The 10 Best Commodore 64 Exclusive Games In Order Of Greatness

[@garethbraint]

Creatures 2. I had that on a bright orange floppy. There was a lot of love put into that game.

[@scottbreon9448]

Power at Sea also has awesome title music to boot. I will say though, Accolade usually did have pretty good musicians on their payroll. Done by Canadian composer Kris Hatlelid. He also the music for Grand Prix Circuit, and Test Drive II

[@mikestunt77]

Project Firestart is a true masterpiece a game at least 5 years ahed of its time, I still remember when I finished it together with my dad, using a guide.

[@oldstylegaming]

It's a great game

[@judgegroovyman]

That’s so cool that you guys beat it back then

[@mikestunt77]

@@judgegroovyman I remember it wasn't easy at the time, though I was just a child so I could misjudge the difficulty of the game

[@GryphonICD]

Project Firestart finally getting the love it deserves. This, in my mind, was one of the first true horror games. And that menu tune!

[@ivaerak]

Survival horror

[@solsticeprojekt1937]

Space Taxi! How could you not! :D

[@raggeragnar]

Super video ! I pkayed A LOT ”The Detective”. It led me to ”Murder” on the Amiga. Also , ”Project Firestart” was a favourite , alongside ”Aliens”.

[@twotales1645]

It was a great system. I grew up on that thing, it's a big reason I got the C64 mini. Good list, too!

[@m0nde]

Wow, there are so many games here I've never seen that look so worth playing! Thanks

[@epicusdoomicus4186]

Some great games. I loved Creatures back than. Space Taxi was a lot of fun as well. Played it lots with a buddy of mine.

[@RetroGamePlayers]

The music in Nobby sounds like it could destroy a nightclubs sound system from the bass lol

[@oldstylegaming]

Haha yeah

[@lordevyl8317]

Also check out the remastered version of Hunter's Moon, with added levels and all

[@7200932]

The detective was a great game I spent loads of time playing that and the murders got more elaborate as you went on. And to think I got that game on a cover cassette!

[@maxsmarts8210]

Project Firestart and Power at Sea are 2 of my all time favorite games from the c64. Nive video.

[@grantd165]

Really good stuff. Only just found your channel and really enjoying working my way through it.

[@oldstylegaming]

Cheers mate

[@jfk272]

Why does Below the Root not get any love? Truly first open world game! Loved it!

[@oldstylegaming]

ill be honest ive never played it but ill check it out if you say its good

[@patsfan4life]

Lots of people loved it.... I wasn’t one of them

[@zeprfrew]

It's a fantastic game, as is its followup Alice in Wonderland. Both rank very highly among my all-time favourite C64 games. Below the Root isn't an exclusive, though. It was also available on the Apple II and IBM PC.

[@ThierryLaFronde]

Another great show, thx for the upload. in a few weeks gonna install my c64 and amiga 500. :)

[@oldstylegaming]

Good times :-)

[@Vindicator18]

Space Taxi reminds me of a similar game, but set in prehistoric times, but I can't remember what it was called. That was fun too though. I'm pretty sure it was a C64 exclusive but Turbocharge would have been on my list, as well as Pitstop 2. Catalypse...I loved the demo off of a Commodore Format demo cassette! Great video OSG!

[@garethbraint]

That game was called ugh!

[@Vindicator18]

@@garethbraint I thought it was called that! I didn't want to make an idiot out of myself and get it wrong, lol.

[@zeprfrew]

Save New York is my top C64 exclusive. It's an early single screen shoot-em-up with exquisite gameplay. Hot Wheels would be my second pick. More a video toy than it is a video game, I suppose. The relaxed, low-key pace of the game kept me well entertained when I wanted to relax.

[@bartoman2]

I used to play a lot a game called Cliffhanger (no relation to the Stallone movie), it was kind of a Wile E. Coyote/RoadRunner cartoon ripoff where you play a sheriff trying to kill a bandit with various traps.

