Modern replicas of retro machines are mainly a novelty. They are mostly heavily priced raspberry pi´s . The only thing that matters for me are the quality and fidelity of the controllers and to hack the the system to add more games or change the emulators of the system (sometimes they are bundled whit pretty bad emulators). Love the 8 bit machines of that era. And also love the modern games for those machines(specially c64 and zx spectrum) .i believe we are now in the golden age of games for those systems
I'd say this is definitely one of the best ways to play C64 and VIC 20 roms though. The emulators graphics and sound are pretty spot on, the joystick feels authentic to the era, and the full sized 'clickie' keyboards gives a good impression of the original hardware (Yes, I still have the original hardware as well) and I have to say I'm impressed with this emulator way more than any other I've seen so far. Why bother about the on-board games list when you can easily play the ROMs you want to from a memory stick.
Battle Valley would have been an awesome game if not for the God awful INSANE difficulty/frustration level. That Jeroen Tel music though...CLASS However, it WAS one of Hewson's BUDGET games on their Rack-It label, and as a budget game it's not that bad, but once again: INSANELY difficult
@oldstylegaming If you would like to try a new version of Adventure 'A' Planet of Death for Google Assistant; you can play the game entirely with your voice providing commands by saying: 'Talk to Planet of Death' Would be really keen to know how you go as someone who has played the original :-) It will run on Google Home, an Android phone or an iPhone with Google Assistant installed.
I know but I needed to get this out quick while it was current...I actually had to re record the intro voice over twice as it was planned for Christmas eve....then Christmas day.....then because getting footage (mainly down to the fact I started playing destroyer) took so long it ended up being boxing day lol...also it's a nightmare getting anything done with 3 excited kids running around
I really do wish that there was a better line up of games here. All of the Thalamus games from the C64 Mini were removed for the full size C64, which is a shame! Armalyte is a must have game imo and Creatures is good fun, even though I haven't played much of it. A lot of the games on here are just Spectrum ports and games that really have no right being here, like all of the weird budget games. It's cool that a homebrew game like Galencia was included, but having only one homebrew title that doesn't really show the C64's full capabilities is also kinda crap. I think the most glaring omissions here are games by System 3 and Rainbow Arts. I don't know if they just couldn't get the licensing to those games, but they should have at least tried to get a couple on here. Even though I personally don't like the games, Last Ninja is a must have for the C64.
@@oldstylegaming Very true. I'm glad they added USB support because without it, this thing would be practically useless lol. I may pick up a full size C64 at some point, since it has a working keyboard and supposedly a pretty good joystick. I might just wait for a price drop.
Robin of the Woods, I could swear is an almost duplicate of a game that I cannot remember the name of. Was based in China, and you ran around collecting swords to throw at enemies, you dodged Giants trying to grab you to save a princess
Stunt Car Racer, Last Ninja2, Giana Sisters, Turrican 2, Grand Prix Circuit, Summer Games, Winter Games, California Games, Skate or die, Streets Sport Basketball, Emlyn Hughes Int. Soccer, IK+, R-Type, Katakis, Tetris (music), Hattrick, Vermeer (german game), Maniac Mansion, Zak McCracken, Wings of Fury, To be on top, Rick Dangerous, Oil Imperium etc....
AlleyKat was great! I forgot about that one, oh and Mega Apocalypse. :) I probably spent the most time on: Wizball (still one of the most original games ever imo), Head Over Heels, Platoon, Winter/World Games and the impossibly hard Ghosts and Goblins! Long Live the C64, best music EVER! Thks for the memories.
I loved Street Sports Baseball as a kid. Mine was a second hand copy (I had no concept of piracy, lol) and had me kind of glitch where after a couple innings the sound would be replaced with pure static. That would last several innings but it would go back to normal before the end. I just dealt with it because the game was solid.
My commiserations. The only good thing my parents bought us as kids was a C64, otherwise we always got cheapo or second hand versions of what the other kids were getting.
It is kind of sad thinking retrospectively, that I played or at least tried almost 50% of these games during my childhood, yet only 2 of them were actually bought. Every guy had shelf loads of piracy copies in cassettes back then. Only ones that were originally bought, were California Games and Streets Sport Baseball. Oh and the best game of the list is Boulder Dash. Anyway, it's always nice to receive nostalgia moments from videos like these :) PS: I remember having a same problem throwing grenades in Who Dares Wins II as does the player in this video. Way too often was I accidentally throwing 2 grenades instead of just one :D
well i was brought up with commodores so i like them all lol... so for 8 bit its C64, 16 Bit its Amiga but i have a whole range of systems ranging from Atari 2600, through to Ps4 and i love them all...but the retro systems are my favourite
@@oldstylegaming Thanks for the answer. You, Sir, are a very important Commodore (64, Amiga, etc) source on the RUclips. Thanks for your videos. I really love how C64 made sound. When you hear, you know that it is C64. Very clever Commodore audio engenering !!
