OMG Jeroen cant believe you have commented on this...this is my 2nd channel and i dont even use it however on my proper channel i have Hawkeye in other videos (mostly down to the sound track and you defo get a mention as its a class soundtrack)
@@flexmaen Sure... And Flimbo's Quest. And Rick Dangerous I & II. And Airborne Ranger. And Count down to Meltdown... And more recent Sam's Journey... Too many great games :P
This is awesome video! Thank you for your decision to spend hours and hours to make this for Commodore fans and of course to other people too. I bow to you, this means a lot and brings so many memories to a lot of people, two years ago to this day and in the future. Thank you.
What an awesome variety here and some of the graphics and sounds still stand up (as art). The great thing is there were some many classic games then that people would still complain about leaving some out if you had 200 here!
Wow, so many games. I remember playing Summer Games, Winter Games, Impossible Mission (awesome), Prince of Persia, Zork, Qix and the very basic soccer and baseball games. Some great music in this video.
Another great video OSG just a minor note though Sid Meyers "Pirates" was awesome it's sort of the reason I keep a very old but fully working PC next to my gaming rig specs are (AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 400Mhz FSB 3GB of PC3200 RAM with a AGP G-force VGA Card) it runs Windows XP Home x86 and all this just so I can still play Port Royale if you loved Pirates then this is the game for you it spawned 2 sequels PRII and PRIII but this one is clearly the best.
Great list, man. These are such great nostalgia trips for an aging nerd :) For me, Ultimas (III, IV, V), Raid on Bungeling Bay, Laser Squad, Lords of Chaos and Red Storm Rising would've been close to the top.
Bro, we aren't aging anymore, we're old. But really great list, Scarabaeus is definitely missing and Jeopardy was good too. Mission Impossible was ahead of its time.
Great list. I loved Space Taxi and played every single level. California Games rocked. The kung fu games. So great. Oh yes and Uridium was so amazing at the time. Goonies was also great and should be on a future list, one of the first co-op games. There used to be a store that rented out games for the C-64, oh the good ol days.
Thanks for taking time to make all these great videos!!! There are a lot of action/arcade type of games in this list... I like playing those from time to time, but I tend to get easily bored with those. And a lot of awesome games in your list were released after I stopped using my C64 and moved to the Amiga 500 around 1988. Bard'sTale was OK, but I actually finished both Ultima 3 and 4. They are much better in my opinion, and at least one of them should be in the C64 top 25. I really enjoyed playing Below the Root. It was not very popular, but the story and game play were magical to me as a teen. My friend and I also loved Colonial Conquest... a great Risk style game. I was happy to see some of my all-time favorites make your list: Archon, Mr Do, Boulder Dash, Space Taxi, Little Computer People, 7 Cities of Gold, Pirates, Summer & Winter Games, Defender of the Crown, Impossible Mission, Elite, Stunt Car Racer and most importantly... M.U.L.E.!! Best wishes to you and all your subscribers. :)
Definitely captures a lot of the best. I'd add Spy vs Spy Mario Bros (activision) Enigma Force Eagle's Nest Airborne Ranger Test Drive Last V8 You've probably since included all of those, I've just missed those videos.
Interesting list! I would add: Lightforce, Blue Max, Buggy Boy, Saboteur I & II, Match Day II, The Goonies, Hostages....oh, and Green Beret! Honestly how could you miss that one?
Awesome list!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Loved Little Computer People back in the day. Played it for hours lol. So sad!!! World Games was cool but I was SO happy to see Space taxi!!! No one ever includes it in lists. I stopped using after 1987 or so which I why I probably only recognize half. You definitely have to include Chop Lifter and Spy vs Spy next time. All time faves!!
Pirates!, BCS River Raid, Blue Max, Moonbuggy, Buggy Boy (great!), Robin of The Wood, Endless, Mr. Robot, Soccer, Frogger, To be on Top, Aztec Challenge (?), Simpsons, Snoopy (biggest player character ever lol)... I guess those were my favorites + of course several ones from this video.
I would've added Racing Destruction Set, Face Off! and Champions of Krynn on this list. Other than that, I am glad you put Pirates at #2. Great list, thanks for the memories.
I agree with most of those games, however Mayehm In Monsterland had great graphics and scrolling, but I always found the gameplay somewhat in the meh department, and I'm not familiar with Microdot...i might have to check that one out. Both Creatures games were class.
Great List. I'd add Ghost n Goblins, RushNAttach, any Ultima games, Hardball, Mail Order Monsters, Psi 5 Trading Co., Moebius The Orb of Celestial Harmony, Paperboy, the list goes on. So many good games and memories!
Played a great many of these back then on my older brother's C128. Those were good times for video games. And, good god, the SID chip! Still an iconic sound with all that phenomenal music.
This should be titled my 75 favorite C64 games. You have some good ones here (all the Epyx titles, Impossible Mission, Lode Runner, etc) and fun flashback to see games I haven’t seen in 35 years but any list has to include Raid on Bungeling Bay, Ghostbusters, and Choplifter, which were all excellent and popular.
Project Firestart was my favorite game. All the summer / winter / california games, skate or die, goonies, conan, bruce lee, pool of radiance...aaaaah ! green beret, rambo, racing construction set, ghostbusters.
