Ahh, Quest For Tires! Loved that one. Also took me years to beat.
Anastasaeon, that one you can’t remember the name of sounds reeeeealy familiar to me. I’m sure I played it as well but the name escapes me too.
Just remembered O’rielly’s Mine. That was fun too.
My fave, The Castles Of Dr. Creep.
Cheers,
Vega
Dr. Creep! Loved that one too. I’d hate when the monsters would stand at the bottom of ladders, and you’d have to lure them somewhere else and then make a dash for it and hope you were quick enough.
Ghostbusters!..hahahahahaha! I loved that game. Now I can beat it with ease, but back in the day it was tough. It’s still a bit of a challenge to get between the marshmallow man’s legs into the building.
Beach-Head. Another tough game that is now not so tough.
Yie-Air Kung Fu. If pole hit you even once there was no escape, so you had to be good.
The Infocom sorcery games like Enchanter. Fun, long, and full of in jokes. The worst was when you finally made the castle and got lost in the transparent rooms in the basement.
Of course, we have the immortal game that has never been beaten, Hacker, which I spent way, way, way too much time on.
And we have the immortal Wings Of Fury, probably the hardest flying game I’ve ever played.
Yeah, C64 games are fun.
All the Infocom games, but especially the Zork series, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Nord and Bert Couldn’t Make Heads or Tails of It.
A wonderful adventure game that I swear nobody but me has heard of - Below the Root. You could choose one of several children to play as, went from house to house looking for things like free tokens, or information, bought a thing called a Shuba to glide from tree to tree… Performed various feats to raise your psychic abilities - “Pense” was reading minds, etc. A lot of fun.
I should have added Ghostbuster’s to Airman Door’s original thread. I never did beat that game. I’d get the notice that the marshmallow man was coming, but be completely powerless to do anything about it. I even had the “Otto List” cheat which gave me enough money to buy the best car, lots of traps, all the gizmos… And did well at actually catching ghosts. Just couldn’t beat the damn thing.
Blue Max (Rarely got better than a Kamikaze rating)
Mind Control, in which you shrank down so that you could walk around in a brain and zap… something. Can’t remember what.
Hacker. Goonies. Circus. All games I had on tape.
Man, I miss those days… That’s it, I’m downloading an emulator tomorrow.
Mind Control! Yes! I’d forgot about that one. That was fun. I can’t recall what you’d zap, either, but I remember zapping.
Floyd of the Jungle was another cute one.
Ah, yes, the good old days. My first computer was the VIC-20, then skipped the 64 to get the 128 (which had the 64 built in too.). I probably ruined my eyes typing in the programs from Compute until some genius in the magazine suggested just reading it to a tape recorder, then listening with headphones and typing it in from that.
I had the cassette drive too. They called it the “stringy floppy.” 
The VIC hasd a huge memory of 5K! But, the OS was on a chip, so when you booted, there it was instantly. On the 128, learned to program in CP/S, the forerunner of DOS. Them were the days.
Speaking of C-64 games, I saw this the other day…
M.U.L.E (Multiple Use Labor Element) was a real blast. Four colonists (at least one of them being played by a human) try to build a successful outpost on a planet, using the MULEs. The colonists could have the mules produce food, energy, or smithore. In the hardest setting, the mules could also mine crystite, which was purley for cash purposes. All sorts of random things could happen, good AND bad, which made the game even more interesting. When one colonist didn’t have enough of the basic needs, s/he could buy from the store, or buy from the other colonists. What a great game. Primitive graphics, but very good gameplay.
I used to beat Impossible Mission regularly. I used to have strategies for coping with all the different kinds of robots.
I wonder if my old C128 still works?
I got Compute magazine, or something like it, but I typed in programs for the TI99/4A. Then I’d spend hours scrolling through code, trying to see what I mistyped. THAT taught me accuracy, far more than my high school typing (NOT keyboarding) class ever did.
If anyone ever had “Wogglebug Attack” or “Relaxation Graphics” for the C-64, I’d like to brag on myself. I wrote those. Made some decent money off 'em until they were “cracked” and uploaded to every C-64 BBS in the world.
Archon
Aztec Challenge
Deceptor
Forbidden Forest
Pharoah’s Curse
Buck Rogers
The Movie Monster Game
Maniac Mansion
Dragon’s Lair
Dragon’s Lair 2
Bruce Lee
Spiderbot
DarkLord
Rad Warrior
Tass Times In Tone Town.
I could go on. Tragically, either all my 1541 drives, all my connector cables, or all my Commodore disks died about five years ago.
