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my point is that any classic game has its share of haters, I dont see point in discussing tastes.

Super Pipeline II - C64

Rev. Stuart Campbell wrote:People like to win without going through all that tedious effort of getting good.

...and other people like to win without going through a lot of unfair deaths.

...and some people cant understand why some people doesnt shares their dislike towards some game.

Craig, IMHO the case is that RD's difficulty level wasnt outstandingly hard back in 89. the gfx was awesome, the controls were fine, puzzles, etc afterall it had quite a lot of things you havent seen in other games at that time. maybe you should read the comments on lemon @ lemonamiga. I remember tr...

watching a little girl building a house in sims

Since Rick Dangerous is a game I hate with a passion... its quite pointless to open such threads, all people are here because they like to relive their childhood, same goes to RD. if you loved it as a child you will love it till death. period. secondly, you are making comparisons to standards that ...

As a C16 owner as a youngster i spent many hours playing great games on it. Two of my favorites were Monty On The Run and Mr Puniverse. Both platform games and very addictive to play. I was wondering two things? 1. What other great games for the C16 do you remember playing? 2. Why hasn't Retro Game...

been playing Duke Nukem just a few days ago, and I think its as much (if not more) fun than todays fpses. love the puzzles and the cartoony look and the 2d sprites and the big pixels on the textures. I'm far from being up to date with todays fps games, but I think they miss the secret passages / pla...

Bub&Bob wrote:

oswald wrote:

GarryG wrote:

revisionist bullshit. c64 outsold both of those put together by miles, costed half, offered twice.

Where is the thread celebrating the 25th birthday of the best 8-bit computer ever????

no, the question is: when had those machines overshadowed the c64 ?

GarryG wrote:

CNN wrote:Often overshadowed by the Apple II and Atari 800, the Commodore 64 rose to great heights in the 1980s.

revisionist bullshit. c64 outsold both of those put together by miles, costed half, offered twice.

The Master wrote:8-bit: Pac-Man
16-bit: Pac-Man
32-bit: Pac-Man
64-bit: Pac-Man

ROTFL

The Spectrum, Amstrad, BBC (mostly UK) were very popular in Europe but were never successful

little correction there:

- The Spectrum, BBC were popular in UK.
- Amstrad was big in Spain & France IIRC.

wow, shadow warriors is impressive! havent seen so far sprites with colors on the speccy

Brianward wrote:is it easy to paint a commodore ?
whats the process like ?

there are some over at www.lemon64.com forums who did, ask there.

its nice to read those lines. I dont have kids, but my sister's son loves playing giana sisters or wizard of wor, and we used to laugh our asses of when playing bruce lee