Great list! Lots of my old favourites are on this list and that's good enough for me! The order doesn't really matter much although it irks me that you didn't place Wasteland slightly higher (my fave) :P
It's interesting looking back and remembering so many I'd forgotten. I did notice most I had were NOT clones of the classic console games like side scrollers and platformers though. I hoped Legacy of the Ancients and Marble Madness made the list but then - so many games . . . .
great list! it brought back a lot of great memories! I have one suggestion for the list: HARDBALL! the original game. Probably the best baseball game of that era, IMO. Also, do you remember Snokie? Man that game pissed me off. haha
Fort Apocalypse gave me so many hours of frustration. I just couldn't stop playing. I could never even figure out Impossible Mission. Archon was for-real next-level chess at the time. So awesome to see these old games!
Archon was one of my favourite games. It’s a hard call to put archon 1 ahead of archon 2. What was your best game out of those? It was video gaming chess. Whom ever thought up the games were a genius. Cheers Brent
Your list is mostly valid. Cauldron II could be on it and Mr. Robot. Maybe They Stole A Million. Beach Head 2 comes to mind and Barbarian. Strangeloop anyone? Druid wasn’t too bad as well as Ghosts n Goblins. But otherwise, very good! A lot of gems on it like The Train. Well done!
Yeah I hadn't seen The Train before this video, and it's pretty amazing how great the graphics were for that one. It's striking just how extreme the differences in graphics were on C64, from games that were very Atari-esque (Wizard of Wor) to games like Pit Stop II and The Train where they really pushed the limit of realism at the time. I don't know of any other system where the difference between worst and best graphics was that extreme.
My Favs were California Games,Summer & Winter Games, Barbarian, Archon, Skate or die , Bruce Lee, Defender of the crown, Impossible Mission and the Lucasarts Adventures . All time Classic and childhood memories.
Will, apriciate a lot, but some games I would see here, for example Wonder boy, Rick Dangerous, Decathlon, River Raid, Montezuma Revenge and some arcade, don't remember the titles but I was playing :-)
Last ninja 2 was the best. I would have included The Great Escape, Hunchback, Lazy Jones, Samurai Warrior, Acrojet, 1985, Meganova, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Green Beret, Cobra, Dambusters, Dragon's Layer, Navy Moves, Persian Gulf Inferno, Montezuma's Revenge, California Games, Hypersports, Choplifter, Scramble...
Good list and more importantly very entertaining video. Id change places in several titles and add jumpman, gilligans gold, park patrol, kokotoni wolf, ghost n goblins, matchday , one on one, and a few others, but uts your list and not mine so good job
Heart of Africa was no slouch. Learned a RIDICULOUS amount of physical geography from that. A few others: Spy vs. Spy, Red Storm Rising, Test Drive 2, F-14 Tomcat.
I really enjoyed: - Fiendish Freddy - Bionic Commando - Most Code Masters games - Rubicon - Gaplus - Test drive - Who dares wins - Rick Dangerous - Ghosts Busters - Wings of fury - Saboteur - Street surfer - Ikari warriors - California games - Shadow of the beast - Turbo outurn - Wonderboy
Oh god, i played 90% of those games. Summer, Winter, World , California Games... like a mad man. You could with ease put Western Games, Ace of Aces, To be on Top, Danger Freak, Green Beret and Card Sharks on that list. Also don't forget about VERMEER or Oil Imperium, Airline and Qbert.In Germany we had Hanse, Kaiser and Die Fugger (i don't know if those games were ever released in English)
A friend of mine had the C64 and we had the apple iie with 16 color lol. His games like Beach head, aliens and others were amazing for the time! Some fantastic gaming back in the mid to late 80s!
While not a particularly impressive series of clips, the list is very good and, barring a few that exist in my top 75 and not yours, you clearly have good taste!
Was hoping to see Red Storm Rising, Autoduel, or Test Drive. But very pleased to see Project:Firestart. Pool of Radiance, and the Last Ninja. But...what about the Blue Max? Mail Order Monsters? Fairlight? C64 had a lot of great games.
Pirates is 1 for me. It was years ahead of its time. And I can't tell you how many hours I put into Exploding Fist. How many times did you have to Load "xxxxx" ,8 ,1 to get all these lol?
You're missing Ikari Warriors, (Great, cross-country American) Road Race, River Ride (initially on Atari I guess), ACE, StrikeFleet (port from Amiga), Rick Dangerous 1/2, Treasure Island Dizzy, Who Dares Wins, Spy vs Spy 1/2/3, Super Pipeline, Montezumas Revenge and yea... I think, I could find few more from depths of my memory...
So many great games where on the C64! do miss some really nice ones in this list. Personal favorites not in the list: Blue Max, Turbo Outrun, Test drive , Green beret, Crackers revenge, Hunchback, Paperboy.
