American Millennial Plays Commodore 64 Games - Working Man Games

[@ricesnot]

Thank you for featuring the music so prominently, the SID chip produces some of my favourite sounds!!

[@samtinkle9076]

I just realised people are gonna watch this video who have no idea who you are

[@TheEthJ]

This feels like an episode Guru Larry would appreciate a lot, considering him and Ashens have been the only guys I know of who've tackled these old arse consoles in numerous videos. I wasn't around when the C64 was a thing, I only knew about SNES and the Mega Drive while I grew up as a 90's kid when figuring out what vidya gayms were. Great review as always, Stu!

[@Rahshu]

32:45: "Donkey Dong...and I can't get it to work." That had me howlin'!

[@FarelForever]

I appreciate this video a lot. Thanks for making it. I grew up in Europe, but never had a Commondore, and given my sensitive ears, I'll consider that a good thing

[@SavoxYT]

You made a huge mistake in _Ghosts and Goblins._ You didn't *get the fucking knife!*

[@LuckyPunkProd]

There was one C64 game that had one of the best suspenseful-sounding chiptunes I've ever heard on the system, and strangely, it was for the loading screen of it. It was on the C64 port of Konami's "Green Beret". I highly recommend giving it a listen.

[@chompythebeast]

I actually really like your intros, the brief but meaningful history and framing adds a lot of useful context to the video and kinda elevates your stuff a great deal right off the bat

[@littleNorwegians]

I must have gotten 4-5 deleted comments by now, just because I try to link to C64 examples here on youtube, but This was an incredibly nostalgic episode for me. And also insightful, in just knowing that difference in perception. C64 games could be deeper than NES, but my god could they ever be obtuse. I have 4 games to recommend, Foxx Fights back - A game where you play as a fox who has to get food for an ungrateful wife, while murdering the English countryside. Jack the Nipper - A game where you play as "baby Joel" and the goal is to be the biggest little shit-child ever. Infiltrator - Kinda to my knowledge one of the earliest stealth games. Kind of a wonky mix of MGS and Hitman, just by how disguises and tranq weapons work. Skool Daze - Personal fav. You play as a kid in school in the UK. It's the closest the C64 can come to open world design.

[@littleNorwegians]

Small follow-up Donald Duck's Playground - Donald gets a minimum-wage job to satisfy his nephews play needs. Teaches you about currency and in one short animation, how to cross the railway. Bruce Lee - This is just an overall C64 classic.

[@SerathDarklands]

It's 1:15 AM here and that Serious Sam clip made me laugh so loud I may have woken up the neighbors. Thank you for that, Stuart, it's been the kind of day where I really needed a good belly laugh.

[@StickerBoyNextGen]

32:37 Yes, even I cracked up at the name of that version as well. You never fail to make us smile with every game review video you do. Thank you for making this and al the rest of them thus far. I don't think I ever had one of those Commodore 64 consoles in my life. I was always a Nintendo person (but there are exceptions, like the Sega Genesis, for one (and I still own one)), but this system is something I might check out for myself. I mean they did do a good job (at least) porting the genuine Donkey Kong arcade game.

[@magnes4]

This is the shit I had to go thru when I was 8, however getting a 1541 Floppy drive was amazing, the loading times felt amazingly fast and no more rewinding tapes or forwarding to the right position to load a specific program or game.

[@MaximumRD]

Enjoyed this SUBBED, I appreciate your disclaimer of having not experienced the C64 orignally. I totally get it, since I was a teen in this era I had and loved my C64 BUT THAT SAID much of what annoyed and frustrated you from my perspective was simply the norm, due to this I think where it gave you pain it gave me patience and appreciation. What I mean is, yeah floppy disk was slow as molasses not to mention communicating over modems but with the improvements of program and games media, fast loading, I just loved it, when you are use to slow games loading you really appreciate a cartridge or hell even CD based media and later DVD and getting a 20 MB (yes MB) Hard drive for my Commodore AMIGA some years later was just mind blowing. Going back to replay games on C64 it just fills me with nostalgia. But yeah there was some down right iconic music created on the c64 as well.