The reason is simple... They only had the legal rights to the games that CLOANTO currently own the copyright to (aside from the few Llamsoft games which they got permission from Jeff from) If they wanted to put anything on like say the Last Ninja games they would have to pay an arm a and a leg just to get the rights, which in the end would have jacked up the price of the system. The System 3 C64 games are currently owned by Activision, and I doubt they would have gotten permission for those unless they paid a substantial amount of money just to get the rights.
TOTALLY forgot about llamasoft.. How could I??? Then watching through the list. Thankyou, brings back other memories from the time. There was a game sort of like chess with magical animals etc, think it began with A , what was it?
It was fun to see alley cat again. I had totally forgotten it. I played it a lot. When I got my c64 I played horribly looking games like wizard of war, shamus case 2 and arcade versions like frogger. The first "real" game I played that really had any resemblance to what the c64 was capable of was alley cat. I just couldn't believe how good the graphics were.
Yeah the c64 was great ..oh still is sorry. Some new games like Sam's journey and even mayhem in monterland showed how much they could push the system ...you have a nice Xmas? Is your arcade fixed yet? I've been playing a real blast from the past today on mine that I had completely forgot about ...thundercade ...it's like If commando had a motorbike lol
@@oldstylegaming X-mas was great. I spent it with my old friend Jacob back from my early school days and his family. It was a very lovely evening. My arcade is yet to be fixed. Not because of shortage of spare parts! I have them all. Not because of shortage of time either. It's only because of my lazyness :) My future self would love to come home to a loud noisy cabinet. My present self is just way too busy having fun spending time with his female friends.
When licensing old games on systems like the Commodore C64, the issue is often who is the IP owner? Also, do you include fewer games that may be more expensive to license or not? With way over 5,000 games released for it, this was always going to be tough to get right.
If you're into RPG or simulation games, all you have is Destroyer. No Gunship, Silent Service, etc. The problem is most British 8-bit RUclipsrs didn't have a disk drive as a kid, so they played tape based arcade game mostly. 15% of UK C64er's had a 1541, and 90% of U.S. C64'ers had 1541's, yet disk based C64 gaming gets incredibly little coverage. Because in the UK, these were multi-load tape versions that gamers found frustrating.
I didnt pick this list... its the list of games that came packaged with the "TheC64" console mate.... i know Gunship etc well so banding the most British RUclipsrs thing about in my direction aint really right as i cover way more stuff than any other c64 channel from unreleased games to games that were released in different regions etc.
Game licence is the problem here. I believe retro had problems and had to drop thalamus but to be honest the usb add games makes this a non point to mention now you can add any. Even the games installed around 50 of them have been reviewed by zzapp 64 and garnered an average of 80% so I'm happy with this really :-)
Very awesome! Great list good buddy! I know very little C64 games. I've really only played The Great Giana Sisters but I love it. Thanks for another great video sir!
@@BryanTrustyChannel well it was just about what emulator you use to stream megadrive (genesis) cos I was trying to set up for a Xmas memories stream but can't get streamlabs to see fusion or gens
Used to play lots on Who Dares Wins 2 and Pitstop 2 :) Think atleast 1 of my favorite c64 games could have deserved to be on your list. It's Track and Field and is a game that I really recommend for anyone who haven't tried it. It were my favorite sports game and it supported to players, which were real fun:) On that game you had to move your joystick from left to run, which ruined joysticks over time. Think Track and Field might be even better today. Today you can use gamepads instead of joystick on emulators, and set 2 buttons close to each other to left and right. Then you move a pen back and forth between them in order to run. I used to do that on Internation Track and Field for ps1, and it worked real great for setting world records. Haven't tried that yet though, but can't see any reason that it shouldn't work.
It would have been hard to put any official arcade conversions like Track or Field on the system without having to pay an arm and a leg just to get the rights to the game.
to be honest, it's not a good selection. almost all the masterpieces are missing. Instead, your video is very good and your chart is perfect, as usual.
The console itself is brilliant, the look and feel are spot on and the space bar even sounds so familiar that it takes me back to 1984. BUT I've had to repair my joystick twice already after 2 months. I don't think that it's flimsy but you have to push so hard because it's not very responsive. Also, it just isn't good for games where you need fine movements.
@@oldstylegaming I agree but we have limited space at the moment, my wife makes me put this away when I finish playing so a set up with disk drives etc would end in divorce 😕
Mail Order Monsters was one of the best games of its time on any platform. (A C=64 game not in this list) Had character progression that you could save between matches almost a decade before any other game did.