There is nothing wrong with your list except that it is not big enough. The C64 had so many awesome games it's hard to make a top list. I was glad to see quite a few on your list I was waiting for, but here are a few titles that you are missing in no particular order. You see? as im thinking of my list.. I can add dozens more.. So hard to make a list for C64.. So I'll limit it to 5! ;) Movie Monsters by Epyx 1986 Destroyer by Epyx 1986 The Railroad Works by MobyGames 1985 Strike Fleet by Lucasarts 1987 B.C.'s Quest for Tires by Sierra On-Line 1983 ok 1 more lol Jack Attack by Commodore International 1983
Good List, but here's a few that should be added: Below the Root (what a beautiful adventure game this is!) Castle Wolfenstein 1 and 2 Aztec by Datamost Aztec Challenge Dr. Creep Castle Archon Green Beret
So many good ones didnt make the list. Master of Magic, Spellbound, Iron Lord that comes to mind. Enigma Force C64 version was pretty earth shattering for me back then. Could complete it every time. It's OST rocks even today and remixes are absolute bangers.
nice list, don't fully agree with your number 1 though, and interesting to note how many different pre cursor versions of R-Type were made before R-Type came out
Good list, a few games I'd added: River Raid, Jumpman, ikari warriors, green beret, One On One, gumshoe,. Gilligan's Gold, Kokotoni Wilf, Rastan, match day 2, Killer Watt, Karateka
Bubble Bobble was the best. My best friend and I would have sleep overs at my place and just play that all night and cook steam dim sims for midnight snacks. Best times
I had no idea Infiltrator was on C64. I only knew of it's NES port. I remember trying it several times but I think I was too young to get how to play it.
Project firestart was such a suspensefull game, a monster pops up and I jump out of my skin, I played the heck out of that game,, it was scary and just like an aliens move,, great game. Scary as heck back then.
@@stalzemsty1669 so many old games of the period were impossibly hard, especially for 11 and 12 year olds. Track and Field I can't get past the 110m hurdles, the qualifying time is the same as the actual time in real life! Manic Miner I never got beyond about 5 or 6 screens without a cheat making you invincible, same for Jet Set Willy. Bruce Lee I did finish, sweaty hands on the screen where you jump across the electric shock floors, what reward do you get? He jumps up and down a few times then you start all over again.
@@stalzemsty1669 Exactly the same, I would say you must be my old friend but you would've known he's called Green Yamo, only we called him Green Minge for some reason. We used to have boxing only matches, no kicking, and stand by an exploding mine and punch the ninja back into one. So dumb! Loved Bruce Lee and Ace. Airborne Ranger another good game, very good gameplay with a keyboard overlay because there were so many keys to use. Ahead of its time!
Putting a top 75 Commodore game list is like asking to give the top 75 foods of the world, too many to choose from, too many different opinions, however I do like these lists as there are so many more games I haven't seen, the C64 is a legend!
Good selection. Of course 1000's more could be added. Project Firestart is one of the best ever made. The good thing is: You can play them ALL and more on an emulator NOW! C64 forever. Check Arnold's 64 Game Archive.
I mis a few gems. - Henry's house - track 'n field (hyperolympics in Europe) - wizard+ - nibly 64 (still fantastic, still have the moves to reach level 37 or more). - puzznic And I for sure miss a few..
What about pole position..Ghostbusters... kong fu master ..groggs revenge..paper boy some nice games but a strange list mind you some of your games shown were almost mega drive territory
Hell of a lot of stinkers on that list for my taste. Where was Ikari warriors, Mercenary,Starglider, Sacred Armour of Antitriad, Beach Head 1+2, Bungeling Bay, Super Zaxxon, Blue Max, Cauldron, Koronis Rift, Rescue on Fractalus and Action Biker, and Flash Gordon, to name a few?. Some nice classics in there though.
I've played 75, 74, 72, 66, 65, 64, 56, 47, 44, 42, 40, 39, 35, 33, 32, 28, 25, 22, 21, 16, 15, 14, 9, 6, and 5. Missed a lot of great games such as: Escape From the Castle of Dr Evil, Choplifter, Raid Over Bungling Bay, Saboteur, Green Beret, GI Joe, Rambo, Beach Head, and Silent Service, to name a few that I remember playing. Commodore 64/128 had a LOT of great games and I feel people don't give it the proper credit it is due. It helped move PC gaming and gaming in general to where it is now immensely.
Good coverage of mostly US companies, but what about the UK Cottage companies, such as Llamasoft. Any game written by Jeff Minter would easily made the top 10. From Gridrunner, Hovver Bovver, Attack of the Mutant Camels, to Sheep in Space, Llamatron, and beyond.
@@rtintera Hovver Bovver made me buy the C64 over the Vic20. It really showed off the graphic capability at that time, and the game was just addictive as hell but in a fun way, not a frustrating way.
I was a self proclaimed master of California Games BMX in the days. Tried it lately, also with the original joysticks. The game has aged much better than me.
What was the name of the game that was a bit of a variety game... like California Games... but it was gang themed... and one of the mini games you were throwing knives at each other across a chasm... one on one, and the knives would stick the the wall behind you when they missed... it might have been a C64 or Atari computer game. Can anyone help?
Head over heels, vampire, wonderboy, zamzara, Mask 3, barbarian 2, fist 2, duckula, Nemesis, dante's inferno, spherical, the curse of Sherwood, Robin of the wood etc etc
I had heaps of these games growing up. Hawkeye and Creatures 1 were my favourite all time games. I had a hacked version of Hawkeye so I had infinite ammo. I bet if I had Turrican, that would've definitely been up there as well.
