15 May 2018, 00:25 | #1 |
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Most advanced *early* C64 releases?
If you look at the C64 today, we know what can be achieved if you get the right people to really push all aspects of its hardware.. Of course today's retro devs have the benefit of looking back at everything else that has been done.. So now we get titles like Sam's Journey..
But there was plenty of great stuff in late 80's early 90s. The evolution was quite clear, from the beginning you had games like "Wizard of Wor" -type of graphics with simple sounds, to stuff like "Hawkeye" about 5-6 years later.. But I was wondering, what were the most advanced / best looking /sounding C64 games from the early to mid 80s? say 82-85? |
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Hawkeye on the C64 was awesome at the time (IMHO)
Infact I have the end of level tune as my ringtone (sad eh?) |
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fort apocalypse
popeye gyruss ghost busters river raid 1942 bruce lee archon frantic freeddie hunch back all of them very old before 1985 are fantastic games with fantastic sound or music |
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Impossible Mission - 1984
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16 May 2018, 16:30 | #5 |
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Salamander, Slap Fight and Wonderboy (although these were all 1986).
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Buggy boy
Beach head and raid over Moscow Transformers Yie ar Kung Fu Hyper Olympic Summer games Zaxxon Blue max HERO Etc etc |
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Thanx for your list. Of the games above I agree to Gyruss feeling "fresh" and 1942 was a good conversion with a nice tune.. The rest kind of have that Intellivision look to them IMO. ;-) (Not to say they are bad games) + for sampled speech in Ghost Busters though.. So basically, Id say there is a farily distinct difference between early c64 game looks and later games.. It feels like that "break" came somewhere arount 1986-ish give or take a year. If someone would have shown you The Last Ninja while you were playing Fort Apocalypse (although a fun game) youd have a hard time believing that both run on the same system. Last edited by eXeler0; 16 May 2018 at 21:21. |
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Thenks for your list Dirkies, Loved Buggy boy, but wasnt that released like 1987? Only 82-85 allowed here ;-) Beach head - loved it, but looks like an Colecovision game. Raid over moscow - hmm yes, ambitions game design.. Transformers - ye somewhat advanced gameplay concept Yie ar Kung Fu - Ah yes an old favorite Hyper Olympics - Had no memory of this one, looks fairly good Summer Games - nice but not as impressive as Winter Game (85) Zaxxon - ye c64 version was pretty good, Blue Max, HERO - another couple of old favorites, though they don't look particularly advanced IMO. |
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Doesn't Bruce Lee on the C64 have a glitch with the title character sprite, where his fist is detached from his arm when facing one direction? Whoops.
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I never liked "the las ninja" there is no soundFX and the gameplay is very slow I consider "fort apocalypse" a far superior game looked with today's eyes looking at them 30 years ago it might seem like it was the other way around ,but it is an incorrect perspective |
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Cauldron, Heartland, Bounder, Blackwyche, Arc of Yesod, Fairlight, Robin of the Wood, The Sentinel.
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Many of those are not *early*
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Late reply.
Back when I thought no one was going to answer I wrote a draft post. I think I'll just quote it now since I don't want to change it.
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Crystal Castles (Thundervision, 1984)
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Law of the West (Accoloade, 1985).
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17 May 2018, 22:33 | #19 |
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park patrol is from 1984.
It has truly awesome 3d like graphics. There are not many games that pops like that on a crt screen. Really nice "paralax" perspective . [ Show youtube player ] |
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Thanks for that game. I hadn't seen it and as you say it looks wonderful
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