California Games - C64 (Epyx 1987)

[@djd.t.o9260]

nearly cried when i saw this used to play it withmy old man...he died a couple of years ago..thanks for the happy memorys

[@doteaters]

No problem, thanks for watching.

[@drash4489]

Was such a cool game 80s was so cool . Sorry about your loss I lost my dad in 2019 too RIP

[@2PeteShakur]

"When designing California Games, I remember we had a big brainstorm with the team and were all putting event ideas onto a big whiteboard. Skateboarding was hot at the time, so we decided we had to do something with it. I was also a keen skater and decided that a side-view half-pipe event would work really well from a technical aspect. To create the skater animation frames, we used Epyx's innovative animation tool called 'Wilbur', which was created especially for the equestrian event in Summer Games. It got its name from a TV show in the '50s that featured a talking horse whose owner was called - you guessed it - Wilbur". -- Chuck Sommerville, co-designer and programmer

[@doteaters]

Wow, thanks for the info.

[@rabarebra]

How come all Epyx music suck this much (thinking sound quality-wise)?

[@SkaMasta097]

0:34 Title Screen 2:37 Main Menu 4:10 Half Pipe 6:54 Foot Bag 10:04 Surfing 12:18 Skating 14:24 BMX 16:24 Flying Disk

[@thehighhopes5336]

Wow. The memories. I spent a lot of time as a kid playing this game.

[@UrbanTiger74]

I loved this game....surfing and bmx were my fav

[@dronetwork]

endless afternoons playing with these games ... how many crazy memories, thank you bro

[@brentonasmith]

Just hearing the start music brought back sooo many memories, thanks for posting

[@eliFeliFeliph]

Me too 😔

[@lennertbruin5513]

I do remember how to beat the record on halfpipe and surfing: for half pipe, don't do the handstand. If you go higher and time your turn, you can reverse in the air. By doing so, you will gain more speed. After a few turns the skater will go off the screen, but the turn will remain working as long as you time write. This way you can continue very long and gain most points. For surfing we would try to out run the wave first( half the time) and we woulthen do a reverse loop into the wave as close to the watter as possible. If I rememebr correctly, this could be done twice in one wave giving you the most points. Funny how some of this stuff still is in your memory after 30 + years. Thanx for the video, good memories!

[@pacus123]

2:37 BOOM! Nostalgia!

[@p.y.s3623]

love the music on skateboard

[@97channel]

Oh, man! Memories! I remember having nightly tournaments on this for a while, back in the day. We'd load up in practice mode though, so we could have endless goes on one event and just note any good scores. Loading was horrendous on tape, if you only had one go each. We'd start with half-pipe, play it 'til we were undoubtedly sick of it, then load up the next event and so on. It was strictly forbidden to skip the credit screen with the car licence plate. It took exactly 0.50 on the tape counter, don't know why I remember that 2 decades on. The easter eggs throughout the game were legendary. None of us knew exactly what triggered them, but when you got one it was the highlight of the night's entertainment. I can remember the earthquake in half-pipe, which collapsed one of the letters in the Hollywood sign. The shark in Surfing. I've just watched a video of a UFO in the flying disc game. And "Hit George." in Footbag. Good times.

[@DissidentPrick]

I totally forgot about the earthquake when doing the half-pipe.

[@Snake3yesEddie]

So much nostalgia, right down to the hard to control surfing 🏄‍♂️ lol. I can’t believe how much patience we had waiting for these games to load.

[@doteaters]

It's pretty unbelievable what we put up with. ;)

[@mylostkiwi]

Some of us get married....

[@aron8659]

i remember playing with this game and trying to set records and playing with friends on c64 in early 90s.

[@prd2bevgy]

Loved it!! BMX & skating were my faves!

[@Lauxetta82]

Loved this one.

[@ivanputignef2418]

The best feature of this game was the hot seat multiplayer mode. The tons of fun I had with 3 friends competing at this, and waiting for the trophies at the end of each event!