1:10 75 - Krakout - Gremlin Graphics - 1987
1:42 74 - Raid over Moscow - Access Software - 1984
2:18 73 - Infiltrator - US Gold - 1986
2:49 72 - Yie Ar Kung-Fu - Imagine / Konami - 1986
3:22 71 - Hawkeye - Thalamus - 1988
3:54 70 - Uridium+ - Hewson - 1986
4:30 69 - David's midnight magic - Broderbund - 1983
5:02 68 - Paradroid - Hewson - 1985
5:37 67 - Tau Ceti - CRL - 1986
6:05 66 - Leaderboard - Access Software - 1986
6:40 65 - Lode Runner - Artis software - 1988
7:12 64 - Pitstop 2 - Epyx - 1984
7:47 63 - Mr. Do! - Datasoft - 1985
8:15 62 - California Games - Epyx - 1987
8:50 61 - Target Renegade - Imagine - 1988
9:25 60 - Hard n' Heavy - reLINE software - 1989
9:46 59 - Mafia - Iglesoft - 1986
10:18 58 - Creatures 2 - Thalamus - 1992
10:54 57 - Myth : History in the making - System 3 - 1989
11:27 56 - grand prix circuit - Accolade - 1988
11:59 55 - Rodland - Storm - 1991
12:29 54 - Pool of Radiance - SSI - 1988
13:01 53 - Project Firestart - Electronic Arts - 1989
13:36 52 - Caren and the tangled tentacles - Prior Art - 2015
14:10 51 - Microprose Soccer - MicroProse Software / Sensible Software - 1988
Cool to see Hawkeye in the list. I made the music for that game when I was 14/15 years old, within the Boys Without Brains. =)
Jeroen, you're a childhood hero of many a 40-year-old here with your soundtracks on the C64, especially for Stormlord and Cybernoid. :)
Thank you for all the cool music mr Tell.
The music is still so awesome. Thank you so much for all your great work.
Nice work, I enjoyed.
OMG Jeroen cant believe you have commented on this...this is my 2nd channel and i dont even use it however on my proper channel i have Hawkeye in other videos (mostly down to the sound track and you defo get a mention as its a class soundtrack)
28:20 25 - Summer Games 2 - Epyx - 1985
28:55 24 - Wizball - Mindscape - 1987
29:30 23 - the Bard's Tale - Electronic Arts - 1986
30:05 22 - Bubble Bobble - Firebird - 1987
30:41 21 - Commando - Elite - 1985
31:12 20 - Armalyte - Thalamus - 1988
31:47 19 - Neuromancer - Electronic Arts - 1988
32:18 18 - Train : Escape to Normandy - Accolade - 1988
32:53 17 - Mission Impossible - Epyx - 1984
33:28 16 - Boulder Dash - First Star - 1984
34:03 15 - Archon - Electronic Arts - 1983
34:39 14 - International karate - System 3 - 1986
35:08 13 - Summer games - Epyx - 1984
35:43 12 - IK+ - System 3 - 1987
36:14 11- Turrican - Rainbow Arts - 1990
36:49 10 - Katakis - Rainbow Arts - 1988
37:25 09 - Prince of Persia - Andreas Varga / Jordan Mechner - 2011
38:00 08 - Stunt Car Racer - MicroStyle - 1989
38:33 07 - Elite - Firebird - 1985
39:07 06 - Last Ninja 2 - System 3 - 1988
39:42 05 - Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders - Lucasfilm games - 1988
40:18 04 - Winter games - Epyx - 1985
40:53 03 - Maniac mansion - Lucasfilm games - 1987
41:29 02 - Pirates! - MicroProse Software - 1987
42:04 01 - Turrican 2 - Rainbow Arts - 1991
Impossible Mission... ;)
@@flexmaen Sure... And Flimbo's Quest. And Rick Dangerous I & II. And Airborne Ranger. And Count down to Meltdown... And more recent Sam's Journey... Too many great games :P
This is awesome video! Thank you for your decision to spend hours and hours to make this for Commodore fans and of course to other people too. I bow to you, this means a lot and brings so many memories to a lot of people, two years ago to this day and in the future. Thank you.
Nice video list of great games!
Some of my favorites that I played a lot are:
Leaderboard
grand prix circuit
Microprose Soccer
International karate
14:43 50 - Gunship - MicroProse Software - 1986
15:17 49 - Wizard of War- Commodore - 1983
15:54 48 - Seven Cities of Gold - Electronic Arts - 1984
16:22 47 - Rainbow islands - Ocean - 1990
16:57 46 - The Way of the exploding fist - Melbourne House - 1985
17:30 45 - Skate or Die - Electronic Arts - 1987
18:05 44 - The little computer people - Activision - 1985
18:37 43 - X-Out - Rainbow Arts - 1989
19:11 42 - Defender of the Crown - Cinemaware/ Mirrorsoft - 1987
19:46 41 - Robocop - Ocean - 1989
20:12 40 - The last ninja - System 3 - 1987
20:46 39 - World games - Epyx - 1986
21:15 38 - Dragon Wars - Electronic Arts - 1989
21:32 37 - Midnight Resistance - Ocean - 1990
22:02 36 - Alter Ego - Retro Souls - 2014
22:35 35 - Bruce Lee - Datasoft - 1984
23:10 34 - Fort Apocalypse - Synapse Sotware - 1982
23:44 33 - Space taxi - Muse Software - 1984
24:19 32 - Barbarian - Palace Software - 1988
24:52 31 - M.U.L.E - Electronic Arts - 1983
25:26 30 - The great Giana Sisters - Rainbow Arts - 1987
26:01 29 - Airborne Ranger - MicroProse Software - 1987
26:36 28 - Platoon - Ocean - 1988
27:12 27 - R-Type - Electric Dreams - 1987
27:45 26 - Wasteland - Electronic Arts - 1988
Nice list, thanks! Your video has sparked off some great memories. Paperboy, 720 degrees, Spyhunter are some faves
What an awesome variety here and some of the graphics and sounds still stand up (as art). The great thing is there were some many classic games then that people would still complain about leaving some out if you had 200 here!
