Commodore 64
10+ colors!
fake parallax!
demo scene!
Lists
Impressive SID Music
Innovative C64 Games
Essential Games?
Strengths?: Strategy, Simulation, Adventure, Puzzle, Puzzle Platformer, Action, WRPG, Racing, some good arcade ports and Shooters
Weaknesses: Platform and Shooter games tend to be lacking imitations of console or arcade counterparts, Platform Adventure, Action Adventure, JRPG, Run 'n Gun, FPS
Game Reviews
Airborne Ranger (slow top down action)?
Alter Ego
Alternate Reality - The City and Alternate Reality - The Dungeon?
Another World? (action platformer/collectathon)
Antiriad (metroid-like/maze)
Archon 1-2, Archon 3?
Arc of Yesod, The (maze)?
Armalyte
Arnie
Atomix (puzzle, also on amiga)?
Aztec Challenge
Barbarian 1-2
BC's Quest 1-2
Below the Root
Bionic Commando (arcade port)?
Black Magic (metroid-like?)
Blue Max (iso shoot 'em up)
Boulder Dash 2-3 (just new levels?)
Bruce Lee 1-2
Buggy Boy (arcade port)
Bushido (iso action/adventure)
Castles of Doctor Creep, The? (co-op puzzle platformer)
Cauldron 1-2
Chimera (iso adventure)
Citadel (basic defender-like)?
Clystron (slow metroid-like/maze)?
Combat School
Commando II (just new levels)?
Creatures 1-2 (also on amiga)
Curse of the Azure Bonds and Pool of Radiance (wrpg w/ tactica tb combat, also on PC)
Cyberdyne Warrior
Cybernoid II?
Daffy Duck and the Great Paint Caper?
Dante's Inferno
Delta
Draconus
Druid
Enforcer: Fullmetal Megablaster (shoot 'em up)
Exile (metroid-like, also on amiga)
Firelord (top down maze)?
Flimbo's Quest (slow platformer/collectathon)?
Forbidden Forest?
Fort Apocalypse (choplifter-like/maze)
GI Joe?
Hacker 1-2
Hard 'n Heavy
Heart of Africa?
H.E.R.O.
Hero of the Golden Talisman
Impossible Mission 1-2 (metroid-like/maze)?
IO: Into Oblivion
Jumpman and Jumpman Junior
Katakis
Kikstart 1-3
Knight 'n' Grail
Laser Squad 1-2
LED Storm (arcade port, also on amiga)?
Legacy of the Ancients (wrpg/dungeon crawler)?
Mask III: Venom Strikes Back
Mayhem in Monsterland (platform/collectathon)
Microprose Soccer?
Midnight Resistance (arcade port)?
Monty on the Run (maze), Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
Moon Dust (art game)?
MoonShadow (metroid-like/maze)?
Myth: History in the Making
Navy Seals
Nobby (new zealand story clone)?
NorthStar
Oil's Well
OutRun Europa and Turbo OutRun (arcade ports)?
Paradroid and Paradroid: Metal Edition
Parallax (action adventure/roaming shooter)
Pharao's Curse (maze)
Pirates (also on PC/MD etc.)?
Pitfall 1-2
Platoon (also on NES)?
Professional Skateboard Simulator?
Project Firestart (action adventure/horror)?
Raid on Bungeling Bay (top down search and destroy/desert strike-like)?
Retrograde (fantasy zone-like/action platformer)
River Raid
Road Runner?
Robin of the Wood (top down maze)
Robocop 2-3?
Rodland (arcade port)?
Rubicon (action platformer/run 'n gun)
Saboteur 1-2 (metroid-like/maze)
Samurai Warrior: Usagi Yojimbo?
Sentinel, The (also on amiga)?
Seven Cities of Gold (top down action adventure)?
Shamus Castle II (action platformer/arkanoid-like)
Space Taxi?
Speed Buggy
Spy Hunter (arcade port) and SH2?
Spy vs. Spy 2-3
Staff of Karnath, The (iso action w/ bad scrolling)?
Starquake (metroid-like/maze)
Strangeloop (maze)
Super Pipeline 1-2
Supremacy (strategy, also on amiga)?
Sword of Fargoal (rouge-like, also on iOS)
Thrust
Times of Lore (slow paced wrpg/action rpg)?
Trail Blazer
Treasure Island (top down maze)
Turrican
Turrican II
Tusker (action adventure/maze)?
Ultimate Wizard 1-2? (single screen collectathon platformers)
Uridium (roaming shooter)?
Wings of Fury (also on amiga)
Wizard of Wor (multiplayer?)?
Wizball (fan remade on PC)
X-Out (also on amiga)?
