Ye olde C-64 games.

[bob48]

Here is a game I spent fat too many hours playing on the 'ol C-64

looks kinda dated now though......................

[judgedredd]

oh god...8 bit sound!!!

[bob48]

You think that's bad..............

This is another one with mega hours played 

[bbmike]

One I spent mega hours on is Project Space Station.

[bob48]

 

[BanzaiCat]

I never had a C-64 (had a VIC-20, and later a Commodore PC), but I played this a lot about that time on my grandfather's Apple IIc. I LOVED this game. The remake they did later was crap.

[bob48]

No C-64?

Disqualified! Out with you, for shame........

[Undercovergeek]

My early adolescent years were lost to Bruce Lee, Scuba Diver, Paradroid, and Way of the Exploding Fist

[bob48]

The actual game play of Paradroid was amazing;

This is another one that Den and I played for many hours:

[Staggerwing]

Here is a game I spent fat too many hours playing on the 'ol C-64

looks kinda dated now though......................

Interesting. I had not heard of that one. Looks like the programmers used a procedural terrain generator like the one in Rescue on Fractalus. Makes sense, since they're both from Lucasfilm Games.

[bob48]

Yep, I think it was done by the same people that did Fractalus (which we also played a lot) and that came out before Koronis Rift - as the name implies, fractal were all the rage!

Hands up all those who sat watching Mandelbrot generators..............

[Staggerwing]

 

I also remember some terrain-generating demo (for Vista Pro, maybe?) that I had for the Amiga that let you render a scene of a landscape after setting some height variables, water size for lakes, tree type and density, and possibly even snow level on the peaks (hard to remember for sure after 25 yers...). You could watch the scene gradually build up from the lowest point to the top of the final peak.

Of course, the render times were very slow. I'd set the parameters around lunch and, maybe by dinner, I'd have a nice little digital Bob Ross scene.

[bob48]

  Yep, sounds about right

[Twitter3]

I played this one a ton back in the day!

[Undercovergeek]

 

Man I loved that game especially the last artillery section