10 Games Where The C64 Kicked Nintendo's Ass

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Hey whats up guys OSG here with another kickass video... and this time it’s a subject that has been thrust upon me by a recent event. So and I’m not naming names here because quite frankly I don’t wasn’t to give this guy the publicity but another youtuber in a recent podcast he did made the ludicrous statement that there are no good games on the C64…bit weird that he said that because he has never owned a C64 and actually only owned a C64 mini which tbh didn’t have the best games on there…but it gets worse…he hadn’t even taken the mini out of his box…. He then went on to say that every game on the c64 was worse than the NES versions and gave Batman as an example…. Yeah well Batman on the c64 isn’t even a top 30 game for me but its certainly not crap either and to compare it against the NES game is like comparing chalk and cheese as they are so different…in fact so different if I did a comparison I probably wouldn’t include the NES version cos although its good it certainly doesn’t follow the plot of the movie.
Anyway that really pissed me off as you can probably tell as for someone to say that there are no good games in a catalogue as big as the C64’s without actually playing any games is just a totally ludicrous thing to say. So in response to this I’ve gone off and found 10 games where the C64 totally kicked the Nintendo’s ass…. I actually was surprised that really there weren’t that many comparable games on the 2 systems mostly because most NES games have been that NESified that they no longer resemble the original game ….before this video starts though I want to point out I’m not bashing any systems here, I owned both these systems back in the day and they are both brilliant.
Anyway enough waffling on lets take a look at 10 games where the C64 kicked the Nintendos ass
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@-GoldenThiefBugCard Жыл бұрын

I am a retro gamer that is insanely bored of the usual suspects. This channel and others like it have completely reinvigorated my interest. The C64, ZX Spectrum, and Amiga are wonderful machines with many good games. They have broadened my tastes in games immensely.

@oldstylegaming Жыл бұрын

Good to hear mate

@satan3959 Жыл бұрын

To be honest, most of the retro channels don't do anything for me, especially the ones based here in North America (PatmanQC is a rare exception, but he mostly covers arcade games, and not consoles or computers). Most of my favorite retro channels are either British or Australian.

@nomadjock Жыл бұрын

To say that the commodore 64 had no good games is totally absurd. Some of the best games of the home micro`s were about on the C64. Summer Games, Summer Games II, Winter Games, Impossible Mission in fact just about anything from Epyx was...well epic. The C64 was a launching pad for thousands of bedroom coders who then went on to create software houses of their own. Unfortunately I do not think that guy is the only one like that as well and you are right to give him no publicity. Love the vid BTW :)

@Elbobelo Жыл бұрын

I loved Skate or Die on the C64. When I tried it on the NES I felt it took a big hit.

@ACanOfBakedBeans Жыл бұрын

I felt the same way about most, if not all of the Epyx sports games that were on the NES. IMHO California Games was probably the only decent one on the platform

@entertainmentforall6609 Жыл бұрын

The controls on the NES were infuriating. I remember trying to snap my controllers in half playing Skate or Die when I was a kid. Never did manage to get it done. The half pipe was the worst right next to the jousting stage in the pool.

@Cyberbrickmaster1986 Жыл бұрын

I think this video should get a part 2, since there are clearly more titles done better on C64 than what was already mentioned.

@maxxdahl6062 Жыл бұрын

Yeah it was developed on C64 first, then ported everywhere else.

@TheRealKaiProton Жыл бұрын

I only have had Skater or Die on NES, and thought it was amazing, Im gonna look up the C64 now.

@SmoothEmJay Жыл бұрын

C64 was the best home computer of all time for a reason. Some people really are gigantic bell ends in this "community".

@BigJuffer Жыл бұрын

Hear hear mate. Some right toxic arseholes.

@glennmk5167 Жыл бұрын

Also the highest selling microcomputers of all time as well, still holds that record today

@gwobcke Жыл бұрын

I do not agree the C64 was the "best home computer of all time" as that is subjective. It was certainly a very influential machine and it has a huge software catalog.

@petetherealrelentless6542 Жыл бұрын

@@gwobcke it’s kinda not.. unless you can’t comprehend sales.

@SmoothEmJay Жыл бұрын

@@gwobcke maybe I should have said best selling and magically confused a lot less of you people.

