I was reminiscing on YouTube on my Commodore 64, the third computer I ever had. The first was a Sinclaire ZX81, with 1KB RAM, no sound, and black-and-white video. Then we upgraded that with a 16KB RAM pack.
Then my parents upgraded me the following Christmas to a Commodore VIC-20, which had a whole 4KB RAM, sound, and color graphics. At some point, we also got an 8KB RAM expansion cartridge, and I remember programming it in assembly code, using the Machine Code Monitor cartridge to debug my programs.
The following year, we got a Commodore 64, which had a whole 64KB RAM—more than any other computer at the time—and new sound and graphics chips that were trés kewl. The Commodore 64 is unique in my memory, because I not only remember programming it, I also remember playing games on it, including a number of the games featured in this video:
How many of those games can you identify? Or at least remember?
I got 9 (out of 28), but this video misses a number of games that I remember playing on the Commodore 64. At least they included Impossible Mission, though. 🙂
-TimK
I miss “Boulder Dash” I also remember: Jill of the Jungle, Montezuma’s revenge, Impossible Mission, Soccer, Donkey Kong, Summer Olympics and a couple of others (2) for which I cannot recall the name. Oh, I didn’t see the games which we use to play showing a man in space-type suit and needing to pic up keys to unlock all levels. He met up with boxed; some boxes had balloons in them and some bombs in them and some had extended life, etc.
I also remember a game—I think it was on the C64—in which we had to control a spaceship and go to various planets… for some reason I don’t remember. And if we were too slow, we’d meet up with the aliens, who were green and terrifying.
We also used to play some games on the VIC-20, I remember. But only a couple stick out in my memory: Serpentine and Shamus.
-TimK
Hi John – that was Elite – you are right it was very slow
Thanks Timothy – took me back through memory lane – I think I got 18/28 – loved Wizball, Summer Games and most of all Raid over Moscow (crashed hundreds of fighters before I nailed the take off sequence!) – without these am sure my college grades would have been much higher
cheers