Top 50 Commodore 64 (C64) games of 1984 - in under 10 minutes

Hello and welcome to the second episode of TOP 50 Commodore 64 (C64) games in under 10 minutes.
1984 gave us some real classics like Mission Impossible, Ultima 3, Bruce Lee... and also quite a few lesser known gems.
Games are, as always, presented in no particular order.
Have fun and let us know in the comments if you agree with our choices (and if we missed a title that should be on the list).

[@KristerNielsen]

This is the year when games on the C64 really started to get good. So from 1984 up to around 1987-1988 were some great years.

[@bigmaxy07]

totally right, those 4 years were right in the slot for me and my C64. Amazing games around.

[@bobbyhulll8737]

The beauty of the C64 you could get so many games and join clubs and copy them for a fraction of buying the new ones . We had over 400 games to choose from in one year .. the first bear share ..

[@EyeQQQ]

No "Space Taxi" on the list - that is ridicoulous!😁

[@michahoffmann1054]

everyone knows Space Taxi, that would have no educational value ;)

[@danjmcs]

Played SO many of these great games in that era, thanks for the video and reminder I need to dig out some of these games again!

[@dennyhaynes3]

What a brilliant year for the C64. Absolutely wonderful video as always, can't wait for 1985 👍

[@retrononame]

Thank you!

[@christianjosephkarner]

Loved Spy vs Spy. I have a lot of great memories on that game. All three of them... 😄

[@lonardgetchell-bm9lc]

I have 12 favorites off this list. My top 5: 1. Bruce Lee (played that for hours) 2. Cliff Hanger 3. Boulder Dash 4. Pitstop 2 5. BC's Quest for Tires.

[@Flange-lw9sp]

Raid over Moscow was my favourite. Absolutely loved that game, and it looked good too.

[@retrononame]

Agreed! But only once I figured out how to open the god damn door in the hangar :) Thanks for watching!

[@ijozic]

@@retrononame F7?

[@VonMagXL]

I had well over 2000 C64 games back in the 80s (went through three C64s and two 1541 drives before getting an Amiga in 1989) and I never heard of half those games. There were so many great C64 games. A few examples not shown. Law of the West was possibly the most fun game ever made. I only wish it had an expansion pack like It Came From the Desert had on the Amiga. MULE was so much fun. Asylum was crazy 3D mapped adventure game fun. Both Wolfenstein games were more fun than the first 3D one on the PC (later ones were great). Summer Games 1 & 2 plus Winter Games. Hes Games had great Springboard Diving. Forbidden Forest was great. Last V8 was ridiculously hard for such a short game, but had one of the best soundtracks ever. Silent Service was a great submarine game. Airborne Ranger was exceptional. Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken were outstanding (Amiga versions eventually came out and were slightly better). Super Pipeline was great fun as was Gumball. Really, there were so many great games (and lots of bad ones).

[@retrononame]

Keep in mind that this video covers only C64 games released in 1984. You can find Silent Service in the Top C64 games of 1985, Summer Games 2 as well. You can find Maniac Mansion in video covering 1987, etc... I did overlook Law of the West, and I should've included it! Thanks for watching!

[@edhouse4826]

My teenage years. Raid on bungeling bay, mario bros, zaxxon, Bruce Lee and impossible mission. Wow, memories

[@leeannewillson7342]

played nearly all them to death back in the day , still remember buying Booty from our local record shop bck in the day and still play quite a few games in this list today

[@retrononame]

1984 was quite a good year for C64. Originally I played most of these in the late 80s on my cousin's C64 (I owned Spectrum in the 80s). But was fun revisiting them (and finding more interesting games from 1984) while creating this video. Thanks for watching!

[@fordprefect80]

1984 was a very good year for me for two reasons. I got to play a Commodore 64 for the first time at a friends house and later that year for Christmas, our family got one as well. At the mates house I was truly blown away by the games (aged 13) as even the crap c64 games were better than anything on the Atari VCS. But what really did my head in was the fact that you could easily copy the games from one person to another. Free games, yes please.

[@KristerNielsen]

It's interesting that close to 10 000 games where officially released on Commodore 64/128. Don't think there are any exact numbers, but that's the general number that is cited.

[@MrArcher7]

Raid over Moscow and Raid on Bungelin Bay, two of my favorites.

[@LastMumzy]

Same.. I used to stay up all night playing Raid on Bungelin Bay!

[@MrArcher7]

@@LastMumzy I remember beating it one time after the battleship sank the carrier. There was a spot in the bay to land to restock your weapons.

