Game Page
Here's where you can come to have a little fun. On this page, I'll be posting a few game images for you to play on a C64.
To begin things, I've decided to place some of the strangest games for the Commodore 64 here. Whilst the C64 was a computer limited in many ways, the programmers had to be make a good game out of the available space. So whilst the computer was limited, the programmers imagination wasn't. These games are a tribute to the imagination of the C64 programmer.
The Sentinel - 10,000 levels of 3D landscapes
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- Monty Python's Flying Circus - This is essentially a platform/shoot'em up, but the aim of the game and the graphics are so, er, weird! If you remember some of the cut-out animations from the original TV show, then you can imagine some of the things you'll be shooting fish at in this game! The aim is to find all the bits of your brain. You do this by collecting all the blue SPAM. Some of the Spam is hard to get at, so there's a puzzle element involved too! Also note that your score goes down, not up!
- Frankie goes to Hollywood - How you'd make a game of a rock band didn't put off the programmers of this game. It's an arcade adventure, not not your conventional one. Frankie has to become a complete person (He has to go and find himself!) by completing all the tasks and then heading for the Pleasure Dome, stuck somewhere in the Corridors of Power. Frankie starts in Mundanesville, where everything seems normal, but not all is as meets the eye! Controls are tricky, but are soon mastered. Start playing around with a few objects, and then you'll start to notice strange portals opening up, teleporting you to the Arcade elements. Light up the BANG meter, get 99% complete person, enter the corridors of power, and find the Pleasure Dome.
- The Sentinel - This is one of my favourite games for the C64. A technical achievement, it's surprising that a game this complex can even run on a C64. Your aim as a robot is to remove the Sentinel, sitting on his throne. The game is Keyboard controlled. S & D look left and right, L & , look up and Down, U is U-turn, H is hyperspace, T creates a tree, B a boulder, R a robot, A absorbs object, Q shifts you to another Robot, and Space changes look mode into cursor mode. Place robots on boulders and shift to them in order to move up towards the Sentinel. Don't let the Sentinel look at you! And if you do get onto the Sentinel's throne, hyperspace to the next landscape. The number of levels you pass is determined by your energy level.
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- Batalyx - This game was made by Jeff Minter, a Llama loving Hippy game programmer. When you play Batalyx, it makes you wonder what drugs he was taking for inspiration when he created it! It's surreal! Press buttons 1 - 6 for the games. You can jump from one to the other mid-game. The first game involves shooting surreal objects, the trouble is the kickback your ball gets. The next game is another attack of the mutant camel games. Shoot the camels to death and speed up to warp to the next arena. The third game involves you following the joystick pattern as your camel heads towards the pyramid. The fourth game involves a demon-looking character called Cippy colouring in all the halls while dodging the nasty spheres. The Fifth game is a puzzler, where you have to control the tiles until all the balls stop. The sixth is a nice Demo called Synergy!
- Lazy Jones - This game is fun. Control Jones around the hotel. Hold fire to enter doors and up to jump. Watch out for the man, the cleaners cart, and the Shadow man (?). Play the video games in each room for points!
- Stairways - In this game, you're in a pub and have to collect all the pieces of a bird (Pick up a bird?), watch out for all the spiked drinks or the bouncer kicks you out. Also avoid all the objects, but you can shoot at them with smiley faces (LSD?). Survive the time limit to go to the next level. Your sober meter can be filled by standing at the bar, the hunger meter at the burger bar.
- Rocky Horror Show - Like Frankie goes to Hollywood, how could you make a game of such an utterly weird musical? Well, you can choose Brad or Janet and you have to rescue your partner from the castle of Dr. Frankenfurter. Your partner is in stone thanks to the Medusa machine of the Doc. You have to find all the pieces and put them back together to rescue your partner. Watch out for everybody, because they have a habit of ripping your clothes off, forcing you to find where they hid them! Don't get shot by Riff-raff, and if the freezer overheats watchout for the mad motorcyclist, or "Hot patootie, bless my soul" may be the last thing you hear! This game is very hard, due to the time limit, which if expires is really the countdown for the whole castle to blast off into outer space! The great thing about this game though is the music! It has a great rendition of "Do the Time Warp!"