As I mentioned in the other thread, Raid on Bungeling Bay was my game. Tremendously fast paced and huge fun. My brother and I also had the Gorf plug-in cartridge game.
Ooo, yeah, that kicked ass. Endless amounts of fun.
And re MULE? My brother and I still sing the theme song to one another. I’ll do the low “bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum” arpeggio part, and he’ll do the falsetto “dootle-oot-doot-doot-dooooo” melody over it.
I just remembered another one. Stroker 64. With deft manipulation of the joystick, you bring the, uh, man, to a “happy ending”. :eek:
Yes, it was x-rated.
Not that I played it though. 
Cheers,
Vega
Ha!
I remember as a child, feeling so sneaky and curious, having a kid at school hand me a disk when I’d asked for it that he proclaimed had all kinds of great “PORNO! REAL PORNO! FOR YOUR COMPUTER!” At that time, I’d never seen porn in my life, but I knew it had to be dirty (even though my little mind didn’t even understand the mechanics… I think I was in grade 7 or so when it finally clicked and I exclaimed during sex ed “He puts it INSIDE??!”) Still. Young, curious minds want to see this dirty, secret act. So he hands off the disk to me, I sneak it inside, and when my parents are in the other room, sounding like they are engrossed in the television set, I slip it in! I boot everything up, wait nervously for it to finish loading… and AHA! Jackpot! It’s… it’s…
It’s a slideshow of a bunch of crappy drawings that look like they’ve been made in GEOS, of naked old women with kitchen utensils, making jokes that made no sense at all to me. Sometimes people were fully clothed. I had a vague idea that the jokes were supposed to be dirty, but I just didn’t get it. This was porno? I was so disappointed.
I popped the disk out, disgusted, and went back to playing Super Huey.
No worries, I had a revolution at 13, when I learned to unblock the Spice channel. 
Paradroid. Loved that game. Still play it on my Commodore emulator. Max Carnage swears up and down he took over a 999 robot once, but I’m not sure I believe him.
Skate or Die was fun.
Samantha Fox Strip Poker.
I still play my Atari computers. Most games also available for the C64.
Too many favourites to mention. Many already said.
Star Raiders. Tapper. Archon. Spy vs. Spy. Karateka. Shamus. Seven Cities of Gold.
Alternate Reality. Ultima I-IV. All of the Infocom games (Leather Goddesses was great, but so were Infidel, Deadline, Enchanter, etc; the easy Scott Adams games like Voodoo Castle were also fun. Anyone else remeber The Institute or that Vietnam war graphics/word game). Joust. Digdug. Imperium Galactium. Summer Games. Gauntlet. Ghostbusters (just kidding!). Tron (or Angleworms). Zombies. Choplifter. Impossible Mission. Spyhunter. Pole Position. Racing Destruction Set. Autoduel (based on Car Wars). Pinball Construction Set (rocked!). Leader Board Golf. Donkey Kong (Sr/Jr). Eastern Front. Pac-Man. Crypts of Terror. Pengo. Artworx Strip Poker. Behind Jaggi Lines.
Bruce Lee. Boulderdash. Blue Max. Raid Over Moscow. Pit Stop. Bard’s Tale. Pharoah’s Curse. Hacker. Pirates! I’ll stop now.
I fondly remember both Compute! and many of the games therein (Hammurabi, various board and card games) which I programmed.
I still hate errors 139 and 143 (“serial bus data frame checksum error”, but of course!) after all these years!
Forbidden Forest was great. But kind of scary.
I used to play Caverns of Khafka too. It was buggy as hell. My guy often walked on nothing, got stuck in walls, and flickered. The music had hitches in it too. What was up with those Omni games? They were fun, but I get the impression the programmer tested it once and said, “That’s good enough!”
Oh, and the VIC. Yes, I had a VIC-20 before I had the C64 too. I remember waiting 10 minutes for Frogger to load up from the cassette tape. I had Amok on cassette too. I also had Gorf and Garden Wars on cartridge. Good times.
If you want to try it again, get CCS64 and… well, I don’t want to cause this thread to get closed, so let’s just say that the games are easy to come by. Anyway, buy the hearse, get the ghost vacuum, image intensifier, ghost bait, and three traps (basically everything on the first two screens- ignore the portable laser containment system), and play the game normally, but when the Marshmallow Man comes out, as soon as you see the Marshmallow Alarm hit the “B” button on the keyboard. That activates the bait and kills the Marshmallow Man and you get paid like a champ. All you have to do is beat your initial investment of $10,000 to get to the end.