Which C64 games did you really like
and wish where better on the ZX Spectrum. I remember 2 event games Melbourne House's Way Of The Exploding Fist and David Crane's Ghostbusters where so kickass with their graphics, music and sound effects back in the mid 80's when they came out.
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Split Personalities,
Midnight Resistance,
Some budget game with tanks in it I cannot remember the name of.
AcroJet
Sentinel
Uridium
Commando
(edited because I had some that were not on the speccy)
my mate did have some though but they all looked shit, thats why i bought a speccy, glad i did too. or i wouldn't be at WOS, id prolly be over at lemon64 talking about kissing boys or whatever they do in their chit chat section.
That's actually a pretty small proportion of the games that I like though. ;)
Bangers and mash, it's a crap pacman clone, and I mean crap, I only like it for the ridiculous story that goes with it :D
"Watch out or the Jimpies will fuck you to death for a sausage" :lol:
That's almost a sig worthy quote haha! I may have to think about that one :D
Uridium
Airborne Ranger
Arkanoid
I preferred the C64 version of Commando and Rambo. Obviously Uridium since they got it first and you could see the pylons but other than that not a lot really.
Lot's of games looked and sounded better on the C64 but the game play was shite compared to the Speccy and CPC versions and some C64 games looked terrible compared to the z80 versions.
So only a few looked, sounded and played better than the speccy and most of those where terrible conversions from the c64 originals.
I'm pretty sure the speccy version of SpyVsSpy had a glitch where the if you were sword fighting you virutally always won if you attacked your opponent from the right hand side of the screen.
The C64 version seemed to play a bit better (tho' I still love the spec version) and as for the 2 sequels the spectrum versions are absolutely hideous compared to the C64 ones.
EDIT: I forgot SmashTV - The great C64 conversion alongside the spectrum atrocity was enough to turn me green with envy at the time (It's one of my favourite arcades).
Apart from the arcade and countless re-releases on modern day console retro packages, we all know the definitive home version of Smash TV was the SNES version. It may have came after the home micro/computer versions. But I think my first Speccy was dead by the time it came out anyway, and I have no idea if it was out before or after I got my second Speccy. Wouldn't have mattered anyway, none of the computer shops in town sold Speccy stuff by 93 anyway. The only resource for Speccy games was my local electronics store, which still had em' back then if only budget titles. But I only bought 1 Speccy game in 93', it was Streetfighter, and incidentally the last Speccy game I ever bought.
I've never even seen the Speccy version of Smash TV, and I don't want to either :D
Can't be much worse than the Master System version :lol:
Tis about the only c64 game I can think of that's better than the Speccy version.
(for the moment.)
But I think that the speccy could have managed a great version of Smash TV and the one we got was crap even when compared to the conversion of Robotron made several years earlier.
The Bruty/Perry team did some great games on the spec so I think maybe they hadn't actually played smashTV when they made this one.
And it hurt the C64 version was so good...
Yeah I know that feeling I bought my copy of Smash TV for SNES in about 97, second hand for a tenner. I got the SNES when I was 14, imagine going 4 years without a new game :lol:
I played Streetfighter II, and Prince of Persia til' they almost caught fire, and prince of Persia wasn't even mine :lol:
Staff of Karnath
International Soccer
Way - exploding fist
Way Of The Exploding Fist
Uridium
Mugsy's Revenge (of course :roll:)
Erm... and that's about it, as far as I can remember anyway!!
really, you liked a game that had Mugsy in the title?
Well who would've thunk it? :p
Impossible Mission
Leaderboard
Wizball
Uridium
Monty on the Run (the music was soooo good)
Rambo
Exploding Fist
Eidolon
Summer/Winter Games
The C64 version of Krakout is really good IMHO.
I also really liked "Kick Start II" based on the motorcycle trials TV series, and the level designer that went with it.
NARC was also a favourite of mine.
A friend of mine who did have a C64 back in the eighties used to impress us by playing Arkanoid with his mouse. Also he showed off Outrun too. I'm not sure how good these games would look nowadays, but back then I have to admit they looked impressive at the time.
As for Gunship, I never really got into the C64 version, but I can say that the Atari ST version is excellent, and I have some active pilots in the roster even playing it currently under the Steem emulator.
Of course "Gunship 2000" for DOS is even better and more absorbing again!
Haha, you should at least check it out. I remember reading the Crash review where they totally raved over this game and I think it got 96% so I bought in on basis of that review ... damn you Crash. I mean it wasn't totally terrible but nowhere near as good to warrant such a high rating. Now if that wasn't a deal with Ocean then I don't know ...
Commando and BombJack speccy versions are even better than the arcade ones...gameplay wise of course
99,9% of the C64 games had almost the same resolution as Atari2600 (C64:160?200 2600:192x160).I prefer clash to lowdef...
Bombjack is 100% better than the C64 by far, the arcade game i love though so i wouldnt say its better than that but its a brilliant conversion.
But Commando is very good on the C64
The C64 version of Dropzone is pretty good, but it's better on the Atari 800.
In the words of Archer MacLean: "What was more amazing to me was the challenge of making it work on the less capable Commodore 64. It was a real nightmare implementation, but I did it."
I always liked Archer MacLeans stuff, he was very talented. You can add IK and IK+ to the list of C64 games I prefer. Anyone know what he's up to now? I know he did a couple of Mercury games for the PSP but since then I've heard nothing. His snooker/pool sims were all excellent; Cueball 2 was the best, the following two tried to add daft things and removed some of the stuff that made the second game so good - speeding up the opponent being the primary casualty.
He's also on Fiends Reunited.
Superman vs Lex Luthor
Batman vs The Riddler (etc)
Wonderwoman vs Privacy in her invisible jet
*Goes and signs up as ZnorXman vs The Taxman*