Top 50 Commodore 64 (C64) games of 1987 - in under 10 minutes 

How much I miss those times when the gaming world was all new to us, full with wonders and colors and we loved every moment of it. Youngsters now play 10 times higher quality games on their mobile phones and never satisfied with anything. Games all look better now but kids today can never understand how we felt back in the 80s and early 90s when all of this was truly a miracle to us

Back in the day I think we spent more time copying disks, pirating software, and punching the disks to make them double-sided than we actually spent playing.

i´m born in 1981, and I still remember this: Turbo Tape - SYS 52598!😃😅😇

Totally the *high water mark* for the C64. My top two games for the platform came out that year (Defender of the Crown and Pirates!) and I am happy to say that 35 years later I am still playing them both.

My first ever gaming experience was from aC64 in 1987 plugged in to my grandparents television. Wow what a trip down memory lane this is!

What a great year for the C64! Programmers really had mastered all aspects of the hardware by that time. Excellent list.

I was about to type a long scathing message lambasting you for your top 50 Commodore games until I realized it was for 1987 only. Feeling better now. Great job putting together the list!

I remember those times, I was fourteen. It was the peak of the C-64, but from then on the Amiga was on the rise. Glorious times the youth of today can't understand.

The C64 was a great computer, here are some of the classics I enjoyed, manic miner, jet set willy, chuckie egg, kokotoni wilf, atic atak, scuba dive, alien8, halls of the things and few more I have forgotten, good memories

best year of C64 games - in 50 titles i found 10 my best games on c64

Could argue with amiga and st still finding their feet, c64 was best games machine in the world at this point....so many top games.

spent days playing solomons key and the last ninja, absolute classics

Rampage,kick-start,rescue on fractalus,test drive,miami vice,california games...brings back so many memories and thr ocean loader by matt gray...been gaming since 85,still collecting consoles at 42

Finally got a C64 for xmas '86 (after owning a spectrum and acorn electron), so 1987 was my first full year of gaming on the system. A great year for Commodore titles (a few of these i dont remember). Loved the Microprose games Airborne Ranger and Pirates! (the packaging was classy). Also Stavros Fasoulas's "Delta" which only got 74% in ZZAP! but i thought it was a great shoot-em-up with superb music from Rob Hubbard.

Wizball way ahead of its time, brilliant game!! Enjoyed completing that!!!!

oh my, i was 12 back in 87 :) I Loved it, wonderful presentation and thanx for all the nice memories with this :) High 5

Loved Maniac Mansion. Unlocked every ending. Played with every character. A masterpiece of the 80s. Airborne Ranger, too. Oh man, can't stop editing my coment, lol. Played 90% of the games.

Hands down, the C64 is the best computer ever. I own a PS5, and it is an empty husk when compared to this machine. I wish somebody would do a version of Wizball for the PS5.

I'm so happy the The Last Ninja was at 4:20 - I was literally dominating a fat blunt and my 2nd fav' C-64 game. As for WIZBALL, my all time favourite C-64 game. Stuff of legend.

Maniac Manson , Test Drive etc. i had them all on disc 👍👍👍😄

Giana Sisters and Maniac Mansion, my two favourite C64 games at that time and they aged incredibly well!

Brilliant Top 50 of Commodore 64 games again. Absolutely love these videos as I'd forgotten some of the ones you've shown. Top class again 👍

Really good games at 1987. Thanks for sharing.

A watershed year for gaming in the c64. A real leap in quality over previous years pushing the boundaries of the machine. A lot of the all time classics from 87.

My first year owning a C64. Probably too late a time to get one but still had a blast in spite of PC DOS taking over more and more. We have to start somewhere. And a C64 was probably the best 8 bit computer for games ever. Especially if money was tight and you actually wanted to play computer games and couldn't afford a PC that was at least 10x the price.

Bop and rumble 😂 I knew I would find you if I watched enough RU-vid videos, I remember spinning people above your head. My cousins and I loved that game 😎

The last ninja. Being able to move diagonally up the pathway was revolutionary

Giana Sisters and Arkanoid were my favourites...I missed Frogger...😅😚

The music in some of those games just comes flooding back into my brain

loved those games, thanks for the video

Nice video. I missed quite a few of these as a kid. The swamp in curse of Sherwood drove me crazy 😡

I played most of these games as a kid. It's nice to remember the titles :)

Platoon was from 1987. I know the movie was from 1986 but the game came out in 1987. Project Stealth Fighter also came out in 1987

OMG This list is friggin awesome. I probably played like 60-70% of these games. Couple of stand-outs: Last Ninja, Buggy Boy, Test Drive, Krakout, California Games, IK+, Arkanoid (heck yeah), Giana Sisters, Zynaps. Not in this video but friggin awesome: Uridium.

Looking at the games on this list , this has to b the best yr for the c64, way to many classics.

The c64 was my favorite computer , loved all the games and going online to the BBS

Many of my favorite games are from this year, pheraps 1987 was the year C64 got his peak.

The Island of Dr Destructo theres a game I'd completely forgotten about. Good shout. Army Moves another classic with a great soundtrack. IK+ still looks amazing now.

Nice top of commodore 64 games 👍 7:06 Renegade is a super retro fighting game!

1987 was a good year on the C64.

Best year ever.

