Datasoft (1980-1989) Documentary 

Thank you very much for always watching , it was a fun video to make 🕹️👍

@@BastichB64K Your welcome!

Thanks for watching , yeah almost everyone loves those 4 ! Definitely Datasofts most popular games and it's pretty cool that they were all originals too 🕹️👍

I never made it to the end , I remember my disk back in the day having some reading problem very far into it 😭 but alas it was epic for how far I got

I hated that devourer with a passion. The Alternate Reality games were ahead of their time, there was supposed to be 7 or 8 games in the series but only two were made. Would love to see a developer make a modern version of this series.

@@rovikicus5630 yeah that's a good idea 👍 would also love to see the series continue and actually end

Thx , force 7 is great and is definitely a great alien syndrome style game with way more strategy

Thanks for checking out the vid , glad it brought back some good memories

Cheers thx , it was fun and I hope you enjoyed it

Datasoft really cranked put a whole flew of my fav C64 games ..Bruce lee was my fav

Cheers for checking it out , I love making these style of vids

I played Bruce Lee sooooo much , in 2 player with friends things get hectic 🤣👍

Cheers thx , Force 7 is a game i plan to do a separate video on in the Future or at least expand on it cause its such a forgotten gem

@@BastichB64K Oh please do! That game is great. It's a tactical masterpiece.

Thanks for watching 🕹️👍👍👍

Awesome 👍 , thanks for checking it out

Thx much appreciated 🙂

Cheers no problem , glad you found some new games to try out

Thanks , as long as you like em I'll keep making em ... I'm having lots of fun researching these old forgotten companies 👍

Thanks for watching , that Bruce Lee sequel is a tough one ... I died a lot 😂😭

Cheers thx

Thank you very much

Cheers glad you liked it , thx 👍

@@BastichB64K I viewed moonshuttle was a bit of an embarrassment as my first game. All in all, 5 years at Datasoft was well worth it.

@@johnbutrovich7503 I played that game a lot as a kid so I had fun 🕹️👍

As usual thank you for your comment , really fun video to research and put together

Datasoft was one of the biggest US software developers / publishers of the 80s. Then you must know little about 80s gaming Michael.

@@jmp01a24 I was born in 1980....so a lot of the 80's to me are fuzzy, though it is my fav decade, but between 0-9 years old, I could barely read the title of a game, never mind the software house. I know a lot more now due to this documentary. You are 100% correct Dr. Abuse, they were big, they were great, and deserve recognition.

Cheers and thank you for watching 👍

It's an awesome game , simple fun

Certainly been one of my favourites in 1983.

Thanks you very much , it was a lot of work for sure but as long as you enjoyed it then it's all good 😃👍

Cheers thx for watching , yeah I played pole position in about 1985 and I thought it was rubbish even back then .. I was so dissapointed 😭

Yeah Bruce is the king of that lot for me too , everything you said is spot on . I played the Conan game on a Apple 2 at school as well and I just remember it playing much better overall

Yeah the disk swapping really makes the game hard too enjoy at times 😑

Thanks for watching I appreciate it , when I get some time I'll try update the descriptions I'm just so busy making new vids right now 😂👍

@@BastichB64K Understood, thanks! Oh one last question, that intro music that play's in first 10 seconds or so, did you write that, or is that from some game? It's really catchy!

For the logo at the beginning it's actually a free piece of music from an editing program I have ... It had a good funky game vibe 🎶👍

@@BastichB64K It does have a great 80's vibe about it, which made me wonder if it was from a game or? Keep up the great work, I look forward to your RU-vid videos each week, as there are very few that take the time to cover retro gaming, that's not home-arcade based like Arcade 1Up and RetroPie (not that I have an issue with those, as I have 3 A1UP's and a modded PS Classic Mini with like 250 retro games on it, lol)

Thanks for watching and glad you enjoying the content 😄👍 I'm having a lot of fun making these vids as you can probably tell 😂

It's a really great hidden gem , worth checking out

I enjoyed lode runner as well it was very addictive. Yeah I played Rubicon under the Starfox name ... I never knew it's other name until a few years ago. Thanks for watching 👍

