This is the thread where I post screengrabs of old Commodore 64 games.

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See how Ocean software brilliantly captured the excitement and enery of Die Hard in their 1990 licensed 2D arcade title.

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/D/Die_Hard.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/D/Duck_Tales_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

A big-name endorsement could make or break a game. I get the feeling it "broke" it here:

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/E/Emlyn_Hughes_Arcade_Quiz_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

This actually looks quite a bit like him, to be honest. Well done the graphics designer:

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/F/Franco_Baresi_World_Cup_Kick_Off_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/G/Golden_Axe_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

god bless this game

http://kofler.dot.at/c64/download/gi-joe_-_cobra_units.gif

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Video games became shit when they went 3D. Proof:

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/I/International_3D_Tennis.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

This game is called, and I kid ye not, "LA Drugs Bust".

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/L/LA_Drugs_Bust.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my ten favourite video games of all time:

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/M/Midnight_Resistance_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It's actually the only video game to ever bring me to tears, the end-scene is quite heart-warming.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Home computer games based on quiz shows always sucked. Case in point:

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/P/The_Price_is_Right.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I honestly dread to think...

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/R/Rail_Traffic_Control_-_Exeter_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

A snooker management game. High-octane.

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/S/Snooker_Management.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/T/Teenage_Mutant_Hero_Turtles_4.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/W/The_Wombles_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/J/The_Jetsons_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/W/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Great thread!

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/A/Andy_Capp_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood- the video game.

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/F/Frankie_goes_to_Hollywood.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=1434&d=45&h=0

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/C/Chevy_Chase_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's sad, but nothing on ILX has excited me more than seeing the title of this thread. And the contents does not disappoint.

Does anyone still have a working C64 or Spectrum that they actually PLAY?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

GOLDEN AXE!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I have got a working C64, but I never use it, mainly because the WinVICE C64 emulator can load the games in two seconds rather than 90, and I can get the roms for them offline easily.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the greatest games ever?

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/S/Summer_Games_II_5.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/D/Daley_Thompson

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/W/Western_Games_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/C/Caveman_Ugh-lympics.gif

― alan r. banana (alanbanana), Saturday, 24 April 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF is THAT?

Chris Piuma to thread!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 24 April 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

my mother might still have my commodore 64 in the garage, but I'll bet she tossed it.

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/1063474169-00.gif

B.C.: Quest for Tires!

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 24 April 2004 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

This is great! The effect of seeing all these again is like a serotonin rush!

Please do:
Paperboy
Batman
Barbarian
Dizzy the Egg

― de, Saturday, 24 April 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm here, though I'm not entirely sure why I've been summoned. I really want to play the Price Is Right game, just to show you the exact coordinates of my flavor of geekery.

I had an Atari 800XL, so.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 April 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/B/Batman_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 April 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/P/Paperboy.gif

Paperboy II was never released on the C64. Why?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 April 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/B/Barbarian_(Icon_Designs).gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 April 2004 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/B/Bubble_Dizzy_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 April 2004 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

This is from the Slovenian release of Fantasy World Dizzy. It came out in 1999. Well done Slovenia.

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/D/Dizzy_3_-_Fantasy_World_Dizzy_(SK).gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 April 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

This is from an unofficial Dizzy game. It's called Dizzy Goes Raving. Feel the voibe.

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/D/Dizzy_goes_Raving.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 April 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/J/Jewish_IQ_Baseball_1.gif
http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/J/Jewish_IQ_Baseball.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 April 2004 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

It's the upper right, isn't it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 April 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Barbarian was amazing!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 24 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Also "Crudla" seems like a great name for a caveman!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 April 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.retrosite.de/emulator/c64/impmisb.gif

STAY A WHILE. STAY... FOREVAH!!!
DESTROY HIM MY ROBOTS!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaahhhhhh....

― :|, Saturday, 24 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

its been 15 years since i last playd that game. but i cant get those sounds outof my haed.

― :|, Saturday, 24 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Impossible mission rules so hard its incredible. It didn't occur to me at the time that a key made up of different sounds from all over a building = best game concept evah. I can't find the fucking ROM anywhere, annoyingly. If someone knows the URL for it, please tell me!

Same goes for GI JOE. I can find ROMS for it, but none of them work with my emulators (grrrr)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 24 April 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Impossible Mission ROM: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?h=0&id=3731

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

A screengrab from It's Only Rock and Roll. I played an emulated version of this recently. The idea was that you were a fledgling rock band with X dollars to spend on gigging, recording, manager-hiring and whatnot. Like Oregon Trail, with roadies.

http://www.classicgaming.nl/images/itsonlyrockandroll/itsonly.gif

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 24 April 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

hee hee. Rockstargame, rendered in 4 colors.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Saturday, 24 April 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/N/Neighbours_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 February 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus the graphics of 'summer games II' look pretty hott.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 February 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/A/Augie_Doggie_and_Doggier_Daddy_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 February 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG a Neighbours game!!! *brain splosion*

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 6 February 2005 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The Neighbours game, weirdly enough, revolved around skateboarding.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 6 February 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my favourite game of that era is 'new zealand story'. I like a cabinet of that actually.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 February 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/N/The_New_Zealand_Story_1.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 6 February 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

And a homebrew "tribute" to it:

http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/H/Harry_-_At_New_Zealand.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 6 February 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHA!!! What is that!

So New Zealand has:

-Axe wielding robot cats
-balloon riding turtles
-Birds that shoot arrows
-And they are all at war

Whoda thunk it!

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Sunday, 6 February 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to remember that the intro sequence for The New Zealand Story features a group of kiwis (one smoking a fag) being kidnapped by a large walrus.

(I have the arcade ROM for MAME, so it's not that long since I last played it)

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 6 February 2005 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

of course everyone knows the amiga version was the best *flounces off*

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 6 February 2005 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure New Zealand Story was the first video game I ever completed.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 6 February 2005 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember a review for that in Amiga Format or one of those... "Stop Wally Walrus from eating his friends!". I should play that.

― chrisco (chrisco), Sunday, 6 February 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

new zealand story and rainbow islands on the amiga are my favourite computer games.

― in sharky water, Sunday, 6 February 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i think they were both licensed by ocean right? what are ocean up to these days?

― in sharky water, Sunday, 6 February 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

and does anyone know who originally done newzealand story? was it someone like taito? surely it was japanese..

― in sharky water, Sunday, 6 February 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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