[@StojanOdVeles]

1. Gogo the Ghost 2. Frantic Freddie 3. Parallax 4. Rimrunner 5. Wizard 6. The Staff of Karnath 7. The SuperCan 8. Break Dance 9. Dinky Doo 10. Saucer Attack! 11. Train Robbers

[@patsfan4life]

Saucer attack! Great game

[@X1L3]

Good memories. I remember a bunch of these. I never owned Catalypse, but it made me think of Armalyte. I think if not for the dire abomination of the bad joke that was the Amiga version making it not so exclusive to the c64 then that would so have been worthy of this list. I'm building a uheld64 and a pc powered gaming table at the moment which will be running plenty of emulators. Will be revisiting plenty of these on both of them when they're done :)

[@apatterson3100]

Great video. Makes my want to get my breadbin out! Love your commodore bezel too, any idea where I could download this please.

[@oldstylegaming]

I'll upload it for you tonight ok

[@rossmunro7084]

Loved my C-64... Or well, My friends one as I was not able to own one due to money and tht crap. My love of computer game came from visiting him often to play Ghostbusters or others. Loved the C-64. Was my envy back in the 80's

[@oldstylegaming]

Have you owned one since?

[@Sinisteve]

I too have just got into space taxi, it’s amazing! Really gutted it’s super rare and expensive! I want it!

[@oldstylegaming]

Even in America ?

[@Sinisteve]

old style gaming I can’t find it anywhere, and after research apparently it’s rare and sought after

[@oldstylegaming]

@@Sinisteve ask Lee Taylor on the C64 Family FB to keep an eye out hes in america..i dont think it was released over here

[@lordevyl8317]

@@oldstylegaming I've seen copies of the game on ebay go for as much as Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars US

[@Dennis-nm4qh]

Loved playing The Detective 🕵️‍♂️ the atmosphere was great in that😀 never completed it though🤔

[@steelpatriot3683]

That Armalyte rip off at start is hilarious. It's almost an exact copy. But lovely to see Hunters Moon in there. Fabulous game...... 👍

[@oldstylegaming]

the levels are like Armalyte but the ship and weapons arent...they dont play alike to be honest

[@ThatGeekDude]

I have played many c64 games in my days but haven't heard about any of these except the detective before 🤔

[@oldstylegaming]

You've never heard of creatures 2?

[@ThatGeekDude]

@@oldstylegaming Actually no... But I love platforners and that one looks super fun 😀👍

[@Lucasrainford]

Great list, Never played any of em back in day apart from Hunter's Moon, I've played Catalypse and Mayhem in Monsterland more recently, both great games. Nice one :)

[@oldstylegaming]

Thanks Lucas :-)

[@bit-ishbulldog2089]

Is the emulator you are using good? reason I ask is Space Taxi has voice samples and I never heard them in the video, It says stuff like take me to pad 3 and thank you etc. Project Firestart looked odd (I'm going by how they play look and sound on my Commodore 64) On Mayhem in Monster world I like using the dash to take out the enemy.. try it. you don't have to jump on them.

[@oldstylegaming]

it is saying it but its really quiet. Pad one Please, Hey Taxi etc... its Winvice...maybe its the rom

[@CalmCal]

Mayhem in monster land looks a bit like bubble bobble crossed with mario - looks nice though 👍

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah it's a good game...and yeah it does look like bub.... Or bob... Lol

[@Gamevet]

You should check out Heart of Africa. It certainly deserves to be on this list. There's also HES games, which is a great Olympic style game.

[@lordevyl8317]

That was the C64 only sequel to The Seven Cities of Gold. Another great game in its own right, although that game did get ported to other systems

[@Mnnvint]

Heart of Africa blew our minds when we were young. Such a huge map to explore. And it was a big shock the first time we tried to sell a gun to the natives, oops.

[@ingosmith1682]

Power at Sea i spent Lots of hours to master that Game my all time Favorite🙂🙂🙂

[@patsfan4life]

Thanks OSG, how did you create a comprehensive list of games that were c64 exclusives?

[@oldstylegaming]

Well I trawled the net to build the list return played and rated them and came up with this ;-)

[@silvios6839]

#1 place well deserved !! P.F. is great!

[@timoheinonen9570]

Law of the west is missing from your list.

[@oldstylegaming]

Law of the west wasn't a c64 exclusive... It was out on the NES

[@El_Guapo74]

Space Taxi's speech synch was turned off?

[@OperationPhantom]

Probably captured on a C64C with 8580 SID I guess?

[@oldstylegaming]

it was there it is just really quiet... dont know why

[@chris-do]

@@oldstylegaming because 8580 and NOT 6581 SID version ;-)

[@robqg]

There's a trained version of space taxi which lets you choose the sid that you have.