They never had the rights to the game. They could only legally put games on the system that CLOANTO (and Llamasoft) owned the rights to since they had deads with both companies. Putting games on there from EA and Activision would have cost them an arm and a leg to get the rights and then jacked up the price of the system. Besides you can put any game on there via USB anyway Still beats that shit known as the PS Classic, LOL
Im all for these mini re-releases NES/SNES etc etc but this is one I will probably give a miss the library is one word "crap" to put it bluntly I had an original C64 back in the day and out of this game library I had 2 of them so sad that a great machine isn't being given the sort of prestige it's due. On other matters another great video OSG keep them coming.
They never had the rights to the game. They could only legally put games on the system that CLOANTO (and Llamasoft) owned the rights to since they had deals with both companies. Putting games on there from EA and Activision would have cost them an arm and a leg to get the rights and then jacked up the price of the system. Besides you can put any game on there via USB anyway
They never had the rights to the game. They could only legally put games on the system that CLOANTO (and Llamasoft) owned the rights to since they had deals with both companies. Putting games on there from EA and Activision would have cost them an arm and a leg to get the rights and then jacked up the price of the system. Besides you can put any game on there via USB anyway Still beats that shit console that Sony released last year
Personally I think Gridrunner for the VIC 20 doesn't deserve to be second last, it's far more playable that around a third of those C64 games. I've played both systems and have no bias. On the other hand I've no idea why Psychedelia was even included. I now have a lot of what I consider my best VIC games running on TheC64, it's also a very good platform for VIC games.
It doesnt really matter, what games they put on the maxi, for me. But i know that if and when i get one, i wont put a lawn-mower game from 1983 on it. Or any spectrum ports, for that matter. "Maniac Mansion", "Zak McKracken", "Pirates!", "Ultima IV & V", i find missing on your list. And these days, if you are running "Summer Games II" there really isnt any good reason not to throw "Summer Games I" in there, too, since these two were combinable (you can play "Summer Games I" events in "Summer Games II", if you "own" the former). Also there is a couple of games that i found interesting back in the day, and which were also tachnically impressive, but which i wouldnt touch these days ("Destroyer" comes to mind). And then there´s "Kaiser" - has anybody ever found a version for the c64, that didnt crash when anyone starts the 3rd war in the game (come to think of it, maybe that was intentional, since it´s german and it was the 80´s, after all? - jk - i actually think it was a memory issue)?
This summer games 2 has the summer games events in...sorry I should have stipulated that... Destroyer is one I'd never played before but since last week have spent a lot of time on...it's a proper adults game as it's a slow burner but it's a really good game one you work out how to do stuff
personally i would rather get an actual Commodore 64 than get a plug and play which chooses my games for me, even if it was before my time, it was the gaming computer before the Apple II became the gaming PC of that era. and because of that, there are no doubt countless good games for it, including The Transformers, way better than that NES game the Angry Video Game Nerd drank hot sauce in order to beat.
you can put any game on the system via USB. Plus they never had the rights to the game. Besides there is a new app coming out which allows you to put games directly on the carousel vintageisthenewold.com/thec64-and-mini-ability-to-add-games-to-carousel-coming-soon/
The graphics in Bear Bovver look really poor compared to the Spectrum version. Although I like a lot of Odin's games, like Heartland and Nodes of Yesod, there's too many of their games on this system. Can't beat a bit of Who Dares Wins 2. And I didn't even know Speedball 2 got a release on the C64!
I don't know. At least the bears in the C64 version actually look like well...bears The Spectrum version the "bears" look like lego men www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/87023-bear-bovver-zx-spectrum-screenshot-if-you-get-the-enemies-to.png
There are some real classics on here but I am like you, I think there are some very noticeable omissions and some games on here that really shouldnt be. Licencing might be a big part of that but some games made the C64 what it was and to not include them really does devalue the package. I wouldnt argue too much with your placement of the titles apart from having Ranarama and Deflektor a bit higher
I cannot wait until that new app comes out. Someone's developing an app which allows you to put games on the carousel without having to mod the system (for both theC64 and the mini) vintageisthenewold.com/thec64-and-mini-ability-to-add-games-to-carousel-coming-soon/
They probably did deals with Hewson, Gremlin, Epyx etc for these games, and bought the cheap one's, which is why quality isn't good. It's not like they could use pirate copies!
They never had the rights to the game. They could only legally put games on the system that CLOANTO (and Llamasoft) owned the rights to since they had deads with both companies. Putting games on there from EA and Activision would have cost them an arm and a leg to get the rights and then jacked up the price of the system. Besides you can put any game on there via USB anyway
Yeah I have to agree when it comes to c64 and Amiga being in Europe (the uk) was better as far as games went. Other systems though like the mega drive (genesis) etc. Had some great American releases that we never got over here so it's swings and roundabouts really though
Well the order of greatness is relativ. I think there are much better games available which deserve the word greatness instead of most ones in this video.
cyberdyne srite looks an awful lot like turrican!!!!! mind you most of the sprites especially the shooters all look the same like out of delta and armalyte ect...
