EVERYONE'S A WALLY | Commodore 64 (1985)

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Which was your favourite title from the 'Wally Week' series of games? 😇🕹👌 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= More from 1985: tinyurl.com/1985-C64-GAMES My Top Picks: tinyurl.com/CCGS-BEST-GAMES

[@jswets5007]

Everyone's a Wally except for your uncle. That's Bob.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Ba-Dum.. Tish! 😇🕹️👌

[@raresaturn]

Game looks massive! Seems to be a more successful variation of Valhalla

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

I've not played Valhalla in decades!! Definitely one for a future video 😇🕹️👌

[@MilosCov]

Loved the game and played it a lot back as a kid. Never knew what I was supposed to do though so I just mainly wandered around collecting stuff.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Definitely a much more involving game once you know which items you need to collect and with which characters - turns out to be a decent game indeed 😇🕹️👌

[@jormalindgren4865]

I remember playing all 3 of them and being rubbish with all of them. But as I remember it, I had fun not knowing what I was doing.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Back in the early 80s, most gives literally gave nothing away! That was half the fun, trying to figure out what the whole idea was in the first place... I guess that was the developers way of making sure we got the most out of the games at the time 😇🕹️👌

[@beecat4183]

Never heard of this one, probably very UK. This graphical style reminds me of Below the Root, and has really strong nostalgic pull for me.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Below The Root is another superbly nostalgic title and can also be found on the channel here -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJW0qoOgftSiedk 😇🕹️👌

[@merman1974]

I got this in a double-pack from Boots in 1986 - this and Manic Miner for a fiver! I played the audio side of the cassette so much that summer it stopped working, so I had to send off for another tape. There is a reason for playing the Asteroids mini-game - shoot enough lightning bolts and a "ping" will sound. Now when you go to the pylon, the lightning bolts there will move away from the conductor, allowing Harry the electrician to fix it (if he has the right items). Dick needs the cement (bucket of water from the fountain plus sand, go to the cement mixer) and the trowel to build the wall of bricks. Harry can then put the charged battery into the forklift and Wally can operate the forklift to go up the completed wall to get the letter! It's a complicated game and I never finished it. I was a big fan of Herbert's Dummy Run too.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Thats superb thanks for this Andrew... I didn't have a clue about the Asteroid 'pinging' which will technically disable the pylon. Mikro-Gen definitely put a lot of thought into this game and the more I'm learning about it the better it becomes, retrospectively. Nice music too! 😇🕹️👌

[@8bitgamerC64]

There was a "Wally" meme in the mid 80's. I remember buying a book at the time - How to be a complete and utter Wally. Still live by it's rules.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Haha I've just found that book on the internet archive - I'll check it out. I've created a link for anyone else that's wondering what it is tinyurl.com/utterwally 😇🕹️👌

[@lurkerrekrul]

I never had this, but to be honest, I probably wouldn't have spent much time with it. There were a lot of similar looking games, and I usually dismissed them in favor of more graphically flashy games that were easier to figure out.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Its quite a decent little game for an early arcade/adventure if you like exploration games with puzzle style elements. But like you say, if you preferred the flashier graphical ones then this wouldn't have been up your street and there were plenty coming out in 85' 😇🕹️👌

[@Cod3oz]

God I loved this game so much, thank you jolting my braincells about it :)

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Superb to hear that this was a particularly nostalgic game - definitely one I enjoyed playing once again 😇🕹️👌

[@montypythonish]

Totally remember playing this in the early 80's. What a memory jog.👍🏼

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

It's the music for me, brings me right back to those golden years in gaming 😇🕹️👌

[@cybermodo]

Personally, I think it's wonderful that C64 is perfectly capable of doing direct ZX games ports. Glorious hires, even with color clashes - has its own specifiic, retro, surreal charm. I love it today, possibly more than decades ago, but still - hires does impose its own advantages in some game designs. Nice to see well defined shapes now and than. Certainly, C64 has no bright palette as ZX, and its CPU is slow - but makes up technically with a mixture of soft and hardware sprites. But sheer possibility of choosing C64 usual mode, or ZX mode - puts a stop to microcomputers wars of the 80's - C64 has Spectrum features, and than much more. That's a fact. Now, important quality of ZX is simple - it offered no other option, thus coders and game designers did their best to utilize soft-based hires, everything was done that way. C64 developers had other options, and rarely dived into ZX field of work. Understandable, but from my point of view - we should've got much more of this hires bitmap stuff, I wouldn't mind at all. C64 rulez! And cudos to ZX, of course, such a thriving culture around that one, no doubt.

