Commador 64 game

Shadow of the Beast was a bit of a hot topic back in the day for its amazing graphics. Let me try to boil the plot down for you into a couple of sentences. Child gets kidnapped and warped by dark magic, becoming a monster servant for a beast lord. Monster servant regains human memories when some bad dealings go down. He then proceeds, as an adult, to battle everything in sight in a bid to break free from his curse and kill the beasty boss.

The main protagonist and the various monsters are displayed nicely. Still, the backgrounds have a tendency to make your eyes go square. It might surprise a few of you to know that Lucasfilm made more games than the ones relating to the Star Wars series.

The plot is so bizarre that you cant help but get sucked into the narrative, and Maniac Mansion is a game that will have you coming back time and time again. The game follows a guy called Dave Miller and his mission to save his girlfriend, Sandy Pantz. That has to win the worst names character on the C64 so far!

Maniac Mansion has different outcomes depending on the players choices. You can take Dave and two other characters from a choice of six-friends through the mansion in a bid to rescue Sandy. Sword of Fargoal takes the third spot in this list of the best Commodore 64 games ever made. I know that could be the plot of a Terry Pratchett Discworld novel, but this is a little more serious. Gameplay mostly revolves around exploring yellow brick dungeons not to be confused with the Wizard of Oz.

Players must try to locate the legendary Sword of Fargoal. In true explorative fashion, unexplored parts of a dungeon are bathed in darkness until gamers venture into them. Weirdly, all battles are controlled by the computer.

Sliding into second place is Target: Renegade , a firm favourite in our list of the best ZX Spectrum games ever made. Remember when I said that Double Dragon was classed as the spiritual successor of Renegade? This game is considered by many to be the best beat-em-up title of all time, and it still looks impressive today!

Players take fighters on a mission to knock some sense into the evil Mr Big. Even though Target: Renegade is a side-scroller, it appears in an isometric 3D view, giving it an edge over other games in the genre at the time. Men and women with muscles larger than my head try to stop our bandana wearing protagonist at every turn.

Like Tom in the Mission Impossible films, Impossible Mission sees you play as a secret agent who has to break into a series of hi-security areas. This game has received high praise on a number of platforms and is considered by many to be one of the best games of the time.

You have six hours to collect thirty-six pieces of puzzle. Like Spy Vs Spy, dying incurs a time penalty. This game also has one of the first examples of digitised speech in a computer game.

A lot of people think that the Commodore 64 has connections with Nintendo , what with the 64 part of the name. The C64 as we will now call it to save much needed time and finger ache was made to rival the NES and the best Master System games.

It is tough to choose which one is better but, as an overall package, the MicroProse Soccer game is tough to beat… Sure, EHIS can be played in cooperative, but Rainy Soccer is simply too fun in versus mode.

A mixture of Conan the Barbarian and International Karate, Barbarian lets you duke it out in the arena against a fellow male or female barbarian as you hack and slash at each other until one person is dead. If you like hacking and slashing or Conan the Barbarian type material, this game is right up your alley. If you like s metal, this game will probably tickle your fancy.

When people talk about Lucasarts legendary adventure games on the Commodore 64, this is what they are talking about. You start out working for a sleazy tabloid and, eventually, your ambitions get the better of you and lead our hero on a winding quest that reveals a lot more about his world than he probably expected.

Vibrantly told in detailed graphics, the writing is what really puts Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders over the top. The amount of interaction options and ensuing dialogue will absolutely blow your mind. If you are looking for an awesome adventure game with a great story, from any era, you owe it to yourself to pick up Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders and play through it.

It will help you understand what all the critics are raving about when they talk about Lucasarts early adventure games on computers. The Amazing Zak McKracken concludes our journey, retro folks. It has been another fun ride to the past, but I do not like riding alone, so please let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Another great C64 game to mention is Spy vs Spy. Good old adolescent memories here, thanks!

It is such a pleasure to hear from you, Luca. Thanks for taking time to read and comment on my new post, it means a lot. Concerning the game you mentioned, it is another title that was there in the mix but eventually did not make the cut.

Despite this, I liked it a lot. Back then it was more than a breathtaking adventure. You know, I have always had a soft spot for old text games, especially when they featured a fighting part. Till next retro ranking! Me too Julian, but while Winter Games appeals to me over its Summer counterpart, I purposely left Dig Dug out, as this is a no-arcade-port list.

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