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Author Topic: Ye olde C-64 games.  (Read 16255 times)

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Reply #45 on: April 09, 2020, 09:22:41 AM
I did play Impossible Mission on my original C-64 and wonky 1541 floppy drive. The protagonist's footstep sounds used to annoy my ex-wife.

Sadly, back around 2005 my ex-wife gave away my stored C-64, Amiga, TRS80 Coco, 486 PC, and all related accessories and software before I could retrieve them, leading me to embark on my current retro computer collection obsession, replacing them and then some! I've even managed to find that original 486, a Leading Edge brand, along with matching monitor, keyboard, and mouse. I probably need an intervention...  ::)

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Reply #46 on: April 09, 2020, 10:33:22 AM
The original, 'Might & Magic' and.... the entire Gold Box Series, all on my faithful friend, the Amiga.  :dreamer:

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Reply #47 on: April 09, 2020, 10:41:22 AM
Oh yeah...M&M 1. Sigh. That pad of paper with dots so you could draw each area out... :rockon:

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Reply #48 on: April 09, 2020, 04:06:32 PM
Not a C-64 game, but I played this a LOT on my Commodore PC.

In glorious black & white VGA.  ::)


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Reply #49 on: April 09, 2020, 08:59:01 PM
My 64 came with Jupiter lander and radar rat race - I became so obsessed with RRR I used to get up early before school to play it - then they took my c64 off me for 2 weeks



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Reply #50 on: April 10, 2020, 04:28:42 AM
I had to check you weren't talking about Roland's Rat Race - always will be special to me because it was the first game I ever completed.



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Reply #51 on: April 10, 2020, 12:03:31 PM
Funny, I picked up the Gold Box series on GOG a couple of years back and they were still fun but the UI was so cumbersome I just couldn't play it. The game hasn't changed so..... I must have.  :'(

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Reply #52 on: April 10, 2020, 12:59:42 PM
Sadly not huw - it was a rat version of Pac-Man but you had time challenges and such, all along to a psychedelic version of 3 blind mice - when you’re humming it in class it’s time to put the joystick down!!



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Reply #53 on: April 10, 2020, 01:45:50 PM
Here is another much played game;


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Reply #54 on: April 10, 2020, 03:32:11 PM
Ha!  I remember seeing Ant Attack somewhere as a very young nipper and thinking "woah, games can look like that?!"  I think it must have been the pseudo-3D perspective that blew me away!



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Reply #55 on: April 11, 2020, 07:04:52 AM
I played a few games too on C64, Summer games Trashman  attack of the mutant camels,  but Bawb has put down some more, we used to fight over who was going first, then hot seat, good old days, wouldn't like to hot seat now thank you very much



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Reply #56 on: April 11, 2020, 07:45:39 AM
Summer Games was brilliant, as were all those Epyx Games sims.  I was very impressed at the time at how they had all the countries' national anthems in the game. :)



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Reply #57 on: April 11, 2020, 07:53:28 AM
Summer games was very fun to play. I remember playing a flight simulator game where you did a mail run (in Alaska maybe???).



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Reply #58 on: April 11, 2020, 08:46:58 AM
I remember playing a flight simulator game where you did a mail run (in Alaska maybe???).

Solo Flight?  Awesome game!



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Reply #59 on: April 11, 2020, 09:35:23 AM
I remember a game where you did white water canoeing, but that may have been an event in one of the 'Summer Games' games?

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