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
Fahrenheit 451 (with the mechanical dogs with needle tounges, great stuff!)
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.
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.
I got so frustrated trying to map out Zork…
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.
Lode Runner!
Castle Wolfenstein
Zork.
Ultima: I, II, III
Larry Bird & Dr. J go One on One.
ES Sports Archon II, Adept.
Paradroid. Love this game.
Any of the construction set games.
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)
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
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Who here still knows how to retrieve the Babel fish? (raises hand)
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Hang robe on hook
Put towel over drain
Put satchel in front of panel
Put mail on satchel
Press Button
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.
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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.
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Sounds like Karateka, which is what I came in to mention.
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Sounds like Karateka, which is what I came in to mention.
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It was actually Yie Ar Kung-Fu: Yie Ar Kung-Fu - Wikipedia
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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
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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. )
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.
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!
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.
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.