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[xemumanic]

C64, now and forever.

 

[jett]

C64, now and forever.

A C64 with a broken monitor monitor would still win.

proof

 

[Gen X]

I always loved Galways tunes but it wasn't until a few years ago it was bought to my attention he hardly used any drum tracks unlike Hubbard.

A couple of my favs that come to memory,
Wizball
Ocean Loader (all versions)
Parallax (possibly my fav)

 

[Thanati]

I loved my Speccy (as us Spectrum fans called them) but was always jealous of the C64 sound and music. That thing could pump out some awesome tunes.

I played the Speccy for so long and have so many fond memories of that machine.

Some of my favorite would have to be.

R-Type (actually an incredible version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad0y9o5OXH8

Dan Dare (the best version of them all!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNBfxe0u44

Tir Na Nog (an amazing adventure game)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bj0_-vaO3I

Barbarian (awesome decapitation. The first?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAZS5w4-sm8

Knight Tyme - So crazily advanced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08VbjeLgqcA

Tranz Am (and any Ultimate play the game to be honest)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49cPKzKBd7Y

And SO many others. Sigh, they were good times

 

[trs1080]

I always wanted a C64 (or C128) as a kid but we were poor, so I got stuck with a $25 TI 99/4A from a garage sale

I also wanted an Amiga so f'ing bad but the whole poor thing ruined that idea...

 

[Jake Tower]

LOAD "*",8,1

'nuff said

 

[Dr Zhivago]

C64 was an ugly lump of brown fudge.

Spectrum all the way. Z80 uber alles.

 

[SmokyDave]

C64 was the greatest gaming platform of all time.

 

[Celine]

RIP Joffa. Still can't believe he's gone.

Joffa Smith is dead ?
Didn't know.

Here a game he was working on for SNES but got canned:
http://www.unseen64.net/2011/11/01/cluster-buster-snes-cancelled/

EDIT:
Speaking of C64 music, R-Type OST by Hueslbeck/Vaca is simply incredible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vmoj8xzqkk

 

[Lord British]

Speccy here, solely because I grew up with it. I'd like to dig into some C64, actually, but it seems like a bit of a trial to emulate. I actually have an official disc of roms/emulators (bought from HMV!) but could never get them running. Came with a load of SID music, so I just listened to those instead.

 

[stalker]

Personally I was happy with my speccy grahics and sound. I was jealous of the joystick ports on the C64. Compared to the prohibitive RS232 interface, those ports in the C64 seemed extreme technological luxury to me :-(

 

[Suairyu]

Missing out on the C64 (or anything before the SEGA Master System, really) makes me feel sad. So many people learnt about development and programming from that wonder-machine. I might have been more than a sometimes-hobbyist with games development had I had a C64 as a kid!

 

[Apenheul]

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

 

[Number45]

Wasn't a case of what would win when I was young, we simply couldn't afford the C64. I remember looking at shots of some C64 games with envy, but I absolutely adored the Spectrum - warts and all.

 

[mclem]

I think the Spectrum was more *interesting*, even though the C64 was technically better. After all, the Speccy had Your Sinclair in its corner; it had the Rochdale Balrog, it had Ultimate, it had Chaos, it had Sweevo, it had Tir Na Nog. It spawned - with later ports - Lords of Midnight, Jet Set Willy and Tau Ceti.


I think the Spectrum is where I got my love of the breadth and variety of gaming - and from the outside looking in, I don't quite see where I'd have got the exposure to that if I'd had the C64. I will happily concede that that's an attitude born of ignorance (and indeed, given my fondness for text adventures I'd love to get an idea of what the independent text adventure scene on the C64 was like, because that's a massive blind spot in my understanding of the history)

 

[DECK'ARD]

Rob Hubbard was the one for me as well when it came to C64 music, I used to buy games just if his name was on the back of the box.

The sounds he got out of it were amazing, the mix-a-load on Delta where you could change instruments, drum-sets and riffs as it was loading, and this will always be my favourite track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It7yJh-NwPY

Amazing.

 

[-KRS-]

C64 hands down for me, though I never had either one of them. My love for the C64 is more tied to the demoscene and the SID soundchip, rather than its games. The C64 started the cracking scene which would later lead to the demoscene, and it's still one of the most active platforms in that scene. It wins for me solely because of that.