Obscure C64 Classics Unveiled: I Dare You to Say You've Played These!

🕹️ Join me, Tom, from Floppy Deep Dive, as we delve into the depths of forgotten classics in "Obscure C64 Classics Unveiled: I Dare You to Say You've Played These!" 🎮
In this thrilling episode of 'What's on That Floppy?', we crack open a collection of vintage Commodore 64 games downloaded from BBSs back in the day. Get ready to explore a digital time capsule filled with rare and unique titles!
Featured Games:
RMS Titanic: Navigate historical adventures on the ill-fated ship.
Teleclone 5.0: Dive into the underground world with this phreaking utility.
Lucifer's Revenge: Experience the graphical marvel developed by Triad.
Beachblanket Volleyball: Serve up some nostalgia with beachside gaming action.
Danger Mouse: Outsmart enemies in thrilling spy adventures.
Traffic: Navigate through busy streets in this challenging strategy game.
Modem Chess: Strategize your next move in this classic game of chess with a modem twist.
Why Watch This Video?
Rare Gameplay Footage: Witness these seldom-seen games in action.
Deep Dive Commentary: Learn about the history and features of each game.
Nostalgia Trip: Relive the golden era of 8-bit gaming with stories from the past.
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Thank you for watching, and let's keep the memories of classic gaming alive together!

[@skybluemonty]

Danger Mouse brings back great memories. It confused the absolute hell out of me but I couldn't put it down. Traffic and BB Volleyball I remember also. Chess and the Titanic games are amazing to see, those are totally new to me!

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Thank you my friend for watching!

[@cataylor07]

Traffic looks like a fun game to play. I really enjoy the “What’s On That Floppy?” series.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for Watching!

[@MONSTERGABhorror]

Loving "What's on that floppy". The whole reason I subscribed. Excellent content as always 👌

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Thank you, my friend; I appreciate you always watching and commenting! More to come!

[@zaitarh]

Nice with the old demo! The higlight of the show!

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Awesome! Glad you liked it!! Thanks for Watching!

[@aussie_retro_dude9253]

I enjoy these videos a lot. A little less scripted and we can share the surprise of finding out what's on that floppy with you. Thanks for bringing back the old intro, it's almost retro ! Good luck for 2024 .

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Thanks, buddy! I appreciate it. I had fun making this one. Lol, the intro is almost retro. So many of my year-one subscribers seem to like it, so I thought it needed to come back again.

[@Vidfavne]

Challenge accepted. 100% sure I've played Danger Mouse, and 70% sure I still have it on a turbotape somewhere.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Nice! Thanks for Watching!

[@mikegage3326]

Definitely reminds me of discovering "treasures" after a floppy copying party. I definitely had danger mouse and watched the cartoon as a kid in PA (USA) too. Keep up the good work.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Thanks, Mike! I get to rediscover them all over again. It's a blast. Thanks for Watching!

[@jkeelsnc]

I actually remember the Lucifer’s revenge demo. Although, I have not seen it in 35 years!!

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Good memory! Thanks for Watching!

[@VEGANVANIA]

That was a great thumbnail, man: I know how hard it is to capture that kind of expression / moment with the camera.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Hey, thanks my brotha!

[@HeliZero]

Sooo many good games on the C64. Some day i give The Bards Tale III a go. Thanks for yet another great video.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Thank you, my friend!

[@merman1974]

Traffic was actually developed in Hungary by Andromeda Software. It's good fun. Danger Mouse was an animated cartoon in the 1980s, and there's a modern version. The yellow figure following the white mouse is Penfold, DM's sidekick. By the look of that last part of Lucifer's Revenge, it was trying to do an ESCOS effect (Extended Screen COnstruction Set); this enlarged a picture and put it into the side and top borders. So it looks like it's not NTSC compatible due to timing.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Hungary, that's very interesting! You always have good stuff to share! Appreciate the insight! Thanks for Watching!

[@ClassicGameSessions]

Volley Ball and Danger Mouse look like fun. The name of the latter sounded familiar, but it turned out being different than the game I was thinking. Traffic is pretty interesting to see. When you were speaking about Chess it got me thinking of those days on the BBS' and all the fun with the modems. As you say, we were having lots of fun gaming online before a lot of people think! Such great times, I love this series and it takes me back!

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Yep, those were the days for sure, and people don't realize what all we had at our fingertips even in the 80s. Thanks for Watching my friend!

[@djrmarketing598]

I love these videos, your content is always fun and different. I was very young in the C64 days because my father was into programming computers in the 80's, and dialing into BBSes at like 10 years old, not realizing in the 1988 just about everybody was way older than me. I had a great time with the old C64 games and it shaped my entire life making me into a software developer myself.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

That's awesome! I'm glad you like them. I get bored easily so I always try something different. That or I just forget how I did it last time lol 😆 Thanks for Watching!

[@FattyJubbo]

I would love to access all my old disks and trawl through the ramshackle organization of my 12-yo self. Thanks for including the directory loading and crack screens! There was something really magical and inspiring about getting all those imported PAL games. It was so different than NA gaming.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Of course, that's all part of the story and the nostalgia! Thanks for Watching!

[@toxicmule]

I recently found my way through the closet boxes and found what appears to be 400-600??? disks. Most of them I picked up randomly years ago at garage sales, some in ebay lots, and a few handfuls of my old originals and copies from the local college c64 club meet and swaps. I can't even imagine what all is hiding in there, and how many died from disk rot or whatever. I have lost track of the box with my c64, and although I found my old 128 I haven't found a place to set it up. At least I get to share in your treasured finds. Keep em coming, as I don't think I have played nor seen any of the ones you pulled out this time. =)

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Awesome, sounds like you have a nice collection too. You just need a corner to set it up and start diving in! Thanks for Watching!

