Power at Sea also has awesome title music to boot. I will say though, Accolade usually did have pretty good musicians on their payroll. Done by Canadian composer Kris Hatlelid. He also the music for Grand Prix Circuit, and Test Drive II
Project Firestart is a true masterpiece a game at least 5 years ahed of its time, I still remember when I finished it together with my dad, using a guide.
The detective was a great game I spent loads of time playing that and the murders got more elaborate as you went on. And to think I got that game on a cover cassette!
Space Taxi reminds me of a similar game, but set in prehistoric times, but I can't remember what it was called. That was fun too though. I'm pretty sure it was a C64 exclusive but Turbocharge would have been on my list, as well as Pitstop 2. Catalypse...I loved the demo off of a Commodore Format demo cassette! Great video OSG!
I used to play a lot a game called Cliffhanger (no relation to the Stallone movie), it was kind of a Wile E. Coyote/RoadRunner cartoon ripoff where you play a sheriff trying to kill a bandit with various traps.
Save New York is my top C64 exclusive. It's an early single screen shoot-em-up with exquisite gameplay. Hot Wheels would be my second pick. More a video toy than it is a video game, I suppose. The relaxed, low-key pace of the game kept me well entertained when I wanted to relax.
It's a fantastic game, as is its followup Alice in Wonderland. Both rank very highly among my all-time favourite C64 games. Below the Root isn't an exclusive, though. It was also available on the Apple II and IBM PC.
Loved my C-64... Or well, My friends one as I was not able to own one due to money and tht crap. My love of computer game came from visiting him often to play Ghostbusters or others. Loved the C-64. Was my envy back in the 80's
Good memories. I remember a bunch of these. I never owned Catalypse, but it made me think of Armalyte. I think if not for the dire abomination of the bad joke that was the Amiga version making it not so exclusive to the c64 then that would so have been worthy of this list. I'm building a uheld64 and a pc powered gaming table at the moment which will be running plenty of emulators. Will be revisiting plenty of these on both of them when they're done :)
Heart of Africa blew our minds when we were young. Such a huge map to explore. And it was a big shock the first time we tried to sell a gun to the natives, oops.
Is the emulator you are using good? reason I ask is Space Taxi has voice samples and I never heard them in the video, It says stuff like take me to pad 3 and thank you etc. Project Firestart looked odd (I'm going by how they play look and sound on my Commodore 64) On Mayhem in Monster world I like using the dash to take out the enemy.. try it. you don't have to jump on them.
Great list, Never played any of em back in day apart from Hunter's Moon, I've played Catalypse and Mayhem in Monsterland more recently, both great games. Nice one :)
@@Sinisteve There are way more than 10.000 games on the C64 try nearer 25.000 :) and I also know there is more than 87 exclusive games "yes retail etc" but to be honestly name and catalogue these is going to be a hard job. Then its checking if they had a port or a version on a different system. I can think of one that just popped in my head "Spirit of the Stone" I had that back in the mid 80's, came with a cool book and a treasure search in real life.
Catalypse is a strange case. It was praised by the Italian Zzap! but UK Zzap!64 bashed it to no end. Sure it looked like Armalyte but the same was true about so many other shmups on the C64 going for a metallic look just because the colour palette was so limited.
I loved paradroid, even though I fucked suck at it. Well, the shoot 'em up part I'm decent with, but the "bot jacking" mini game is touch and go for me
Amiga wasn't out when the c64 came out mate... Its like ps1, ps2, ps3... They all overlapped and obviously the next gen was better... But you wouldn't have one without the other... And yeah you really did need to be from that era because people today will never realise what it was like back then when technology went from nothing to us playing games in our homes....
