The 30 Best Commodore 64 Games Ever Made! 

Bruce Lee,Barbarian 1,2,Microprose Soccer,Great Gianna Sisters,Katakis, Bubble Bobble,Summer Games, Beach Head,Who Dare Wins 2,Combat School,Delta,Ghost n Goblins,Wizball and many more.

C64 games were brutal. Made us tough.

Sid Meier's "Pirates!" and Sensible Software's brilliant, quirky "Wizball" were two classic titles i used to love playing.

You can't have this list without Bubble Bobble. It's a game I still play today more than 30 years later and an all time favourite. Other games that I think should be on the list: Defender of the Crown, Pirates, Maniac Mansion, Zak MacKracken, Pool of Radiance, Champions of Krynn, Heroes of Might and Magic II and maybe at least one textbased advensture game like Gremlins, Zork or Spiderman.

Great list. I would include Maniac Mansion, Zak McKraken and Defender of the Crown.

Ghost n goblins,Winter Games,Summer Games,The Great Giana Sisters,Apocalypse Now were also worthwile.

I loved Rambo. The fact it was somewhat random with weapon drops gave it a lot of replay value. I hadn't seen that before

Pirates!, Tower of Terror, F-14 Tomcat, Last Ninja 2, Giana Sisters, Gunsip!, Defender of the Crown, Wings of Fury, Test Drive - those are truly the best games, I loved playing those!

There's so many...this list had many familliar ones but also many i never saw before. I liked best Defender of The Crown, The Great Giana Sisters, Skate Rock, Paperboy, Airborne Ranger, California Games, Pitstop 2, Toy Bizarre, Montezuma's revenge, Ghosts & Goblins and many more. Good times 😊

No Jumpman? No Space Taxi? Gotta have an appreciation for the classics!

Plenty of games should be on the list. Barbarian I, Barbarian II, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKraken, Project Firestart, Mrs Pacman, Microprose Soccer, Impossible Mission 2, Salamander, Super Mario Bros, Great Gianna Sisters, Fist II, Last Ninja 2 & 3, Creatures, Bubble Bobble, Boulder Dash, and of course new titles such as Prince of Persia, Sonic the Hedgehog (that weren't I believe around when this video was released)

Kick-start II was epic . Loved the course builder

Racing destruction set, Football manager, green beret, summer & winter games, international football all in my top 30

The sound when you stack it on kickstart 2 still makes me laugh

It’s weird how I miss digital innocence. Wasting my time felt better these days

Sorry this is going to be a long one... Firstly why didnt this video show in my feed, lucky I nipped over to the channel! Phewww! Omg California games, I forgot about that game, I played the shit out of that! Thank you for reminding me of Thrust too, that was amazing. IK+ I would have to have higher, and where was my favourite all time C64 game, Bruce Lee! OSG mate, lucky I love your channels or that would have been unforgivable lol. Great video as always tho 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Extra points for Kickstart 2 (good ole Codemaster games at about £2.99?). But no Way of the Exploding Fist?.

In my Top 10 would be: Elite Paradroid They stole a million Spy VS Spy: The Island caper. Bards Tale III Ghosts 'n Goblins Boulder Dash Winter Games Pirates! PSI-5 Trading Company And as honorable mention Wasteland

I think you chose these primarily on the basis of their music and sound. And I’m not complaining!

Nice list. A big subjective though. Mine would be full of Microprose and there would be no room for anything else lol. I'll definitely check out some of these.

keep up the great work OSG - lots of fans here in Australia

Elite - countless hours. There was one more like that but cant remember the title - it was on plannet surface flying between bases/stations also with economy/trade focus fending off pirate space ships....also in same kind of 'graphics'. Good old times :)

When I saw one of my all time favourite C64 games was at 30, Raid Over Moscow, I thought this list won’t disappoint and it didn’t. Another great video. Thanks dude!

Played several of these games. Forgot about Commando. Heard the music and went whoa!

Those Epyx games boxes were beautiful!

"Seaside Special"? Never even heard of it. Over "Raid Over Moscow"? No way! As for Rambo, I'd put the game itself a little lower in the list, but the MUSIC is absolutely top notch. Martin Galway knocked it out of the park. When I first bought this game, me and a friend of mine loaded it up and just sat there listening to all of the music before we started the game (with our jaws hanging to the floor).

Great list! i would add 'Mail order monsters' and 'M.U.L.E'

Little did we know that Raid over Moscow would feature the F-35B.

I miss this period, so much innovation. Modern games are far more polished but you rarely get anything new and exciting.

Still waiting for the day I see Hobbit text adventure make one of these lists. It has this crazy intetesting early AI tech in it, whereby NPCs do random stuff, game world reacts in all these weird ways!