Thought it was a massive upgrade in graphics and sound over my 48k ZX Spectrum, but the speccy was my first love.

So many 1987 games to choose from! Hard to choose the "top" ones other than some obvious no-brainers (like Pirates!). A couple other titles worth checking out are Crossroads (Compute), and Spore (Mastertronic) Crossroads and Crossroads 2 are noteworthy as perhaps the best type-ins ever, and they can be seen as a high resolution update of another C64 classic, Wizard of Wor. Spore is a bit interesting to me as a Gauntlet/puzzle hybrid.

great memories.. thanks for the post.

Woohoo!! I only knew (and played) maybe 7 or 8 of the games. And the others I haven't even heard of. Could be because I changed to the Atari ST in 1986 when I was going to University. And I didn't either know that so many Spectrum games were ported to the C64. They look so speccy on the Commodore, really ridiculous :-))

I think 87 was the peak C64 year. Great quality games and the trading scene was huge. I went to Amiga in late 88 and things went from there.!

It's shocking how smoother Buggy Boy is in comparison to test drive, even though it seemingly does have more advanced graphics (the dashboard in Test Drive is more for limiting the game window for performance reasons I guess).

I bought Kikstart 2 on cassette from local newsagents in the UK with money earned from Carol singing!

I used to enjoy Canyons of Zelaz. My Stepson and I typed in the program from the BASIC code printed in RUN magazine ...

O.M.G I was just wondering if "The last Ninja" would be on here? And that same second it came on!!

A lot of very good games born in 1987! 👍

Brilliant compilation!

Think some of those games stretch the definition of best games. Space Harrier? Wonderboy? Rampage?

There some goodies in there.. Renegade was my substitute for Double Dragon..

Finished Head over Heels many times

The jizzle in my pants when I first hear the theme to IK+ then Monty. Time to search for some of the other games and see if there are any longplays on them :) I've only played a fraction of the games shown here :D

Saved the best for last, man :D

My top 8: 1. Pirates (G.O.A.T.) 2. World Class Leaderboard 3. Rampage 4. California Games 5. Arkanoid 6. Bop n Rumble 7. Test Drive 8. The Train : Escape to Normandy.

Giana sisters! 😱😍😍 I downloaded that on my playstation 3 😍🤣

God I was on the bleeding edge for about 60 seconds

What was that boxing game after every round bruises and cuts showed up on each boxer?

Defender of the Crown. Best game ever :)

i love c64 my fav system all-time it has great games

I remember playing California games, i think i had a 486 with a cga card

Bob'n rumble seemed badass. Head butting grannies and blind people? Hell's yeah!!! +10

Trip down 80's memory lane here California Games Test Drive Bubble Bobble Kickstart 2 Wizball Buggy Boy The Last Ninja Arkanoid Andy Capp

I still have 3 of these

Some gems and some really bad an generic ones in here. Man, I miss the time... 🙂

airborne ranger: depicting the osprey 2 years before its first flight

1987 was a great year for the C64 obviously.

I don't know about 1987 precisely, but The Bard's Tale was one of the best.

I somehow had so many of these but never bought any

sooooo many of the games on there that i wasted many an hour playin back in the day

I never played any of these. I really preferred games like Carriers at War and Reach for the Stars. I did really love Archon though.

Bop n rumble was called street hassle over here in UK

some are clearly spectrum ports that brought the colour issues with them

Californie games 😍😍😍😍 Amiga 500 🥰🥰🥰

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Missing the best wizard,james bond,bruce lee,superpipeline,road runner.

bop and rumble = streets of rage hulk hogan edition

I find your content non offensive and enjoy it. I defend though a person's right to criticise. Being negative is not beyond the pail and doesn't invalidate their comments, except when they are wrong. I do watch your shows to the end so I get all the facts.

Missing Uridium, Bruce Lee, Impossible Mission, Rambo, Beach Head, H. E. R. O, Boulderdash, Exploding Fist, Karateka, Delta, Bomb Jack, Zak Mc Cracken, Who Dares Wins, Commando, Parallax, Spy VS Spy, Turrican, Ghost Busters, Barbarian, Rally Speedway and a lots other in front of many games in this video.

4:32 Bart Simpson's nightmare game

This has the great giana sisters game on it?

Compared to the games of the early years of the c64 these look almost next gen

I thought it was awesome then playing these games then. How we evolved so much.

the c64 had the best ms pac man for any console

Flimbo’s quest should be on here

Come on bro, Nebulus.

You missed out on the best era unless there's another video with Turrican 2, Mayhem in Monsterland etc.

Airborne ranger ❤😢

Test drive was one of those must have games , driving different iconic cars even having the option of 2 joystics to drive one for shifting gears.

At least it was better than the Atari 2600, which is what I owned before this.

Wow the memories. Terrible graphics compared to todays standard but at least you didnt get charged a ton for games and add ons.

At last, some games I played. The trouble is, not on the 64.

Where is Bruce Lee? And ... I think not all games shown in the video are actually C64 footage? Aren't there a few Schneider oder Synclair games in the video?

No Gunship or Silent Service???

No wonder why i choose to ride dirt bikes instead of playing video games!!!!

Hey guys.. Im looking for a game I played on C64. It was like a spaceship, scrooling game, you had to pick up guys waving at you in futuristic city.

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