Every Official Sega Game On C64 | Commodore 64 

Why did I overlook this channel until now? Fantastic work, congratulations!

You're a brilliant communicator and I appreciate your videos immensely.

Another great video! Love this format, perfectly paced with just the right amount of detail, plus a sprinkling of humour/sarcasm for good measure! Some very fond memories here. C64 was my main gaming fix for the last few years of the 80s and played a lot of these back in the day. Space Harrier in particular provided hours of fun for me and Thunderblade was truly impressive for the hardware.

I subbed after watching 7 minutes of this and will now be watching the rest of it :)

Awesome video!! Both content and presentation rock!

Excellent video. I can’t even begin to imagine how long it would’ve taken to compile all of that! As I’ve mentioned from previous conversations we’ve had on here, the C64 was also my primary platform throughout the 80s as home computing was more of a thing here in the UK. The NES barely made a dent until very late and the SMS (which was more popular) happily coexisted alongside home computers. C64 arcade ports were always a mixed bag and rarely did the hardware justice.

Very interesting review. You deserve way more subscribers. Greetings from Paris, France

I loved the hell out of Afterburner on the C64 as a kid. I guess I didn't know any better and I was huge into fighter jets at the time and especially the F-14. It's possibly the first video game I ever completed!

The UK outrun was done by a 17 year old with his dad in record time. Pretty amazing in that regard.

Wow, thanks for that great review! I loved Space Harrier most back then, it was fast and actually I loved the music. Then comes Outrun which has much better music but Space Harrier is my all time favourite Sega game. Thanks again, love your review, it's really unique. 🙂

Precisely why I picked up the C-64 Maxi a couple years ago, so I can play all these great classic games. Works great with my USB control panel I made with Sanwa JLF-8YT sticks and buttons. Have to check out some of those games you showcased, thanks for the heads up my friend!

I love these honest reviews!!! 😃 So many C64 fanboys talk up crappy games here on RU-vid. I just watched a video on how amazing Golden Axe is and how closely it plays to the Arcade version 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

A very gargantuan magnum opus..very well executed as usual..thanks bro...i missed the c64 though...i m planning to at least buy a c64 mini at some point

You rock dude

Great lineup of games some I didn't know about

Back then, as a kid in the 90's and having lots of fun with the SMS at my friend's house, we played many games, Dynamite Dux was one of them, that's why I have nostalgia towards it, and I agree with what you said, but I actually never saw it as an beat' em up game, it's more like an action game and yes the normal punches are basically useless. We learnt to rely on its powerful fists most of the time, by holding the punch button and you can get rid of many enemies at a time, the game also gives temporary power ups as you progress, too. The bosses are really cool, the Stone boss you have to crack it's minions and the Fire boss you have to extinguish with water, also the portals taking you to the next stage are cool, so it has a lot of imagination in it, we loved the creativity of this game. I only learned this was based on an arcade original not too long ago and it's really surprising to see a much improved game visually, which I still have to sit and enjoy imagining myself at 8 again. We also enjoyed Black Belt, Gangster Town, Bart vs. the World and many more on the SMS. Now, I'm basically a virgin when it comes to the C64 and this video was very educational. I have zero nostalgia towards this little computer, but I was impressed with some of the efforts in these ports, I don't care about Power Drift, but this port is absolutely crazy, it does many things even 16-bit ports never had the guts to even try and it manages to be quite good. Also, I always found 8 and 16-bit racing games lacking when it comes to representing mountains and other details in racing games, Outrun Europa tries this and manages to do a decent job in the process. What I wonder is, imagine if the best developers which pulled the impossible on this rather spartan 1982 piece of hardware, what they could do if porting the same games to the Mega Drive, PC-Engine, SNES, or even the NES and SMS? What they achieved with Thunder Blade, Power Drift and Galaxy Force II alone are, in my opinion much more impressive than what the original developers managed to when bringing these titles home to their own consoles.

As a two player game, _Hot Rod_ @29:00 gets ten out of ten, and is one of extremely few C64 games I'd call _still playable._ My own C64 video (provocatively titled "Are you wasting your life yet?") does indeed draw attention to the impossible task programmers set themselves in adapting Galaxy Force to work on the C64: beholding the impossibility is a game in itself.

Actually the first port of After Burner (the EU one) is of After Burner II, which you can tell with the ability to select speed to get away from missiles and some other stuff, while the US one is of After Burner I. Yes, After Burner II not a sequel, but an enhanced revision with some notable differences. The US release is based on the original game, as is the Master System port. In the EU C64 version you can see the roman numeral II in the intro. Many don't realize there is an After Burner and After Burner II. All the footage you show from Arcade is from After Burner II.