[@triptothebeach]

Boulder Dash of course!

[@st04bez]

Some great games. Loved the Ultimate games but often frustrated by them in equal measure. Pyjamarama was the first game I ever completed, so always had a soft spot for the Wally games. Great video 👌🏻

[@Edgel-in6bs]

Absolutely love the fact you couldn't get the hangar open in Raid over Moscow. Welcome to the club :)

[@retrononame]

Shhhhhhhhh! Don't tell everyone! :) Yeap, couldn't remember procedure and then couldn't be bothered to search for it. Was thinking that I only have a couple of seconds per game and most of the C64 Raid over Moscow players will remember hangar scene the most anyway :)

[@ShadowBBR]

I remember so many of these. Being born in the early 70’s has some advantages, oh the memories of decades of gaming. My stand out…. “Another visitor, Stay a while, Stay forever…..Hahaha!” (Name the game) And the music from Jet Set Willy….A true masterpiece.

[@laszloposzmik5829]

Yeah, it was Impossible Mission. We didn't even understand the other sentence: "Destroy him my robots!". We tried to translate it around 1990, without any success until the internet era :)

[@bbartky]

0:29 Impossible Mission! My all-time favorite C64 game.

[@laszloposzmik5829]

My one also :) Even better then I.M. 2, it was more complex but more difficult as well. Still playing with the first one occasionally. My friend told me: "Once you will beat the game, after that you will always do." And he was right. The first walkthrough was the most difficult at all.

[@richtakings3359]

Do do do check out the recent release of a 2024 "revised version" for C64, if you haven't already. Wow, so many nice touches, bug fixes, the lot !! It has been quoted, "How can you make this game more perfect?"....but they did. Enjoy.

[@klaushoschi2143]

Awesome list! I hadn´t even heard of some titles (e.g. Maziacs - really looks beautiful). Some other great games of 1984: Breakdance, River Raid, Jumpman Jr, Gyruss, Dropzone, Saucer Attack, Up´n´Down and probably many, many more... Hope you´ll make 1985, 1986, etc. videos, too.

[@retrononame]

Thank you. Year 1985 almost ready (in the middle of editing as we speak). Took a pause from producing content as I had (and still have) some issues with my left hand that I need to take care of.

[@warpocmuse]

I loved Raid over Moscow, there was a real feeling of drifting that plane

[@hoagieimpact9189]

1984! Grwat times with Boulder Dash, Impossible Mission, Pitstop II, Bruce Lee, Decathlon, H.E.R.O., Park Patrol, Revenge of the Mutant Camels, Montezuma's Revenge, and Elite. Was C64 Mario Bros. really released in '84?

[@retrononame]

Thanks! Mario Bros was indeed released in 84 (at least the C64-Wiki page says so).

[@giulianomarco]

Favourites: Boulderdash (played it for hours) and Spy vs Spy (best with 2 players). Raid Over Moscow control stupidly hard. 😁👍

[@TheBigp767]

O.m.g?......so many memories..the games today are stunning compared

[@retrononame]

Hey, thanks for watching and I'm glad the video brought back a few memories from the 80s.

[@VanderbiltMr]

The Castles of Dr Creep was a great puzzle game. However I remember a map “Doublecross” which was just that. Sort of killed the fun.

[@robertdecker146]

"Kung Fu Master" and "Summer Games" are Good C64 games from 1984.

[@gdawwg1125]

LOL Olympic skier I totally forgot about that game

[@DerBesa]

Cool. I never knew there was BC II.

[@svenvandevelde1]

H.E.R.O. was such a nice game. Ahead of its time.

[@xxBigDazxx]

Bruce Lee and Raid Over Moscow definitely the best games that year

[@KristerNielsen]

I wonder if we will ever get times like this again, where gaming was exciting, exotic and really fun. Don't get me wrong. There are some excellent games today, but it's not the same as back then. Was it part of being a teenager, or perhaps that consumer electronics were new? Whatever it is, the mid 80s were a fantastic time to be alive for gamers and computer nerds.

[@bugpadzero]

Spent so many hours playing Pitstop II 😃

[@axelkwias2899]

Best time eher... bubble bobble... gianna sisters... In 🇩🇪 mit Intro davor.... cracked by... hihi PLK ....jeden Tag zur Post und Disketten abholen... geile Zeit

[@16Mbvillain]

So glad I found this! Thank you!