Wow, so many games. I remember playing Summer Games, Winter Games, Impossible Mission (awesome), Prince of Persia, Zork, Qix and the very basic soccer and baseball games. Some great music in this video.
Can't believe my parents didn't kill me for playing Pitstop 2 on the living room TV for hours.
Amen! Loved that game, but damn the sound was so annoying. ;-)
Another great video OSG just a minor note though Sid Meyers "Pirates" was awesome it's sort of the reason I keep a very old but fully working PC next to my gaming rig specs are (AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 400Mhz FSB 3GB of PC3200 RAM with a AGP G-force VGA Card) it runs Windows XP Home x86 and all this just so I can still play Port Royale if you loved Pirates then this is the game for you it spawned 2 sequels PRII and PRIII but this one is clearly the best.
Great list, man. These are such great nostalgia trips for an aging nerd :)
For me, Ultimas (III, IV, V), Raid on Bungeling Bay, Laser Squad, Lords of Chaos and Red Storm Rising would've been close to the top.
Bro, we aren't aging anymore, we're old. But really great list, Scarabaeus is definitely missing and Jeopardy was good too. Mission Impossible was ahead of its time.
Lords of Chaos was a bit too complex for the C64, but the Atari/Amiga versions were amongst the best all time games for those systems.
Uridium was one of the first games with parallax scrolling on the c64 - a clever trick made this possible. Groundbreaking back then.
Great list. I loved Space Taxi and played every single level. California Games rocked. The kung fu games. So great. Oh yes and Uridium was so amazing at the time. Goonies was also great and should be on a future list, one of the first co-op games. There used to be a store that rented out games for the C-64, oh the good ol days.
Thanks for taking time to make all these great videos!!!
There are a lot of action/arcade type of games in this list... I like playing those from time to time, but I tend to get easily bored with those. And a lot of awesome games in your list were released after I stopped using my C64 and moved to the Amiga 500 around 1988.
Bard'sTale was OK, but I actually finished both Ultima 3 and 4. They are much better in my opinion, and at least one of them should be in the C64 top 25. I really enjoyed playing Below the Root. It was not very popular, but the story and game play were magical to me as a teen. My friend and I also loved Colonial Conquest... a great Risk style game. I was happy to see some of my all-time favorites make your list: Archon, Mr Do, Boulder Dash, Space Taxi, Little Computer People, 7 Cities of Gold, Pirates, Summer & Winter Games, Defender of the Crown, Impossible Mission, Elite, Stunt Car Racer and most importantly... M.U.L.E.!!
Best wishes to you and all your subscribers. :)
Definitely captures a lot of the best. I'd add
Spy vs Spy
Mario Bros (activision)
Enigma Force
Eagle's Nest
Airborne Ranger
Test Drive
Last V8
You've probably since included all of those, I've just missed those videos.
Interesting list! I would add: Lightforce, Blue Max, Buggy Boy, Saboteur I & II, Match Day II, The Goonies, Hostages....oh, and Green Beret! Honestly how could you miss that one?
They're only human, lol. But, yeah. When I saw 'Commando,' I was waiting for 'Green Beret' also.
Deffo Green Beret! I will also add Wonderboy, Ghosts and Goblins, and Bruce Lee.
@@leonskum.5682 Bruce Lee was in the video
Wahnsinn. Wo ist dein die Zeit hin verflogen. Ich kenne fast alle. Das weckt so schöne Erinnerungen.
Thanks for that compilation.
Awesome list!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Loved Little Computer People back in the day. Played it for hours lol. So sad!!! World Games was cool but I was SO happy to see Space taxi!!! No one ever includes it in lists. I stopped using after 1987 or so which I why I probably only recognize half. You definitely have to include Chop Lifter and Spy vs Spy next time. All time faves!!
Oh man, "Raid Over Moscow." So many teenage hours of my life gone from that game but kept me out of trouble.
Raid over bungling bay.
Awesome list and video. I would include Spelunker in my top 75 for sure.
Pirates!, BCS River Raid, Blue Max, Moonbuggy, Buggy Boy (great!), Robin of The Wood, Endless, Mr. Robot, Soccer, Frogger, To be on Top, Aztec Challenge (?), Simpsons, Snoopy (biggest player character ever lol)... I guess those were my favorites + of course several ones from this video.
You forgot BC's quest for fire
I would've added Racing Destruction Set, Face Off! and Champions of Krynn on this list. Other than that, I am glad you put Pirates at #2. Great list, thanks for the memories.
He's not much of an RPG fan
Yes. Racing Destruction Set. Amazing Music in the title screen too
No Mayhem in Monsterland ?
No Creatures 1
No Ghosts n’ Goblins ?
No Microdot ?
No Parallax ?
No Cauldron 2 ?
No Supremacy ?
No Hunter’s Moon ?