Is it just me, or those "in order of..." lists are completely random with some absolute garbage in top 10? All those winter games bollocks were uncontrollable mess, nobody has ever managed to land on the skis. Grid Runner the greatest game of them all? Really?
Tvoj ukus za kvalitet igrice je za duboku analizu stručnjaka. Težak si teča! (ovaj izraz je južnjački sleng i gugltrnslejt će ti teško to prevesti) . Morao sam da ti bacim hejt. 🕹️
dude where's revs, red storm rising, apache gunship, alter ego, they stole a million. airborn ranger, f19 project stealth fighter, .paradroid, way of the exploding fist, spy vs spy, elite. Archon i,II...the sentinal, mercenary.??..least speedball 2 is there.......p...................way too much arcade bs ..tbh
Winter games frustrated me so much as a child. Never ever could figure-out how to play the figure skating part.
Basically whatever buttons you press you fall over 🤣
Modern replicas of retro machines are mainly a novelty. They are mostly heavily priced raspberry pi´s . The only thing that matters for me are the quality and fidelity of the controllers and to hack the the system to add more games or change the emulators of the system (sometimes they are bundled whit pretty bad emulators). Love the 8 bit machines of that era. And also love the modern games for those machines(specially c64 and zx spectrum) .i believe we are now in the golden age of games for those systems
defo mate real systems are best as everything else is just emulation..but yeah there are some great modern games for these 8 bits being released now
I'd say this is definitely one of the best ways to play C64 and VIC 20 roms though.
The emulators graphics and sound are pretty spot on, the joystick feels authentic to the era, and the full sized 'clickie' keyboards gives a good impression of the original hardware (Yes, I still have the original hardware as well) and I have to say I'm impressed with this emulator way more than any other I've seen so far.
Why bother about the on-board games list when you can easily play the ROMs you want to from a memory stick.
Personal top three: Skate or die, IK+, Ghost and Goblins.
Battle Valley would have been an awesome game if not for the God awful INSANE difficulty/frustration level. That Jeroen Tel music though...CLASS
However, it WAS one of Hewson's BUDGET games on their Rack-It label, and as a budget game it's not that bad, but once again: INSANELY difficult
I really like battle valley once you got used to it :)
OMG! I am writing a new version of Adventure 'A' Planet of Death :-D
Is currently under review for the GCP; so glad to see someone else enjoyed it.
@oldstylegaming If you would like to try a new version of Adventure 'A' Planet of Death for Google Assistant; you can play the game entirely with your voice providing commands by saying:
'Talk to Planet of Death'
Would be really keen to know how you go as someone who has played the original :-)
It will run on Google Home, an Android phone or an iPhone with Google Assistant installed.
I like it better when you talk about the games, especially since I never had a C64 and I'm not familiar with a lot of these games.
I know but I needed to get this out quick while it was current...I actually had to re record the intro voice over twice as it was planned for Christmas eve....then Christmas day.....then because getting footage (mainly down to the fact I started playing destroyer) took so long it ended up being boxing day lol...also it's a nightmare getting anything done with 3 excited kids running around
Bounder was a fave play back in't day. Great to see it again!
I really do wish that there was a better line up of games here. All of the Thalamus games from the C64 Mini were removed for the full size C64, which is a shame! Armalyte is a must have game imo and Creatures is good fun, even though I haven't played much of it. A lot of the games on here are just Spectrum ports and games that really have no right being here, like all of the weird budget games. It's cool that a homebrew game like Galencia was included, but having only one homebrew title that doesn't really show the C64's full capabilities is also kinda crap. I think the most glaring omissions here are games by System 3 and Rainbow Arts. I don't know if they just couldn't get the licensing to those games, but they should have at least tried to get a couple on here. Even though I personally don't like the games, Last Ninja is a must have for the C64.
couldnt have summed it up better myself...at least all you need is a datastick to play the good games on here though ;-)
@@oldstylegaming Very true. I'm glad they added USB support because without it, this thing would be practically useless lol. I may pick up a full size C64 at some point, since it has a working keyboard and supposedly a pretty good joystick. I might just wait for a price drop.
Yeah and I also miss Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken. Maybe licensing issue.
i would have one just to compare to my real one
Robin of the Woods, I could swear is an almost duplicate of a game that I cannot remember the name of. Was based in China, and you ran around collecting swords to throw at enemies, you dodged Giants trying to grab you to save a princess
I remember playing "treasure Island" for the spectrum and it was the same as well. You can only throw swords side ways.