[@retrononame]

I'm glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching!

[@Harbinger1984s]

excellent list, many memories.

[@retrononame]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video!

[@4titou]

i played nearly half of the games but on msx at the time. nearly 80% first half of the video but the second half, most games sounds unknow to me. 1984 was a great time, i was 10yo and terminator on the big screen that i didnt saw, but i saw ghostbusters, indiana jones and the temple of doom , the karate kid and gremlins. big brother fictional date was a really cool year in reality 🙂

[@sunglassesron9464]

Oh Impossible Mission I miss you so...

[@retrononame]

Great game, Impossible Mission.

[@mrpickles3479]

I had the speccy 128, loved it!

[@Edgel-in6bs]

Have to view these games in the context of what had been released previously for other machines. Impossible mission (still brilliant today - amazing how each game is different) - was that eras GTA5!

[@andrewdolby178]

I forgot about FRED thankyou.😊

[@kidkique]

loved donald ducks playground and bc and agent usa!!! and Ghostbusters !! and spy va spyyyy! !

[@dorelle]

man, so many of these sounds scared the living hell out of me as a kid lol

[@dorelle]

@SG-er8cx bless your soul LMFAO. I hope you can move passed the trauma. Haha

[@dorelle]

​@SG-er8cxactually, I must ask. What are your thoughts on the Dotmatrix printer? That one also caused deep seeded pain. Lol I have a memory of visiting my aunt and being terrified to sleep in the same room as that pre-dial-up electronic-horror-scream-machine! Lololol

[@dorelle]

@SG-er8cx lolol 😂😂👊

[@TopRetroGames]

Good games.

[@retrononame]

Thanks. Glad you liked the video.

[@ijozic]

No Mutant Monty?

[@barry5751]

Raid over Moscow, great game!

[@retrononame]

It was ... once I figured out how to open the damn door on level 1 :)

[@laszloposzmik5829]

@@retrononameFor me it was ages to learn how to fly through the gate safely :) Also the program code was very similar to Beach-Head.

[@chrismcfizzle]

I grew up on Atari and C64....my dad still has both, they both still work, and me and my brother still play them.

[@lordraydens]

jet set willy reminds me of brian bloodaxe. and is that a razor blade??

[@bulletgaming5712]

Raid over Moscow unlocked

[@kidkique]

most of my games were from 84 i guess. what about hotwheels??

[@AzzureSky]

Anybody knows name of game similar to Bagitman? Almost identical concept, slightly different graphics and different music.

[@Inaflap]

Bagitman was an unofficial clone of the arcade game Bagman (1982). There was a similar arcade game called Arabian (1983). The Nintendo NES had Super Arabian (Japan release 1985). Tales of the Arabian Nights on C64 had elements of both Arabian and Hunchback.

[@postamesta]

Le Bagnard

[@AzzureSky]

@@postamesta Thanks. It wasn't that, but after trying to find your sugestion, YT recommended me game I was seeking. It was Gilligan's Gold

[@mrscruffy8045]

Hmmm... Ant Attack--- i remember a different game under that name.

[@dr.ignacioglez.9677]

I LOVE C64 👍🥂🎩

[@hai.1820]

Zorro was a good game also.. law of the west

[@tofik5939]

👍👍

[@Dan-in-Virginia]

BC is harder than it looks.

[@Nevidimka0]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@philipcass6275]

Dizzy wow

[@sabek10001]

Where is a Giana Sisters?

[@retrononame]

This episode covers top 50 C64 games in 1984 only. You can find Giana in the episode "Top 50 C64 games of 1987" because 1987 was the year Giana sisters was released. Thanks for watching!

[@sabek10001]

@@retrononame Sorry, my mistake.

[@obregr]

bcs quest in chuckie egg legendarne igre,oljmpic skier sem po nesrec hacka,da sem skakal na dno in bruce lee ,automania ,fred,spy vs spy,clifhangertud

[@b213videoz]

Underwurlde 😊

[@MephProduction]

booty was so bad on he c64

[@retrononame]

I don't know. I kind of like the game. Not the best amongst the games released in 1984, but not horrible (at least for me).

[@MephProduction]

@@retrononame the speccy version was really good, but the c64 had many cheap deaths.. there's that one door that kills you instantly for example... plus it's so ugly and slow compared to the speccy..

[@marcusmalone]

Some of these were incredible feats of programming for '84, e.g. Impossible Mission. I mean, compare to stuff on the 2600 at the time, or even something like BC Bill here.