Aww m8, no need to apologise! It was a simple mistake. Thanks for the Boycie loading screen, he was a great comedy actor. He was the only celeb at that event that didn't ask for cash for a selfie, top guy. Great vid! I was a skint teenage C64 owner back in the day so I bought a good few of these games. Action Biker was great, Zybex, Finders Keepers, I remember buying Panther as though it was yesterday! 1986, great nostalgia :) So many great C64 games here, another I liked was Warhawk. Great vid, thanks again for the loading screen....Gary?
I was a fan of Codemasters Grand Prix Simulator for the 64. It was a budget Sprint clone. Cars were just rectangles with a white square to represent the front end. Controls were slippery but you could throw the cars around the corners when you mastered them. Good fun!
Of the titles in the video, I can say that Zamzara and Thrust truly deserve their high status. Brilliant video. Thanks for making it. I really enjoyed it. 👍👍👍
Lots of these games weren't available originally in Canada, but most Mastertronic games were available at the Zellers store for $10 Canadian on disk. Compared to most games costing $30-$50 on disk at the time, that was a good deal. So I bought Action Biker, Kikstart 2, Master of Magic, and Ninja and none of them disappointed. Great choices. Thrust, Arnie, and CJ's Elephant Antics are all games I came to appreciate later. Several of the games on your list I knew but didn't realize were budget, like Draconus and Zamzara. I gotta give Slicks, Tilt, and Panther another try. Thanks for the list!
Wow! Thank you so much for making this video! I had memory of playing Draconus but for the life of me I couldn't remember the name nor could find any screenshot of it with random search terms. Now I know, cheers! :D
I remember so many of these games from back in the day. As Retro B8 has already mentioned I recently got a great C64 bundle & am so happy to have one in my collection again, only took nearly 30 years lol. Retro B8 told me what your gifting to me & I just wanted to say a big thank you, I really appreciate it 👍. Ace video
I have a prgiuono you can have for your c64 mate with loads of games on. If you inbox me your address to pagman35@gmail.com ill get it sent off to ya ;-)
@@oldstylegaming Oh cheers mate your a true gent, that's fantastic. Cant wait to get this bad boy powered up, just waiting on a power saver cable. Thanks buddy I really do appreciate it 👍
well really i just listen to what people say in the comments and think of ways to make videos about them, so you lot play as big a part in these videos as I do
OMG! Dizzy? I actually used to love that game. I had it on the amstrad. Hadn't thought about that game in years lol. Thanks for the reminder. I'm gonna have to get it again. 👍
DIZZY is absolutely a legendary game character. I actually had two of its games, FAST FOOD on the Commodore 64 and TREASURE ISLAND DIZZY on the Amiga 500. I'm 38 years old and still play the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500. 😺👍
OMG panther!! I’ve been trying to find is for ages but never knew what it was called. Spent so long playing it as a kid I loved it! Awesome video as ever mate
Here in Australia the budget titles were usually $5 for a tape and $8 for a disc back in the day. Good times and always surprised to to see what you would get!!!
Thanks again OSG! Ninja was one of the first games I saw on C64 at a friends place and I love to play it now and then. Kikstart 2 was one of my favorites. We had hours of fun back in the days building our own impossible tracks. Lovely memories...sigh
That CJ's elephant antics game is absolutely brilliant with music and graphics that are nearly as good as the Amiga version. I'm not sure but I think that the Amiga version also misses out the little intro from the C64 where CJ jumps out of the plane.
What a game Kane was ! I got most of my games from whsmith but found a record shop with a top floor that had budget games in Southampton! I loved finding those secret shops ! Dizzy the egg was brilliant !
Finders Keepers was brilliant and a trailblazer…..When you reflect on how early a game it was for what it was doing (with its in game menu systems to manage objects) it was a corker. You could also probably get away with Spellbound on the list because as a £2.99 MAD game there was no way anyone predicted such an evolution in the game play with the sequel. The menu system was enhanced into basically Windows before it’s time (and with a ripping soundtrack).
I spent hours mastering Action Biker until I finally completed it and it felt such an achievement, amazing value for £1.99, better than a lot of full priced games.
Nice list of games. I own some of them. I bought Pod and Finders keepers from Toys R Us. I have 2 cassettes of Slimeys Mine, and yes, i was blown away by its comical soubd effects. Cannot remember what we paid for em, but it was cheap as chips, and that cool. Zamzara is superb, but super tough. Nice to see Tilt in the list too.
Glad I discovered this channel :) It's really interesting to me to see the what you guys were playing in the UK, the C64 market looked a lot different over here in the colonies.
The first Dizzy was AWESOME!!! All the Dizzy games for C64 and Amiga are my favorite ones for both systems. I even liked the Seymour clones... (yeah, I know, I am weird...). I would love to watch you make a video on Dizzy games for both systems. I think Crystal Kingdom Dizzy for C64 is the most amazing one. It almost looks as if it was an Amiga game - it stands out so much graphicly from the rest.
Lots I remember playing as a kid.as u say for 2.99 u didn't expect alot but sometimes u got an a absolute bargain.kane. cj .kikstart are a few I had off the list Keep the videos coming osg
Glad to see Kane, Arnie, and Kickstart II on this list - and especially Zamzara! I got that via one of Commodore Format's Cover Tapes and it blew me away when I first played it - good times! 👍
Some great games here, that brought back many happy memories. However, for value for money it's got to be invade a load, complete with the one man and his droid soundtrack, by the master himself.
I played a lot of Kane, great value! Also loved Aztec Challenge, Forbidden Forest and Zeppelin (though I never knew what I was doing!). I used to love Kikstart 1&2, my brother would make courses, but I was baffled by it recently.