Willow Pattern
@@ctbullett300 Yes Willow patern adventure by firebird i think
@@carlopepi YES!! Thank you it was driving me nuts that I couldn't remember
Stunt Car Racer, Last Ninja2, Giana Sisters, Turrican 2, Grand Prix Circuit, Summer Games, Winter Games, California Games, Skate or die, Streets Sport Basketball, Emlyn Hughes Int. Soccer, IK+, R-Type, Katakis, Tetris (music), Hattrick, Vermeer (german game), Maniac Mansion, Zak McCracken, Wings of Fury, To be on top, Rick Dangerous, Oil Imperium etc....
One word: WIZBALL
Merry X-Mas Mr. OSG.
Aaaah, good old memories. I remember playing Paradroid to the end. It was soooooo addictive.
Thanks. :-)))
Merry Xmas mate ..yeah paradroid was a quality game that was well worth it's money ;-)
I adored Paradroid
AlleyKat was great! I forgot about that one, oh and Mega Apocalypse. :) I probably spent the most time on: Wizball (still one of the most original games ever imo), Head Over Heels, Platoon, Winter/World Games and the impossibly hard Ghosts and Goblins! Long Live the C64, best music EVER! Thks for the memories.
Ah that Cybernoid 2 tune still rocks..
I like cybernoid one tune better though
There is also a bike race game, but you are flying with balloons attached to your bike. When you hit something you lose a ballo on. Its awesome.
That Bear Bovver games music would have me psychotic in 5 min tops.
I loved Street Sports Baseball as a kid. Mine was a second hand copy (I had no concept of piracy, lol) and had me kind of glitch where after a couple innings the sound would be replaced with pure static. That would last several innings but it would go back to normal before the end. I just dealt with it because the game was solid.
Street Sports Basketball - The dude with the glasses was an awesome long thrower! 20:35
and I have seen the conversions of Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands too, amazing feats for humble C64
Some terrific games here. Great to see Paradroid so high up on the list: that was a masterpiece. So sad what was done to the 16-bit versions.
I just wish that they’d also included a Plus/4 mode. That was my first computer back at Christmas 1985.
Yeah would have been nice
C128 mode would have been great too. That way I can play the better version of Elite. LOL
My commiserations. The only good thing my parents bought us as kids was a C64, otherwise we always got cheapo or second hand versions of what the other kids were getting.
It is kind of sad thinking retrospectively, that I played or at least tried almost 50% of these games during my childhood, yet only 2 of them were actually bought. Every guy had shelf loads of piracy copies in cassettes back then.
Only ones that were originally bought, were California Games and Streets Sport Baseball.
Oh and the best game of the list is Boulder Dash.
Anyway, it's always nice to receive nostalgia moments from videos like these :)
PS: I remember having a same problem throwing grenades in Who Dares Wins II as does the player in this video. Way too often was I accidentally throwing 2 grenades instead of just one :D
Is it seems to me that the C64 is your favorite system. Am I right? If not, which one do you prefer? Amiga 500? Atari ST?
Thanks for the video, bye o/
well i was brought up with commodores so i like them all lol... so for 8 bit its C64, 16 Bit its Amiga but i have a whole range of systems ranging from Atari 2600, through to Ps4 and i love them all...but the retro systems are my favourite
@@oldstylegaming Thanks for the answer.
You, Sir, are a very important Commodore (64, Amiga, etc) source on the RUclips. Thanks for your videos.
I really love how C64 made sound. When you hear, you know that it is C64. Very clever Commodore audio engenering !!
Gribby's day out was awesome - Hewson were the best software house for both Spec and CMB64
The reason is simple...
They only had the legal rights to the games that CLOANTO currently own the copyright to (aside from the few Llamsoft games which they got permission from Jeff from) If they wanted to put anything on like say the Last Ninja games they would have to pay an arm a and a leg just to get the rights, which in the end would have jacked up the price of the system. The System 3 C64 games are currently owned by Activision, and I doubt they would have gotten permission for those unless they paid a substantial amount of money just to get the rights.
So they have decided to just let us break the law now by giving us usb support lol
47. - Now I see what was the inspiration for NES's famous Battle City! :) (Anarchy)
Actually Battle City was based on an old arcade game called Tank Force
@@ACanOfBakedBeans Officially?
KiR-3d
Yes, in fact they were both made the NAMCO
@@ACanOfBakedBeans Was Tank Force made before Anarchy?
TOTALLY forgot about llamasoft..
How could I???
Then watching through the list.
Thankyou, brings back other memories from the time.
There was a game sort of like chess with magical animals etc, think it began with A , what was it?
