The 20 Best Commodore 64 Imagine Games In Order Of Greatness
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Hey whatsup guys OSG here with another C64 software video and this time it’s Imagine. When I recently did my Ocean games video I had a lot of comments saying I missed games Green Beret and Yi ear Kung Fu….well I never missed them I just decided that it wasn’t right to include Imagine games in the list…and this was for a couple of reasons.
Imagine is one of the most iconic logos on the system and if I included those games some that deserved to get a mention maybe wouldn’t have.
The software house was formed in Liverpool in the early eighties and they predominantly made games for the ZX Spectrum and Vic 20. They stood out from other British software houses of the time with their polished high budget approach to advertising that wasn’t really present in other British software houses. Although this approach initially slingshotted them into 8bit limelight it was ultimately the cause of their demise and in 1983 it was reported that a 50k advertising bill had not been paid. The following year Imagine closed its doors due to these mounting debts and the name was bought by Ocean.
Under Ocean they went on to produce some great games for the C64 and that’s what we will be looking at today…. They released 79 games on the C64 and I’ve trimmed it down to what I would say are the best 20 of them all…although some still aren’t great to be honest
Games in this video :-
Army Moves @ 01:28
Rastan @ 02:00
Jackal (USA version) @ 02:37
The Vindicator! @ 03:11
B.C. Bill @ 03:35
Renegade @ 04:04
Dragon Ninja @ 04:39
World Series Baseball @ 05:13
Typhoon @ 05:47
Mikie @ 06:22
Ping Pong @ 06:49
Target Renegade @ 07:18
Yie Ar Kung Fu @ 07:53
Slap Fight @ 08:26
Green Beret @ 09:10
Terra Cresta @ 09:45
Arkanoid @ 10:18
Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh @ 10:53
Salamander @ 11:28
Hyper Sports @ 12:03
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All your Commodore 64 and Amiga videos are absolutely brilliant I don’t comment too often as I’m always watching them on a TV in my garage but keep it up mate👊🏻😁
I'm really enjoying these recaps, never know when I'm going to spot a classic I missed out on. Keep it up!
That Arkanoid sound track is so great it's almost ridiculous. In my opinion it's up there with stuff like Wizball and Platoon.
Did you see that Dutch guy that played the Wizball track? It's pretty long but also quite great.I think captured beauty of the tune.
ruclips.net/video/PTSUR3RHh9M/видео.html
Feel free to click the link. I promise that I'm not Rick Rolling you :)
@@JonasRosenven hey mate i know you would never do that ;-)
Hehe, Terra Cresta and Slap Fight bring back so much memories - especially when I got my hands on SEUCK. I spent a whole summer holiday making a game, lent my only copy to a friend who's tape drive chewed it up... that's why we never got to see the best SEUCK game ever made :D
C64 did a good job with Rastan, Came out on so many consoles, I remember it mostly on Spectrum when i was a kid
Spectrum Rastan is an awesome feat of coding mate
Broke a joystick in frustration over the lava pit rope swing in Rastan
Excellent video mate,takes me back,hyper sports and baseball,spent hours playing baseball,loved sports sims,still do,makes me feel old though at 50.
50 years young mate . . we don't have to get old in our minds
I love these c64 order of greatness videos, always fun to watch.
Cinemaware Amiga coming next if i can stop playing the damn games lol
@@oldstylegaming Rocket Ranger anyone..........cant get off the ground.
yeah its a nightmare to get used to it...great looking game though
Great idea doing the software house specific videos. Green Beret and Yie Ar stole many, many hours of my childhood ('You stole my childhood!!') I made over 12 million on Yie Ar Kung Fu if I remember correctly.
"The sid music really carries the game"
Not a truer word has been spoke about the c64 in general. Even some of its top titles best features are thier soundtracks. My beloved commodore has some of the best tracks in gaming to date!