Kickstart, Thrust, summer games, and paradroid occupied most of my time from 16-17 yr old at my mates house (I was Spectrum). It says a lot that two of these are Mastertronic / Budget price games. Special Times. And then we got shareware and Freeware with the Amiga - with some stonkers.
Good list! There's quite a few I'd have put there, like armalyte, but there's a lot on your list I agree with! (thanks for reminding me about I ball! I'm gonna play that today!)
After playing I,Ball I bought I,Ball II. I was surprised to find it was a platform puzzle game! Then I was even more surprised to find how good it was!
Accolade's Grand Prix Circuits on C64 is an absolute miracle, if you watch a video you will think this is unplayable due to low frame rate.....when you play it you discover the handling/response time is nothing like the screen update of 3-4fps and is really really playable.
Awesome Commodore 64 games. Mostly i recommend these games: - DIZZY - MASTER OF MAGIC - NINJA - KIKSTART II - THRUST - ZAMZARA - CJ'S ELEPHANT ANTICS I never played Slicks before, but it looks awesome and reminds me of MICRO MACHINES, which i played many years ago on the Amiga 500 and Super Nintendo. That reminds me: when you showed NINJA, i still have that game on my Amiga 500, as NINJA MISSION. Thanx for an awesome Commodore 64 game video. 😺👍
I remember seeing Commodore Format giving Tilt a great score and not believing it was that good. After playing it I could see why. A great little game. Adored CJ and Annie was fun.
Awesome video and some real value for money to be had there for sure. From the classics like Thrust, Action Biker and Kickstart II to lesser known games like Slimey's Mine it pretty much covers most of the genres at pocket money prices. I got a hell of a lot of value from Warhawk, Anarchy and Park Patrol, I didnt pay more than £3 for any of them but had hours of fun on them. I got The Sentinel at a low price too but dont think it was a budget game. Honourable mention to One Man and his Droid as whilst I didnt have a clue as to how to play the game, the music was amazing
Can anyone help me find a C64 game from my childhood please? The main thing I remember is that there was a sort of time travel mechanic. You would hop into some kind of machine, select a year and it would transport you there then you'd go out and explore. It was side scrolling but may have had some vertical screens too. I think you had to shoot things and survive and maybe there was a time limit. It's one of the few games from my childhood I'm still struggling to identify. Many of which I've found thanks to this channel. Cheers!
I don't know if these were budget, but I think the gameplay is still fantastic to this day. I am talking about "Rally Speedway", "Burgenkampf", "BMX Simulator" (I wish I had known that there was a 4-player simultaneous version out back then!!!), I heard that "Psycho Pigs" was supposed to be a great 2-player game.
@@oldstylegaming Do you know all these games, I think they are really great! I know lots of games, but I keep coming back to them, especially Rally Speedway, great gameplay!
Loved Kane and I had the first Kikstart, which I also enjoyed. Zamzara was included on the Commodore Format cover tape one month, and I gave it plenty of play. Really nice looking game I always thought. I'd add Mastertronic title Scumball to the list. A really great game, with just the right difficulty to give 10 year old me a chance.
Nostalgia overload there. Lots of great games, Action Biker, Kik Start II and i completely forgot about Panther, no better way to start the day than with a daily dose of old style gaming.
Ahhhhh back in the day getting my paper money and getting 3 or 4 games from Woolies going home and playing them for hours on end. Had a fair few game on this list and yeah the number 1 spot is right in my eyes. Also on a side note if you had a action reply MkIII (the one i had) you could take Clyde out of creatures and replce Cj in CJ elephant antics with him and it would work a treat, even the dance you got on the high score table looked sweet with Clyde doing it. Man i miss these days. Great video as always buddy so bring on the next one.
Thundercats. It was based on a children's cartoon so it could have been crap like so many licensed games. Also, it could have been made with the logic that you can sell anything to little kids because they can't tell whether a game is well-made or not. But it was a great game.
Another fun fact about CJ's Elephant Antics is that if you typed "hairyarseholes" on the title screen you'd get infinite lives. My father was not impressed by this when I was caught saying it out loud at the age of seven.
A fantastic round-up there. I remember 'I-Ball' because of its later inclusion on a 'Commodore Force' cover tape though couldn't get into the game. In the said game, Rob Hubbard's music is actually an arrangement of 'Whip Blow' by Cabaret Voltaire from their 1985 LP 'The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord'. In the last week, The Cabs' Richard H. Kirk has also passed away. For my budget bargains, I would also add '3D Snooker' (Zeppelin Games, 1992) which is also coded by Stephen 'Tilt' Walters. 'DJ Puff's Volcanic Capers' (Codemasters, 1992) was pretty polished for a £3.99 release as was 'Turbo The Tortoise' (another Codies game, previously released on the Hi-Tech label).
Thrust was a brilliant game - but so hard. I never completed it. I had the Slicks demo from a Commodore Format Magazine - played it loads. Me and my brother had a commodore 16+4 before the C64. There were a few surprisingly good games on that - I remember playing: Treasure Island Fireant The Exploits of Fingers Malone. G-Man All good games.
Even now with the c64 if you look past the graphics. They game play and skill needed to complete them is unreal. Tilt or paper boy alone could cause a nervous breakdown
@@oldstylegaming To be fair, it was a full price game to start with, it was originally released on Activision (I think) around 83/84…and think it was full price, but the original release may have been US only. Then around 87, it was re-released on Firebird at £1.99.
Yet an other killer list of gems! Most of them I knew but had probably forgotten about, some will be played soon. Many of them show some technical prowess, Tilt seems to have a polygonal engine, Panther's sprites look prerendered, and Slimey's mine's samples sounds are among the best.
