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play c64 games online

mathowie — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:02:44 -0800

c64s is a pretty amazing site. Much of the popularity of the old c64 was in its wide array of games and this site offers a way to play most of the popular ones all in your browser (in java). Waste time today by reliving those old early 80s memories.

By: unixrat

unixrat — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:17:34 -0800

I'd snark about Copyright Infringement, but considering the source...

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:25:59 -0800

Well, I read somewhere that the authors of the site got an ok by the original companies behind the software. And of course, most of it is abandonware you can't buy anymore.

By: gurple

gurple — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:30:09 -0800

Wow. That's quite a trove. It's probably worth noting that most of the games are in the "unknown" category -- I thought their collection was rather unimpressive until I checked out that category.

By: Protocols of the Elders of Awesome

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:33:39 -0800

All games on assumed to be abandonware or copyleft. I sincerely doubt the forces behind Ghostbusters, Batman, Spiderman, Blade Runner and Back to the Future participate in abandonware or copyleft. Great site though. All kinds of ROMs available here.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:41:30 -0800

my. god. thank you so much. I can't find the indiana jones game I remember being addicted to, but MY GOD IS THAT AN EVIL DEAD GAME?! whoopee!

By: cilantro

cilantro — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:43:26 -0800

So, just curious... which came first, Mario Bros. or Giana Sisters?

By: keswick

keswick — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:46:06 -0800

No Loderunner. Lame.

By: TonyRobots

TonyRobots — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:46:06 -0800

I am trying to play the oddly alluring "Rags to Riches", but can't figure out the controls. Any help?

By: Protocols of the Elders of Awesome

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:49:36 -0800

which came first, Mario Bros. or Giana Sisters? Mario. Nintendo threatened to sue and Giana Sisters was pulled from shelves. It became popular through piracy.

By: greycap

greycap — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:53:26 -0800

Hmm, Paperboy is much harder than I remember. Great site, this will keep me from getting work done for quite a while...

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:53:46 -0800

Another alternative (though I don't know what this "becomes available" crap is when the local Toys-R-US was dumping these 2-for-1 back 'round November...

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:56:06 -0800

No Last Ninja II! I tried playing some, but my safari beachballed for hours. Then in Stunt Car Racer it wouldn't accelerate, only reverse. Boo.

By: longbaugh

longbaugh — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:00:28 -0800

Can't access it from work - can anyone tell me if Paradroid is on there?

By: poppo

poppo — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:04:34 -0800

Oh my god, spindizzy!

By: samstarling

samstarling — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:14:55 -0800

Wonder if he actually cleared the design with Mr Cederholm?

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:17:21 -0800

Tangentially on topic: does anyone know if there's an equivalent site for Amstrad CPC 464 games, or a way to play Amstrad games on a Mac? The only computer game I've ever enjoyed playing was Harrier Attack, and this site reminded me...

By: killdevil

killdevil — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:17:52 -0800

Saw this last week and it's just as awesome now. I love the psychedelic crack screens that precede some of the game intros. Give me a site like this for Atari and I'll never get any work done ever again.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:32:10 -0800

Beautiful. I just wish it had M.U.L.E.

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:37:10 -0800

Beautiful. I just wish it had M.U.L.E. I agree. M.U.L.E. was the highwater mark in my gaming experience. Sigh...

By: poppo

poppo — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:47:29 -0800

Damn I guess it would have been too much to hope for Pirates! too

By: Razzle Bathbone

Razzle Bathbone — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:49:12 -0800

M.U.L.E and Seven Cities of Gold. Maybe it is good that neither of those games are on here as I would never get any work done.

By: eriko

eriko — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:50:20 -0800

Beautiful. I just wish it had M.U.L.E. Ditto. Best thing I ever found on teh intarweb was an MP3 of the M.U.L.E theme. Awesome game.

By: eriko

eriko — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:50:56 -0800

Seven Cities of Gold There's another that ate a large part of my life.

By: furiousthought

furiousthought — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:05:12 -0800

Free online Pirates! and Wasteland would ruin me. So far I have escaped my doom.