[@petercortens6019]

Yea the C64 got these Speccy games basically for free

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Reminds me of the schoolyard trouble I'd get myself into... back in the day! Haha a lot of my friends had the ZX Spectrum in the 80s... but boy did they get slated by us Commodore 64 owners! 😇🕹️👌

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Pretty much yeah! But with 100% better sound 😇🕹️👌

[@bit-ishbulldog2089]

Played it kinda.. Didn't realise you change characters by using the number keys. Now I know 😁 When I do load it up again I'll give it a whirl.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Definitely should... once you know the solutions, then it's quite fun to make progression with the game 😇🕹️👌

[@Syragar]

LOL! I love that the last three characters are named Tom, Dick, and Harry! I never played this one, but it looks interesting. Switching characters reminds me a bit of Maniac Mansion. Also, my dog is named Wally... so I guess I should give it a whirl since it has his name. LOL

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Haha cool! My dog is called 'Jonathon'... never think of naming your dog after a few beers. Bad idea! Haha 😇🕹️👌

[@cybermodo]

@@CheekyCommodoreGamer , Rollerball vibes, eh? 🙃 Or maybe Harker dude from that classic old horror novel?

[@DkViking1]

I tried this quite a few times, when I was a kid. I never found out what to do, and I only played it when I was bored. 😄

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

It's a whole better game when you know what is needed to be done, quite fun getting all of the correct items and managing through the tasks with each character 😇🕹️👌

[@ArttuTheCat]

EVERYONE'S A RETRO GAMER - on the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 😸😺👍🕹️. EVERYONE'S A WALLY may seem complicated, but it is worth to play on the Commodore 64 😺👍🕹️. A big retrospective like 👍🕹️ from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Definitely worth playing, quite complicated and even a little frustrating... but still a wonderful game from 1985 😇🕹️👌

[@SidneyJamesXBL]

I had a dodgy copy of this when I was a kid and could never figure out what to do, I am blown away that you can play as multiple characters!

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

It's a nice feature for such am early title! Some programming must have went into this even if it is simplistic to look at 😇🕹👍

[@flowerpot5207]

Funnily enough, I gave this a whirl just yesterday, but didn't get very far...

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Ahhh nice! Great minds! It's tough going without some sort of walkthrough/solution, but once you start completing tasks it becomes surprisingly good fun! The speed at which your endurance goes down though can be pretty brutal at times 😇🕹️👌

[@vidarlystadjohansen9829]

think I fired up this once as a kid

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

I played this to death as a kid, and for the 50p it cost (from a bargain bin) I thought I'd hit the jackpot back in the day 😇🕹️👌

[@Codetapper]

Why the hell didn't they assign sprites for everything that could have been? It looks so awful when you see the ZX Spectrum style colour clash as some of the objects change colour as they go over the backgrounds!

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Yeah, it was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum by Mikro-Gen and then later ported to the Commodore 64. The game does retain its distinct style and gameplay, though some obvious visuals with the colour clash were left in for some strange reason - this was pretty common with direct ports I guess 😇🕹️👌

[@petercortens6019]

I kinda like it, some Speccy style games within that vast 10K+ library

[@The_Badseed]

This game is British as hell

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Of course it is you need to have a stiff upper lip when you lose... it was probably coded in a shed with a cuppa in hand 😇🕹️👌

[@ADink-b5p]

Another one of the C64s mental games patience a lot of patience is needed with this bizarre game my mate had it but i couldn't get into will have a go on the USB stick

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Worth revisiting - definitely better to play once you know the solution I suppose... otherwise, it takes a bit of figuring out! 😇🕹️👌

[@ADink-b5p]

@@CheekyCommodoreGamer most of the solutions are on youtube but i thick that spoils the point of the game

[@Eirath]

Me and my friends never figured this game out. We loaded it plenty of times though. And we tormented each other with that awful song on the cassete B-side often enough.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Haha yeah the 'Mike Berry' classic hit!! It was etched in my brain as a kid 😇🕹️👌

[@boriscovidscamson2911]

I work with a guy called wally, don't know his last name though. 😂

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

If his surname is 'Week', ask him if he used to be a builder! 😇🕹️👌

[@boriscovidscamson2911]

@CheekyCommodoreGamer almost , he's an electrician😂

[@boydegg]

A punk character and a hippie character? Reminds me of a certain TV show that was popular in the 1980s.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

And a very brilliant show that was indeed... zany, yet incredibly funny in places 😇🕹👌 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6jKeXaKfNGXqJI

[@raysissum]

I haven't seen this before and for me it looks shite but CCG videos are entertaining whether the game is good or not 👍🏻

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Its surprisingly decent, if you like games with a certain element of exploration - the fact you could switch characters was also a nice touch 😇🕹️👌

[@raysissum]

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