Zaxxon was great on the C64. Also Boulder Dash and Jumpman. I loved Impossible Mission. Played the hell out of it.

"he slimed me" really brought me back. enjoy your like

No Project Firestart? That and Last Ninja (1 & 2) are the holy grails of C64 gaming.

Another amazing list my friend!!

yea Ghostbusters was in the early years for the C64..Had to use a sys code to run my pirate copy^^

I remember most of them i born in 1977 and in 1990 still play that games

What I love about games back then was you had to accomplish it yourself. Nowadays if you get stuck you look for it on the internet and it tells you what to do.

As for dubious choices, i would start with seaside special.

That golf game used to pissed me off! 😂

I played a couple of them, mostly ports on Atari 8-8it... Thanks for making me smile =)

Silk Worm, North and South, P.O.W, Maniac Mansion, Lost Patrol, Turrican II, Giana Sisters, Hostages, Cannon Fodder, Indiana Jones......

Zack Mc Kracken, Maniac Mansion, Detective, Bubble Bobble, Spiky Harold, Golden Talisman, Green Beret, Summer Games, Bruce Lee, Choplifter, Ghost n Goblins, Barbarian, Microprose Soccer.......

Good list OSG. Opinions are like arseholes; everybody’s got one so here’s mine (opinion; not arsehole). I would substitute Rainbow islands with Bubble Bobble, I’d have The Sentinel in there somewhere and World Games over California Games.

Forbidden Forest!!!!

I don’t think any Top c64 list can be complete without Defender of the Crown, perhaps the systems most impressive audio/visual achievement

Excellent list. Agree with just about everything there. Maniac Mansion, Druid 2, Eagles Nest, Eidolon, Mario Bros by Atari are all very good. Enigma Force, Impossible Mission and Frankie are my favourite games on the platform.

Rambo was awesome, I'll never forget that sound!

Have some good ones here but any list should include Winter/Summer Games and Raid Over Bungeling Bay to name a few

Commodore graphics seems to be better than Spectrum ZX. Its more like Famicom .

Sure not the 30 best ones, but some real legendes.

The R type port looks amazing!

Ballblazer? Bomb Jack annoyeed me too death as your chacter was just too big. Cant argue with the others though. I would have Wizball, Bubble Bobble and Buggy Boy in as they were great games. I might even try to sneak the Sentinel in as that was a cracking game. Honourable mentions go to Koronis Rift and Rescue on Fractulus. The best thing is about the C64 is that someone else could have 30 totally different games in their top 30 and you could fing reasons to agree. I wish PC Game creators could extract as much from current hardware as was somehow pulled out of the 8 bits.

15:40 Was this actual 3D space geometry being used (i.e. like Doom)? Or just simulated somehow?

I loved Rad Over Moscow. Then i saw a critique of it by, I think, the guy who did Parallaxian. He's right, it is kinda crap once he spells it all out.

Never understood the fuss over the last ninja. Wasn't very playable, had terrible controls and basically two moves.

Some weird choices that I would have exchanged with Defenders of the Crown, G.I. Joe, Bruce Lee, Aliens, The Last V8 and Test Drive

When did you upload the original video?

urgh, Gauntlet and Elite are not good games on the C64. Pyjamarama and Seaside Special are interesting choices. Ultima 4, Bards Tale, Pools of Radiance, Bomboozal, Armalyte, Antcipital, World Class Leaderboard, Entombed, Turrican 2, Summer Games 2, Sentinel, Ghouls N Ghosts, Ghosts and Goblins (the new one) Hessian, sams journey, mayhem in monsterland, spindizzy etc etc etc. Or, in other words, the C64 had an astonishingly good library of games.

I had a commodore 64 as a kid and my favorite game was Robocop 2 which was a cartridge and had no loading times and also was just a very fun game at the time. I don't think I finished any of the cassette games on the C64 because when I died the massive loading times just put me off, I got fed up waiting and gave up. I think I spent most of the time on the Commodore 64 waiting for it to load lol. Chuckie Egg was a good game too. Midnight Resistance, I would load up, die after a few seconds and face what seemed like a 10 minute loading time so I just gave up on it. That was out of the Night Moves collection I got with it. The loading times absolutely killed it for me though I tried to play it. I was very excited when I got the Commodore 64 as a kid and thought it was great. I had Ghostbusters and Last Ninja off this list but I could never make any progress in them because of the massive load times and instant deaths and sometimes my C64 itself used to just give up on trying to load. Eventually it just stopped loading altogether. Then all I could play was that Robocop 2 cartridge.