[@rocsaltjohn]

Welcome to 1982 - the tape drive was a giant leap forward as before it there was no way to save your programs on the C64. We all shouted "Hallelujah" when the floppy drive was available.

[@FoxMan_FF]

Realtalk, though: the Giana Sisters successor games are actually pretty good. Twisted Dreams in particular started out as a PC game before it was ported to the Switch years later, and half of the soundtrack is Swedish black metal- I shit you not.

[@ILsocker]

Do they have any wink-wink references to ganja?

[@Dinosaurwith42heads]

Ngl, I've been a huge fan of you during your YTp news and I still enjoy this new format that youre doing my friend.

[@MauserKar98k]

I keked mightily at the pitch-shifted scream; I love the little KZbin Poop references throughout these reviews. Also, I am so glad you featured the badass Comic Bakery theme.

[@ToadySP]

God this video is fantastic! I'm so impressed with just how good these videos are. Especially when so many modern video game review channels and video game commentary channels are so asinine these days on KZbin. This 40-minute video about commodore 64 games is like an oasis of quality in a desert of mediocrity within the landscape of video game analysis on this platform. Thank god this isn't another video of some guy in a pompous sweater sitting on a silver bouncy ball talking about how Fortnite and BoTW are the "future of gaming" and comparing them to games like Super Mario Bros 1. Thank *God* this isn't another video complaining about how Nintendo is a bad company and complaining about things that every semi-competent video game reviewer on youtube has already made videos about a decade ago, or complaining about "What da heck is the point of buying rare items with real money???" when everyone who's touched a video game since 2012 has already voiced the same opinion. God, Idk what happened to video game review channels or video game commentary, but it's gotten so stale. It's like it's filled with people who have never in their life ever touched a game. This is what a video game review channel should look like. Something unique for once. Going in the directions of things more obscure, more intricate. Showing viewers stuff that they're not familiar with; putting the quality of the video ahead of everything else and not just milking tired topics for views. Having emotion and reactions, but not just constantly yelling in a rage. This is what video game review channels used to *be*. And then there's just the presentation, the music choices, the visuals, the attention to detail. This is all such refreshing stuff to see. I'm surprised that this channel of all channels is the one barely keeping the genre alive. Stu if you're reading this, keep up the good work man, always getting excited to see another upload. Probably gonna marathon rewatching your catalog after this.

[@StuartKReilly]

Dude. This is like, the nicest comment I've ever had on my stuff and I highly appreciate it

[@ToadySP]

That Pirates game reminds me of Sid Meier's Pirates on the PC. After looking it up I did find out that apparently Sid Meier's Pirates is a remake of it! I used to play that a lot quite a few years ago, game is really fun! Definitely recommend it. The sword fighting is okay, not that bad but it's okay. But the ship combat in that one is where it's at. There's a lot to do in that game too I remember. Crazy that all these years I never knew it was based on a game from the 80s.

[@Xegethra]

I remember New York. A virtual tourism game with driving, platforming and puzzles and stuff. You had a checklist of stuff to do.

[@supercompman]

For the most part, I'd say that your assessment of the C64 was pretty accurate. There are a few genuinely good games that would hold up today, but not many if we're being honest with ourselves. There are however quite a few games that I would say mostly hold up today that it seems you missed: Midnight Resistance Boulder Dash Montezuma's Revenge Jumpman Mayhem in Monsterland Stunt Car Racer H.E.R.O. Space Taxi Leaderboard Golf Times of Lore Katakis Exile Supremacy Laser Squad Turrican Turrican II Bubble Bobble Maniac Mansion Zak McKracken Lode Runner Dino Eggs Rainbow Islands Rodland Wizard of Wor Wonderboy in Monsterland Lemmings Pipe Mania Newzealand Story Hope you get a chance to try a few more of these.

[@mK_Dx]

I had a one way ticket to this channel and I am forced to subscribe or else youtube will make sure I lose it. Really good content, had several laughs, very entertaining.

[@StuartKReilly]

I appreciate it friend

[@SixtyforceYTP]

5:12 "You can use Atari or SEGA controllers on the Commodore 64" No you can't, at least not with SEGA controllers. The port fits, but plugging in a Genesis controller will actually send an electrical signal back into places in the machine it doesn't expect, sometimes it'll even go through the chips, potentially destroying them. You actually need an adapter to use Genesis controllers on the C64 and Amiga for this very reason, Commodore's version of the DE9 port is only Atari comparible.