[@doteaters]

A hallmark of the Games series were quite a few simultaneous multiplayer games as well, like swimming or running and whatnot.

[@davidherron9151]

I just saw the Amiga version so was suprised at how hearing the c64 version still felt better bit emotional even this is going some way now

[@drrobert7543]

I haven’t played this in 21 years and yet I remember more moves than I saw in either the half pipe or foot bag here

[@christaylor9704]

Damn this brings back a lot of memories!

[@greybeard6504]

All the music sure brings back memories.

[@rabarebra]

It sucks

[@jezhy]

I am so happy to find Commodore 64 Elite Collection for iOS and play cool games from childhood (including California Games, Summer/Winter Games, Street Baseball, Bruce Lee and Ultima I-IV) on my iPad Mini. Pure classic and lots of nostalgia.

[@JamesAhn-f8s]

I was 7 when I played the hell out of this game. 44 now.

[@doteaters]

"What a looooong, strange trip it's been."

[@Tw3akst3r]

29 years ago this and SpyHunter were all I needed for total happiness, thanks for posting some old memories! I feel like I need to locate this in a PC emulator now.

[@krugerm1]

wow memories! this game was so fun. first time seeing this since the late 80's. where has time gone?

[@TheCodedtestament]

Epyx made excellent games back in the 80's . The BMX race was my favorite . Great memories

[@kevincassidy1983]

too true, I was once a kid playing this cool game

[@RoscoePablo]

Music straight bumpin

[@FabricioBizu]

my childhood with my buddies was playing this game and exploring C64's, nice to see Epyx name again, who know if will come back with all the flashbaks we see nowadays

[@infowazz]

i played my share but was mostly outside. computers weren't a huge deal then. i did learn some coding back then like 10 GOTO 20, 20 GOTO 30 lol

[@didik79]

have you ever tried c64 emulator for PC? ;) i tried that a few years ago 😅 california games giana sisters bubblebobble ... still fun to play even with those new controllers instead of the joystick doubleshot ultra II 😅😅😅

[@madzen112]

Summer and winter games was just joystickwigglecompetitions, this had some skill to it

[@madebypico]

Worked on a remake for the PSP but unfortunately the project got cancelled fairly late in the process.

[@doteaters]

That's too bad. It was a system seller for the handheld Lynx console.

[@marcocio]

I never figured out how not to fall in he half pipe section... And even now with my C64 mini, I can't play that section.

[@greybeard6504]

LOL. YES!

[@greybeard6504]

If I’m not mistaken, I sucked at every event in this game! Why was it so hard?

[@Aven_-de2py]

2:57 The Dark Knight!

[@kellyl470]

This game was awesome!

[@infowazz]

surfing was fun. i don't remember skating except outside. so glad there was no internet back then.

[@malcolmmenzies4958]

The 10.6, yeah.. but I'm Johns sun and fell asleep after the download. Maybe the other button.

[@TheNewGreenIsBlue]

I forgot how painfully slow the loading times were for this game.

[@doteaters]

I'm not sure if I did this with this video, but sometimes I'll cut out about half the load time, and the I'll cut THAT in half, and it still seems like an eternity!

[@S-T-E-V-E]

Best drum sounds ever!

[@p.y.s3623]

it exist a vst plugin who´s simulate the 64 Sound, its Quadrasid

[@turbokai6262]

memories......

[@kevinhunt3623]

Nice, you did not cut the loading time. My 5 year old son couldn't wait and skipped it after 5 seconds...

[@doteaters]

Yes, as I've mentioned in previous videos I've done, I like to keep the loading times intact in these C64 videos to give kids today an idea of what we had to put up with. Of course, if you want a modern interpretation of old-school loading times, play GTA Online. ;) I have to admit that occasionally, in the editing process I've halved the loading time, and then halved THAT, and the time still seems interminable ;)

[@bking87]

I still have my Perfect 10 in surfing back in '88 listed on my resume! Can't believe how terrible this player is on this video... no air on the half-pipe, no spins on the sack, where's the 360 on the bike!?! ;)

[@doteaters]

Guilty as charged.