Yeah SID all the way for me by far the best gaming sound ever
Fantastic list osg👌My god totally forgot about The Vindicator had this game on tape🤔 loved playing Salamander and Slap flight😀
Great list again! sure gonna try a few which I never seen before Salamander looks nice. Remeber playing Arkanoid with paddles🤣
Videos like these are so enjoyable as brings back so many childhood memories, as most off my friends had either C64 or C128, myself had the C128
well if memories are coming back then my job is done ;-)
BC Bill !!!!!! A complete gem of a game. I had that in a 6 game compilation, and it was easily the diamond in the rough. Great stuff 👍
thanks mate :-) getting back on track with my videos now...still a long way to go to get back to 300+ that i had though....but ill get there
Nice selection of games mate, some good tunes too.
yeah if i had included this along with the Ocean games some of these wouldnt have got a mention ....i i think they deserve one
Enjoyed watching that, some great games there. I was hoping Head over Heels would be there, loved that game.
How great does Hyper Sports still play! Such a classic, I’m going to dig my spinner out and see if it works with the Arkanoids, never tried the c64 ports
Arkanoid is class on the C64 mate smooth as butter
The "Arkanoid"-games are unplayable without paddle, I think.
Using the joystick for a breakout-clone is annoying.
Great choice of games.. I love playing many of those titles still today on my galaxy note 10 android phone with C64.emu emulator to kill time. 130 likes to 0 dislikes goes to show what great taste in c64 games you have.. Loving this content, great channel
Thanks mate I appreciate the kind words
The Vantage on Dragon Ninja vs. Bad Dudes is, you can also Jumping Diagonally. At the Amiga Version is that not possible and Ends on the Stage 2 with the Truck Scene almost in Dead Ends.
Some C64 classics in the top 10! Salamander looks great, missed that one. I remember buying a couple of Imagine mutlipacks back in the day, 2 cassettes with a game on each side, Usually 1 classic, 2 okish and a turkey. Can't remember what games was on em though, do you remember em m8? Great vid :)
I think I have some in the shed I'll check tomorrow :-)
It's great watching retro videos again, especially with all the drama going on in the community right now.
There always drama mate if you dig deep enough ;-)
Good video as usual pal👌
Great video, again! 🙂
Some of those arcade shoot-ups look slick a/f. I sometimes struggle to configure a joypad when playing via emulation though, can't seem to puzzle it all out!
Quick mention on the Vindicator:
That first section was pretty easy if you stuck to killing the monsters with the high zappers (green ones in the c64 version) first and letting your ammo type power up. Top level blows the crap out of everything in one or two shots.
Then painstakingly drawing the map on graph paper, with likely bomb part locations.
The second part, straight back into SEUCK territory i'm afraid. Never made it as far as the third and final section
I loved my C64 Arkanoid. Hyper sports Operation wolf & ghosts & goblins. Are a few of my favourites
We had a C64 growing up, one day I went to a friend's friends house and he had an Amiga. I played defenders of the crown is was amazing and I was blown away!
Great videos, I preferred the spectrum version of renegade that my friend with a 48k plus had simply because you didn't need to use the keyboard, joystick combo's, just the joystick. The C64 and Amstrad versions looked better but having to use both the keyboard and joystick was annoying lol
i had the imagine pack c64, so i had most of these games, i just loved mikey
Summer Games, Winter Games, California Games, Aliens, Paradroid, ACE, Rambo, Wizard of Wor, Decathlon, Moonpatrol and many more
But this is about Imagine games. None of those games were published by Imagine
I was obsessed with salamander as a kid. Would have taken no 1 for me.
Absolutely LOVED bc bill! Got it with the c64 in some pack in compilation. It had some quasi advanced emergent gameplay style aspects, like how you could cook the wrong things like the 'wife'!
hahahahha cooking the wife would definitely be frowned upon in todays world lol
@@oldstylegaming yeah, I mean, what's up with the snowflake 21st century and people's issues these days with cooking one's own wife?!
Glad you said World Series Baseball was ok. Used play it loads.
International Basketball was good too. Also noticed the Yie Ar Kung Fu music, maybe international Karate music was inspired by it.. similar.