@sheets75 Жыл бұрын

The C64 has games like IK+, Project Firestart, Turrican, Zak McKracken, Pirates, Laser Squad, Gridrunner, Mail Order Monsters, Pool of Radiance, Paradroid, Airborne Ranger, Ultimate Wizard, Gunship, etc., etc. Anyone whose gaming experience began with the NES can be comfortably dismissed when it comes to classic PC gaming.

@valley_robot Жыл бұрын

I’ve always hated Nintendo games , the on,y one I can stand is Kirby

@ACanOfBakedBeans Жыл бұрын

@@valley_robot I don't know, I do like the first Castlevania game

@ACanOfBakedBeans Жыл бұрын

Gridrunner is OK, but the original VIC-20 version was far better. Someone should do a comparison of games better on the VIC-20 than on the C64. Gridrunner and Omega Race would certainly qualify, as would Avenger (Space Invaders clone)

@LUCKO2022 Жыл бұрын

OK, I need to know which Podcast said that there is no good C64 games, I want to go to them and kick their asses in. I am from Canada and although the NES reigned supreme here, I loved my C64 and very proud of that machine. C64 4 LIFE.

@shadowwolfmandan Жыл бұрын

The c64 was capable of far more than was commercially released back in the day. Sonic and Super Mario have both been ported.

@ACanOfBakedBeans Жыл бұрын

@@shadowwolfmandan True, although you need a memory expansion to run Sonic

@ACanOfBakedBeans Жыл бұрын

Pat and Ian more than likely. Never liked those idiots. Ian, especially

@GhostsQueen85 Жыл бұрын

AVGN maybe? 🤣🤣🤣

@lister_of_smeg6545 Жыл бұрын

It's easy to pass judgement from the vantage point of being 30-odd years in the future - when we can all play games for both systems for free in emulators, or on real hardware using flash carts and the like. But you can't ignore the fact that BITD most C64 games could be had for under a tenner, whereas NES carts usually cost a whopping £60 quid each.

@darkobelisk4076 Жыл бұрын

40 years :(

@CastleKnight7 Жыл бұрын

I had a Speccy 48k, but I always enjoyed playing the games on my friend’s C64. The sound, music and colourful chunky graphics impressed me.

@datadavis Жыл бұрын

Whats a speccy

@marioalexanderski9598 Жыл бұрын

@@datadavis ZX Spectrum

@shadedmw Жыл бұрын

RoboCop sure looked better, but the C64 version has a bug that prevents you from passing the drug factory level. You have to use a trick to pass through walls to diminish both the path to the goal and the quantity of damage you get from enemies.

@bitset3741 9 ай бұрын

There is a fixed version for this and Ghosts and Goblins that are amazing and very highly recommended. Google them and you should be able to find pretty easy.

@V3ntilator Жыл бұрын

I owned Commodore 64 in it's prime time and i could probably write a list of 100+ wonderful games on it in 5 minutes decades later. Law of the West, World Games, Bruce Lee, Nemesis, Lifeforce, The Last Ninja, Turrican, Elite, Yie Are Kung, Exploding Fist +++

@TRONMAGNUM2099 Жыл бұрын

I had a 64C and a NES as a kid and I loved both of them. To say the 64 had no good games makes that guy look like an idiot. Turrican II and impossible mission didn't even come out on the NES. Both games I loved. Great Giana sisters is another fantastic game that was every bit as fun as Super Mario bros. I played the heck out of it. I wish you would post the name of him. I'd like to tell that guy how foolish he is.

@Northlander72 Жыл бұрын

Don't, even if you find out who it was. It was an idiotic trolling comment that deserved exactly zero attention.

@willeysingleton3057 Жыл бұрын

Well impossible mission did come out for nes. But again it's not that great on it nes. It's not a licensed game doesn't have a nes sticker, but did cone out in the first 3 years the nes was out. Great videos.

@aboriginalmang Жыл бұрын

There's Super Turrican for the NES. It doesn't look, sound, and play as good as the C64 Turrican games, even though its made by the same guy.