I agree with most of those games, however Mayehm In Monsterland had great graphics and scrolling, but I always found the gameplay somewhat in the meh department, and I'm not familiar with Microdot...i might have to check that one out. Both Creatures games were class.
No woman no cry?
Cauldron 2 was an uncontrollable non playable mess . and this guys list is limited to 75, not 83
@NightLife UK Is it obvious?
Great List. I'd add Ghost n Goblins, RushNAttach, any Ultima games, Hardball, Mail Order Monsters, Psi 5 Trading Co., Moebius The Orb of Celestial Harmony, Paperboy, the list goes on. So many good games and memories!
Played a great many of these back then on my older brother's C128. Those were good times for video games. And, good god, the SID chip! Still an iconic sound with all that phenomenal music.
Beachhead II, Gauntlet, Gauntlet II, Heroes of Karn, Rambo, would be a few off the top of my head Io would have in the list
Yes, Beachhead II is a great game and would easily be in my top 75 list
Ah great memories, thanks for this 👍😃
No Aliens, Bounder or Aztec Challenge?
The Last Ninja. Number 1 game in the world and will always be to me. If not for the game, for the the music, but the game itself was epic too
oh man I remember the seven cities of gold. The opening where you had that hand writing on that paper to that music was fantastic for its day.
This should be titled my 75 favorite C64 games. You have some good ones here (all the Epyx titles, Impossible Mission, Lode Runner, etc) and fun flashback to see games I haven’t seen in 35 years but any list has to include Raid on Bungeling Bay, Ghostbusters, and Choplifter, which were all excellent and popular.
HiZ RedShift ...and Karateka.
! absolutely should be on list - Karateka was awesome 😎 remember playing it on an Apple IIc but can’t remember if I had it on C64
Chop-lifter was a good one, well made
Project Firestart was my favorite game. All the summer / winter / california games, skate or die, goonies, conan, bruce lee, pool of radiance...aaaaah ! green beret, rambo, racing construction set, ghostbusters.
Great list! Lots of my old favourites are on this list and that's good enough for me! The order doesn't really matter much although it irks me that you didn't place Wasteland slightly higher (my fave) :P
It's interesting looking back and remembering so many I'd forgotten. I did notice most I had were NOT clones of the classic console games like side scrollers and platformers though. I hoped Legacy of the Ancients and Marble Madness made the list but then - so many games . . . .
2:30 ooooh, this brings back memories, used to love this!
So much memories. some more: Ghosts and Goblins, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, Rambo, Mikie, Paperboy
great list! it brought back a lot of great memories! I have one suggestion for the list: HARDBALL! the original game. Probably the best baseball game of that era, IMO. Also, do you remember Snokie? Man that game pissed me off. haha
Snokie pissed me off just recently :)
Fort Apocalypse gave me so many hours of frustration. I just couldn't stop playing. I could never even figure out Impossible Mission. Archon was for-real next-level chess at the time. So awesome to see these old games!
Archon was one of my favourite games. It’s a hard call to put archon 1 ahead of archon 2. What was your best game out of those? It was video gaming chess. Whom ever thought up the games were a genius. Cheers Brent
Paradroid and arcon 1 and 2 are my favourites. Thanks for added the sound of each game. You need that for the full nostalgic experience 😃
Yeah they were mine too.. Did you ever play Gi Joe ?
Terry M , yes I vaguely remember play it. Funny thing I remember the music more. 😋. I’d need to see the game to fully remember.
Your list is mostly valid. Cauldron II could be on it and Mr. Robot. Maybe They Stole A Million. Beach Head 2 comes to mind and Barbarian. Strangeloop anyone? Druid wasn’t too bad as well as Ghosts n Goblins. But otherwise, very good! A lot of gems on it like The Train. Well done!
Yeah I hadn't seen The Train before this video, and it's pretty amazing how great the graphics were for that one. It's striking just how extreme the differences in graphics were on C64, from games that were very Atari-esque (Wizard of Wor) to games like Pit Stop II and The Train where they really pushed the limit of realism at the time. I don't know of any other system where the difference between worst and best graphics was that extreme.
My Favs were California Games,Summer & Winter Games, Barbarian, Archon, Skate or die , Bruce Lee, Defender of the crown, Impossible Mission and the Lucasarts Adventures .
All time Classic and childhood memories.
Wow straight off the bat.. what is the opening music? I'm thinking maybe Rambo loading?
Will, apriciate a lot, but some games I would see here, for example Wonder boy, Rick Dangerous, Decathlon, River Raid, Montezuma Revenge and some arcade, don't remember the titles but I was playing :-)
Last ninja 2 was the best. I would have included The Great Escape, Hunchback, Lazy Jones, Samurai Warrior, Acrojet, 1985, Meganova, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Green Beret, Cobra, Dambusters, Dragon's Layer, Navy Moves, Persian Gulf Inferno, Montezuma's Revenge, California Games, Hypersports, Choplifter, Scramble...
Dragon's LAIR, not Layer. LOL
That scream in PGI was the best!
I love how you put the gameplay on a monitor on my monitor!
Good list and more importantly very entertaining video. Id change places in several titles and add jumpman, gilligans gold, park patrol, kokotoni wolf, ghost n goblins, matchday , one on one, and a few others, but uts your list and not mine so good job
Great job! Forbidden Forest should also be in the list!
