# Best C-64 Game? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671 "2002-12-24T03:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/21 "2002-12-24T17:41:29Z")
Beach Head, of course. _The Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy_ is up there. One of my favourite sports games ever: _Slap Shot_. Fight! ---
**Author:** ![moodtobestewed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@moodtobestewed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moodtobestewed)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/22 "2002-12-24T17:44:34Z")
Another big fan of Seven Cities of Gold here too. Last time I tried the emmulators they were still having difficulty with that game, and I was very disappointed. I also spent countless hours trying to complete Jumpman Jr. I liked how he got impatient if you stopped moving. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/23 "2002-12-24T18:04:51Z")
Skate or Die Winter Games - Great music in this one Goonies - I loved how you had to figure out the puzzles and move all the guys around and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/24 "2002-12-24T18:22:47Z")
Here are a few that haven’t yet been mentioned: **Dino Eggs Miner 2049er Ghostbusters Pooyan Boulderdash Championship Baseball Spy vs. Spy Strip Poker** (I was 13. Whoa…) ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/25 "2002-12-24T18:39:36Z")
Not a single mention of Mad Max? The BEST “flight sim”/shooter ever made, bar none. Also, all the Arkanoids were great, even if they weren’t original to the 64. And Raid On Bungling Bay was an all time classic. It took about 7 minutes to load, and was worth every second. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/26 "2002-12-24T18:55:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*For some reason I have in my mind that **Zork** was on the Vic 20. Am I remembering wrong? \*\* Yeah, a lot of the text-only games were on the Vic-20 too. I had one. 3.5K of memory, woot! ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/27 "2002-12-24T20:38:47Z")
Man, such good memories. I’ll just mention a few that no one’s mentioned yet: **Phantasie Temple of Asphai Telengard** Yup. I started on cRPGs, and I’m still there. Kickass. Quix ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/28 "2002-12-24T21:30:17Z")
When I was a kid, I had a 64. My fave was Rick Dangerous. Ahh, the joys of platform jumping. ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/29 "2002-12-24T23:52:16Z")
Impossible Mission all Ultima titles There was also one where you rode from city to city on a train as these little robots multiplied. You could only let them touch you so many times before you died. I can’t remember the name, just that it was really addictive. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/30 "2002-12-25T02:17:47Z")
I had a game called _Nuke War_ which was pretty morbid. It was sort of _Battleship_-like and you place ICBM’s, Bombers, ABM’s and Submarines around your grid, then went back and forth with the Russians until a hot war started and you nuked the fark out of each other. Anybody else play that one? ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/31 "2002-12-25T02:46:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flymaster \* > \*\*Not a single mention of Mad Max? The BEST “flight sim”/shooter ever made, bar none. \*\* Wow, I was just re reading this, and realized that I made a huge mistake. That’s BLUE Max, not Mad. Very sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/32 "2002-12-25T02:46:18Z")
Beachead, Commando, and 7 Cities of Gold. Ah, those were the days. Although they weren’t then. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/33 "2002-12-25T04:11:09Z")
I’ll go with: _Starflight Wasteland California Games Rocket Ranger Ghostbusters Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders_ ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/34 "2002-12-25T07:16:29Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Banger** _: > **Beach Head. Already mentioned, the best part of this game was the knife throwing at the end, especially the sound the guys would make when they were hit with a knife and fell into the water** Is it more embarassing for you or for me that I can point out that this was, in fact, the last mini-game of Beach Head II? The first ended with you firing a cannon at multiple square targets, at different elevations, on a mound, at the top of which was the Overlord’s monster cannon. But they were both seriously cool. 😃 To this day, emulator and .c64 files in hand, I have _still_ never been able to finish Roadwar 2000 or Roadwar Europa. Dino Eggs was the time traveller saving dinos from extinction, wasn’t it? Damn, that was fun, too. Mail Order Monsters was nifty, but the actual critter battles got kind of repetitive after a bit. Telengard, **that** was the name of it. Everyone else constantly break-stopped the program to alter the character generation number generator, too, right? Start out with 400 h.p. or so, stats all in the high double/low triple figure range… Right? ---
**Author:** ![Daylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Daylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylon)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/35 "2002-12-25T07:18:36Z")
Gawd…Starflight…that brings back memories… Beach Head was hilarious… “You can’t hurt me…\…\…ahhhhhhh!” Just remember as a kid thinking it was cool to hear the guys yell…“Medic!! I’m Hit!!” Geez…that and dropping the parachutists too close to the ground so they splatted… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/36 "2002-12-25T13:29:55Z")
Bard’s Tale I and II Pahntasie The Gold Box Series Might And Magic ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/37 "2002-12-25T18:34:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skeezix \* > \*\*Telengard, **that** was the name of it. Everyone else constantly break-stopped the program to alter the character generation number generator, too, right? Start out with 400 h.p. or so, stats all in the high double/low triple figure range… > > Right? \*\* No, but I _did_ recently download an emulator with an immediate save/load option. Hmm, so prying the jewels at the throne summons a level 188 dragon king? Yeah, I think I won’t be doing that then… I forgot how strong I got, but it was pretty damned strong. Of course, I could never find an inn at the deeper levels, so my level wasn’t _that_ high, but my equipment was top draw. Quix ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/38 "2002-12-26T02:29:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by moodtobestewed \* > \*\*Another big fan of Seven Cities of Gold here too. Last time I tried the emmulators they were still having difficulty with that game, and I was very disappointed. \*\* Have you tried the Deluxe version for PC? Might have been for Mac too but I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/39 "2002-12-26T05:00:11Z")
Oh my. My cousin and I were just reliving those nostalgic days last night. He’s gone nuts and bought several audio CDs of remixed Commodore 64 game themes. That SID chip rocked! Anyhow, my votes would be: Archon (my all-time grand prize winner) Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders Pirates! Montezuma’s Revenge The Detective Game Rockstar Ate My Hamster Lazy Jones Trolls & Tribulations Hey, **Max** , don’t feel so bad about The Last V-8. The game was such a HUGE letdown. There’s only two screens of action. I think the bulk of the game was used up for the staticky sample “The Last V-8. Return to base immediately!” But how cool it was to hear our computers actually _talking_ to us. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671/40 "2002-12-26T06:18:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by YellowTail \* > \*\* > > There was also one where you rode from city to city on a train as these little robots multiplied. You could only let them touch you so many times before you died. I can’t remember the name, just that it was really addictive. \*\* Sounds like you are describing **Agent U.S.A**. Not robots though, but people affected by the fuzz bomb. At least thats how I remmeber it. I also loved **M.U.L.E**. I was a young kid at the time and had a pirated version with no instructions. I always took pride in the fact that I figured this game out well enough to be First Founder as a human without any guidance. Also liked Pirates! Impossible Mission All the Infocom text based games Skool Daze (sp?) Also I liked a game called something like “Suicide Train” which had a killer musical accompaniment. I can’t seem to find this game or its music anywhere. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-c-64-game/144671.md?page=3)