@eijentwun5509 Жыл бұрын

Dont exagerate. Giana Sisters does not compare to Super Mario Bros which is a Master piece.....HOWEVER. Super Mario Bros was ported to the C64 as an exact relica taken directly from the NES version and it looks and plays fantastic even the sounds...proving the C64 can do what the NES does. If they took the time to recode it specifically for the C64 it would play even better. While I like GIana Sisters, its no Masterpiece. Best Game on the C64 especially technicalwise of the Platform kind is definitely Sam's Journey...which was sadly also ported to the NES and they made that version slightly better, but it is still superb on the C64.

@goldenappel Жыл бұрын

What an incredibly silly thing to say about the C64. Conservative estimates put the number of commercial C64 games at over 10,000. Even if 99% are terrible (they aren't) that would still mean 100 good games.

@MrUncledarth Жыл бұрын

What utter blasphemy! The C64 has a TON of great games. Great comparison video Paul. Glad you got to show this guy up.

@robbiereisman8954 Жыл бұрын

Karateka was so much better on the C64 than the NES. I liked Commando better too on the C64

@satan3959 Жыл бұрын

I agree. Although the original Apple II version of Karateka will always be the best version to me. At least from a gameplay standpoint, anyway

@nellitheretrogamer8666 Жыл бұрын

It is clear here that the C64 benefited from having a much more subdued color palette than a lot of other systems at the time. Many systems had very bright colors that may work well with some games, but the C64 colors were much better in games that aimed for a sort of realistic look, such as Last Ninja 2 and Winter Games here.

@aboriginalmang Жыл бұрын

Not just that. Smaller tiles, bigger sprites, self modifying codes, multiplexing, no flickers, huge RAM, the C64 was the nicer system overall unless you're doing something with huge background images and really fast scrolling like Sonic. Unlike the Japanese consoles the C64 had no direct access to the cartridge data and would need some sort of a DMA addition to make Sonic happen. Someone eventually ported Sonic though, which used a RAM expansion DMA to pull it off. C64 cart games are made to be dumped or decompressed into the RAM, which did make them cheaper and more compact than NES cartridge games.

@eijentwun5509 Жыл бұрын

Let me tell you something about the C64 color paletter most people do not realize. REMEMBER in the 80's most C64's and NES and other consoles were connected to TV's and those TV's usually through RF but nevertheless the color Bled alot...especially red. I remember what an NES looked like on a CRT... It was Flickery as hell and the color bled.....the C64 because of the slightly muted colors actually looked normal on a TV because TV's had color levels that were a bit too high....the C64 always looked better ona TV and clearer than most consoles. I think that was the intent behind the muted down colors perhaps. In emulation, NES looks unrealistically better and C64 doesn't look quite perfect.

@colonelkomarov622 Жыл бұрын

@@eijentwun5509 in france the NES used SCART so we didn't had the RF shitty troubles

@eijentwun5509 Жыл бұрын

@@colonelkomarov622 That is amazing. RF is utter crap.

@diziomat4606 Жыл бұрын

@@colonelkomarov622 but here are only talking fan boys and nintendo haters :D funny to read :D

@thedddemon Жыл бұрын

You've missed a huge one: Bubble Bobble on the C64 is a masterpiece compared to the flickering mess that is the NES version.

@vallaurianv6024 Жыл бұрын

Sorry can’t agree with that. Up for jump will always be worse than a button for jump

@bartoman2 Жыл бұрын

@@vallaurianv6024 in 2022 we can map up to a button...

@fandangobrandango7864 Жыл бұрын

@@vallaurianv6024 quickly get used to it, and yeah, the NES version was a flickering mess.

@MotherHen2012 Жыл бұрын

Yes. The C64 version is indeed a masterpiece! But now i have the theme tune stuck in my head.

