Top 10 Commodore 64 Navy Simulation Games 

Thx , its a perfect sub sim .. so emersive and yeah real nail bitting tension 👍👍

Loved the intro. 😄 the novel is great too, getting too "real" now....

Such an epic game ! It's still great even now

@@BastichB64K for sure! I also think the C64 version is way better than the Amiga and PC conversions.

Oh yeah its way better 🕹️👍

Another informative video mate. A genre I passed by in my younger years apart from Destroyer purely because it came out of Epyx. Some good titles in the list and as always you make them sound very appealing do will be taking a look 👍

Have a look at Cold Waters on steam if you want a modern take on the classic Red Storm Rising

No probs , very cool game by Activision

Super cool game 👍

Yeah I love this system , such great variety in the games available

Yeah it was fun indeed. Back in the day we regularly visited other friends who would share their games with us. We would share ours in return. Many days we spent walking between houses, attending gatherings, sharing experiences and tapes ;-) When reaching the friend's house, we would be told to go upstairs by their mom/dad. Reaching the room we would usually enter a realm of mystery, a dark room with a couple of people with all the same interests and the "trading" would take place. Most of us, by then, would have a double tapedeck to make the copying possible. And while the tape was rolling, someone would be writing down the timing numbers on the piece of paper included in every cassette.

Thanks I appreciate that! Finally another Ocean Ranger fan 😀👍

Such an underated game , nobody ever mentions it .. i thought id change that . Thanks for watching 👍👍

Yeah everything about their simulations were so far ahead on the pack in terms of atmosphere and how it totally sucked you into this whole military world ... Such good memories

Yeah really good unique approach to the genre , great game 🕹️👍

Same here, I played that game so much, like Destroyer, they were my favs. Would be cool if they made this game on todays computers. ;)

I miss it too. As for Red Storm Rising, that was another one of my all-time favorites...spent way too many hours on it when it first came out. The game style is capture in the game 'Cold Waters' available on Steam. Its almost a carbon copy.

Cheers no probs 🕹️👍

Oh man Red storm is the best !!!!! And those wonderful Microprose Manual's were epic .. I learnt all about real submarines from that Manual 😀👍

The best 👍👍

Wow! Amazing , thanks for your service

Awesome 👍 glad you enjoyed it

Don't forget GATO. My first/best subsim.

@@Psychonaut-im3zz honestly never knew that got a C64 release , though it was always as a PC or Amiga

Same here. I remember it from PC (the one I played), was suprised it had an entry on gb64. Very confusing, features samples also, nothing too fancy. It exists at least. hehe.

My C64 also got put away in late 91 when i got a Mega drive but Silent Service was such a good one . I played it way back in 85 or 86

@@BastichB64K Cool. I still play Mega drive on Emulator from time to time, mainly to finish those games that I could never finish as a kid, but I have my The C64 permanently setup in my work from home office and play it every weekend. For me it's the perfect blend between original hardware and emulation. I think the ability to save games and gradually progress, allows you to really get into games. As a kid, with tapes, you couldn't easily save, so you'd have a blast at the early part of a game until you died or got bored of failing and never really progressed. I could never have finished a game like Silent Service or Impossible Mission in the old days. I was lucky to get my The c64 just before Lockdown. I spent so many hours on it with the Zeropaige Super Mario game. The save function allowed me to take multiple attempts at tricky parts of the game that would have defeated me in the old days. Same with the Megadrive emulation. Games like Streets of Rage, I couldn't get past the 3rd level. But with saves, you have multiple do-overs without having to battle through an entire level to get back to where you died.

That would be great for that game , it'll improve it dramatically 👍

Done..... Now needs testing before release.

@Vince RusBro master has already done this. See csdb

Thx as always 😀👍

@@BastichB64K your welcome!

Thanks for checking it out , Red Storm is excellent just make sure you get some instructions ... It's a big complicated game

Both great choices 👍 thanks for watching

Thx for watching , yeah it is the footage was corrupted in my transfer during editing so I used a flip effect and it fixed it ... Nothing else would work so I had to use it ... The trials and tribulations of editing massive videos and I couldn't reshoot as I'm in the process of moving and the whole games room doesn't even exist anymore 😭

Great video man!

I plan ahead and made an extra 2 months worth of videos so there won't be any interuptions to the channel but technically I won't be making anything for a while until my new house and games room is complete

😂👍 .... That'll probably actually happen 🤣

Yeah I was a big fan of the RPGs and Sims as well ... I think these genres on the C64 don't get enough recognition , people always talk about the arcade style titles . Check out my Top 10 C64 video also if you haven't for some more gems

@@BastichB64K Maybe cover some more of the sims and RPGs then...? ;)

@@gamingtonight1526 got a top 10 on RPGs already you can check out , I'll be doing sims both strategy and flight in the future 👍

Great set of games , so many hours sunk into all those myself as well

No problem sir , I find often with historical info they only even mention certain facts and discard a lot of others so I thought I'd mention it 👍

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Cheers yeah , its the best and still is . Thanks for watching 👍

Oh man thats brutal 😭😭😭😭

So many great genres packed with games

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Yeah both of those are classic games , love them

@@BastichB64K Thanks for the recommendations. I'm going to try some of them out this weekend! Gonna be fun, but I bet I'll just end up playing hours of Pirates again anyway lol

Glad you enjoyed it , i just couldn't get into that one personally

Yeah there's more navy sims that aren't on the list these are just my favs

Such classics 👍

Yeah i love all these games , it was hard to choose one over the other 😀👍 thanks for watching

Not sure how you did it without a manuel , its pretty complicated!! Very impressive 👍👍

@@BastichB64K I am from Germany and Games I played ... I don't buy them in a Shop. 95% of all those Games I won without any Manuel or english knowledge .