Back when Championship Lode Runner came out, I started playing it, but I hated the save system where every time you loaded a saved game, it subtracted one of your lives until you eventually had none left. You could copy the disk, but that was a pain in the butt. I also discovered a problem with it. There was one level where you have to move IMMEDIATELY at the start. You have to be pushing the stick when the level starts, or you'll get killed. When I played that level from a saved game, I got killed regardless. It was like loading a saved game changed the timing slightly. So after investigating the level layouts with a sector editor on both the original game and the Championship version, I created a program that would read in each level and write it back to disk in the original format. You could then use the disk as a data disk for the original game and use all the cheat keys, like giving yourself tons of men and jumping to any level. I was working my way through the levels this way when I got my Amiga and gradually lost interest in finishing it. I've had the urge to go back and complete it, but I'm not sure now where my conversion program is, or my copy of the disk that I converted. If the disk still works, I have it in the house somewhere, I'm just not sure where. At some point, I'd like to transfer it over (I have a 1541 adapter) to use on emulators.

Not really i got it in the early 80's and my dad and i though it was bad ... Which it is 😂 and this is not coming from an atari hater as the 2600 was my first console and loved that thing but pacman just wasnt good .

@@BastichB64K I said liked not loved! I love your content. I was born in 1973 and lived through it all. We never experienced a time when we didn't play them. From Odyssey to Atari to Commodore and Nintendo. Looking forward to your 70's arcade video. Thanks!

@@dryerlint17 cheers , thx for watching . Got a big 70s gaming video coming out soon 👍

Thanks for watching , im a nobody why would he even bother talking to me

Thx , literally never heard anyone say its name before 😂 . Yeah Dallas Quest was pretty good , good rendition of the tv theme

@@BastichB64K its a british thing 🙂ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p_kbZ9pCbGA.html&ab_channel=EmmaSaying

😂😂 sorry i don't

Definitely not worth the wait for that game 😂

Yeah sorry I'm only human at some point when you've looked at a video 5000 times you can't even process anything anymore 😂. Pooyan was such a cool conversion and I played the hell out of O'Riley's mine as a kid

@@BastichB64K Mistakes happen. :D It was a great video and amazing throwback into my past. Awesome you've played O'Riley's mine as well, it was fantastic! :D

Thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍

I would put Red Storm head and shoulders above ... They not even in the same league for me anyway

😂 i was just stating facts not an opinion 😂

@@BastichB64K Fair enough. I hadn’t realized how many Atari 8bit games I loved came from Datasoft. I know Bruce Lee was their game, though, and that game genuinely still holds up. My Dad and I used to play it co-op, where one of us would be Green Yamo fighting the ninja and one of us would be Bruce getting the lanterns.

@@sycoraxrock Bruce Lee was the best in co-op and still is so much fun

Wow! Thanks for sharing .. I hope he is able to complete his vision! That's an epic task

Biggles was Mirrosoft .. it's easy to confuse , great game by the way . Thx for watching

@@BastichB64K ah yes..

Sure

Yes it was , Datasoft just distributed it in the US

Glad you enjoying them

Its an edutainment product not a real game , hence its not here , this is just video games

Thanks for checking it out . In all the games that were simply distributed by Datasoft I specifically said distributed so there would be no confusion as to what they made themselves or simply repackaged . Thank you for the comment 👍

@@BastichB64K I would still like to have heard the details about how they got to distribute say PACMAN for the C64. In the datasoft release there is no credit given to Atari at any point or even mentioning them, from what I can see. Same story with Zaxxon. But I guess you would have to make a C64 special about Datasoft for that info to become center. I think focusing on the Datasoft exclusive games, not distrubuted titles, would been interesting too, for the C64. They did develop, or have exclusive titles, quite many actually, of really good C64 games.

In the future I plan to make specific Top 10 videos for all the companies I love so maybe then a C64 Datasoft exclusives will come into play 🕹️👍

@@BastichB64K I am onboard for that!