[@8-BitWolf10]

You do have a point, Stuart.If Commodore 64 and its SID chip, then chiptune music wouldn't exist. This is a good thing because chiptune happens to be my personal favorite genre and all of electronic music. Especially when you consider that that was the sound of EDM/ pop music during the late 2000s- early 2010s.

[@Mr_1Ballwhale]

Glad I just supported on Patreon to watch this

[@ArcRay20]

16:43 what a terrifying fucking scream sound. holy shit.

[@lunatrap1504]

This channel deserves more subscribers

[@chaospoet]

The Stephen King Maximum Overdrive reference was pure gold! I didn't play a C64 until I was in High School in the late 90s. My then Girlfriend had one. She wanted to show me it. I remember being bored as Hell until we got to Impossible Mission. I enjoyed that one. I think she may have had a C64 version of Carmen Sandiago too. But she was trying to show me some other ones with painfully long load times and I'm like: "You have a Super Nintendo! Let's play death match Mario Kart!" After we broke up I never saw or played one again and I don't feel I missed out too much. I've seem some videos on it and some stuff seems like it would have been cool at the time if you had nothing else. It's not bad, but it's a pain to get it running when console games (especially cartridge based oned) are instantaneous and have an easier to use control scheme. Edit: Forgot to mention recommendations. Cyberdyne Warrior, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Superman, Batman and Spiderman, and Street Hassle.

[@Ciretako]

He do be making the lewd references

[@MrPresidentFox]

The 2600, funny enough, had a cassette adapter for a specific line of games from Starpath, called the Starpath Supercharger. It essentially acted as a RAM upgrade (6kb to 128 kb) and linked from the cartridge slot of a 2600 into any cassette player to play the specific cassette games Starpath made for it. I had one game for it, called Phaser Patrol, which was packed in with the adapter and was basically Star Raiders but nicer looking.

[@Countsmegula]

Really good episode, would love to see you cover more computers as there are definitely some greats out there, knowing you collect them too.

[@BigAl2k6]

Little Computer People had a Famicom Disk System port at one point So did Monty on the Run

[@bigfootinhiding8641]

@5:19 is it possible you can do a video on those joysticks?

[@cobalfrostwyrm]

I was a child in the 80's and this was my micro computer (c64's and zx spectrums aren't console, they are proto-pc's) This was the era where where only having a fire button was standard for all machines and controllers. We didn't even call them controllers yet. The term was "Joystick" or "paddles" We defeated all those games. It's amusing you kids think fromsoftware games are hard. WHen we gamed in our day it was uphill both ways boy! also we still had non-euclidean hills back then apparently... On a more serious note; I don't know what version of double dragon that rom is, but that is not the game that came on the cassette tapes, I own the retail version. That rom is a patched version. The original c64 hardware cannot do sprites that size so all characters are two separate sprites with a 1 pixel wide line between them. If that line is not there it is a patched rom. The original did not look even half as good, it was one of the worst arcade ports ever. The map thing. Drawing handmade maps while playing was considered a part of gameplay. As was taking notes. The last "modern" games doing that are the Myst series Back in the 80's games would photocopy their hand drawn maps and send them in to magazines, who would print them in the cheats section. The loading thing, thats your emulator. The 64k was all the c64 could do, the entire game was loaded in there. Game over screens etc were instant on original hardware

[@g.u.959]

Stu, if you like C64 music, check out Pretty Eight Machine by Inverse Phase. It’s a cover album of NIN’s pretty hate machine but done with 8 bit sound fonts - and the C64 one is for head like a hole. Top notch stuff~

[@teckworks]

Hmm, tennis shoes? ...or ten issues? 🤔

[@Acidonia150reborn]

14:16 So Steel Batalion on Xbox 360 for Kinect. 37:39 HI here Tendril the Plant kaiju from the 80s Hasbro Cartoon and Toy line The Inhumanoids which is a totaly insane horror,scifi,kaiju fantasy action series.

