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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Nicely written, and I couldn't agree more. Thanks for watching!

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.

@lostinpa-dadenduro7555

3 ай бұрын

Oh gosh. I totally forgot about punching the disks. Lol.

@mingmerci6103

3 ай бұрын

Punching discs... I missed this one I think lmfao

@johneygd

2 ай бұрын

Haha🤣👍

@pat_x_one

Ай бұрын

🤣

@SG-er8cx

27 күн бұрын

Haha punching disks... man It's been decades since that I totally forgot about

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.

@samuelattas3864

9 ай бұрын

Airborne Ranger another great game from the list...

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!

@retrononame

10 ай бұрын

That's the point of these videos. To bring back memories of those great 80s ;) Thanks for watching!

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. The jump in quality of C64 games from 85 to 86 and 87 is very clear.

@davidbspamboy

3 ай бұрын

One of the best things to happen to the c64 was the amiga. The amiga to c64 ports were generally good stuff.

@hai.1820

4 күн бұрын

They did all i assembly... incresible

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.

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

I was 10 and didn't actually own the C64. My cousin did though :) I had ZX Spectrum back then, so had access to "both worlds". Different (but good) times though, yes.

@uhudla42

Жыл бұрын

Borrowing and Copying big Floppy Disks on the Schoolyard. Great Times. If you look at some mobilegames on smartphones now. They are not much better

@kidkique

Жыл бұрын

I was 8 years old in 1987 and I agree The Nostalgia is strong but why don't you think today's youth can understand what it is to enjoy video games?

@GKitz211

Жыл бұрын

@@kidkique Because they'll never experience the fascination of a brandnew medium. My first experience was actually "Pong" at home, the fascinaton of the opportunity to move an object on the TV-set was unique. The progression of this kind of joy was only in this time. Kids of today only get perfection.

@kidkique

Жыл бұрын

@@GKitz211 I don't know man fully immersive VR is a pretty new medium that is pretty impressive to experience for the first time

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.

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

I agree, but the "rise" of them 16-bit machines happened quick after 1988 or so. But C64 really had some great, great titles in 1987. No disputing that whatsoever.

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!

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Too many great games on these systems, so I decided to do the lists covering each year the machine was relevant on the gaming market.

@mrdan2898

Ай бұрын

Yeah I agree.

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.

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

It was indeed a great year for C64 gaming!

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

@retrononame

Ай бұрын

I was 10 :) I'm glad you liked the video and thanks for watching!

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.

@TP-yw6hj

5 ай бұрын

Neuromancer ?

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

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

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, great games those two!

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

@deanshepherd2039

2 ай бұрын

Totally agree,one of the games I completed without cheating.👍🏻

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.

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

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.

@deanshepherd2039

2 ай бұрын

Wizzball was just a classic.When you knew what you were doing it was an amazing experience,again one of my favourite games of all time 👍🏻

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

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.

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

Really good games at 1987. Thanks for sharing.

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 👍

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

Best year ever.

loved those games, thanks for the video

@retrononame

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video!

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Played Giana Sisters a ton with my cousin on his C64. Great game (even though it was a copy of Mario) :)

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.

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it was a "different" kind of a game. No way, would this kind of game be published today though. :)

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

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

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

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.

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

great memories.. thanks for the post.

@retrononame

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you got to relieve those special memories.

@davidbspamboy

2 ай бұрын

@@retrononame Subscribed! I urge others to the same!!!

1987 was a good year on the C64.

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

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

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.

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! You can find Uridium in the Top 50 C64 games of 1986 list (here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKR7w6yrl5XKYKQ.html )

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

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

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.!

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.

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

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

Brilliant compilation!

@retrononame

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video!

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).

A lot of very good games born in 1987! 👍

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! Fantastic year for C64 gaming scene.

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Last ninja is a great game that more than deserves to be on the top 50 C64 games of 1987 ;) Thanks for watching!

@martinrbookermb

Жыл бұрын

@@retrononame absolutely a great game! 👍

Saved the best for last, man :D

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

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

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

Defender of the Crown. Best game ever :)

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 😍🤣

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

@retrononame

2 ай бұрын

Could be, but I am limited to a particular year in each "Top games" video - 1987 in this case. ;) I did like Wonderboy and Rampage a lot back in the days. And Space Harrier, I think it's quite well done as well. But, of course, this is just my personal opinion. Thanks for watching the video!

@richardwhitehead6966

2 ай бұрын

@@retrononame sorry, I have to apologise. I didn't see best games of "1987". For the year, rampage would probably make it. Still not sure about space harrier though. Remember it being very hard to make out anything. Music wasn't half bad though.

Finished Head over Heels many times

@retrononame

10 ай бұрын

Never managed to do that. Played it a lot (though on the Spectrum - didn't have C64 back then). But never finished it.

God I was on the bleeding edge for about 60 seconds

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Yes it was, hm, a bit different :) No way would this kind of game be published today.

❤❤❤❤

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

I still have 3 of these

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

@DerEchteBold

Жыл бұрын

I think I saw that one recently in a list for '85, I remember drawing maps for that game and everything but I never got very far as it was so damn hard.

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

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.

1987 was a great year for the C64 obviously.

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

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.

By this time, the Amiga and the Atari ST had been released. However, the Commodore 64 still held its own, with programmers taking full advantage of the hardware. After all these years, the Commodore 64 still lives on and the games shown here are a testament to that fact. Thanks for making this video.

@TP-yw6hj

5 ай бұрын

BY 88 lazy gamers were all Nintendo. Real PC gamers still played C64. Literally no one played AMIGA and it never really caught on.

Californie games 😍😍😍😍 Amiga 500 🥰🥰🥰

I somehow had so many of these but never bought any

Bop n rumble was called street hassle over here in UK

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

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

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Didn't we all waste so many hours back then? Happy times for sure...

@VIC-20

Жыл бұрын

Not a waste!

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Depends who you asking (hint - parents). ;)

bop and rumble = streets of rage hulk hogan edition

4:32 Bart Simpson's nightmare game

Airborne ranger ❤😢

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

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

@retrononame

Ай бұрын

This video covers only the games released in 1987 (check the title) ;)

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.

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

This video only covers top C64 games of the 1987. Other games are covered in other episodes of Top C64 50 games - you can find them in the Top 50 library on this channel. Thanks for watching!

@larswadefalk6423

Жыл бұрын

@@retrononame ok. Thanks.

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

Come on bro, Nebulus.

@retrononame

2 ай бұрын

You're right. I should have included Nebulus!

the c64 had the best ms pac man for any console

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

I cant remember anyone buying a C64 game😂

Flimbo’s quest should be on here

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

This video covers only the games released in 1987. Flimbo was (if I recall correctly) released in 1990, so it will feature in the future video, when I cover that particular year. Thanks for watching!

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

This video only covers top 50 games for C64 that were released in 1987. I will cover later years (1988 and later) in the future episodes. Thanks for watching!

@GameOverMan76

Жыл бұрын

@@retrononame Ok. Thank you for clarification. 👍

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

@retrononame

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, we needed to use our imagination a bit in order to "teleport ourselves" into strange worlds inside the 1980s video games :) But it was still magical... at least for me.

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

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

Best lifetime ever, today all is shit

load "theLast Ninja",8,1 run

Can always tell a European KZreadr. Different games from UK or USA!

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

This has the great giana sisters game on it?