The whole genre has been dead for so long now on almost all platforms .. there's the occasional PC sub and warship games but even those are so few and far between ... I miss these games 😭

@@BastichB64K I guess it just doesn't excite players and developers as much as it used to. I can understand that ... in the 1980s there was the Falklands and the Persian Gulf keeping things in the public imagination. But then the promise of "the big one" fell with the Soviet Union. The feeling of relevance and immediacy is gone. And naval warship technology feels stagnant also. There's no awesome new hydrofoil technology. Carrier aircraft still use 1970s technology ... that may have been new and exciting in the 1980s, but now it's almost half a century old! There is no longer a sense that the supercarrier is the pride of a nation. And of course, we've had our endless wars and occupations ... where absolute naval supremacy has not translated into decisive victories. I think the average person would not be able to articulate what a navy is even for. Even so, I think that there's room for some excitement if you think outside the box. I keep coming back to Vietnam style swamp/jungle fighting. It's relevant to modern scenarios of piracy and narco subs and such. So, you could have hovercraft or river craft navigating in swamps/jungles, along with Operation Wolf style first-person scenes where you directly shoot it out with the enemy. Sophisticated 3D graphics aren't necessary - just character graphics for chunky depictions of foliage and sprites for enemies popping up to shoot at you.

That's sounds cool so it'll be something like Accolades Gunboat ?

​@@BastichB64K Yeah, like that! But the C64 isn't really so great at 3D graphics, so I was thinking something separated into different screens. Like, navigation is done with an overhead 2D screen, with map and GPS (modern era, not Vietnam era). You switch the first person mode only for actually engaging the enemy ... more Operation Wolf or 'Nam 1975 than true 3d graphics.

@@IsaacKuo yeah I'd think that would work well 🕹️👍

Navcom was done by Cosmi their games on all formats were pretty buggy at best 😂

Yeah the C64 version is way better than the NES conversion

Yeah i loved it 👍👍👍🕹️

And i absolutely agree with the top three.

Cheers and thx for watching

You're the 1st person to notice that 🎶👍

BastichB 64K and most games have their sid background music which are not from the game. (Red storm and power at sea plays their own music as far as i remember). Ssi, microprose and pss were not famous with their visuals and music back then.

@@ozgurkarter4368 yeah most of the music for those games were less than 20 seconds before looping so I had to use other C64 music 🎶👍

You can find all the C64 versions here 👇 Csdb.dk

Didn't know that even existed

Such an underrated game 🕹️

Check out csdb.dk for a copy

Lol i haven't had that in a while but yeah i have had that in the comments many times 😂😂 i think its hilarious, the heartbreak kid was one of my fav wrestlers in the 90's

Yeah i never had a manual for John Young so had no idea how to play it and believe it or not i played Red Storm the cassette version and still loved it. Thx for watching 👍

@@BastichB64K Well, usual method would be to start the game and then press all the keys from top left to right bottom, writing down those that did something :D RSR could not fit in C64 memory (with all fancy graphics) and in fact could not fit on a single sided floppy disc, i.e. you would constantly juggle between mission itself, hit animations and briefing/debriefing. Overall, best looking naval simulation, but it was more meant for A500 than for c-64.

@@aleksazunjic9672 😂👍 i did use that method before ... It works but doesn't explain much for complicated games 😂 ... But yeah classic

@@BastichB64K Come to think of it, poor old C64 didn't even had capabilities for something entirely complex. Considering that in modern times even washing machines have more memory and computing power :) it is really a miracle that someone made naval simulations on such machine.

@@aleksazunjic9672 you should check out some of the modern new C64 games ... Those will blow you mind 🤯

Yeah I'm really interested to check it out

Ok sorry if I offended you somehow , I wasn't asking for one I just said the game could benefit from it and make it easier for people to enjoy it . Thx for watching anyway

@@BastichB64K 'More Than You Deserve' is the Excess motto ...... Sorry for the misunderstanding. We made your Easyflash version already. We sent it yesterday.

Hahahah 😂 omg I'm so sorry , I'm so tired moving all day my brain is fried 😂 , thx again so much I can't wait to try it out as soon as I'm up and running again 👍👍👍 thank you

@@BastichB64K 👍

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@@BastichB64K I think the picture was reversed for some reason so batman😀

@@banditkfk1463 oh right 😂 , the video footage was corrupted the only way to get it too work was to invert it

Yes he is , thx for watching 👍

Thx for watching , yeah it is the footage was corrupted in my transfer during editing so I used a flip effect and it fixed it ... Nothing else would work so I had to use it ... The trials and tribulations of editing massive videos and I couldn't reshoot as I'm in the process of moving and the whole games room doesn't even exist anymore 😭

They knew how to push systems to the limit back then ... Now they dont even try anymore 😎👍

@@BastichB64K Yeah, Brabens are scarce in 2020s.. But you can find billions of assshakers in DikDok..

Choplifter , Falcon Patrol 1&2 , Drop zone , Fort Apocalypse

@@BastichB64K its choplifter!!!! Yaaaaaay thank you so much! U made my day!

No problem 👍 happy you found it