[@sandman45]

bruh i remember playing some C64 games without manuals, they were cryptic as hell. i highly recommend spiderbot

[@Mythical6255]

Airborne Ranger’s controls give me Bubsy 3D flashbacks, and that’s not good

[@austinblack7991]

You should have gotten the c64 mini or the c64 maxi

[@giguyjoe]

12:25 Oh hey. Platypus music.

[@big_bm]

04:14 Honestly, if I was in your shoes, I’d have a massive urge to not just push the cassette in, but to POP THIS PIECE OF CRAP IN and ask, WHERE’S THE FUCKIN’ GAME?

[@tempestfennac9687]

If I remember correctly, Monty on the Run can't be beaten unless you pick the right items at the start, which is a strange design decision considering the type of game it is.

[@zephyr8072]

Hey cassette gaming was awesome. It only took half an hour to fail to load!

[@CitizenLenny]

32:32 geibuchan?

[@TheSSGDTheory]

Hey Stu. Not sure if you're still taking suggestions for C64 titles, but I'll throw some of mine I played your way. . Turbo Outrun . Midnight Resistance (Look up the Megadrive/Genesis version of this too) . Flimbo's Quest . Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun . Klax . Postman Pat 2 . Thomas the Tank Engine . Golden Axe and if you're looking for modern ports, look up Sonic the Hedgehog C64.

[@Gunninman]

Holy shit was said meirs pirates a remake of the C64 pirates?

[@HydraSpectre1138]

Yes

[@thefunnychiptuneman]

id love to see you play more c64 game sowth good music

[@rustkitty]

I had a friend in primary school, she was obsessed with impossible Mission. Me, I tried it here and there but never really "got" it. If you are interested, get the the PSP/NDS remake or the Master System port to stay era accurate. Both look and control better than the C64. (if a C64 game is worth playing there is almost always a better port to Amiga, DOS, or consoles)

[@richolanthewolf3049]

Life's a bitch great name for a game 10/10 10:13

[@elhatarolodohod2040]

I had a C64 until 2000.

[@RetroPixelLizard]

39:51 Said the words of someone who never played it. My suggestions for games are garbage anyway.

[@ジュリアン-v5t]

Ya know how AVGN just did a commodore video a month after yours? Yours is way better in all honesty

[@iamoutofideas1]

iirc from other stuff online not only did you have tapes there was a fourth method of loading the game where you typed the entire thing from a book

[@StuartKReilly]

Yeah those were what they call BASIC games due to the coding they used. It was real simple shit like text adventures and stuff.

[@iamoutofideas1]

@@StuartKReilly yeah they were a way to teach people programming

[@lordsofkoble]

@@iamoutofideas1 or troll you with deliberate typos which you couldn't spot until you'd finished. Sintax error in line 404.

[@acegamer9347]

38:51 Metal Gear!? It can’t be!

[@The_Ozone]

Please do Jade cocoon ps1 Let it sequel on PS2

[@StuartKReilly]

Thanks for the suggestion. Its been on my list for a while because Genki games intrigue me since I played Kileak in a previous video

[@The_Ozone]

@@StuartKReilly I know about that I watch that video and I got to say when you look at past all the negative stuff it’s actually a pretty good game but I would imagine it would be pretty hard to get past all the negative stuff

[@HydraSpectre1138]

@@StuartKReillyGenki also made the HD remaster of MGS Peace Walker, and helped with Bluepoint on the HD remasters of MGS2 and MGS3.

[@kamillatocha]

theres also giana sisters on steam i didnt go far in it

[@MegaMicah12]

I get this video is about C64, but as a fan of both Saxon and Moody Blues, I say SHAME! SHAAAAAAAAME!

[@ss4kaioken295]

I love your videos you're hilarious as fuck

[@SUNSHINE-t-m]

you should've put a flashing light warning

[@PhilipJFryII]

Man no wae haha 😂 25 is long time

[@stewartkee6115]

We had the NES and better still, we had Sega.

[@tonylouis4907]

S t a a a a a a a a a y F O R E V E E E E E R

[@ToadySP]

Donkey Dong

[@zefizzypop5020]

The C64 is a pretty interesting console but man most of the games just suck unfortunately.

[@15-Peter-20]

Breast milk?