The Last Ninja trilogy
Red Storm Rising
Buggy Boy
Daley Thompsons’ Decathlon
Microprose Soccer
And there was a cool RPG whose name excapes me. It came with a map of the island and a sheet of stickers with the names of villages on. So you had to complete the map as you played. Above ground it was viewed from overhead, but the dungeons were 3D.
Many of the ones already named, as well as:
Lords of Conquest
Gangbusters (I think that was the name . . . kind of a mostly-text game where you had to manage resources and not get busted by the cops as you bet on horses, rand bootleg operations, and so forth)
Spy vs. Spy
Bards Tale III
There was one game I remember, where you were this guy who was a painter, and you had to paint rooms in a house a certain color against a timer(?) or bad guys(?) or something.
You sure Super Mario Brothers was released on the 64? Or was it a hack of some sort? I remember Great Giana Sisters, and I know there was a “Super Mario Brothers” hack for it that altered the sprites (which is what I had), but it wasn’t Super Mario Brothers like the NES version at all. (Well, maybe “at all” is stretching it. Great Giana Sisters was forced to be withdrawn due to Nintendo’s legal action against the company that made the game. The game looks similar, but I remember the level layouts being completely different and the gameplay was choppier than on the Nintendo. I was very disappointed by the game.)
My faves:
Archon
Maniac Mansion & Zack McCracken
Summer Games, Summer Games II, World Games, Winter Games
The Detective Game
Montezuma’s Revenge
Trolls & Tribulations
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Bee-Gee Air Rally
Grand Prix Circuit
Mail Order Monsters
Lazy Jones
Impossible Mission
Marble Madness
I would like to take this moment to observe a moment of silence for my sidekick and friend, Floyd.
…
Thank you.
(i.e. many of the above plus Planetfall)
Perhaps Zipper is thinking of Mario Bros.
That’s it!
I also enjoyed:
B.C.'s Quest for Tires
Steve Garvey vs. Jose Canseco in Grand Slam Baseball
Not a game, but we thought GEOS was pretty advanced technology at the time.
Wow, this brings back memories. Let’s see…
Defender of the Crown
Test Drive
Dr. J and Larry Bird go One-on-One
Michael Jordan and Larry Bird go One-on-one
GBA Two-on-two basketball
Fast Break
Fourth and Inches
John Madden Football (the original!)
Bard’s Tale 1-3
Street Sports Basketball
Karateka
Karate Champ
Beyond the Forbidden Forest
Ninja (mastertronic)
Five-a-side Soccer
Black Crystal
World Games
Budokan
The Hobbit (I, too, never finished that one. I always ended up in a prison with Thorin and I think I would get tired of waiting and type something like, “Throw map at Thorin” and it would respond, “With one well-placed blow you cleave Thorin’s skull. Thorin is dead.” They don’t make maps like they used to!)
Knight Games
Kung-fu Master
Heroes of the Lance
I’m sure there were dozens more, they just didn’t stay in my memory as strongly…
Was I the only one in the world playing Wizard? Damn, I miss that game!
Played my share of Marble Madness and Jumpman, too.
No.
Me too!
I liked also *Impossible Mission *.
*Garry Kitchen’s GameMaker * made me once get an “A” in a community college class presentation.
Castles of Dr. Creep
Boulder Dash
The Way of the Exploding Fist
Rock 'n Bolt
Beach Head II
Also spent a good deal of time staring at the kaleidoscope feature in Print Shop, back when I… consumed certain things. It was black-and-white and far more primitive than anything you’d find in a screensaver these days, but in the right frame of mind, it seemed like interdimensional travel through a cosmic birth canal.
Quite possibly. We played it a lot and it failed a lot 
I also just remembered Burger Time.
I remember one puzzle early on where it was obvious you had to stick a particular object in a hole, only I could never get it to recognize the verb. I almost think it had a bug (since I remember finding a cheat guide and thinking I tried what it said).
Yes, I remember having to practically lean forward over the joystick to get the controls right. It was like trying to pee with morning wood.
Of the many mentioned here that I played, Red Storm Rising is what I consider one of the greatest computer games ever. It was amazingly complex while being accessible; incredible how much detail there was on a game for the C64.
The Command Series (Decision in the Desert was one, there was a 1944 France and even a Vietnam one as well) which was co-designed by Sid Meier, was in my opinion one of the best ‘playable’ wargame systems ever. It was ‘accelerated real-time’ (think Europa Universalis, not Starcraft), with a real feel that you were actually a general ordering your divisions around. It took into account manpower, experience, troop strength, division type, and formation when computing battle results; battlefield intelligence was occasionally imperfect (leading to some fantastic moments of panic), and supply and air support were also figured in. It’d be nice to see this with a more powerful AI behind it.
Autoduel - a great way of realizing the board game (Car Wars) on the computer.
Racing Destruction Set - endless fun with just the options on the cars. This one screams would be great as a remake.
Agent U.S.A. - may have been ‘educational’, but I liked it.
Buck Rogers - more like what Star Wars should have been.
Echelon - anyone have this? It came with a ‘voice recognition’ headset to fire the joystick button, which also came in handy on games like Spyhunter. The game wasn’t so bad, though it was so big I never finished it.
GI Joe - more fun than it sounds, but not a whole lot more; just enough.
Anyone else show off their L33T graphics skillz with Koala Stick, the joystick-controlled graphics program?
Side C64 question:
How long was the longest you ever had to wait for a game to load (doesn’t count waiting for a game to load that froze up… I’m talking about “this game generally took X time to load”)
For me it was probably one of the Ultima games, which seemed to take 15 or more minutes.
Forbidden Forest, on Datasette (the cassette tape), took about 10-15 minutes to load. I used to wake up, “Press Play On Tape”, eat breakfast, and when I came back, it usually was done.
I do remember that in one game, though I don’t remember which one, the load screen had the sentence “Patience is a 1541 disk drive”.
Two words: cassette drive.
It took nearly twenty minutes for me to load up anything on it.
There were plenty of games on disk, though, that took five to ten minutes.
Pool of Radiance
Wasteland
MULE
Space Taxi
Epyx Karate Championship
Autoduel
Ultima IV (never got into 5 or the later ones)
Project Stealth Fighter (later release was F19 Stealth Fighter)
Gunship
Hardball!
Sporttime Ice Hockey
Bard’s Tale
Archon II
and the Ne Plus Ultra of C64 games…
Mail Order Monsters
(kudos to the winner!)
Apparently I’m the only one that played Family Feud!? I also played the hell out of California Games – I was awesome at hackeysack.
My friend (who had the C64, it wasn’t mine) also figured out that a certain “load” code would load any game. (IIRC the load code was an attempt at copy protection) I think it was LOAD “*”,8,1
I clearly remember playing Super Mario Bros on the C64. In fact, I had it on a floppy disk and I sold it on ebay a couple of years ago for $10.
My favorite game is probably Boulderdash, although when I was 12 I remember spending a lot of time playing a game called Stroker which involves jerking the joystick back and forth at just the right speed and rhythm without allowing the penis on the screen to ejaculate before becoming completely hard. It was not an easy game to master.
I also remember getting music files on the C64 which I thought was cool at the time, even though a one minute clip of a song in extremely poor quality would take up an entire disk.