best C64 platform games?

[s2325]

Agent UOP, Bignose's USA Adventure, Bugs in Buggyland, Chuck Rock, Chwat, CJ 4, CJ in the USA, CJ's Elephant Antics, Creatures, DJ Puff's Volcantic Capers, Drip, Eternal, Flimbo's Quest, Hans Kloss, Jonny Quest, Klemens, Mice Mania - Murray Mouse Super-Cop, Poseidon - Planet Eleven, Turrican 3
http://www.lemon64.com/

any more?

[TCD]

Great Giana Sisters and Turrican (didn't know that Turrican 3 was done on the C64 yet).

[s2325]

Turrican 3 is from year 200x. Awesome music on title screen.

[Retro-Nerd]

Great Giana Sisters (better than the miggy version)
Ghost'n Goblins
Mayhem in Monsterland
Turrican 1-3
Nobby the Aardvark
Wonderboy
Rastan
Fred's back series
Hawkeye
Bruce Lee
Henry's House
Rick Dangerous 1 & 2

[Thorham]

Turrican 2 is very good. Technically more advanced than the Amiga version, too!

[Retro-Nerd]

First Samurai
It's Magic 1 & 2
Jack the Nipper 2
Mighty Bomb Jack
Montezuma's Revenge

[DH]

Does anyone remember Quo Vadis (I think that's how you spell it). On reading this it just sprang to mind, cant remember much about it though, it was on morning till night until it was finished

Was it good, I cant remember, too much booze has fried my brain since those Innocent days

[Coagulus]

Mayhem in Monsterland, Creatures('), Turrican(s), NZ Story and the CJ games were all good!

[MazinKaesar]

Well, I don't like platform too much, but I love Great Giana Sister, Bruce Lee and Conan. Even Terry's Big Adventures was somehow nice.

[Adropac2]

Impossible mission(one of the C64's best games ever)

I suppose it doesn't really qualify as a platformer in the true sense like say Mario, even though it does have platforms and jumping

[Adropac2]

Originally Posted by DemonHellraiser

Does anyone remember Quo Vadis (I think that's how you spell it). On reading this it just sprang to mind, cant remember much about it though, it was on morning till night until it was finished

Was it good, I cant remember, too much booze has fried my brain since those Innocent days

You seriously sat and played this to completion.It was just the one life of health wasn't it or were there checkpoints - unlikely i'm guessing.

Some 5000 screens made the map for this if i'm correctly remembering though i guess you didn't need to see them all

Glad games are less punishing these days otherwise we'd probably all just give up - i'm all for a challenge mind if it feels fair

[gklinger]

When people hear 'platform game' they tend to think of scrolling platformers but my favourite 64 platformers are Montezuma's Revenge which is a multi-screen platformer and Lode Runner which is a single screen one. They remain two of my favourite games of all time.

[MazinKaesar]

Originally Posted by DemonHellraiser

Does anyone remember Quo Vadis (I think that's how you spell it). On reading this it just sprang to mind, cant remember much about it though, it was on morning till night until it was finished

Was it good, I cant remember, too much booze has fried my brain since those Innocent days

You completed Quo Vadis?

EDIT: I found a map on an Italian retrogaming website dedicated to C64... uhm... I want to solve it too!!!!

[s2325]

C64 have also excellent Lode Runner clone http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=107&d=18&h=0

[laser]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Turrican 2 is very good. Technically more advanced than the Amiga version, too!

???????

[DH]

Originally Posted by MazinKaesar

You completed Quo Vadis?

EDIT: I found a map on an Italian retrogaming website dedicated to C64... uhm... I want to solve it too!!!!

Don't forget it was such a long time ago I really cant remember if I did or not It was also a joint effort between me and one of my old school friends, we also created maps too, although these are now long gone, I'll check your link to see if anything sparks up some more memories

Edit: Oh my god!!!! Now I remember, so that's why we had a skip full of paper maps 'n' couldn't remember which map went where had fun though, still sure it was completed though

[WayneK]

As (nearly) everyone else said, Mayhem in Monsterland. I absolutely loved that game, technically excellent and very playable!

[Anubis]

Turrican 2 was my favorite C64 game.

[DH]

Here's a full list of what I've got hold of for WinVICE64 (not all platformers), these, so far, are the only games I can remember having out of the few hundred or so that I owned

Beach Head
Bruce Lee
Bubble Bobble
Centipede
Centipede 2025
Donkey Kong (Nintendo & Ocean versions)
Empire of Karn
Gauntlet
IK
MR Do!
Pac Mania
Potty Painter
Quo Vadis
Super Pacman 88
The Hobbit

As for playability most were

[Photon]

Bruce Lee is still awesomely enjoyable. Terry's Big Adventure was a very good budget game. Lode Runner and Chuckie Egg are lovely simpler nonscrolling ones

I never could stand the early 'big boot is going up and down you must pass under it with pixel precision or else die' screen-flip ones. I guess Monty on the Run and possibly Trollie Wallie were okayish.

And Ghosts'n'Goblins is awesome but harder/more frustrating on C64 than on arcade for some reason. But an eternal classic.