VIC 20 & Commodore 64

[lazyitus]

Who else had one of these ACE machines?

First had a VIC 20 with a 16K Ram Pack!

Remember waiting for ages for the tape player to load a game, only for it to crash and come up with Syntax Error!

Your Favourite games?

Mine were.....

1) Scramble
2) Pitstop
3) Jeff Minters 'Attack of the Mutant Camels'

etc. etc.

What an era of my youth!

[DustyC]

C64.

Found an old magazine for it and a 100MB harddrive was £800!

[Plotloss]

Had both.

King and Queen of the C64 games were The Last Ninja and Way of the Exploding Fist.

[pete_w]

Posted this before...but a gem so

www.old-computers.com

[miniman]

Get yourself an emulator! I have C64, +4 and Spectrum emulators at home - great fun to play those classic games again!

[Swilly]

Speccy + 48k was my first computer.

My dad put off buying a 16k speccy because he wanted something more powerful for games.

Lords of Midnight
Jet Set Willy
Manic Miner
Elite (greatest game in the universe ever)

ruled in my household.

[XM5ER]

I had a Com 64, pissed me off no end so I flogged it and bought a motorbike.

[Plotloss]

Elite could (and still can for that matter) right off as far as I am concerned.

Docking my arse.

[tubafun]

ZX81 !!

Horace and the spiders
Horace goes skiing

[Swilly]

Plotloss said:

Elite could (and still can for that matter) right off as far as I am concerned. Docking my arse.

Says it all - A failed space explorer methinks.

Swilly (Deadly)

[meeja]

Ah..... the Vic-20....

Jelly monsters (cartridge) - was almost arcade perfect Pac-Man.

Gridrunner - Jeff Minter genius!

Matrix - Llamasoft shoot-em-up

Myriad - Highly addictive

[lotusnobles]

I had a VIC 20 .... brilliant PAC MAN cartridge game... superb in its day!

[M@H]

Plotloss said:

Elite could (and still can for that matter) right off as far as I am concerned. Docking my arse.

.. Aww couldn't you manage it... I eventually got to Elite Rating.

[cacatous]

Mmm I can go one better by saying I owned a Commodore PET... Looked like a PC but was 1,000,000 times slower!

Owned a Vic 20, C64, Atari 2600, ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum 16k and 48k, Sinclair QL (Business), Amstrad CPC64 and 128... The list goes on!

[jj.]

Yep had both, Rat Race for the Vic 20 - that was cool.! But I think the Jet Set Willy games were good. I also seem to remember something about Lamar Attack - or something to do with Lamars on a similar name...?
jj

[lotusnobles]

Those were the days...

when the games cost around a tenner and with a good set of twin decks you could have it copied round the school by the end of the week!

[cacatous]

jj. said:

Yep had both, Rat Race for the Vic 20 - that was cool.! But I think the Jet Set Willy games were good. I also seem to remember something about Lamar Attack - or something to do with Lamars on a similar name...? jj

Rat Race on one of those cartridge things!
And Yes! Geoff Minters 'Attack of the Llamas'

[TUS 373]

lotusnobles said:

Those were the days... when the games cost around a tenner and with a good set of twin decks you could have it copied round the school by the end of the week!

Those were indeed the days...you knew who your friends were at school when it came to the cassettes. The cartridges were OK to pool and swap with each other - but I had a Dragon 32 and they cost about £20 each - or 10% of what the computer cost!

[lazyitus]

Do you remember:

Mower Mania VIC20
Quo Vadis C64
BoulderDash C64
Robin of the wood C64
Outrun C64
Thrust C64
Atic Attack C64/Spectrum
Arabian nights C64 (With speech synth!)
Winter Games C64

ACE - I know what I'll be setting up this weekend -

Oh, and kickstart (Mr Chips)...... !!!!!

[argonaut]

I had a C64!! Loved the Llamasoft games. Had that pain in the @rse tape deck as I couldn't afford a hard drive.

It's amazing that the programmers in those days could (and had to) write really tight code to fit the games onto the limited storage available. Games these days are HUGE, partly I'm sure due to sloppy programming (even if you discount the quantum leap in graphics and sound capabilities these days).

I'd like a room in my house just for classic arcade games. Space invaders, PacMan, etc.