# What games did you play on your C64? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653 "2007-06-04T04:30:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/21 "2007-06-04T12:02:27Z")
Archon Archon II: Adept Bard’s Tale I, II, III Several of the Ultima games Might & Magic I, II Pool of Radiance Curse of the Azure Bonds Seven Cities of Gold ---
**Author:** ![DustyButt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DustyButt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DustyButt)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/22 "2007-06-04T12:24:11Z")
Fahrenheit 451 (with the mechanical dogs with needle tounges, great stuff!) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/23 "2007-06-04T12:37:42Z")
I can’t remember! Seems like there was a decent chess game I played a lot, but I may be thinking of the Sargon for VIC-20. There was also Omega Race (shoot-em-up) for the VIC that we wore out. We had the VIC maybe a year before moving up to the 64, and I typed in a whole bunch of those _Compute_, _Run_, and _Compute Gazette_ programs, mostly games, but y’all have yet to name any I can remember playing. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/24 "2007-06-04T12:56:43Z")
**Top Favourites** Defender of the Crown (favourite solo game!) Pirates! (second favourite solo game!) M.U.L.E (favourite team game) **Other games I really liked** Bard’s Tale Archon (I’d forgotten about that one until I read **jayjay** ’s post) I tried a lot of games, but those were the ones I kept coming back to - particularly the first 3. I tried Zork but was never much good at it. Ditto Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I got much better at those kinds of games later in life, but I just didn’t have the right mindset for them at that time. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/25 "2007-06-04T13:02:39Z")
I got so frustrated trying to map out Zork… ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/26 "2007-06-04T13:22:03Z")
Flight Simulator Telengard Pool of Radiance Might & Magic Zork - well, most of the Infocom word adventure games - I loved them. I also had a chess game, but I can’t remember the name. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/27 "2007-06-04T13:34:11Z")
Lode Runner! ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/28 "2007-06-04T13:35:32Z")
Castle Wolfenstein Zork. Ultima: I, II, III Larry Bird & Dr. J go One on One. ES Sports Archon II, Adept. ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/29 "2007-06-04T14:01:34Z")
Paradroid. Love this game. Any of the construction set games. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/30 "2007-06-04T14:22:55Z")
I still have my C64 disks. I wonder if they’ve degraded beyond readability, or if they’re still usable. Earth Orbit Stations could stand to be updated to modern concepts. I always felt that the game was too limited by the then-current concept of space flight. PHM Pegasus was fun. I never did win the Persian Gulf mission, though. The all-text Infocom games are classics. Many of them are very replayable. Who here still knows how to retrieve the Babel fish? (raises hand) ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/31 "2007-06-04T14:27:50Z")
The Hobbit. And I never finished the bugger, allus got stung to death within sight of Hobbitown. What’s more I don’t think they have it on disk for PCs ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/32 "2007-06-04T14:28:55Z")
[QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] Who here still knows how to retrieve the Babel fish? (raises hand) [/QUOTE] Hang robe on hook Put towel over drain Put satchel in front of panel Put mail on satchel Press Button ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/33 "2007-06-04T14:39:51Z")
Y’all are commadore snobs-- I had the Vic-20, and my 10-year-old self loved it! My games: Blue Meanies From Outer Space Tooth Invaders Jupiter Lander Blackjack Super Slither That’s all I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/34 "2007-06-04T14:51:57Z")
[QUOTE=HighFructose] Some ninja game where a guy with nunchucks hits your shin repeatedly, then during the next stage a fat sumo wrestler that flies at you and you have to duck, and during one of the final stages on level one you square off against a mirror image of yourself. [/QUOTE] Sounds like **Karateka** , which is what I came in to mention. ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_Lurker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/35 "2007-06-04T15:12:25Z")
[QUOTE=Ellis Dee] Sounds like **Karateka** , which is what I came in to mention. [/QUOTE] It was actually Yie Ar Kung-Fu: [Yie Ar Kung-Fu - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yie_Ar_Kung-Fu) ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/36 "2007-06-04T15:18:53Z")
[QUOTE=Jeff] Pool of Raaaaaadiannnnnce! (and all the gold-box SSI series) - God I wasted soooo much of my life when I was 13 playing these games. Fargoal Karate Championship (or something like that) Ghosts & Goblins California Games Defender of the Crown [/QUOTE] Dude, are you me? I was going to list 5/6 of these. How about _Karateka_? (Rats! Someone beat me to Karateka! I’ll add the _Phantasie_ series. ) ---
**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:** [June 4, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/37 "2007-06-04T15:28:51Z")
Hee. What games _didn’t_ I play on the 64? I have over 200 5¼ disks–formatted on both sides–sitting around, most of which are unsuable partly because I was a dumb kid who felt sleeves just got in the way. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/38 "2007-06-04T16:05:42Z")
Super Mario Brothers (yes, on the C64) Maniac Mansion Summer Olympics We got our system from some dude, probably at a time when the C64 was at the end of it’s popularity (to replace the Atari, which we got from some other dude at a time when IT was at the end of it’s popularity (we were poor)). We only had games that had been written to floppies - no store-bought games. Most of the ones we had didn’t work, except the ones above. In fact I never knew you could actually buy games - I thought you had to copy them from people 🙂 Eventually, in the 90’s, we got a Nintendo (…at the end of its popularity). I spent so much time playing these old scrolling games with a joystick that I had a horrible time attempting to play anything that was 64-bit and had more than one direction. To this day I can’t play 3D games! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653/39 "2007-06-04T16:06:27Z")
Zork Zork II Leather Goddesses of Phobos (with 3d comic and glasses.) Rendezvous with Rama - never got very far plus a disappointing version of the Star Wars arcade game. The controls were upside down to me (you pulled the joystick down to move up) so I never did as well on it as I did on the arcade machines. ---
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Pirates!, Fireworks Construction Kit, and Choplifter, which have been mentioned; but I can’t believe I get to be the first to mention **Impossible Mission**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-games-did-you-play-on-your-c64/406653.md?page=3)