rather good lol
I used to have a MZ-800 and had to play Flappy, it was closest I could get to playing Boulder Dash after seeing it at a cousins house on C64.
Boulder Dash on c64 was a great tech demo for how good a title could be on the platform, working well within its own technical potential with a great game and overall design.
Yeah, for sure, it's really interesting to hear how such a simply brilliant design came to be
Wow. I played the original back in the day on the Commodore 64, and had no idea about all the sequels.
Great video,thank you, matey!👽🙏🫂🎶
The 1984 ZX Spectrum version was a huge success for first star software and stayed at no.1 for (what seemed like) forever.
First played this a bit on c64 but I really put the hours in on the NES port. Marvellous game.
It was after midnight game every friday with my Cuz on my C64 in the 80s. Thank you.
Chris Gray who I believe designed and coded the original Boulder Dash in my book is nothing short of a genius - he designed the most elegant videogame ever. I believe he went on to code a 3d application which was the predecessor to Audodesk's Maya which is the 3D animation tool used by the likes of Hollywood which I've used and it's great.
I love the Arcadia system and the history behind it. Rockford remains one of those unearthed gems (hehe) that will hopefully see the light of day eventually...There is loads of cool history behind this failed Amiga based arcade system.
I had this game on my CPC 464. Good memories indeed.
Boulderdash EX was *amazing*.
I actually did grow with Boulderdash but the version of remember playing the most was actually is the Game Boy Advance version and even one time I even did a replay of the ZX Spectrum version and even the bit of the DS Port as well and well it's already going to have his 40 anniversary oh man first Sonic and Megaman in Street Fighter and now boulder bash.
Love your vids bro you nail it every time
Cheers buddy :D
there is a boulder dash from 2004 for the pocket pc, do you know anything about that one? thank you
there is a boulder dash fan version on pc exactly like the old atari and has 100s of caves you can see it played on youtube every day
I used to play Repton on the Acorn Electron in around 1985. They are similar games but Repton being a calmer puzzle game. The creator of Repton based the game on a review in a magazine he saw of Boulder Dash. Looking at this footage they were very similar!
I shoulda known you would mention Repton haha! Sorry I commented before finishing your vid.
Hahaha no worries buddy. I was going to make a mini complete history inside this complete history based on repton... That was unil I saw that there are like 20 entries :S
@@slopesgameroom I'd love a Repton episode but I'll watch literally ANY of your deep dives.
best game ever made
one day i was playing boulder dash on Atari 800xl in the 1980s i entered the home in the last pit of a second and i got 1000 points bonus , i think this has never happened to any player before
i always wanted to know the hidden history behind this game thanks alot
There's always time for Boulderdash.
I can't believe official C64 releases were so few. I remember seeing tons of sequels released, I guess they were just created by 3rd parties with the Construction Kit.
So THAT’s why Boulder Dash 3 felt so different back when I played it in the ‘80s.
Sad that they stopped adding new titles to the Wii eShop before they could add the rest of the C64 trilogy.
still remember playing this on the c64 when it had a time countdown, so your had to hurry to collect the diamonds
Had an old Atari PC when I was a kid and freaking loved boulderdash
It's a great title
I am currently making a Boulderdash clone for the Commander X16. It’s great to implement the algorithms again and I’m getting more and more respect for the original game.
Ahhhh that's awesome news. Keep me posted as and when it's ready to be shared
@@slopesgameroom great video btw! I really enjoyed learning about the dozens of remakes or clones !
I played boulder dash on MSX1 and it was good and enjoyable but after I see all of these new version I think it was great and I prefer the old versions.
Thanks
This is one of those 8-bit games that I almost got the chance to play on the Atari 800, but couldn't due to the a slight corruption of the disk. It took until finding out aboput emulating the 8-bit line for me to actually play it and enjoying it. Soon after I found the GBA port as well, also in ROM form.
i think one of the best look-a-like/inspired games by Boulder Dash is Supaplex (1991) Digital Integration ltd. Everything is perfect, the puzzles, game design, graphic, concept and music. I would hope someone would expand on that game, a supaplex 2.0 :D
HOW CAN I GET THAT TEXT VERSION!!? WOW
Way back in my childhood, this was a "hot new game", I have an arcade version on my multicade - still like a game on occasion. Thanks for the video, really like retro gaming history content - well done.
37:53 i didn't know the diamonds could fall in you too.
I think there was also a cart version for Spectravideo, where all the levels were only one screen sized. Like the bonus levels in the original version.
lol...the coincidence of this video suggestion. This week I am trying to finish boulder dash (1) on my Atari 8bit
I don’t know why, but as a kid I didn’t get it. I had Boulderdash IV with construction kit but I was merrr. Some one released a version where the whole level was on the whole screen and it clicked. What a game and I love them. Just don’t why I had no time for it in the beginning
Can you look at the History of Mega Man🔫🤖
I 100% agree with this 👍👍👍 (although Mega Man is a massive franchise. He might have to limit it to the classic series lol)
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Fr lol
Also Spiderman and Jurassic Park
Great video!
Can't go wrong with the NES or C64 versions, or Supaplex.
Rocks looks cool though, mechanics-wise
I played a lot of Boulder Dash (and its sequel) on ZX Spectrum way back when
I always preferred a side version called "Icicle Works" on the C16.