- The Young ones - You can choose between any of the young ones, and you can spend your day doing a number of things. The aim, so I am told, is to move out of the flat before the landlord comes. Exactly what item belongs to which person, I can't tell you. This game is menu driven, so no problem. Have fun experimenting, and if you've seen episodes of the young ones, you may have an idea of what to do! I'll tell you no more, or I'll spoil it for you!
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- Beatle Quest - An exclusive! I fished this incredibly rare game out of one of my contact's archives, de-isepiced it, and timecrunched it myself, and now I present it to the world! This adventure game is based on the Beatles music in the 70's, about the time they were experimenting with drugs and incorporating Indian music into their work. Anyone remember the film "Yellow Submarine" ? If so, you'll get what this game is all about - it's just totally spun out. Watch out for Maxwell's silver hammer, visit Dr. Robert's surgery, and don't crack the glass-bottomed boat. Try typing in HELP ... and guess what it says! Some clues to the game may be in the lyrics of the Beatles' music. The parser in this game isn't too good. If you're having trouble entering doors, type "GO IN". If anyone can complete this game, please let me know! I've yet to find the glass onion, Mr. Kite, blue meanies, or the yellow submarine......
- Seaside Special - This golden oldie is fairly well known. I didn't think computer games would be good at conveying political or environmental messages, but this game does. The idea is to gather lots of radioactive seaweed from the beach once the tide goes in, dodging the crabs, armed soldier, and mutant jellyfish. Once you have more than ten pieces of seaweed, take it to the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. There you will be taken to 10 Downing Street to throw the radioactive seaweed at the politicians! The politicians won't take it lying down though, as they will throw all sorts of junk back at you!
- Grijp Ze - This game is quite odd. The idea is to kill off lots of native wildlife within a given time limit. You do this by headbutting them, punching them, and kicking them off the ground. I don't know what Grijp Ze really means, but it means that lots of harmless animals will die! Cinema buffs will recognize the in-game music from Star Wars (the bit where Luke goes into the Tavern to find Han Solo.)
- Ueeh - This is a very rare Italian game that deserves to be spread a lot better, because it's fun. This game has a fascination with.... er..... faeces. Sigmund Freud would be interested in the programmers who obviously have an anal fixation. The game is divided into several parts. In the first part, you have to destroy the chamberpots, ala Space Invaders, with toilet rolls. The chamber pots retaliate with their defecation, and once in a while a nappy appears to strafe you with it's brown contents. Sound ridiculous? And that's only the first part! Just remember not to take too much crap from this game.
- Tooth Invaders - This golden oldie from Commodore involves you trying to protect a mouth from a germ intent on rotting all the teeth. Take out your brush and clean the teeth of plaque. Wipe the brush in some toothpaste first. Get the dental floss and clean between the teeth. If you're skillful with the brush, you might be able to kill off the germ, but if not, he'll kill you.
- Skool Daze - This classic involves Eric trying to change his years mark in order to avoid failing school. His tests are locked up in one of the staff rooms, and he has to get them. Watch out for the other school kids, and don't get caught, or you'll be forced to write lines!
- Carry on Laughing - Another classic oldie. You have to complete the nine rooms in the game by changing the crosses to ticks, and then escaping from one of the exits. Each room has a different theme, and some are quite weird....
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Deceptor
This game is quite bizarre. You are this being capable of morphing into a land speeder, airplane, and at the end of each level, your human alter-ego. You have to complete the levels that your elders have constructed for you to test your morphing skills. You must collect ammunition packs along the way to the end of the level, where you must shoot at the guardian. Before you get there you'll have to dodge all sorts of inexplicable objects, like a flying moustache, huge bats, and alien heads amongst other things. This game is also highly absorbing. Get to the end of the last level and destroy the..... no, I'll let you find that out!
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