Zaxxon (arcade port)?
fake parallax!
demo scene!
Lists
Impressive SID Music
Innovative C64 Games
Essential Games?
Strengths?: Strategy, Simulation, Adventure, Puzzle, Puzzle Platformer, Action, WRPG, Racing, some good arcade ports and Shooters
Weaknesses: Platform and Shooter games tend to be lacking imitations of console or arcade counterparts, Platform Adventure, Action Adventure, JRPG, Run 'n Gun, FPS
Game Reviews
Airborne Ranger (slow top down action)?
Alter Ego
Alternate Reality - The City and Alternate Reality - The Dungeon?
Another World? (action platformer/collectathon)
Antiriad (metroid-like/maze)
Archon 1-2, Archon 3?
Arc of Yesod, The (maze)?
Armalyte
Arnie
Atomix (puzzle, also on amiga)?
Aztec Challenge
Barbarian 1-2
BC's Quest 1-2
Below the Root
Bionic Commando (arcade port)?
Black Magic (metroid-like?)
Blue Max (iso shoot 'em up)
Boulder Dash 2-3 (just new levels?)
Bruce Lee 1-2
Buggy Boy (arcade port)
Bushido (iso action/adventure)
Castles of Doctor Creep, The? (co-op puzzle platformer)
Cauldron 1-2
Chimera (iso adventure)
Citadel (basic defender-like)?
Clystron (slow metroid-like/maze)?
Combat School
Commando II (just new levels)?
Creatures 1-2 (also on amiga)
Curse of the Azure Bonds and Pool of Radiance (wrpg w/ tactica tb combat, also on PC)
Cyberdyne Warrior
Cybernoid II?
Daffy Duck and the Great Paint Caper?
Dante's Inferno
Delta
Draconus
Druid
Enforcer: Fullmetal Megablaster (shoot 'em up)
Exile (metroid-like, also on amiga)
Firelord (top down maze)?
Flimbo's Quest (slow platformer/collectathon)?
Forbidden Forest?
Fort Apocalypse (choplifter-like/maze)
GI Joe?
Hacker 1-2
Hard 'n Heavy
Heart of Africa?
H.E.R.O.
Hero of the Golden Talisman
Impossible Mission 1-2 (metroid-like/maze)?
IO: Into Oblivion
Jumpman and Jumpman Junior
Katakis
Kikstart 1-3
Knight 'n' Grail
Laser Squad 1-2
LED Storm (arcade port, also on amiga)?
Legacy of the Ancients (wrpg/dungeon crawler)?
Mask III: Venom Strikes Back
Mayhem in Monsterland (platform/collectathon)
Microprose Soccer?
Midnight Resistance (arcade port)?
Monty on the Run (maze), Auf Wiedersehen Monty?
Moon Dust (art game)?
MoonShadow (metroid-like/maze)?
Myth: History in the Making
Navy Seals
Nobby (new zealand story clone)?
NorthStar
Oil's Well
OutRun Europa and Turbo OutRun (arcade ports)?
Paradroid and Paradroid: Metal Edition
Parallax (action adventure/roaming shooter)
Pharao's Curse (maze)
Pirates (also on PC/MD etc.)?
Pitfall 1-2
Platoon (also on NES)?
Professional Skateboard Simulator?
Project Firestart (action adventure/horror)?
Raid on Bungeling Bay (top down search and destroy/desert strike-like)?
Retrograde (fantasy zone-like/action platformer)
River Raid
Road Runner?
Robin of the Wood (top down maze)
Robocop 2-3?
Rodland (arcade port)?
Rubicon (action platformer/run 'n gun)
Saboteur 1-2 (metroid-like/maze)
Samurai Warrior: Usagi Yojimbo?
Sentinel, The (also on amiga)?
Seven Cities of Gold (top down action adventure)?
Shamus Castle II (action platformer/arkanoid-like)
Space Taxi?
Speed Buggy
Spy Hunter (arcade port) and SH2?
Spy vs. Spy 2-3
Staff of Karnath, The (iso action w/ bad scrolling)?
Starquake (metroid-like/maze)
Strangeloop (maze)
Super Pipeline 1-2
Supremacy (strategy, also on amiga)?
Sword of Fargoal (rouge-like, also on iOS)
Thrust
Times of Lore (slow paced wrpg/action rpg)?
Trail Blazer
Treasure Island (top down maze)
Turrican
Turrican II
Tusker (action adventure/maze)?
Ultimate Wizard 1-2? (single screen collectathon platformers)
Uridium (roaming shooter)?
Wings of Fury (also on amiga)
Wizard of Wor (multiplayer?)?
Wizball (fan remade on PC)
X-Out (also on amiga)?
Zaxxon (arcade port)?