That version of Alien Storm is quite impressive I remember randomly finding an alien storm arcade unit in a dairy shop I would stop in at to play rygar and one day they had AS and a Hippodrome unit added I actually loved the look and quickly set about securing myself a Megadrive with Alien Storm the commodore 64 surprises me often a mate I would hang around with would hang at this dudes house who had a c64 and his brothers etc were right into the cracking scene I guess and so I Iiked the c64 something to do in-between our antics

C=64 F O R E V E R ♥️ You can turn on the music in Dynamite Dux in the title screen (I didn't know until last year).The music for Altered Beast was already finished but didn't make it into the game (you can listen to it in the SID player). I think the most common reasons for missing music were: deadlines, expensive licenses, sloppiness...

64kb ram 1mhz cpu and this games. C64 is a miracle.

I mean, a good chunk of these games could be considered "impossible ports" and for what they were, I ended up appreciating most of them. Chris Butler had crafted a good engine to cram into the breadbin crude "scaling" effects and I like the C64 versions he made (Space Harrier, Thunder Blade and Power Drift) but the gameplay never truly clicked with me. On the other hand, I don't know what it is, but Out Run Europa clicked with me as soon as I bought the original C64 tape in 1992. I mean, I must be one of the very few uber fans of that game but I loved its quirks, they made it compelling to me. I play and enjoy it to this day. But then again I actually loved Golden Axe on the C64, which I bought the budget re-release of (KIXX label if I'm not mistaken), I think it was bug fixed to an extent. The most gimped version of the game you can think of but I was glued to it to completion. Not to mention Last Battle, an other game that earned my pocket money and my playing time to completion. I was a huge Hokuto no Ken fan and even though the European ports were completely disenfranchised, I knew about its origins and that was enough for me. It's probably a bit crap today, but to be honest I don't regret the time spent with it. Also, I'm actually a fan of Enduro Racer the arcade version (admittedly I never played the SMS game tho) and I thought the C64 port was not too bad. Not the best but still serviceable.

I always enjoyed a good Sega port on the c64. Most of the Capcom conversions were arse (thnx US Gold), but give me a solid Shinobi, Hot Rod or Turbo Outrun and I'm happy.

Is World Championship Soccer the same game as World Cip Italia 90? They do look very similar.

I believe you missed out on the other version of Enduro Racer - I think the conclusion was that it was released on a compilation. GTW64 probably has an entry on it.

Amazing video, the only thing i'm not agree is with the golden axe port. I think is a pretty decent game. Having no more than 1 enemy on-screen surely scks but let's see all the good stuff it does have: 1. Those amazing hand drawn stills from the characters in the begining. 2. The 3 original characters selecteable (unlike Sms port only have Ax battler) 3. AMAZING Sid renditions of the original score 3. Magic is there 4. Beast riding is present 5. Scroll, graphics and animations are pretty good for the C64 (Sms port is a choppy mess) 6. Almost all stages It pushed a lot the C64 hardware I think a second enemy was not actually possible with all that graphic detail.

Actually, there is a version of Golden Axe C64 that has the final level. The original release didn’t have that, but I guess they fixed that in the later release.

I used to have Action Fighter on the SMS back in the day. I loved it back then, it's makes for a good SMS game but I think I hate every other version :P

can't believe how badly you reviewed the Wonder Boy. Its the best Sega port and top 10 C64 game of all time.

I agree with almost everything you said, however there's one small aspect of the Sega version of Zaxxon that I prefer over the Synapse version, and that's Zaxxon himself. The sprite in the cartridge version is much more detailed, if a little smaller. I'd love for someone to hack the games and put that sprite in the other version. Coincidentally, the Synapse version of Zaxxon was ported to the Amiga by a demo group, but after perfectly porting a couple other C64 games, they chose that one to get silly with. After you get past Zaxxon, the fortresses start having giant toilets and such. I was extremely disappointed. BTW, you missed a game. There are two version of Alien Syndrome. The one you played was the UK/European version. The US version has SLIGHTLY improved scrolling. It still doesn't keep the player centered, but when you're about 3/4 of the way to the edge of the screen, it starts scrolling at the same speed as you're walking. So it has faster scrolling, but only once you get close enough to the edge to trigger it, which still causes you to accidentally run into aliens. Oh, and it seems to have pretty lousy hit detection. Or maybe that last part was the fault of running it in WinVICE.

49:30 Still better than Sega’s 2014 Sonic Boom game.

I LOVE C64 ❤️😎👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The problem with the C64, although it wasn't really a hardware issue, but with programming it, is that a lot of coders back then didn't realize that they could have both SFX and music in games, so they often sacrificed one for the other. A lot of modern homebrew games have both SFX and music, because they only assign two channels of the SID to music and use the other for SFX.

Why was the c64 version of eswat so ass backward tho with the short ass legs and tall body's when clearly Sega's Thing back in the day was to have long cool legs and shorter body torsos 😅

Limited colors (only 16), one button controller, and poor execution many time by developers. I mean, there is a damn near pixel per pixel reproduction/port of Super Mario bros. (And remember the NES version pretty much WAS the same as the coin operated arcade)

Enduro racer has "DECENT MUSIC, I GUESS"?! I'm going to subscribe just so I can unsubscribe, sir.