[@Sinisteve]

Only 87 exclusive games, I thought with such a big library there would be loads more

[@oldstylegaming]

Newer games aren't counted though mate or there would be a lot more...my rule is It you couldn't buy it in Woolworths Then it's not on the list lol

[@Sinisteve]

old style gaming haha, I wasn’t counting homebrews just surprised there’s only 87 in a library of around 10000 games

[@bit-ishbulldog2089]

@@Sinisteve There are way more than 10.000 games on the C64 try nearer 25.000 :) and I also know there is more than 87 exclusive games "yes retail etc" but to be honestly name and catalogue these is going to be a hard job. Then its checking if they had a port or a version on a different system. I can think of one that just popped in my head "Spirit of the Stone" I had that back in the mid 80's, came with a cool book and a treasure search in real life.

[@lordevyl8317]

@@bit-ishbulldog2089 A good portion of those games though are foreign language versions of English games, so they technically don't count. LOL

[@dimsolutions]

But Creatures 2 exist on Amiga... it's not an exclusive of the C64

[@oldstylegaming]

Creatures 2 torture trouble was never released on the Amiga mate

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

Vendetta.... Die Hard x Last Ninja x Outrun! What could be better?

[@devnull73]

you need to play space taxi with a 6581 ;)

[@moonglow6639]

Ultima series are the best c64 games..

[@bit-ishbulldog2089]

Just want to mention I am sure there is way more exclusive games on the C64 than you mentioned at the start of this video.. way more.

[@oldstylegaming]

Retail ones?

[@garethbraint]

Such as?

[@drlegendre]

Why no voices in Space Taxi? Is this a PAL issue?

[@Simon0]

Creatures 2 is great I enjoyed that one

[@markvickers9677]

Where's Turrican?

[@oldstylegaming]

Exclusive?

[@amerigocosta7452]

Catalypse is a strange case. It was praised by the Italian Zzap! but UK Zzap!64 bashed it to no end. Sure it looked like Armalyte but the same was true about so many other shmups on the C64 going for a metallic look just because the colour palette was so limited.

[@marcoschincaglia]

Paradroid

[@oldstylegaming]

was sort of out one Amiga, ST and Archimedes i think

[@marcoschincaglia]

there was a remake for the Amiga called Paradroid 90, but quite different from the original

[@_.OX._]

Paradroid was a C64 exclusive, probably would have made No.1 in this list, great concept and gameplay.

[@lordevyl8317]

I loved paradroid, even though I fucked suck at it. Well, the shoot 'em up part I'm decent with, but the "bot jacking" mini game is touch and go for me

[@Raginmund33]

I mis Sam's journey in this list...

[@oldstylegaming]

Too new for this list, this is for commercial games during the retail lifetime of the system...Sams Journey is great though

[@VolkanMemisoglu]

Creatures 2 was released in 1992. Not in 1999.

[@jorgvespermann5364]

How comes that space taxi is not talking? I remeber plaing the hell out of it.

[@oldstylegaming]

it is talking its just really quiet...maybe its a bad rom

[@Hexagonaal]

What? No Kongo Kong?

[@philosoaper]

really? Only 87 exclusives?..

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah from what I can find (retail released in shops not new or homebrew )

[@darrenproctor1687]

Didn't anyone like groggs revenge or was that only me lol

[@philw1183]

Tbh I’ve not heard of any these games apart fr9m creatures 2!!!

[@oldstylegaming]

Well you should go play them then ;-)

[@philw1183]

@@oldstylegaming okok got ur point

[@wallalo]

Naaaaaaaa, where is Turrican II ???

[@oldstylegaming]

Apart from it being out on about 10 other systems.....

[@wallalo]

@@oldstylegaming Ops...I'm an idiot :-D

[@lordevyl8317]

Where's Stroker? )joke)

[@scottbreon9448]

LMAO

[@TheWarmotor]

Heart of Africa

[@general8284]

You really must have had to been from that era and be too poor to afford an Amiga, because all these games look like utter dogshit to me.

[@oldstylegaming]

Amiga wasn't out when the c64 came out mate... Its like ps1, ps2, ps3... They all overlapped and obviously the next gen was better... But you wouldn't have one without the other... And yeah you really did need to be from that era because people today will never realise what it was like back then when technology went from nothing to us playing games in our homes....