[@ThomaniacsRetrogamingZone]

Interestingly Traffic is the only game i know from your disk. I always find it exciting to discover the content of a nearly 40 years old floppy disk. Sometimes you find a hidden gem you never have heard of before. I also have lots of floppy disks waiting to be discovered on my channel. 🙂

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Good luck with your channel and Thanks for Watching!

[@briancherry8088]

My mom bought a used C64 from her then boyfriend as a Christmas gift for me. It came with (supposedly) 400 games on over a hundred disks - mostly unlabelled. I spent countless hours putting in disks and trying all of the files one by one. I would often find many great games on each disk, and I think the 400 was a good approximation. Nowadays I can only think of 30-50 games I remember, but there were so many I am not sure I ever finished looking through all of them. Once you find PSI 5 trading Company and Mail Order Monsters, I didnt need to keep looking !

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Those two are amazing games!! How fun to go through all those floppies! A great Christmas gift!! Thanks for Watching!

[@jacktheripper6716]

Some hidden gems on this disc awesome

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Thanks for Watching!

[@mondo8bit]

Yep, I remember Titanic, played it even, as you say, w/o the manual was really difficult. And also Traffic, I loved those kind of games, even I preferred "Siren City" 🙂 Never saw or used Teleclone, but that's because in Italy we had a completely different land telephone system and that program was useless..! Kudos Tom, What's on that Floppy is always great 👍

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Hello, my friend!! Always good to hear from you! Glad you enjoyed it! It's fun to make this series.

[@miserychordia]

i got that dangermouse game back in the days when my class was on a trip to denmark..i bought danger mouse,nosferatu and rocky horror show for like 2 dollars each.. i still have the danger mouse game in my collection

[@FloppyDeepDive]

That's awesome!!

[@davidkokosz7286]

Love the joy you get, love the joy I get, in exploring unknown disks and seeing what’s what! Great job as always. Question… have you ever explored “OneLoad64”? Or done a video on how to use it on real hardware? Not as fun as your “mystery disks”, but would love to hear your comments / watch a video by you on that! Its latest release was a couple weeks ago… v5 (5.2 or 5.7 I believe)

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Thanks, Man!! I have not explored OneLoad64 I will have to check into it! Thanks for Watching!

[@RandomBitzzz]

I used to watch Danger Mouse on Nickelodeon and never knew there was a game. I also remember spending too much time downloading something at 300 baud to find out it was a demo and not a game. I really didn't appreciate demos when I was younger - I just didn't "get it", I was also way to scared to mess with any of the phreaking stuff I came across. I knew a guy that did it and he said a lot of the stuff didn't work anymore in about 1990 or so.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Yep, by 1990, it was more challenging but the early to mid-80s was the Wild West! I didn't really appreciate the demos either. I wanted a game after downloading for hours. Lol 😆

[@RacerX-]

Right on.! Very happy to see another deep dive episode. You weren't wrong, since it seems this was a mostly UK disk of stuff. LOL. Back then they seemed to always have pretty big differences from the majority of games that were USA. I played a lot of them but also skipped a lot of them. haha. I don't think I have played or at least don't remember any of these except teleclone. I might have tried Danger Mouse, but I would have skipped it probably. I think I would like to check out the the demo as it seems to work fine in NTSC. I am with you on the Phone Phreaking stuff I didn't usually risk it beyond using my C64 to dial numbers out of a phone book on disk.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Right! I think we continue to find out our childhoods were very similar. I skipped a lot of these UK games and Danger Mouse.

[@OMG-ws6lx]

Wow it still works!!!

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Yes sir!

[@waynerowlinson6177]

I had (still have) hundreds of C-64 floppies and don't think I ever even saw those games. There's a chance I have at least 1, but used to have copy sessions with friends where we had multiple drives hooked up mass copying games. I mean, I watched them do it, uh, I paid for all my games. Yeah that's what I did.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

That's awesome! Thanks for Watching!

[@robertleeluben]

I did have that 'holy shit' demo, the rest I never saw.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Thanks for Watching!

[@gametimewithunclejer]

Cool video as always, Tom. What happened to our respective football teams this year?!?!

[@FloppyDeepDive]

It didn't go well at all for us. Well, at least it opens up my Sundays again.

[@gametimewithunclejer]

Haha... I heard that.

[@MariaEngstrom]

I had the Titanic game on original tape.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Very cool. You should have the instructions, and you can tell us all how to play! Lol 😆

[@MariaEngstrom]

@@FloppyDeepDiveThe game is sadly lost. I have been looking for a new copy for several years. :(

[@Hounddoggy33]

I had a poorly cracked version of California Games with the same James Hetfield "Holy S*&#" back in the day.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Interesting

[@buckeyechad1]

Didn’t play any. But good memories cause I was in Eaglsoft.

[@FloppyDeepDive]

That’s awesome that you were a member! Thanks for Watching!

[@shaolin1derpalm]

My xC64 experience is based only o. What I got from an inlaw between 84 to 86. I lived in a small town, so what ever was popular was what we had. I don't think i ha e seen any British games.. On an aside, i loved isepic. When i saw the screen i got excited, as my first few disk games were isepic:d. Ghostbusters, Kung fu master, and i think one called sky fox..

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Cool experience! Thanks for Watching!