@old style gaming ...it started annoying me once I part remembered.....
Archon, if you're interested!?
It was fun to see alley cat again. I had totally forgotten it. I played it a lot. When I got my c64 I played horribly looking games like wizard of war, shamus case 2 and arcade versions like frogger. The first "real" game I played that really had any resemblance to what the c64 was capable of was alley cat. I just couldn't believe how good the graphics were.
Yeah the c64 was great ..oh still is sorry. Some new games like Sam's journey and even mayhem in monterland showed how much they could push the system ...you have a nice Xmas? Is your arcade fixed yet? I've been playing a real blast from the past today on mine that I had completely forgot about ...thundercade ...it's like If commando had a motorbike lol
@@oldstylegaming X-mas was great. I spent it with my old friend Jacob back from my early school days and his family. It was a very lovely evening. My arcade is yet to be fixed. Not because of shortage of spare parts! I have them all. Not because of shortage of time either. It's only because of my lazyness :) My future self would love to come home to a loud noisy cabinet. My present self is just way too busy having fun spending time with his female friends.
@@JonasRosenven id do it for ya if you lived closer :-(
When licensing old games on systems like the Commodore C64, the issue is often who is the IP owner? Also, do you include fewer games that may be more expensive to license or not? With way over 5,000 games released for it, this was always going to be tough to get right.
If you're into RPG or simulation games, all you have is Destroyer. No Gunship, Silent Service, etc. The problem is most British 8-bit RUclipsrs didn't have a disk drive as a kid, so they played tape based arcade game mostly. 15% of UK C64er's had a 1541, and 90% of U.S. C64'ers had 1541's, yet disk based C64 gaming gets incredibly little coverage. Because in the UK, these were multi-load tape versions that gamers found frustrating.
I didnt pick this list... its the list of games that came packaged with the "TheC64" console mate.... i know Gunship etc well so banding the most British RUclipsrs thing about in my direction aint really right as i cover way more stuff than any other c64 channel from unreleased games to games that were released in different regions etc.
Game licence is the problem here. I believe retro had problems and had to drop thalamus but to be honest the usb add games makes this a non point to mention now you can add any. Even the games installed around 50 of them have been reviewed by zzapp 64 and garnered an average of 80% so I'm happy with this really :-)
So they just leaving it up to us to break the law now lol
@@oldstylegaming as its always been :-)
vintageisthenewold.com/thec64-and-mini-ability-to-add-games-to-carousel-coming-soon/
Very awesome! Great list good buddy! I know very little C64 games. I've really only played The Great Giana Sisters but I love it. Thanks for another great video sir!
Happy Xmas Bryan ...by the way I've sent you a message on Facebook...if you get the chance can you take a look at it
@@oldstylegaming I can't seem to find it. Send me another message maybe.
@@BryanTrustyChannel well it was just about what emulator you use to stream megadrive (genesis) cos I was trying to set up for a Xmas memories stream but can't get streamlabs to see fusion or gens
Besides being a clear Galaga ripoff, Galencia had some really nice looking explosions! By far the best I've seen on a c64.
Street Sports Baseball > Street Sports Basketball
I agree, but Street Sports Soccer was the worst of the bunch. Should have went with Street Sports Football instead
That Robin of the Woods i thought was good with graphic style and music, but i did not get a hang of it as a child.
It's Robin of the WOOD, not WOODS
@@scottbreon9448 Really?
www.mobygames.com/game/c64/robin-of-the-wood
Me neither
Trailblazer and Comsic is like Pc game Rainbow roads,that we play in 8th grade elementary school in 1998/9
lol on steel the main sprite is old bob's brother from disney's the black hole 1977 :D
Used to play lots on Who Dares Wins 2 and Pitstop 2 :) Think atleast 1 of my favorite c64 games could have deserved to be on your list. It's Track and Field and is a game that I really recommend for anyone who haven't tried it. It were my favorite sports game and it supported to players, which were real fun:) On that game you had to move your joystick from left to run, which ruined joysticks over time. Think Track and Field might be even better today. Today you can use gamepads instead of joystick on emulators, and set 2 buttons close to each other to left and right. Then you move a pen back and forth between them in order to run. I used to do that on Internation Track and Field for ps1, and it worked real great for setting world records. Haven't tried that yet though, but can't see any reason that it shouldn't work.
This isn't my list ...this is a rundown of the games that come preloaded in TheC64 console
It would have been hard to put any official arcade conversions like Track or Field on the system without having to pay an arm and a leg just to get the rights to the game.
to be honest, it's not a good selection. almost all the masterpieces are missing.
Instead, your video is very good and your chart is perfect, as usual.