Heart of Africa was no slouch. Learned a RIDICULOUS amount of physical geography from that.
A few others:
Spy vs. Spy, Red Storm Rising, Test Drive 2, F-14 Tomcat.
Pirates! Was one of my favorite games as a kid, happy to see it at 2.
still one of the best games ever
@@novcia Agreed!
Mine too!
I really enjoyed:
- Fiendish Freddy
- Bionic Commando
- Most Code Masters games
- Rubicon
- Gaplus
- Test drive
- Who dares wins
- Rick Dangerous
- Ghosts Busters
- Wings of fury
- Saboteur
- Street surfer
- Ikari warriors
- California games
- Shadow of the beast
- Turbo outurn
- Wonderboy
Oh god, i played 90% of those games. Summer, Winter, World , California Games... like a mad man. You could with ease put Western Games, Ace of Aces, To be on Top, Danger Freak, Green Beret and Card Sharks on that list. Also don't forget about VERMEER or Oil Imperium, Airline and Qbert.In Germany we had Hanse, Kaiser and Die Fugger (i don't know if those games were ever released in English)
A friend of mine had the C64 and we had the apple iie with 16 color lol. His games like Beach head, aliens and others were amazing for the time! Some fantastic gaming back in the mid to late 80s!
Great video. What is the music in the intro? I'm sure I had the game. Thanks ;)
While not a particularly impressive series of clips, the list is very good and, barring a few that exist in my top 75 and not yours, you clearly have good taste!
Was hoping to see Red Storm Rising, Autoduel, or Test Drive. But very pleased to see Project:Firestart. Pool of Radiance, and the Last Ninja. But...what about the Blue Max? Mail Order Monsters? Fairlight? C64 had a lot of great games.
Pirates is 1 for me. It was years ahead of its time. And I can't tell you how many hours I put into Exploding Fist. How many times did you have to Load "xxxxx" ,8 ,1 to get all these lol?
You're missing Ikari Warriors, (Great, cross-country American) Road Race, River Ride (initially on Atari I guess), ACE, StrikeFleet (port from Amiga), Rick Dangerous 1/2, Treasure Island Dizzy, Who Dares Wins, Spy vs Spy 1/2/3, Super Pipeline, Montezumas Revenge and yea... I think, I could find few more from depths of my memory...
Ace was good. Especially in two player mode. The games now have better graphics, but the playability back then was way better.
um River ride? I guess you meant River Raid.
@@ginkarasu Can be!
Turrican 2 was the first game I ever played through- Only gripe now 25years later is that there is music only in one stage. Still awesome
Good list, I only would add choplifter to it
If not for the sound, for the game itself. It has true merit.
So many great games where on the C64! do miss some really nice ones in this list.
Personal favorites not in the list: Blue Max, Turbo Outrun, Test drive , Green beret, Crackers revenge, Hunchback, Paperboy.
The biggest omission for me was Choplifter, great gameplay and sound for the C64.
Excellent stuff. Thanks for this.
There is nothing wrong with your list except that it is not big enough. The C64 had so many awesome games it's hard to make a top list.
I was glad to see quite a few on your list I was waiting for, but here are a few titles that you are missing in no particular order.
You see? as im thinking of my list.. I can add dozens more.. So hard to make a list for C64.. So I'll limit it to 5! ;)
Movie Monsters by Epyx 1986
Destroyer by Epyx 1986
The Railroad Works by MobyGames 1985
Strike Fleet by Lucasarts 1987
B.C.'s Quest for Tires by Sierra On-Line 1983
ok 1 more lol
Jack Attack by Commodore International 1983
I remember some of these games... for a C64 a lot of these don't look bad at all looking back at them.
omg nice memories:)
but where is bounty bob strikes back??
one of my favs
Such a great list but you missed Ghosts & Goblins which was an amazing game!
No Ultima mentions? Madness! Great trip down nostalgia lane. Thank you!
He's not a fan of RPGs
Good List, but here's a few that should be added:
Below the Root (what a beautiful adventure game this is!)
Castle Wolfenstein 1 and 2
Aztec by Datamost
Aztec Challenge
Dr. Creep Castle
Archon
Green Beret
So many good ones didnt make the list. Master of Magic, Spellbound, Iron Lord that comes to mind. Enigma Force C64 version was pretty earth shattering for me back then. Could complete it every time. It's OST rocks even today and remixes are absolute bangers.
nice list, don't fully agree with your number 1 though, and interesting to note how many different pre cursor versions of R-Type were made before R-Type came out
Good list, a few games I'd added: River Raid, Jumpman, ikari warriors, green beret, One On One, gumshoe,. Gilligan's Gold, Kokotoni Wilf, Rastan, match day 2, Killer Watt, Karateka
Rastan had the bug that made the game impossible to complete :( good music however
One on One Bird vs Dr J is a classic
Adventure Construction Set , so many great memories
I'm really impressed at how much every type of game already existed on C64. (with few exceptions)
Nice List. There were soo many good games it is really hard to make even top 200 games for me.
Choplifter; Falcon Patrol 1/2; Power At Sea; Pit Stop 2; International Karate were my favaourites.
Great compilation. Thumbs up
Bubble
Bobble was the best. My best friend and I would have sleep overs at my place and just play that all night and cook steam dim sims for midnight snacks. Best times
I had no idea Infiltrator was on C64. I only knew of it's NES port. I remember trying it several times but I think I was too young to get how to play it.
