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The iconic LETC title screen on the C64. It's the Lotus badge. But nice, like.
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Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Racing games on the #C64 were actually pretty few and far between, the good ones, anyway - there's likely a list of about ten that would be easy to name. LETC is one of them - it's a cracking game. High production values, just gorgeous. Top work.
The classic golden ELITE "flying eagle" logo and the Cobra Mk III in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
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Elite
When you talk about classic games, within not too long a time, Elite will crop up. It really is that important a game. Written on the BBC Micro, ported everywhere, the #C64 version is a cracking game and the more recent "Flicker Free" version by Mark Moxon is... Elite!
It's not great artwork, but it does the job. Thankfully the game is stunningly good! Buggy Boy loading screen done by a child it would seem in MS Paint, which likely did not even exist. Frankly - the whole thing is a marvel, when you think about it...
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Buggy Boy
I don't *need* to redo BB as an LL64, but there has been radio chatter about it across many profiles this week, so why not join in & showcase one of the best racers on the #C64? Exactly. No reason not to. So here we are. Every single thing about this game is magic.
A rather nifty-looking C64 loading screen for BttF II. Lightnight is striking, the Delorean is flying, the movie logo is here - it's all rather lovely.
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Back to the Future II
I think given a little time and effort one could come to enjoy BttF2 on the #C64. Out of the box, tape, disk or cart, it looks and sounds great, but the first part of the first level is mega tricksy. It's a shame, as the later levels look much more interesting!
Nice animated version of the Dark Castle loading screen. A dark castle can be seen, as we stand in a forest. A raven perches on a limb and there is a river, clouds and a bright, white moon.
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Dark Castle
It was somehow... inevitably, ladies & german measels that I would choose to focus upon the #C64 version of DC. A game, I have never played and still have not played, as I cannot seem to find a working copy. Does such a thing exist..? We will find out...
Seemingly simple, but this loading screen to Dragon's Lair II on the Commodore 64 is glorious. Just look at it. Purple-robed lizard king Singe is holding a sceptre, as Dirk the Daring enters through a dark-lit stone entrance, fortified and held up with thick, wooden beams.. It just looks amazing.
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Dragon's Lair II - Escape from Singe's Castle
Wow. I had forgotten just how good this game is. Bloody Nora sitting in an eggcup. This is proper decent arcade adventure on the #C64. A series of mini games, with specific (usually timed) joystick inputs required. Glorious sound. Just ACE!
A cool, faux-digitised loading screen for WINGS OF FURY for the C64. The classic shark-nosed "Flying Tiger" P-40 is flying directly at us on a backdrop of FIRE. Cool medal-style "Wings of Fury" logo.
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Wings of Fury
Matin! I fondly remember salivating over WoF in CF back in late 1990 and I couldn't understand why the game only reviewed at the (albeit the best) mid-seventies on the #C64. Firing it up now, it seems like a lovely game! Just take your time with the controls!
A fantastic, albeit minimalist cover from the box off the Ultimate game "Underwurlde" for the C64. Some little Tengu thing with wings and a tail. A small tall demon, if you will.
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Underwurlde
Sticking with #UltimatePlayTheGame we have another Speccy conversion to the #C64 and again, seemingly, swathes of people have much love for UW, I just think it's a bouncing mess of annoyance. What's your take..?
A grey castle juts out from a cliffside promontory against a dark sky with forked lightning flashing. It's The Staff of Karnath on the C64.
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Staff of Karnath, The
Arcade adventures on the #C64 never been so blocky, nor so brown. Man. This game. Sir Arthur Pendragon, I believe, with a handful of spells and a perpetually draining energy level, he is in a maze of brown, blocky hell. RUN AWAY! The Nostalgia Feels, but jeez...
The Sexy AF Turbocharge intro. A red lambo is looking at us in a futuristic hydraulic garage ramp. The lights open and dazzle us. Glory!
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Turbocharge
Whatta game. Racing games don't come much better on the ol' #C64 - TC really is a stonking achievement and a real testement of what can be done on the Breadbin with a little (a lot?) of care and attention. The intro is epic. The game is cool and the cut scenes yo!
The cool loading screen for "Locomotion" on the C64. A future city-scape and two train engines, looking like the Red Car and the Blue Car what done had a race. All Red wanted to do was stuff his face...