The console itself is brilliant, the look and feel are spot on and the space bar even sounds so familiar that it takes me back to 1984. BUT I've had to repair my joystick twice already after 2 months. I don't think that it's flimsy but you have to push so hard because it's not very responsive. Also, it just isn't good for games where you need fine movements.
Better off with the real thing mate
@@oldstylegaming I agree but we have limited space at the moment, my wife makes me put this away when I finish playing so a set up with disk drives etc would end in divorce 😕
Mail Order Monsters was one of the best games of its time on any platform. (A C=64 game not in this list) Had character progression that you could save between matches almost a decade before any other game did.
They never had the rights to the game. They could only legally put games on the system that CLOANTO (and Llamasoft) owned the rights to since they had deads with both companies. Putting games on there from EA and Activision would have cost them an arm and a leg to get the rights and then jacked up the price of the system. Besides you can put any game on there via USB anyway
Still beats that shit known as the PS Classic, LOL
Nice selection, however no Fort Apocalypse is beyond my comprehension. caber tossing in World Games is amazing!
Epyx really cornered the sports market on the c64 and all their sports games were great
I LOVED Alleykat @ 12:17!!
Im all for these mini re-releases NES/SNES etc etc but this is one I will probably give a miss the library is one word "crap" to put it bluntly I had an original C64 back in the day and out of this game library I had 2 of them so sad that a great machine isn't being given the sort of prestige it's due. On other matters another great video OSG keep them coming.
Can I try guess the games.... Winter games and impossible mission by any chance?...or maybe uridium
@@oldstylegaming Uridium and Winter Games lolz but I agree with your thoughts about the library not showcasing what a great system this was.
They never had the rights to the game. They could only legally put games
on the system that CLOANTO (and Llamasoft) owned the rights to since
they had deals with both companies. Putting games on there from EA and
Activision would have cost them an arm and a leg to get the rights and
then jacked up the price of the system. Besides you can put any game on
there via USB anyway
the robot in the game steel is v.i.n.c.e.n.t from disney's the black hole :D
Yikes, if Winter Games is number one it says alot about the rest of them.
Winter games is one of the best games ever on the c64
They never had the rights to the game. They could only legally put games
on the system that CLOANTO (and Llamasoft) owned the rights to since
they had deals with both companies. Putting games on there from EA and
Activision would have cost them an arm and a leg to get the rights and
then jacked up the price of the system. Besides you can put any game on
there via USB anyway
Still beats that shit console that Sony released last year
Armalyte, Bruce Lee, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Commando?
Would the games selected to be used on the system be limited because of copyright reasons?
Yeah think so mate
Crazy golf was one of mine
it looks like they chose games with no trademark or were very cheap
Mostly hewson and lamasoft I think
Hewson, Llamasoft and Epyx mostly
Personally I think Gridrunner for the VIC 20 doesn't deserve to be second last, it's far more playable that around a third of those C64 games. I've played both systems and have no bias. On the other hand I've no idea why Psychedelia was even included.
I now have a lot of what I consider my best VIC games running on TheC64, it's also a very good platform for VIC games.
No sorry they aren't 2nd last they are just there at the end as they aren't c64 games ...I think that game is great
these are just the games because the software was provided by only a few developers : gremlin, odin, hewson
Almost all the best and the classics are missing. They can be added ?
Yeah it has usb support so you can load then through there
It doesnt really matter, what games they put on the maxi, for me. But i know that if and when i get one, i wont put a lawn-mower game from 1983 on it. Or any spectrum ports, for that matter. "Maniac Mansion", "Zak McKracken", "Pirates!", "Ultima IV & V", i find missing on your list. And these days, if you are running "Summer Games II" there really isnt any good reason not to throw "Summer Games I" in there, too, since these two were combinable (you can play "Summer Games I" events in "Summer Games II", if you "own" the former). Also there is a couple of games that i found interesting back in the day, and which were also tachnically impressive, but which i wouldnt touch these days ("Destroyer" comes to mind). And then there´s "Kaiser" - has anybody ever found a version for the c64, that didnt crash when anyone starts the 3rd war in the game (come to think of it, maybe that was intentional, since it´s german and it was the 80´s, after all? - jk - i actually think it was a memory issue)?
This summer games 2 has the summer games events in...sorry I should have stipulated that... Destroyer is one I'd never played before but since last week have spent a lot of time on...it's a proper adults game as it's a slow burner but it's a really good game one you work out how to do stuff
Totally agree. 👌
Belated Merry Xmass, dude. 🎆
You too mate
I played california games on NES,great game without suring and skatboard.
Those are my 2 favourite events lol ...I hate the hacky sack
personally i would rather get an actual Commodore 64 than get a plug and play which chooses my games for me, even if it was before my time, it was the gaming computer before the Apple II became the gaming PC of that era.
and because of that, there are no doubt countless good games for it, including The Transformers, way better than that NES game the Angry Video Game Nerd drank hot sauce in order to beat.