By: ford and the prefects

ford and the prefects — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:11:13 -0800

One of my best friends when I was seven, a kid named Noah, had a C64 that his brother and father hoarded in the library. On the rare opportunity that they'd let the two of us on, we would play a game where you were a pumpkin of somesort bouncing around a map of somesort and trying not to get roasted by a dragon of somesort. Or something. Anyway, Noah lived in a very big, very cold house in downtown Lexington, near where we went to school, and for some reason I have a hard time thinking of him existing on anything other than chilly, grey winter days. Thanks for the Commodore nostalgia!

By: purephase

purephase — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:11:36 -0800

samstarling writes "Wonder if he actually cleared the design with Mr Cederholm?" In the footer: Thanks to Dan/SB (graphical inspiration) and Joakim (tech). It's possible that "Dan/SB" is Dan Cederholm. It doesn't necessarily mean he "cleared the design" with Dan (I was unaware of the fact that you had to do that anyway, although yes, an argument could be made for professionalism/integrity etc.) but at least the site's designer does give credit. Dan also used SimpleBits as a real-world example in both of his books. It is conceivable that the designer simply took what he read and applied it.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:30:08 -0800

Neat! They have Lazy Jones which is probably best known for it's theme music, which was the inspiration for Zombie Nation's big hit, Kernkraft 400.

By: TonyRobots

TonyRobots — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:40:09 -0800

Most of that nostalgic goodness is available on virtualapple: Loderunner Seven Cities of Gold Pirates! Wasteland No M.U.L.E., sadly. And virtualapple only runs on IE or with the Mozilla ActiveX plugin installed. (And yes, Paradroid is on C64s.)

By: Gator

Gator — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:12:19 -0800

Perhaps worth repeating: Game-Oldies.com. Pssst: They have M.U.L.E. in the NES section...

By: grouse

grouse — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:13:27 -0800

For at least some games you can quit the game, get to a BASIC prompt, and then dump the source with LIST. Fun!

By: TonyRobots

TonyRobots — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:16:17 -0800

Oh, and if you want to hit up Wasteland, you'll be needing the paragraph book.

By: longbaugh

longbaugh — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:22:49 -0800

*rips a clip and makes TonyRobots explode like a blood sausage for 71 points*

By: johnny novak

johnny novak — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:35:25 -0800

time passes...

By: Spatch

Spatch — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:36:13 -0800

If they had Jumpman, they'd have captured the entire summer of 1985 for me. Holy moses.

By: Malor

Malor — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:38:20 -0800

MULE should exist as ROMs out on the Web somewhere. If you want a modern version, Space Horse from Shrapnel Games is a pretty faithful remake. If you can't find MULE, and you're really desperate for it, drop me a note at m&etaf_ilter at m*al_or.c!om, less the weird punctuation. I'm almost sure I have a copy of that ROM here somewhere. Assuming I can find the CD, I can also send an (old version of?) CCS64, which was the best 64 emulator when I was last fooling with this, several years ago. These are tiny files, and will easily fit in an email. An entire C64 floppy disk was only about 160K, as I recall.

By: booksandlibretti

booksandlibretti — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:59:07 -0800

Gator, you have given me the gift of Bubble-Bobble. Truly you are a prince among men.

By: nevercalm

nevercalm — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:12:31 -0800

So, um, it doesn't look like I can use this on Mac 10.x without having Tiger? That can't be right, can it? If so, whoa, man, talk about a tease...

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:26:45 -0800

Malor, thanks for the suggestion. I've dl'd a copy of CCS64 and the M.U.L.E. ROM. It's pretty clear I won't be doing anything productive for the next six weeks...

By: pitchblende

pitchblende — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:43:31 -0800

I agree with Spatch - Jumpman is a necessity. I also spent a lot of time with some of those classic EA games: Racing Destruction Set and Adventure Construction Set. Great stuff.

By: Malor

Malor — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:39:39 -0800

I did, by the way, find the files for someone, so if anyone else needs them, let me know. See garbled email above.

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:08:33 -0800

So ... did anyone else buy a C64 for $800 bucks? Or were you smart enough to wait a week until they dropped to $150?

By: roboto

roboto — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:21:33 -0800

[this is good]

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:26:47 -0800

Another alternative i got one of those and other than jumpman, it was the suck.

By: scruss

scruss — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:57:20 -0800

jack_mo:

Arnold
ftp.nvg.ntnu.no
never get anything done ever again.

(I was occasionally one of Colin, Liz and/or Nigel, the games reviewers for Amstrad Computer User magazine.)