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Locomotion
Ahhhh, who doesn't love a puzzler on the ol' #C64? Plenty. That aside, this little gem from 1992 is an ace take on the old track junction switcheroo vibe and there is a lot going on. Not least, as you can make your own levels. Plenty going on and its all wrapped up nice too!
Pretty cool-looking loading screen for "Deliverance" on the C64. Stormlord II, no less. His hiking-esque helmet, single-blade axe and sheathed sword adorn a ruined landascape in... BROWN Matneee - it is in BROWNS!
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Deliverance: Stormlord II
I think I bought the original Stormlord and played it a bit, slightly disappointed that it didn't play anywhere near as good as it looking on the #C64. Its follow up, is almost exactly the same, which, for the time, was still a good platform / arcade adventure.
The "Grey" variant of the Kung-Fu Master C64 loading screen. Not much going on bu tht emain sprite standing on the game logo.
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Kung-Fu Master
A classic arcade game BITD, KFM of course made its way to the home micros and the #C64 version is, as was almost always the case, the superior version. It still ain't great, but that's more an indictment of a poor game, than a bad conversion. Heavy Nostalgia Vibes. POW!
Rick is back and he's as Dangerous as ever! Rick Dangerous II title screen for the C64. Rick is on his flying doobery and dodging incoming explosions!
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Rick Dangerous II
Unsurprisingly the follow up to RD1, RD2 takes it to eleven. 5 levels. Multiload, but allowing you to start from 1-4 if you like, saving the finalé for, well, last. Rightly so. #C64 platformers don't come much more well-made than this. It is a gorgeous, glorious game.
Nice dark blue football pitch you have there... Nice Subbuteo logo and a football pitch. And Subbuteo players, obvs. C64 loading screen.
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Subbuteo
I never played this BITD and I have just spent a happy 15 minutes playing it - once you get the controls sorted, this is actually quite an amount of fun! #C64 Subbuteo is a thing! If you are under the age of XX and don't know what "Subbuteo" is - Google it. That was quite fun!
The COMIC BAKERY loading screen in imagine blue... The lighter blue IMAGINE diagonal 3D logo is present and a baker, being knocked over inexplicably by a brown fox, dropping his loaves... It's. Uh..? C64 Loader!
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Comic Bakery
You can all probably hear the Martin Galway SID already... An early/mid release fo the #C64, this arcade game is an interesting affair (for a little while), as you guide the hapless baker about the bakery trying to keep things moving. It kinda looks good and sounds jolly...
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Dylan Dog (The Murderers)
ANyone else ever herard of, or played this 1992 #C64 game? I read about it, in the newly-delivered physical copy of CF 22 that arrived via eBay yesterday. What you can't see (or hear) from this loading pic, is the cool amimation and the moody SID music. Excite!
Aegon Targaryen looks around his living room on acid and sees more than meets the eye. Inexplicably, the egg-shaped cunt is wearing boxing gloves.
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Dizzy
Back we go, good morning sweet reader, back we go to the beginning of time. Dizzy Time, that is. Back we go to 1988 and Ian Gray has been tasked with converting a #Speccy game to the #C64. Arguably, the result is superior. As arcade adventures went, well... 1/2 >>>
Hi-Res loading screen for Dan Dar on the C64. It look like a few comic book panels. Dan looking ace in one, The Meekon looking chased in the other.
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Dan Dare
The #C64 does arcade adventures really, really, really well and DD1 is no expection. Forty years ago today (Colonel Dare taught the band to play) Virgin's "Gang of Five" designed and delivered a super solid AA game and I am crap at it. I need to invest some time..!
A rather understated, but high quality loading screen for Slicks on the C64. A blue F1 car takes a red and white burmed bend on a grey asphalt track, as a green car chases him down. All from a bird's eye. Yarrrr!
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Slicks
For four quid, you'd do well to dwell on the fact that this game is a bargain and it plays phenomenally and looks even better. It's a real gem in the Codies library and super late, likely one of the last #C64 games released on the "original" Codemasters label. Halcyon Days...
If you stretch this vertically it looks better. What were they thinking in this squat Addams Family Portrait for the C64 loading screen?