Apple II is much older computer and never had any chance to challenge Commodore 64 as a gaming platform.
Nice I enjoyed watching the video
No Flimbo's Quest, no sale!
you can put any game on the system via USB. Plus they never had the rights to the game.
Besides there is a new app coming out which allows you to put games directly on the carousel
vintageisthenewold.com/thec64-and-mini-ability-to-add-games-to-carousel-coming-soon/
classics
Winter games is the best. Pooyan is great.
The graphics in Bear Bovver look really poor compared to the Spectrum version. Although I like a lot of Odin's games, like Heartland and Nodes of Yesod, there's too many of their games on this system. Can't beat a bit of Who Dares Wins 2. And I didn't even know Speedball 2 got a release on the C64!
I don't know. At least the bears in the C64 version actually look like well...bears
The Spectrum version the "bears" look like lego men
www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/87023-bear-bovver-zx-spectrum-screenshot-if-you-get-the-enemies-to.png
There are some real classics on here but I am like you, I think there are some very noticeable omissions and some games on here that really shouldnt be. Licencing might be a big part of that but some games made the C64 what it was and to not include them really does devalue the package. I wouldnt argue too much with your placement of the titles apart from having Ranarama and Deflektor a bit higher
I cannot wait until that new app comes out. Someone's developing an app which allows you to put games on the carousel without having to mod the system (for both theC64 and the mini)
vintageisthenewold.com/thec64-and-mini-ability-to-add-games-to-carousel-coming-soon/
Battle valley!
So many releases from Hewson.
They probably did deals with Hewson, Gremlin, Epyx etc for these games, and bought the cheap one's, which is why quality isn't good. It's not like they could use pirate copies!
Epyx topping the lists here I see, probably cos they had art skills better than a 12 year old
Air borne ranger should have been on the top
They never had the rights to the game. They could only legally put games
on the system that CLOANTO (and Llamasoft) owned the rights to since
they had deads with both companies. Putting games on there from EA and
Activision would have cost them an arm and a leg to get the rights and
then jacked up the price of the system. Besides you can put any game on
there via USB anyway
The selection of the games and the missing keyboard were clearly the reason why the "the64" head such a bad success
You can tell you didn't grow up in America in the 80's. Not that it's a bad thing.
Yeah I have to agree when it comes to c64 and Amiga being in Europe (the uk) was better as far as games went. Other systems though like the mega drive (genesis) etc. Had some great American releases that we never got over here so it's swings and roundabouts really though
@@oldstylegaming I America had better c64 games but Europe had better Amiga games in my opinion.
Was that you who phoned the coppers pretending to be the Yorkshire ripper pal?
No hes dead
@@oldstylegaming Class vid though 👌
@@Plato76... he lived near me though, i think im starting to lose that reading from a script tone now in my newer videos...well i hope i am
@@oldstylegaming Was only joking pal want me to remove it? Love that vid. Do one about hungry horace trilogy
@@Plato76... nah mate i make that joke myself all the time mate haha
Well the order of greatness is relativ. I think there are much better games available which deserve the word greatness instead of most ones in this video.
Yeah and they are in my 30 best c64 games ever video
Sup yo!
Paradroid
no chuckie egg 2 , no antirad !! no ghost n goblins . nope .....
No there are loads of good games missing tbh
@@oldstylegaming i like your channel regardeless ..
@@Hellastreet700 Haha I never picked these games lol....they are the games that come loaded on TheC64 console
@@oldstylegamingwow , don't think id be buying one of them anytime soon..
cyberdyne srite looks an awful lot like turrican!!!!! mind you most of the sprites especially the shooters all look the same like out of delta and armalyte ect...
Well Armalyte was a DIRECT sequel to Delta, so it was only natural that the ship would look the same
show the c64 version
????
What the fuck are you talking about? SMH
it is the C64 version, dumbass
...greatness? XD
Well in order of ok'ness then ....
Is it just me, or those "in order of..." lists are completely random with some absolute garbage in top 10? All those winter games bollocks were uncontrollable mess, nobody has ever managed to land on the skis. Grid Runner the greatest game of them all? Really?
These are games that came with the system.... i never picked the games
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dude where's revs, red storm rising, apache gunship, alter ego, they stole a million. airborn ranger, f19 project stealth fighter, .paradroid, way of the exploding fist, spy vs spy, elite. Archon i,II...the sentinal, mercenary.??..least speedball 2 is there.......p...................way too much arcade bs ..tbh
Erm.... This isn't my list mate this is a list of games that come pre loaded on TheC64
and Paradroid is actually in there...