Elite was a brutal strategy game...

playing elite on my C64 I would fly out of the station and go max range from it and fly full speed rotating in the opposite direction and fly right into the station without crashing. this is all based on timing when in the docking stations rotation you start your inbound flight.

Would have liked to see Racing Destruction Set which nobody remembers.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh... the magic of SPRITES!

Pirates?

Top man

Would have added Space Taxi, Jumpman, Jumpman Jr., Raid on Bugeling Bay, Green Beret, and Load Runner. Archon and Mission Impossible were awesome though. Spent many days on the C-64.

What a PITA to get your ship out of the hangar bay in Raid Over Moscow

GUNSHIP ist not there. Forget this list

you got to have Rus'n'attack, boulder dash, blackhawk, predator...etc.

Hardball, Racing Destruction Set..... too many others as well

Microprose Soccer was best soccer game of that time. Goonies 2 is the first game I ever completed. Turrican was a highlight.

Green Beret and Blue Max, we played those for hours.

Fun list but the last ninja is inside the top 23 videos games all time ….. not just the Commodore 64 list

I wish l could have played these back in the day . Just remember my cousin playing his c64. It seem alot of the graphics . Where way better then the NES.

Childhood well spent

I wonder if IK+ is disappointed at failing to 1st Place & feels like 'it could do better'? :P

Last Ninja is No1. No discussion

Shout out to all the parents that had to listen to those 64 game sounds all day 😂 It didn‘t annoy me at all as a kid. Nice memories. I did not know some of the ganes from the list and they look to me like that was on purpose. You are really bad at California Games BMX , sorry 😂😂 Defender of the crown, Wolfenstein, Football Manager. Summer & Winter Games, Paperboy !!! … a lot of good stuff missing imo, but thanks for bringing a lot of good memories back

I used to always get blown up on the same section of Uridium. I could never figure out what I was doing wrong. From memory it was about level 3 and a chain of hexagons comes from behind can anyone explain? I wonder if it's something like the infamous barrel in Sonic 3 on the mega drive that trapped lots of players because they didn't know they had to push up then down then up etc to make the barrel move horizontally... I used to always fail in magic land dizzy when I went into the chess room with massive piece attacking dizzy. There must have been some step or hack I kept missing. Any clues appreciated, these moments haunted my childhood 😅

Oh yeah, Rambo, Commando, Raid over Moscow...played them when i was 8. Now, at 46, i play BF and Warzone. Same stuff...😀 I would ad FROGGER, BLUE MAX and BEACH HEAD on this list

I would also add all of the Zorks, Choplifter, Karateka (iirc), and didn't they also have a text adventure version of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?

What about Rush N Attack, Bards tale III, Maniac mansion, Airborne Ranger, and Hot Wheels?

missing wizball and M.U.L.E

CREATURES and CREATURES 2 are probably the best 2 C64 games, followed by Karatéka

I found this list rather random tbf. Several great games are completely missing (eg. Hawkeye, Armalyte, Zak McKraken, Bruce Lee, Last Ninja 2, Project Firestart, Grand Prix Circuit just to mention a few) and many put in an awkward order 🤔

Where's Paperboy? I loved that game. But I also loved Ghostbusters. Great list.

Every single game on the c64 gave more joy than a iPhone game. Every game on iphone is based on addiction and hardly 5 games on the whole iphone, can measure up to the c64.

Mate I really miss BeachHead2 on this list, I used to play it with a friend back in t'he day

Elite was amazing

What the... 🤔 Stunt Car racer, the colours, they look very Amstrad-ish... I don't remember C64 version looking like that at all, I remember the road being orange/light brown rather than grey. 🤔

Jaaa, das waren auch meine Lieblings Spiele.

Let's see if anyone recognizes these great games out of the hundreds my friends and I copied off each other: Below the Root, Dragonriders of Pern, Forbidden Forest, Dragonhawk, Phantasie, Autoduel, Cliff Hanger, Castles of Dr. Creep, Questron/Legacy of the Ancients, Realms of Impossibility, Adventure Construction Set.

I played Rambo game alot on C64.

Adding a few titles to the list of games already mentioned in video and thread: Airborne Ranger, Oil Empire, The Manager, Ghost'n Goblins, Manic Miner, Crackers Revenge, Summer Games, Vinter Games. To name a few. ;)

Not sure about robocop, knowing the game is bugged

Had a few of these games

Wonderboy,spyhunter and chase hq should be on this list

Stealth fighter. Well before the stealth fighter was shown to the world.

Where you had Thrust, I probably would’ve put Space Taxi….. 🚕 similar concept but showed off the system better imho

Thanks for this. I couldn’t remember the Paradroid title for the life of me. Top game👌