Ok... chatter died off pretty quick, but that was a damn fine list, Accelerando. But now, it's time for the Rise of the Fogey
Just so you know what you’re getting in to if you decide to follow. My video game history is broken into 4 distinct segments – in the early 80s as a pre/teenager, the
Commodore64 was my platform. I easily played 50+ different kind of games on that platform. Then, as a teenager with more freedom and mobility, hours upon hours (and surely hundreds - if not thousands - of dollars) were spent at the
arcade with a fistful of quarters (great documentary by the way) – actually, gimmee a roll of quarters a few times a week, and I’d be good to go for hours at a time, or an entire weekend. In 1992, I went to University, and had floor-mates in first year with a
Sega Genesis console. Many hours were spent in the dorm lounge and/or room-mate’s rooms. I remember how sore my thumb muscles were the first week I spent playing that system. After graduation, I never had a console of my own, so only played a handful of PC games from ’96-’10, when I finally bought a
PS3. Anyone not at least in their mid-30s is gonna have the C64 games go completely over their head, while any fogey’s here might get a trip down memory lane.
Given the sheer number of C64 games I played, I probably could've made a list of 25 of those games pretty easily. So, I'm gonna fire off some honorable mentions first - and for you younglings, some screen caps of what our graphics in the 80s was like.
Honorable Mentions (Part 1):
Choplifter – as a helicopter pilot, you have to navigate through warzones to rescue fallen POWs, while dropping bombs (like turds) on the enemy.
Hard Hat Mack – a knock off of Donkey Kong and Miner 2049r. This was the first game published by EA.
Impossible Mission I and II – sleuth/detective… you’re a secret agent racing against the clock to reassemble and decrypt password pieces by searching various rooms
Lode Runner – you’re s stick figure collecting gold from multi-level brick-like structures with ladders and hand-over-hand bars for vertical/horizontal movement while being chased by stick-figure guards
Motor Mania – top view driving game.
Out Run – 3D third person racing. Man, I thought these graphics (in 1987) were radular
Raid Moscow – Russia plans to launch 3 nukes at the US, and you (a space pilot) have to complete three stages to stop them
station.
Way of the Exploding Fist – before there was Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat, there was this.
Winter/Summer Games – just as it says… Olympic gaming competition
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