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The Addams Family
They're creepy and yeah: whatever. Dateline 1992 and this platform game is harder than, well, it's flippin' hard. It looks great, plays well and sounds good. Often over-looked and one of the final releases by Ocean on the #C64, it is well worth a look, it says here...
The brown (yes, Matneee, it IS brown!) and orange outer facade of the Andromeda Vault (I am making this up). The Scarabaeus loading screen / title screen, C64.
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Scarabaeus
What you miss from this lovely title screen, is the animated intro of the ship landing (and taking off), the pilot and companion doggo emerging, the vault door opening and us entering and the vault door closing. #C64 games don't get much more atmospheric than this. PLAY IT.
Fairly standard text loading screen. Some nice touches.
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Winter Games
It was... inevitable. #Epyx made some absolutely cracking games for the #C64 and WG & its Summer counterpart, & their respective sequels & the two called "The Games: Winter/Summer Edition" - there is a lot of mini-game action going on! For me - this is top drawer! Hot Dog!
Gotta Make 'Em All! Famous Face of the World Untie! U OK Hon?
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Split Personalities
I am feeling like a total bag o' shite, so I want to focus on something old and fun, like me, as I am that shallow. #C64 puzzlers are fairly few and far, but this classic oldie from 1986 (I was 9!) has nostalgia written all over it. Never played it? Fix that today!
A biker dinosaur / dragon (green, obvs) looking like Danny Zuko. It's quite a nice loading pic, actually, motorcycle, leather jacket, I think they are meant to be records / vinyl...
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DJ Puff's Volcanic Caper
Think NZS and CJ's and you're almost there, but it somehow doesn't feel as good as either of the other #C64 titles. The ponderous speed is one thing, the iffy collision-detection is another. But that said, this is still a fairly adequate platformer. Nice.
Lovely bit of loading screen going on here! The C64 version of Cybernoid got a good deal of production value thrownm at it. Faithful rendition of the box art. A spaceship, a Death Star and the Cybernoid logo... Love it.
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Cybernoid
The lengths I have to go to for @sirduncaneltorpe.bsky.social... A classic converstion from the Speccy to the #C64 and arguably a better game in every respect, Cybernoid is frippin' hard, but lordy lordy, it's good. And this tune is an absolute crackerjack! Play it.
Dizzy, harping Pitfall Harry, is swinging on a vine, actually, also aping Indiana Jones, there is a lot going on in the background. Dragon, cannonball-riding parrot, pirate ship, plenty going on in the foreground too, Dizzy in swinging in a forest above a river, with a croc and a snake and a fish in view, flowers, Codies Logos - cats and dogs - living together - MASS HYSTERIA!
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Crystal Kingdom Dizzy
Dizzy games for me, by the time this came out on the #C64 in 1992, were a little "meh" and I never had this, not least as it was also the first full price Dizzy game. Farmed out, not done by The Oliver Twins... Is it any good? The reviews say yes... 🤔
Zavala wearing nowt else but a baseball cap is spiking the volleyball on a blue sky background, grimacing as if he is saying, of Navôta, Eir Spawn..: "...laminate her..."
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Kings of the Beach
It's Valentine's Day. The sun is in the sky. It is 3° outside. So why not TOP OFF and impress your swooning loved one, with a bit of beach volleyball on the #C64? Wait a minute... KotB, as far as I know, was not released in the EU, I only read about it in the >>> 1/2
The King's Bounty loading screen on the C64. We are in the hall of the King, presumably, a green fey-looking dragon is half in, half out of a door-like portal and nabbing a sceptre off the King, dressed predominantly in green. He is, mais oui, be-bearded and crownéd. The King, that is, not the sad lizard.
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King's Bounty
I don't do the "this many years old" schtick, as it's barf-able, but last night was the very first time it clicked what KB actually is. I had seen this #C64 game reviewed in CF mag for years and never clicked what it might be. But it is. And also - a lovely romp of a game!
The Cool World main title screen for the C64. THe Cool World, Twighlight and Ocean logos are present.
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Cool World
Another #C64 game I had vaguely heard of and never played - UNTIL TODAY! It's actually a nice and very playable platform / shooter, even with no instrichun I managed to get by a little and found the game and how it played enjoyable. Not sure I have ever seen the movie...
