Old School - Top 5 C64 Games

I’ve decide to take a stroll down memory lane to help educate the youth of today with my top 5 games for each system I have owned. I’ll discuss the system, name the five games and list either my favourite memory, a random quote or a reason why the game is important. We’ll start with my first: The Commodore 64.

For those not old enough to experienced the joys of the mid 1980s, the Commodore 64 was a revolutionary personal computer system that featured 8-bit graphics and a whopping 64kb of RAM (that actually was impressive then).

I got my C64 as a birthday present in 1989, I was 7 years old and my mum payed $500 for the privilege. The C64 came with a tape deck where you had to rewind the cassettes and fine-tune the tape player to ensure that the game worked. After a couple of levels you’d get a message to switch tape sides.

Top 5 Commodore 64 Games


1) Bubble Bobble

     Random Quote – “Brings up so much good old memories!! Porn is nothing comparing (sic) to this!!” Maxen86 – youtube

2) Impossible Mission

Why it’s important?  Mass Effect clearly stole the idea of being stuck in elevators for long periods from Impossible Mission (1.43). Hacking? Forget Fallouts and Bioshock, this game was rocking that in the 80s.

3) Paperboy

Favourite Moment – Although it wasn’t on the C64, I managed to find someone to play this with on Xbox Live. When I handed him his ass, he proceeded to hurl torrents of abuse at me. Although not the actual event here’s an approximation of what happened.

4) Elite

Why it’s important? It’s got free roaming (think sandbox), Intergalactic space travel and you can trade slaves. If they tried to release this game in Australia now, it’d get banned

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia#Video_games

5) Barbarian

Favourite Memory? The little green goblin that drags the victims away after you decapitate them. Classy.