NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE | Commodore 64 (1986)

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Is this your first time seeing 'Nosferatu' for the Commodore 64? 😇🕹👌 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= More from 1986: tinyurl.com/1986-C64-GAMES My Top Picks: tinyurl.com/CCGS-BEST-GAMES

[@dekat7656]

I loved these isometric games

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

They had a certain asthetic didn't they, I loved the exploration aspect of isometric games. Have you ever played 'Nightshade?' kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYGvgX6eeLaemM0 😇🕹️👌

[@m3rlin74]

Interesting... I don't know this game at all. As crazy as Klaus Kinski was, he was a great actor and one of the best of his time.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Very true, I didn't even realise he was in Doctor Zhivago until recently! 😇🕹️👌

[@ozwalled2007]

Never knew this one existed. Neat!

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Cool game isn't it - a nice big castle to explore before reaching the village of Wismar 😇🕹️👌

[@sterling7]

I remember hearing mention of this game, though I never got a chance to play it, myself. I don't mind the monochrome, and appreciate the amount of detail, but it seems likely that the slowdown is due to a rough conversion from another format (Spectrum, perhaps?) without much accounting for the Commodore's particular strengths, which is a bit of a pity.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

It was a little like the game, 'Night Shade'... another superb isometric game which suffered heavily with slowdown due to it being a port from an 'inferior' machine 😇🕹️👌

[@MechaFenris]

I've not seen this game before... it reminds me of so many of those games that had that isometric perspective... some of them were hard to control, as I remember. :) This looks like a fun one, though. I think I'll have to fire up VICE... :) I have a recapped refurbed C64 but no desk space (at the moment) to hook it up. When it was, having it s-video going through to my 2k monitor via a retroTINK was the bomb! I recommend it. :) Nothing beats M.U.L.E. on a 32" display in all its crisp glory. Beats the pants off my 13" TV I used back in the 80's. ($15 at a second-hand TV repair shop.)

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Yeah give it a whirl... it's slow-going, but very atmospheric! I liked it as a kid... was an eerie game for me back then though, as I was only around 5 or 6 years old at the time of playing it 😇🕹️👌

[@ParsnipCelery]

Very cool looking game but not one I think I'll ever play.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

A decent game for those who like exploration and the isometric style rooms... hopefully some will get it fired up and give it a whirl 😇🕹️👌

[@1stacbats]

Never heard of this, may give it a try

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

It's worth a playthrough, just for the eerie atmosphere and the exploration alone! 😇🕹️👌

[@Michael.Werker]

It looks more like a Spectrum game.

[@JohnnyWednesday]

Because it is. It was ported to the C64 along with the original graphics.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

A lot of these isometric type games were ports from the Speccy 😇🕹️👌

[@markdillon5494]

I'm curious. How come some C64 games ported from the Speccy look detailed like this, yet others look blocky (typical of the C64) and Im told a limitation of the C64?

[@3dhYT]

I haven't played the game but I like the movie.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

The movie will always be considered as something of a classic and the game's not 'too' bad either 😇🕹️👌

[@ArttuTheCat]

AAAAAAAARGH 😹!!!! I saw this Werner Herzog movie tie-in for the Commodore 64 as a tape version (loose) once at a finnish 🇫🇮 website back in the early 2010's. I was going to buy it, but... SOMEONE ALREADY BOUGHT IT 😹! After that, i have never heard of that game... until i saw this video. That game is so rare, i can't even find it from a single retro game store not flea market. If i ever see this game for the Commodore 64 on a tape or a disk, i'm gonna make sure, i will buy it immediately 😹😺👍🕹️. The gameplay may seem slow, but i could give a try. And Klaus Kinski is a legendary actor. NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE is absolutely a legendary classic movie of 1979. Thank you 😸😺👍🕹️.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

I see it pop up on Ebay every now and again, but it's always super expensive. I would like to buy this again someday too 😇🕹️👌

[@lurkerrekrul]

I never had this game. I probably would have liked exploring the castle, but I probably wouldn't have known what to do.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Luckily, pressing 4 on the menu screen will give you the objectives and instructions - I never hardly read game inlays until long after playing the games (as I was very impatient!) but somehow, with perseverance, we'd figure it out one way or another. However... with this game, you definitely do need to know where you are going 😇🕹️👌

[@lurkerrekrul]

@@CheekyCommodoreGamer I was the opposite, if I had an original copy of a game, I'd read the manual from cover to cover before trying the game. However, since the majority of my games were pirated, I didn't have the manuals for most of them. Sometimes people would post the keys that a more complex game used, on a BBS, or maybe a text file version of the manual. There used to be an Apple oriented BBS in my local calling area (in the US, phone companies used to charge by the minute if you called a phone number that wasn't "local"), and they had a copy of the manual for Elite online. I forget the details, but for whatever reason, I could view it, but I wasn't able to directly download it. So, I "buffered" it, saving the terminal program's buffer to disk each time it filled up. At 300 baud. With no error correction. I think I ended up with four files, which were full of garbled spots that I painstakingly corrected in a C64 word processor (probably Speedscript). On the Amiga, all the cracked copies of Archipelagos were broken, then I met someone with an original copy. I copied the disk and borrowed the manual. At first I was just going to type in the code pages (black print on maroon paper, hundreds of codes), but I ended up typing in a copy of the entire manual, which I then uploaded to local Amiga BBSs.

