Commodore 64!!! - Page 2

flashy · 15-07-2008, 13:05

the first ever ever ever games console we had was a commodore 16 +4
we played things like 'treasure island' on it and 'reach for the sky' and we loved it

i was only about 7/8 at the time

entwisi · 15-07-2008, 14:11

Heh, iirc that was teh 'negative' version of teh C64 i.e. black case and cream/grey keys???

danny27 · 15-07-2008, 14:24

Ahwell, guess its back to guitar hero 3 when i get home lol

Wow, can you imagine back then how we'd of thought to wireless guitar game lol

entwisi · 15-07-2008, 14:53

probably the same as we would have thought about playing Doom etc on a device that fits in my pocket that can tell me where I am in teh world, access information in an instant, communicate with people teh world over as if talking to them stood next to them, that can play over > 1000 LPs worth of songsand take videos of better quality than my new fangled VCR.

Technology aint it brilliant!!!!

accyman · 15-07-2008, 16:52

i still have a fully working commodore 64 witha few games such as rambo , transformers and monty on the run

i have a few games for it on my pc which i run with an emulator and play the old snes games etc on my xbox from time to time but you just cant beat the new consoles like the 360

TubbyLes · 15-07-2008, 18:27

My favorite,although not a game, was Flight Simulator,now acquired by our computer god Mr.Microsoft.It is still the same program today using many of the original airfields.vor's and ndb's.Amazing what could be done with 39k of free ram.I was a bit upmarket with an external disk drive that held about 180K.The earlier tape machine would take 10 mins.or more to load a program but the drive would do it in maybe 1 min.I did some animations and titles for video editing as the machine had a Pal tv output as S video(ie. luminance and chrominance separated) and my video machine was S.The titles were written in Basic,but I am afraid that I have not progressed beyond that.

pam1 · 15-07-2008, 22:12

commodore that was my son's first christmas press, and the games he was never of pack man, space invidious

lol

WillowTheWhisp · 15-07-2008, 22:25

I remember typing in programs from a magazine and then the thing wouldn't run because I probably typed something wrong!

entwisi · 16-07-2008, 07:14

thats teh difference Willow, teh techies knew how to find what was wrong!

Studio25 · 16-07-2008, 08:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by danny27

Cmon, admit it. YOU ALL OWNED ONE at some point in your life.

Question is...what game did you MOSTLY play on?...

25 years ago I used to play Elite on the C64, all the time. My 8-year-old son is now playing the clone of the original BBC version on my laptop!

Loz · 17-07-2008, 02:28

I loved my Commodore 64!
First computer i ever got.
Loved playing A Question of Sport,Mike Reads pop quiz and Daley Thompsons Decatholon on it!
Again happy memories!

billy33 · 17-07-2008, 04:15

manic miner and jet set willy are legends (spectrum)

other classics i can remember

skool daze
back to skool
jack the nipper 1 n 2
frogger
every ones a wally
commando
rambo
horace goes ski"ing
ghost n goblins
ghouls n ghosts
The great space race
space invaders
asteroids

i also remeber treasure island n fire ant for commodore 16 never did escape long john silver at end :O(

had commodore 64 but cant remeber wat i had 4 it........

neva add atari s.t but ad the amiga 500 then 500+ then the 1200

accyman · 17-07-2008, 04:32

do you remember on the helicoptor level on rambo if you put another joypad in and pulled down on one and pressed up on the other it gave you turbo boost making fly over the entire level

on montey on the run if you typed i want to cheat instead of your name it would come up with yes um boss and you couldnt die but if you fell between two of the raised platforms you couldnt jump out so had to end the game , you could also put a code in to get the sinclair c5 wheneve r you wanted it instead of walking lol

on ghost and ghouls if you shot the first headstone repeatedly for 60 seconds or somthing it made you invincable

when it came to copying games if we couldnt get our hands on a twin tape system we used to hold a microphone to the speaker and recorded it on another system and if you just got the record level right and everyone kept quiet they usualy worked lol

billy33 · 17-07-2008, 05:08

wish i still add my spectrum now lol vaguely remember............. haha a microphone bet that took sum practicing i was ok me i went to sum1 who a mate knew and he d sell us a tape full of games for about a quid,,,,,,,,,,,,

accyman · 17-07-2008, 05:17

ahh spectrum the commodore 64's biggest rival that melted if you left it switched on overnight lol