What games did you play on your C64?

[Cerowyn]

@OpalCat

So how long did it take to load?

(And I had the crapy 300 baud modem. I used to dialup to local BBSs and try to chat, but people with C128 would type fast and it would scroll past so fast I couldn’t read it.)

Punter BBS took about 20 minutes to load. Far be it from me to bad-mouth one of the group’s members, but Steve was not the most efficient programmer.

If you ever used HTerm software, I wrote that. One of the reasons I did was to be able to auto-dial with that crappy modem – it involved toggling the hook switch to emulate rotary dialing.

[Skywatcher]

@Hello Again

Apparently I’m the only one that played Family Feud!?

Nope.

[ZipperJJ]

@pulykamell

I’m almost 100% certain Super Mario Brothers was never officially released for the C64. You sure it wasn’t a hack of this game?

I gave it some more thought and I talked with my brother about it, and it was DEFINITELY Super Mario Brothers for the C64.

It was also DEFINITELY hacked - I now recall that there was a “brought to you by…” screen at the beginning, which seemed perfectly normal to me at the time (all my games were hacked) but now in my older, wiser years I know what it was.

Don’t forget, I didn’t have my C64 until way late - nothing about it was new. I was still rockin’ the C64 until maybe a year or two until the SNES came out. So there was plenty of time for Super Mario Brothers to come out on the NES and then be ported to C64 by some 1337 h4x0rz and for me to get a lot of entertainment out of it.

[Baron_Greenback]

@Cerowyn

I’d made the jump to the IBM PC by late '83, so I missed the C128. A shame that that machine didn’t take off, since it was in many ways more advanced than the PC at the time (with a native CP/M mode, as well!).

Sigh. I wonder what the modern computing landscape would look like if only Commodore management had been, well, competent.

[Yorikke]

@DocCathode

Deceptor- use your shapechanging powers to make it through the mazes

I came here to mention that, but I couldn’t remember the name…

Pinball Construction Set
Yie Ar Kung Fu
Kung Fu Master
Karate Champ
Jumpman Jr.
Mr Do!
Beach Head I and II

Many others I can’t recall…

Joe

[pulykamell]

@ZipperJJ

I gave it some more thought and I talked with my brother about it, and it was DEFINITELY Super Mario Brothers for the C64.

It was also DEFINITELY hacked - I now recall that there was a “brought to you by…” screen at the beginning, which seemed perfectly normal to me at the time (all my games were hacked) but now in my older, wiser years I know what it was.

Don’t forget, I didn’t have my C64 until way late - nothing about it was new. I was still rockin’ the C64 until maybe a year or two until the SNES came out. So there was plenty of time for Super Mario Brothers to come out on the NES and then be ported to C64 by some 1337 h4x0rz and for me to get a lot of entertainment out of it.

Hmm…I’m really intrigued now. I wonder what the story is. All the official sources I can find only have Super Mario Brothers released for Nintendo systems (NES, Gamboy Advance, Virtual Console.) The only Super Mario Brothers for the C64 I’m aware of is that Great Giana Sisters sprite hack, which I had, and which was sold (illegally) through various software pirates back in the day. The splash screen contained one of those “Eagle Soft” type hacker intros, and the intro said “Super Mario Brothers” although the game was really Great Giana Sisters.

berff - When did you buy this game? Recently or back in the C64 heyday? Did the game come in packaging, or was it just a loose diskette?

[pulykamell]

Interestingly enough, you can play Giana Sisters here. Unfortunately, the Super Mario Brothers hack is not functional on that site. But this is the same game I remember my “Super Mario Brothers” to be. Was either of your Super Mario Brothers like this game?

[DocCathode]

Future Knight- I could never make it off the ship
Pharoah’s Curse- Avoid the mummy, pharoah, and the winged thing

[LilShieste]

Pecos Pete - a collection of simple cowboy games. From memory, this included:
[ul]
[li]Catching mugs of beer sliding down the bar towards you from the bartender.[/li][li]Milking a cow. Yep. (While trying to dodge piles of manure that - oddly enough - moved around.)[/li][li]I think there was even a gunfight game in there, too.[/li][/ul]
Oh, and another vote for Impossible Mission. (“Aaaauuuuuuggh!”)
LilShieste

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Oh man, I forgot about ELITE. I played that until I was blue in the face.

[berff]

@pulykamell

Hmm…I’m really intrigued now. I wonder what the story is. All the official sources I can find only have Super Mario Brothers released for Nintendo systems (NES, Gamboy Advance, Virtual Console.) The only Super Mario Brothers for the C64 I’m aware of is that Great Giana Sisters sprite hack, which I had, and which was sold (illegally) through various software pirates back in the day. The splash screen contained one of those “Eagle Soft” type hacker intros, and the intro said “Super Mario Brothers” although the game was really Great Giana Sisters.

berff - When did you buy this game? Recently or back in the C64 heyday? Did the game come in packaging, or was it just a loose diskette?

I believe I bought it sometime around 1990, and it didn’t come in a box, just a loose diskette with a Super Mario Bros label on it. I ordered most of my games from ads in magazines, and I’m sure many of them were never official releases since I own many games that I never saw in stores. For instance, I have loads of C64 porn games that I ordered when I was about 12.

[pulykamell]

@berff

I believe I bought it sometime around 1990, and it didn’t come in a box, just a loose diskette with a Super Mario Bros label on it. I ordered most of my games from ads in magazines, and I’m sure many of them were never official releases since I own many games that I never saw in stores. For instance, I have loads of C64 porn games that I ordered when I was about 12.

Ok, that makes sense, then.

[OpalCat]

I’ve become obsessed with figuring out what that maze game was called. I seem to recall that you couldn’t see all of the maze on screen at once (except maybe if you hit a special key?) and that there were various objects in the maze that you collected, and that there were spider-like monsters in the maze that would kill you. Sound familiar? I think it had a one-word name.

[Dob]

Archon was the BEST! A nice fighting/chess game. And I loved the Summer Olympics as well. Of course Bards Tale was fun!

[Cervaise]

Re Racing Destruction Set, I mentioned in a thread a month or so ago how cool a remake could be.

Also, I get to be the first to mention Raid on Bungeling Bay. That was fucking insane.

[Skywatcher]

@OpalCat

I’ve become obsessed with figuring out what that maze game was called. I seem to recall that you couldn’t see all of the maze on screen at once (except maybe if you hit a special key?) and that there were various objects in the maze that you collected, and that there were spider-like monsters in the maze that would kill you. Sound familiar? I think it had a one-word name.

Have you tried browsing Moby Games to see if anything rings a bell?

[OpalCat]

YAY! Thanks Lute! I found it! It was called Maziacs.

[OpalCat]

@OpalCat

What was the game where you’re sort of jousting, but there is a ball bouncing around, and your little knight character seemed to be tethered to the wall with an elastic cord?

I found it: Bounces

[DocCathode]

Dammit! All my C64 disks stopped working a few years ago. I’ve tried emulators but it isn’t quite the same. At times like this, I really miss my Commodores.