[@lurkerrekrul]

@@CheekyCommodoreGamer I forgot to mention that I had one game I bought, and I STILL couldn't figure out how to play it: Alien. I've seen scans of the UK/European release and it looks like it comes with a complete manual. We didn't get that here in the US. The game was on disk, but it was a "budget" release, which meant that it was in a thin, plastic clamshell package, just thick enough to hold the disk and maybe a single printed sheet, I found it hanging on a revolving rack of software in a supermarket for just a few dollars. One of the other games I bought was a chess game that used PETSCII graphics to draw the pieces, and I could never tell the black pieces from the white pieces! Anyway, I honestly don't remember what kind of instructions came with it, but I do remember that whatever they were, it wasn't enough for me to understand how to play the game. On the other hand, I also bought Space: The Ultimate Frontier, which was an upgraded, but unlicensed version of Star Trek. That came with complete instructions on the disk.

[@NarquelieNarmo]

It's oddly specific for a video game adaptation of a film. I wonder how other films by Werner Herzog would translate : Aguirre would be some kind of endless adventure on a raft with the occasional amerindian attacks… and in Gasherbrum, you would have to clim up a mountain range without having your brother killed.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Hahaha YES! Those games HAVE to be made now.... 😇🕹️👌

[@Emulous79]

I played this for about 10mins as a kid. So boring. However, it looks like a game that improves if you persist with patience. And a speed-up option in an emulator.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

True enough, these games will look and feel mega slow now... you could increase the speed 20% I guess with an emulator though if it feels 'off' but that will just garble the music haha 😇🕹️👌

[@cybermodo]

One of the C64's games that impressed me highly - because of visuals and melancholic, lonely atmosphere. I love Stoker's "Dracula", Werner Herzog, Isabelle Adjani. I also love old black and white movies, and silent movies also. Thus, I love seeing well done monochrome hires games on C64, unlike many other C64 gamers. Sure, it's like ZX Spectrum, so what? Instead of being happy for owning computer that was capable of doing its own PLUS ZX things, people scorned for no real reason. Hires visuals, 2.5D, have undeniable charm and class. And good coders were able to speed it up on C64 using hardware sprites in multiplex. And sure, there were some lame ports from ZX, not doing C64 justice. We needed more of this stuff, also spreading on more parts in multiload, giving scope and/or details to the game world. Last Ninja did it with the bang, truly epic, but it's not exactly based on the hires engine with set of assets like all those isometric old school games. However, Last Ninja did rely on large numer of parts - 3 games, 6 loads each. Many "episodes" to enjoy. Just imagine having that with classic 2.5D games. Bigger and detailed, much much more.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

I agree with you with all of that. I really enjoyed the exploration aspect of these isometric games and there was some very clever programming going on - making them a marvel to play. Superb games from the mid 80s and I remember those times fondly 😇🕹️👌

[@grahamtastic83]

I thought Nosferatu was Count Orlock?

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

The 1922 film is an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of the novel Dracula. Character names were changed, including changing Count Dracula's name to Count Orlok, in an attempt to avoid accusations of copyright infringement 😇🕹️👌

[@grahamtastic83]

@@CheekyCommodoreGamer today I learned! Thanks cheeky!!!

[@OperationPhantom]

I vont to suck yer blot! Not really but you make a great case for this slow burner of a game! I do believe Zzap! liked it in it's day too but it is indeed an acquired taste (just like... nah!). Certainly one of the better isometric arcade adventure puzzle games for the C64. Save states do, ehm, save it I guess, because few people would have the patience and perseverance to complete this in a single sitting. Nosferatu 1979 was cool but I like the original more, which is now over a hundred years old! They even made a movie about the creepy actor who played the original count: Shadow of the Vampire from 2000...

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Definitely an aquired taste this one.... blood, I believe 😇🕹️👌

[@zubazub66]

Been a Speccy Owner I enjoyed games like Great Escape and I'm sure I would have enjoyed this as well. However these days I'm not sure if I would have the patience :) I'm really enjoying your videos 👍

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Glad you're enjoying the videos! Stay Retro 😇🕹️👌

[@SeanONeill-ef5vb]

I remember the 4 Most series from Alternative Software. This was on the compilation 4 Most Horror but they struggled to get the games as NEIL Android was one of the games 😀

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Ahh yes, another attempt at isometric style gaming for the Commodore 64... I was never a fan of N.E.I.L hehe, must cover it someday 😇🕹️👌

[@krugos1978]