That was a re-release though, Commodore Business Machines themselves were the original publishers
This computer is underrated. Sure we moved on but so many good games good joysticks and good old friends hyper sports with couple of chums
Ahh mate you definitely have the best taste 😉👍 yie ar Kung fu is awesome and hyper sports is my all time favourite and I'm still playing today on my c64 lol in fact I'm actually sitting here now trying to decide if it's worth getting on PS4 lol the only thing that is holding me back is the thought of having to buy new PS4 controllers every few weeks 😂😂😂😂 the old quick shot 2 killer lol if anyone on here is reading this and is thinking of playing this old classic and hasn't before then take my word for it and get yourself an Atari 2600 controller trust me on this you younger ones lol
Great vid and great order of epicness 👍🍻👌
Some great memories here. Most look so slow and dated now not sure I could go back and play them and enjoy though.
Why do these games look so familiar, even though I'm sure I've never played on a C64 in my life??
Also, your accent and no-bullshit approach really make these vids great to watch. I like a laugh, but most of these gaming channels try way too hard, with annoying, crass humour and silly, pointless imagery and animations popping up all the time. Good work!
Thanks mate :-)
I'm glad to see Yie Ar Kung Fu here. A Finnish computer magazine gave it a really bad review and said something like it was one of the worst games they'd ever seen. I got the game as part of some compilation and found out that I loved it. Glad to see I wasn't the only one.
Terra Cresta is probably my favorite shoot'em-up on the C64.
I've never been a big fan of Breakout/Arkanoid type games, but I did have Arkanoid. The game had a bug in it so that you sometimes got infinite lives and I played it until the tape ran out of levels.
I know that Imagine was bought out by Ocean but didn't some of the programmers form Pysgnosis later that decade? Great vid as always.
Yep. Bit of trivia, the name Psygnosis has its origin in the name of a planned Imagine 'Megagame' Psyclapse, the other being Bandersnatch. Allegedly.
Salamander looks amazing on the C64. Wish I'd had it back in the day
Does the C64 version of Target Renegade have and SFX? Loved it on the speccy, maybe one of my fave beat em ups of all time.
Great vid. Is this emulation my friend ?
Best retro channel on RUclips mate
aw thanks mate :-) you lot make it worth doing though :-)
@@oldstylegaming We all appreciate the time and effort mate, keep up the good work 😎
Renegade was amazing. Until you get to Big Bertha. That bitch was insane. I think I managed to get past her once, only to be shanked to bits in the next level.
That's a rare case in which I love all of them, great games, Imagine was really iconic (I can't not recall Bewitched for the Vic 20), some of those ports are somehow better than the related coinops, e.g. Mikie and Yie Ar Kung Fu, at least to me.
I like some even the 2nd Yie Ar Kung Fu game... 😊
Nice video, but you could have shown both perspectives of Typhoon! ;) or at least the cool one.
I have a c64 games music in my head for the last couple of years, and its killing me that I cant remember what game it came from. It had a famous classical music score, any ideas people?
C64 had TWO official ports of Double Dragon...and they were BOTH pants. Double Dragon 2 was a pretty good conversion though.
Ah pants so polite those where the days
@@laurafear3853 *were not where
Ci accontentavamo così noi del ‘72!!!
Would have put Salamander at No1 out of that list, and I’d have put Yie Ar Kung Fu II in the top 5 as well 👍🏻
Arkanoid is sooo hard. The ball gets ultra fast
Hyper Sports must have worn out a few Quickshot joysticks from what I remember.
I actually had an idea for a video today and it was the C64 Joystick Breakers...im gonna make in now you have said this comment
old style gaming That's awesome! I went through two QS1 joysticks and a QS2 (with autofire!). I must have glued and attempted reinforcing the plastic rings on those countless times. Eventually got myself a micro switch joystick which was orders of magnitude more robust.
I removed the black plastic off an old Atari joystick making it easier to waggle and found that to be my joystick of choice for games like this
old style gaming I tried out Hyper Sports again on my new fake C64 maxi. Yep, it's still the joystick-destroying waggle-fest I remember! Still a crack shot with the clay pigeon shooting (although due to the slight emulation latency, I have to shoot a few frames earlier).
How do you play your C64 games now - with a joystick or keyboard?
