Originally posted by: C3PX

Originally posted by: generalfrevious
The commodore 64? There mysteriously is absolutely no data regarding to C64 games on the internet, or even in videogame books.

There was one cool C64 game called Nightmare Park. It was a mixture of text adventure and action. There is a part where you get chanced by a stampede of rhinos (I think, might have been unicorns though) and all these ? "Y" come pracing down the screen and you have to dodge them.

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Good stuff. It is funny to look at the games that use to be the latest and greatest and see how they look by todays standards. I still have a commodore 64 in my garage and it still works, but it doesn't have any thing with it. It is just a keyboard/CPU with a TV jack, pretty useless when you can't load anything on it. I keep it for historical reasons.

The C64 was like top-of-the-line back in the day. I had a Vic20 for many years, and played the text-based RPGs on them. They were so frustrating it's beyond belief, but man they were fun. I got a C64 very late, like 94-95 or so. Wish I'd held onto it, but I think I sold it. My buddy had a c64 for quite a while and that's where I got most of my exposure. Right around 95 I got a Dx2-66mhz pc and then I was into the WinTel world for good.

Some of those older games, graphically primitive yes, but totally addicting.