Top 50 Commodore 64 (C64) games of 1991 - in under 10 minutes

[@dennyhaynes3]

Again what a wonderful collection of games from the C64 from 1991. Quite a few I didn't know about, top video as always and extremely enjoyable.

[@retrononame]

Thank you!

[@mal-avcisi9783]

What a great computer. The sound is from another planet

[@Lofote]

The Last Ninja 3, Turrican 2 and Elvira were all three amazing tech achievements nobody in 1982 would have thought to be possible with unchanged hardware.

[@retrononame]

Agreed. It's amazing what programmers got out of the machines like C64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari...

[@pablo_p_art]

Love that retro videos! Can't recall how many hours I spent on The Last Ninja 2, CJ in the USA, The Cycles, Turrican and more on C64.

[@retrononame]

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

[@FloppyDeepDive]

Always impressed by how you get 50 games in under a 10-minute video! Good Job!

[@retrononame]

Thank you!

[@kwlxxi4813]

OMG! I wasn't aware that there were games released so late! I should have never sold mine... "Last Ninja 3"... wow!!! Looks amazing!

[@retrononame]

Ah, the regrets of selling our beloved 8-bit machines. Been there, done that :) Thanks for watching!

[@samjones4327]

Awesome! Thanks 4 the memories and sharing! Cheers!

[@TheRetroGamePlanet]

Love these games videos. They bring back so many memories and help me with my own backlog seeing games I had forgotten! +1 subscriber here. Great channel 👍

[@retrononame]

Thank you very much! I'm glad you are enjoying these videos and that they bring back good memories. This is, at the end of the day, the goal of this channel.

[@rodneyws1977]

By 1991 I had a 486 DX-33 and was playing Ultima 6 on a VGA monitor.

[@hynol]

I've never knew Supremacy was released on C64. I've played it on Amiga and it was great game. Last Ninja 3 - looks impressive even compared to Amiga version

[@tamastabi3182]

I liked the C64 version more, because I think the music was much better. Also a Deluxe version was released for the C64 a few years ago. This version contains all the animations that the 91 version did not (but the Amiga version did).

[@pablo_p_art]

Hard to believe, what Commodore was capable (The Last Ninja or Turrican)!

[@obsoleteworlds]

I didn't even know that there was a second Druid game let alone a third.

[@Edgel-in6bs]

Great vid as ever. 91 perhaps last real year of the 64.

[@retrononame]

Thank you! I wasn't sure if I will do 1992 as well so I put up a poll and it seems I will do it (90%+ at the moment voting for yes). To be honest, don't have a clue what games were released in 1992 for C64, so it's gonna be an interesting research, and who knows - maybe we will be pleasantly surprised again :)

[@Edgel-in6bs]

@@retrononame might be tough to fill 1992 - I think some awful conversions (street fighter 2) but most software houses has given up by 92.

[@Edgel-in6bs]

I think many went under in the UK 91/92 recession so just stopped producing games. Most of your 1991 games are early 91 for that reason (castle Master was out in 1990 in UK as I bought it in Dec 90). Problem was when the GS didn't sell, the software houses abandoned cartridges by about April 91, and then really the 64 altogether.

[@retrononame]

Yeah, might be tricky, but I'll respect the votes from community and will try to find 50 games from 1992. If nothing else, I'll do Top 40 or 30 or something for 1992 :)

[@jammerc64]

What version of North&South is that? 😮

[@Edgel-in6bs]

Being a pedant, that's supercars 2 not 1, and the turtles screen shot is the original game from 1990 not the coin-op:)

[@retrononame]

Always appreciate if community points out the mistakes I make. I never played them two games on original C64, so I did made a mistake with the Hero Turtles. But super cars, I checked again, and on Lemon64 and similar sites, the screenshot seems to be same as it is in the video. You sure I recorded the Super Cars 2 game?

[@Edgel-in6bs]

@@retrononame not 100% sure...supercars c64 was 1990 and supercars 2 1991, and they looked virtually identical (presumably same code) so I presumed you'd captured 2, as if was a 1991 video :)

[@retrononame]

You sure you are not thinking of Amiga's Super cars 2? Lemon 64 puts Super Cars for C64 in 1991 and doesn't find the Super Cars 2 for C64. Also, Wikipedia lists only Amiga, DOS and ST for Super Cars 2. I ask because I actually played Amiga version of the second part and it was fantastic :) I added the note to video description about the mistake with the Turtles and credited you for pointing it out.

[@Edgel-in6bs]

@@retrononame you're indeed correct! Sure super cars was 90 from my memory (was def released that year), but 2 was.never for the c64. My memory.....:)

[@Moondial]

Dream Raider? I didn’t think that was completed never mind released.

[@Nikioko]

6:48: It's Teenage Mutant NINJA Turtles...

[@danilosabatini3584]

tmnt the coin op wasn't this, the coin op version was in 1992 and was another version

[@retrononame]

I made a mistake there. I also noted that mistake below the video in the description ;) Thanks for watching!

[@CaptainRufus]

We didn't get most of these in the US as far as I know but even the ones we did were generally mail order only by this point. (And were available on the PC in more an EGA form if not the odd VGA.)

[@retrononame]

C64 gaming was in "dying" stages by this point and this is probably the reason. I saw some European companies still tried their best to support the machine (like CP Verlag from Germany) but other publishers more or less abandoned the C64 by 1991.

[@CaptainRufus]

@@retrononame depends on location. I'd say in Pal regions it was still going for another year or two. It was effectively dead in the US by 91.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

@@retrononame Actually, C-64 was (oddly enough) tied to Amiga 500 gaming. I.e. most companies would try to make C-64 port (watered down and downgraded) of newly released Amiga 500 games, to earn extra cash. But Amiga 500 went down in 1992 as PC gaming was taking over, Commodore pushing Amiga 1200 and CD32 . Newly released mainstream titles for C-64 kept coming until 1993 - Mayhem in Monsterland.

[@latexpain5760]

This is not Infogrames "North & South" game :) and this "Turtles" game it's not coin-op. That is the first one.

[@eterenostalgia5088]

I know this fantastic games, i have the versions for my AMIGA 500 classic, funny for ever

[@DavidGolder]

That's not TMNT: The Coin-Op. It's the original TMNT game from 1990.

[@retrononame]

I already got corrected and I did put a note into description that I made a mistake. Never played the game back in the days, so I messed up a bit here :)

[@Zett76]

I watched the "Top 50 Commodore 64 (C64) games of 1990" (and other clips) before this one... two points: 1) I remember 1991 was the year I (age: 15) stopped being interested in "aquiring" new games - I knew and played almost EVERY game on the "1990" list, but maybe 7 or 8 on this one. 2) and I remember why, again: the games got so much worse. Bad ports from other systems, developers lost interest in putting effort into C64 titles... (compare Double Dragen THREE - 7:07 - with Double Dragon TWO... or: Shadow Dancer - 5:30 - was a beauty on other systems... and this one race game - F1 GP Circuits, 3:42 - looks like from 1983...)

[@hortents]

Trying to find the name of a C64 platform game - all I remember was your character glided in on a futuristic paraglider at the start of the level, any help would be great fully appreciated

[@retrononame]

Saboteur 2? You enter the mission with the use of a glider at the beginning.

[@dr.ignacioglez.9677]

I LOVE C64 ❤😎👍

[@tofik5939]

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