Project firestart was such a suspensefull game, a monster pops up and I jump out of my skin, I played the heck out of that game,, it was scary and just like an aliens move,, great game. Scary as heck back then.
Raid Over Moscow, I couldn't even get out of the bloody hangar!
I actually threw and broke something once, I was so frustrated at the hangar. I was seeing red.
If I made it out of the hangar I considered that a win
Haha! I couldn't remember for the life of me what the rest of the game was about, but gawd damn I remember that hangar.
@@stalzemsty1669 so many old games of the period were impossibly hard, especially for 11 and 12 year olds. Track and Field I can't get past the 110m hurdles, the qualifying time is the same as the actual time in real life! Manic Miner I never got beyond about 5 or 6 screens without a cheat making you invincible, same for Jet Set Willy. Bruce Lee I did finish, sweaty hands on the screen where you jump across the electric shock floors, what reward do you get? He jumps up and down a few times then you start all over again.
@@stalzemsty1669 Exactly the same, I would say you must be my old friend but you would've known he's called Green Yamo, only we called him Green Minge for some reason. We used to have boxing only matches, no kicking, and stand by an exploding mine and punch the ninja back into one. So dumb! Loved Bruce Lee and Ace. Airborne Ranger another good game, very good gameplay with a keyboard overlay because there were so many keys to use. Ahead of its time!
Putting a top 75 Commodore game list is like asking to give the top 75 foods of the world, too many to choose from, too many different opinions, however I do like these lists as there are so many more games I haven't seen, the C64 is a legend!
Needs Mail Order Monsters, and the Ultima games. There were soooo many games on the C64, though, so I can understand how some would be missed.
Good selection. Of course 1000's more could be added. Project Firestart is one of the best ever made. The good thing is: You can play them ALL and more on an emulator NOW! C64 forever. Check Arnold's 64 Game Archive.
Die besten 75 Spiele aus Ihrer Sicht. Jede Wette, sie werden nicht einen einzigen Menschen finden der Ihnen vorbehaltlos zustimmen wird.
I mis a few gems.
- Henry's house
- track 'n field (hyperolympics in Europe)
- wizard+
- nibly 64 (still fantastic, still have the moves to reach level 37 or more).
- puzznic
And I for sure miss a few..
you should've included operation wolf.
What about pole position..Ghostbusters... kong fu master ..groggs revenge..paper boy some nice games but a strange list mind you some of your games shown were almost mega drive territory
What’s the intro music from? I can’t quite remember what game it’s from but I remember it and it’s very special from an 8bit machine.
Why does noone ever have Wonderboy on the list? It was one of those games i played almost as much as Giana Sisters.
Hell of a lot of stinkers on that list for my taste. Where was Ikari warriors, Mercenary,Starglider, Sacred Armour of Antitriad, Beach Head 1+2, Bungeling Bay, Super Zaxxon, Blue Max, Cauldron, Koronis Rift, Rescue on Fractalus and Action Biker, and Flash Gordon, to name a few?. Some nice classics in there though.
Beach Head. You are the man
I've played 75, 74, 72, 66, 65, 64, 56, 47, 44, 42, 40, 39, 35, 33, 32, 28, 25, 22, 21, 16, 15, 14, 9, 6, and 5. Missed a lot of great games such as: Escape From the Castle of Dr Evil, Choplifter, Raid Over Bungling Bay, Saboteur, Green Beret, GI Joe, Rambo, Beach Head, and Silent Service, to name a few that I remember playing. Commodore 64/128 had a LOT of great games and I feel people don't give it the proper credit it is due. It helped move PC gaming and gaming in general to where it is now immensely.
Good coverage of mostly US companies, but what about the UK Cottage companies, such as Llamasoft. Any game written by Jeff Minter would easily made the top 10. From Gridrunner, Hovver Bovver, Attack of the Mutant Camels, to Sheep in Space, Llamatron, and beyond.
Charles Coleman everyone forgets hovver bovver!
@@rtintera Hovver Bovver made me buy the C64 over the Vic20. It really showed off the graphic capability at that time, and the game was just addictive as hell but in a fun way, not a frustrating way.
Modem Wars should be on this list. It's the first strategy game I remember that you can play with a friend over a dial up connection.
I used to play a dungeon crawler on the C64 called Telengard. I had it on tape. I used to spend hours at a time with it.
I was a self proclaimed master of California Games BMX in the days. Tried it lately, also with the original joysticks. The game has aged much better than me.
I kept waiting for Park Patrol to show up because we have such a massive overlap in our lists. :)
Have you tried 'Piracy'? Very fun chess-like game, very good looking
What was the name of the game that was a bit of a variety game... like California Games... but it was gang themed... and one of the mini games you were throwing knives at each other across a chasm... one on one, and the knives would stick the the wall behind you when they missed... it might have been a C64 or Atari computer game. Can anyone help?
Head over heels, vampire, wonderboy, zamzara, Mask 3, barbarian 2, fist 2, duckula, Nemesis, dante's inferno, spherical, the curse of Sherwood, Robin of the wood etc etc
I had heaps of these games growing up. Hawkeye and Creatures 1 were my favourite all time games. I had a hacked version of Hawkeye so I had infinite ammo. I bet if I had Turrican, that would've definitely been up there as well.