Joystick on my real c64, 360 pad on emulation
Arkanoid II - This would have been great, but they made one stupid choice that ruined it for me; They didn't include the option to use paddle controllers. I didn't have a mouse and even if I did, I never considered it a good controller for Breakout style games. That left me with the option of joystick or keyboard, both of which such for those games. The first game was great on the C64 and I used to play it with my Atari paddles. If Arkanoid II had a paddle option, I'd rate them both as the two best arcade ports on the C64 of all time.
BC Bill lol had no idea what the hell was going on in the game but it was entertaining enough.
Haha yeah mate it's a bit hectic
Yie Are Kung Fu, Green Beret, Arkanoids!
Hyper Sports definitely the best in the list, it was better than summer games series due to no multi loading.
Makes me laugh how MSR is now fortza hey I loved Wavertrees technology Park felt like paper boy;-)
OMG i love MSR, i believe it went to Project Gotham Racing after
@@oldstylegaming ;-) someone's awake;-)
OSG...Tou diss on shoot em up construction kit too much....I made some sick games with that.#
Ha, reading this video infobox I didn't get why you should have had to include Imagine games in a Ocean video?
By the way, you could have include Shao Lin's Road in the video above. Don't you like that game, by chance?
No I don't like that game...and ocean actually bought imagine out so really they are ocean games but released under the imagine label
I find it odd No one mentions The last Ninja series. Hands down the only reason to get a c64.
Why would I mention a System 3 game in a video about Imagine games?
old style gaming
Yie Ar Kung Fu & Hyper Sports where and still are Epic Games:-))
Are you playing Arkanoid with a paddle?
No...I have a quickshot paddle though
Loved that music on Typhoon 👍🏻
Jonathan Dunn never disappoints
Again, not too far off the mark. I think Hyper Sports is probably the best of the bunch.
Salamander is amazing!
it is mate love the flame bursts they did that so well
Class shooter
@@oldstylegaming Peter Baron and Bob Stevenson did Salamander. Also Myth, another game with some tasty flame animations!
@@GregDaniel78 I love myth I did a full play through a while back on my channel
Damn! Imagine had so much potential, but so little business sense.
yeah it would seem that way
Some of their early C64 games were pretty dire though...like Ah, Diddums, but under Ocean they produced a lot of quality titles. They did produce some quality stuff on the Spectrum and VIC in their early days though.
Army Moves is just a transposition of Moon Patrol. Like the others games, and which are less good than games produced in 1983. It's horrible, but Renegade was a good Beat them Up, but too short. A good coin up version. Dragon Ninja is a decent version of the coin up: some places are fun, others boring. But for all those games, they could make better...But time and money...Ping Pong is a portage of the coin up of the same game, with sounds creepy. Ye are Kung Fu is not a game I call Fight, because fights are ridiculous (as the coin up). Green Beret is a good game. Krakout was more more more fun than Arkanoid coin up version, which was pretty but boring to play in some levels. So, Imagine has made games which are sometimes decent, sometimes bad, but it's clearly not a major house. Salamander is less good than Némésis but the best of their shoot production.
So, like a ton of these are Konami games, eh?
Yeah good few arcade ports
Shh I'm a scouser;-)
hey someones gotta be lol
@@oldstylegaming they do don't they don't for the English amongst us;-)
*They do though don't they though?
@@amigabang6157 ;-)
hyper sports indeed is the best realization of shooter, i had it for famicom and FireHawk for NES uses same gameplay, the idea that shouldn't die
Army Moves it's not an Imagine game, its a Dinamic'a game.
Erm I think you will find that it was published by imagine...so much so as it has imagine on the loading screen .....
@@oldstylegaming Imagine is only the distributor, Dinamic makes the game. Look at the logo in the right side ;)
@@blacksoulska but this is a video on games published by imagine
Arkanoid US version works and controls better with the mouse. The pal version doesn’t work with the mouse. You probably wouldn’t care cause you probably use emulation or just copy & paste others videos
I have real c64 too. If you look on my community page I have around 30 systems....
That's because Computer mice never really caught on in Europe until the 16-bit era