Never heard of this game before. It looks like the kind of game I would have really enjoyed back in the day, and I would have been really bad at it for sure, lol. Great video as always; while my favorite are the videos about games that I played as a kid, I also really enjoy learning about these games that I didn't know existed, the C64 was indeed a wonderful computer for games.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Glad you're enjoying the videos and hopefully we'll get to covering some of those games you remember playing back as a kid. There are so many still to get through, I can guarantee one will be coming up soon 😇🕹️👌

[@1stBlood]

Never heard of this one but love the atmosphere, definitely getting this one on the c64 or mini, probably mini as looks solid, love the design and logic of it though, good stuff mate, makes work go quicker seeing your videos 🎉😂

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Glad you're enjoying the channel! Yeah definitely give this one a whirl... it might feel a little 'slow', but with perseverance you really get into the atmospheric eerie-ness of the game and it becomes pretty engrossing 😇🕹️👌

[@johnny5805]

The C64 normally can't do Filmation or ISO games (compared to the Speccy) ti save it's life.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

It was definitely a spectrum thing... whereas the C64 no doubt excelled in... every other area 😇🕹️👌

[@donaldporr9682]

I never played this one. My only vampire game on commodore 128/64 was a text based adventure called the count.

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

I remember that game! I loved the text adventures of the 80s... all we needed back then was the ability to type and a good imagination 😇🕹️👌

[@Syragar]

Interesting looking game. I haven't played this one. I think I'd definitely need a manual for this. I bet it's easy to get lost and confused without one!

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

True, and definitely source the map too... otherwise, it's so difficult to locate certain items 😇🕹️👌

[@LevitatingCups]

oh the sweet time when you had swords on walls, and guns in nightstands, suppose accompanied with ammo, some things have changed too much

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Was a highly convenient home, for intruding estate agents 😇🕹️👌

[@RetroCave-wr9tl]

I remember playing this many years ago. I found Nosferatu and I was trying to hit him with the garlic. Nothing visibly happened, but I don't think he appreciated that lol.😅

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

You should have rubbed it on his bald head... he could have sprouted a grassy knoll of garlic on his circular bonce 😇🕹️👌

[@craigwise6374]

Yeah mate I thought this pretty back in the day. But there was a lot more brilliant games

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Definitely, the C64 library of games is vast!! Theres some crackers out there 😇🕹️👌

[@Simon0]

Why did you have to say bloated spiders 🙁. Now im thinking about bloated spiders. Regular spiders are bad enough let alone bloated ones 🕷️ Anyway moving on . This game reminds me of head over heels! In terms of visuals that game is freaking amazing i think you've done a video already on it i forgot now. I loved that game. One of the most epic games for the c64 Anyway nice to get a video from you every day!

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Big fat bloated spiders, yeughkkkk! Haha yeah it's a lot like the style of Head Over Heels! 'Filmation' was the name of the isometric graphics engine employed and there were many that pulled it off to perfection 😇🕹️👌

[@Simon0]

​@@CheekyCommodoreGamerit's a great style. There's a great snes game called equinox which is similar style and gameplay. Reminds me of head over heels. Obviously looks a ton better cause it's a snes

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Looks interesting. Thank goodness for trainers and other cheats though, eh? Isometric games are harder to do than people realize, because you have to draw things in the right order (from back to front) so that they appear correctly in the 'Z' plane. This is why, I suspect, the game slows down so much when there are a lot of things on the screen at the same time: That's a lot to ask of a 1mhz processor!

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

I agree with you there, without trainers I'd probably not be able to cover half these games as my skill-set has waned over the years! Haha I wish I could have recorded the footage of games from when I was a kid and had 10x better reflexes, especially on the playform types. Good game this, shame about the slowdown in places... but I could overlook that 😇🕹️👌

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@CheekyCommodoreGamer Speaking of recording old games, I can remember beating my brother's high score on Atari 2600 Asteroids: There was no "high score" screen so I had to preserve the evidence the only way I could, by recording it on VHS tape!

[@trepaning]

ah, a game i can truly sink my utensils into!

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

A good game for a two pronged assault 😇🕹👌

[@roak4115]

I had this one when I was a kid, didn't know what to do cos I didn't have a manual. Bats on first staircase were killing me always 😂. Still I love the atmosphere and colors. ❤

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

You should have pressed '4' in the menu screen for the instructions!! haha 😇🕹️👌

[@roak4115]

@@CheekyCommodoreGamer Didn't know that 🤣. Definitely have to try it again. Download it manual and etc.

[@roak4115]

What's the goal of the game anyways?

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Explore a castle to find some important papers (deeds to the house), while Lucy pursues the vampire that dwells in the castle 😇🕹️👌

[@vidarlystadjohansen9829]

cool, didn't know about this one. I like isometric graphics

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Me too, since playing 'Head Over Heels' for the C64 I was hooked on isometric games - the Commodore Amiga had some awesome isometric games too 😇🕹️👌

[@stefanomazzarello4771]

It looks incredible accurate and detailed the graphic... One complain is about the ai voice on the channel

[@CheekyCommodoreGamer]

Not another one! 😂😂😂 kzbin.infoc_dYvAOtju0