[@DissidentPrick]

He didn’t even do a table top on the BMX.

[@retrorun]

Poor girl. Shes more with her face on the ground than skating.

[@CruceEntertainment]

I’m surprised Leisure Suit Larry didn’t make an appearance in this.

[@doteaters]

That would be pretty rad... although they were made by different companies.

[@BJohn354]

I had this !

[@jeffrey5976]

It's getting released on Switch as part of a collection soon.

[@mst3kpimp]

Oh man the half pipe was the best skating game at the time even 720 could'nt match the arsenal of moves. You really needed the epyx 500xj joystick to be accurate.

[@Aven_-de2py]

3:33 Aah...

[@Aven_-de2py]

2:57 is that a fat ps3?

[@777certain7]

california games takes FOREVER to load

[@scottythegreat1]

That was every Commodore 64 game from 1986 onwards. In 1982, no one thought much of it as games were 30Kb or less. It wasnt until 1984 when games required a few minutes just to load. Thats why Epyx came up with the Fastload cartridge, and even then, it was still slow compared to what else was out there by 1985. Go and play Maniac Mansion and Zak McCracken. Theres a reason the game designers used a snail when you went from screen to screen on the Commodore 64 versions.

[@CartoonPhreak]

I prefer the Nintendo Entertainment System version of California Games Publisher: Milton Bradley Developer: Rare Ltd. The girl in the yellow bikini with the roller skates is kinda gorgeous

[@NOOBGAMER-wt3if]

Whats the song

[@doteaters]

If you mean the opening title music, it's Louie Louie by the Kingsmen. Done in 8-bit, of course.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

I think all those sports games must have been sponsoret by joystick producers, nothing more destructive to the old sticks than a frustrated bout of sports gaming

[@doteaters]

Heh, that's a conspiracy theory I can definitely wag my stick about.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

​@@doteaters It was sticky situation from the get go …

[@182supermario]

You know what they should do with this series, make a sports competition game show based off this game where teams of older kids and teenagers would compete in different various sports to see who would win a summer championship, it would basically be like the show Maximum Drive ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2rTdmh6m7tmjLc ) only it would have more extreme sports and the events would have traps and obstacles to be thrown at the players as do the event like beach balls & squirt guns, and it would all have late 80s/early 90s feel to it, do you think that would be good

[@Aven_-de2py]

When your in a rush 2:57

[@hansdebums3406]

worst player worldwide

[@eirikmagnuslarssen4242]

Hahah! That honor would go to my cousin -- believe me! XD Many memories this brought back.

[@surfer0707]

LOL @ 16:48

[@Kellerkind80]

Still a better skategame then the last few Tony Hawks!

[@lindapirie7021]

I wasn't very good at the surfing 😂😂

[@doteaters]

It might be just me, but I found surfing one of the easier competitions.

[@mattiasarvidsson8522]

funniest part about this game is that chick falling on her face

[@TotallyRadical]

This version was great, as long as you didn't mind waiting 500 years for it to load between events. Wow that's bad 🤦🤣🤷‍♂️

[@doteaters]

Truth. Usually what I do when I edit these videos are that I cut the load times by half, and sometimes half THAT, and they still seem interminable!

[@JavierLopez-mh5nk]

a e s t h e t I c

[@infowazz]

i miss being a little wannabe skate rat lol. good times!

[@vaslo4655]

You’re about as good as I was…

[@doteaters]

As in, not very good at all.

[@westydiddly737]

C64 gaming is what you call proper loading times 🙄

[@doteaters]

If by proper, you mean "excruciatingly long".

[@westydiddly737]

@@doteaters Aye lad 😁

[@Bobabloxqueen]

disney

[@fishing187]

Man the game is slow.. but you don’t have to make it slower 🤦‍♂️

[@Tehui1974]

Whoever is playing this game is terrible!