@lmcgregoruk Жыл бұрын

@@vallaurianv6024 Well home computer Joysticks generally only had one fire button(or multiple buttons all assigned to "fire"), most games would use up to jump, and the button for FIRE, having the button be jump, and up/down be fire would be way worse. Also QAOP Space

@grzegorz__ Жыл бұрын

Well, I never had NES - in my country everybody had ZX Spectrum, Atari, C64 and later Amiga. Probably that's also because of ... people being poor. We had only systems that were easily hackable. Last year I dived into the world of Retro Handhelds - RG351p, RG552 etc. I started exploring all of possible systems. At first, I was exploring consoles such as NES or Colecovision because they worked flawless. It's easier to emulate gamepad than computer with keyboard, joystick and ... cracked intros with trainers ;), that required some keyboard action. So I started exploring NES (because i knew it's 8-bit, so I kind of expected something similar to C64) and I was ... surprised, in a bad way. Of course I tried to play the titles i knew as a kid from C64 such as: - Green Beret - Commando - The Last Ninja - Ghost n Goblins - Boulder Dash Overall, it was a very bad experience. First of all - the sounds, music defined C64 games. Commando, Green Beret, Ghost n Goblins had great music, actually way ahead of it's time. NES music / sounds in these games is (to me) shockingly poor, to a degree I couldn't play these games at all. Gameplay was also very often totally different. It felt much better to play games C64 didn't have. Ie. I like (for NES): - Abadox - very nice horizontal shooter with nice music, and graphic - Little Samson - Shatterhand

@ACanOfBakedBeans Жыл бұрын

Were there any Amstrads?

@belstar1128 Жыл бұрын

Yea Nintendo did a bad job getting their games in different countries. most of their sales was just in japan and north America. we had the nes here but sega was more popular because they had more games and where cheaper.

@WillieD7 Жыл бұрын

I don’t know if Robocop deserves to be in this list because the c64 version has a bug that makes the last levels unplayable. Might look and sound better but basically impossible to complete.

@digitizer3627 Жыл бұрын

Even though I never owned one(I had a sinclair spectrum and a Yamaha MSX) but I always had fun playing C64 games at friends houses. I loved the music on Commando and Ghosts n Goblins... it was a great machine for its time. I later upgraded to an Amiga.

@darkwing7780 Жыл бұрын

You may have missed the best part bro! Nintendo games were expensive as heck... While anyone with a Commodore 64 could trade or copy disks/tapes with their friends. And let's not forget about hooking up a modem and calling BBS's... Where you could download more games :) Even if you weren't into 'copying', how about those coverdisks/tapes loaded with freebies? The NES may have had an extra button and a few more colors, but unless you were rich, good luck building up a nice collection of games. I couldn't even afford a PC with a color monitor until I got a job at 17, so the Commodore 64 and Amiga saved the day on a budget. Love the channel, keep up the good work bud!

@m.a.packer5450 Жыл бұрын

when I was a kid, I went to a friend's house to see his copy of last ninja. his mom walked in when we were looking in the women's restroom, and she flipped out hard, yelling at me to go home and yelling at her son for "playing such a disgusting game." in her head, you were playing as a pervert in a park, scoping out the girls' restroom

@turrican4d599 Жыл бұрын

🤣

@TheHobbyLodge Жыл бұрын

Excellent video, the C64 was and is a system I will always love! thanks for fighting the good fight!

@jeffcox6539 Жыл бұрын

You missed two easy titles; Commando and Shinobi. Maybe Burger Time, Frogger, and Spy Hunter.

@thecoolestrecyclers5828 4 сағат бұрын

How is that you didn't include TURRICAN??!! An absolute masterpiece

@oldstylegaming 3 сағат бұрын

Cos Super Turrican on the NES isnt a port of the c64 turrican, its a mix of turrican 1 and 2 so cant really compare them

@MightyistheRCGamer Жыл бұрын

A wise man once told me once you get mad you already lost

@markdale1 Жыл бұрын

Silkworm was a game I also thought completely kicked the A$$ of the NES (C64 version was potentially the best port out of all the ports). Platoon was worth a shout too

@glennmk5167 Жыл бұрын

Amiga version of Silkworm is the ultimate.....better then the arcade version

@oldstylegaming Жыл бұрын

@@glennmk5167 true that mate

@punisher007ish Жыл бұрын

Silkworm 2 player with one in the jeep and the other in a helicopter was the best thing ever.

@satan3959 Жыл бұрын

No, the Amiga port is king. Although I will agree, that the C64 version is still miles ahead of the NES version

@diziomat4606 Жыл бұрын

the amiga version was far better but ok you are a fanboy :D

@eskey691 Жыл бұрын

Well you hit the nail on the head with the 10 games in the video and i will go as far to say the C64 has the sid chip need i say more. An yeah you are right there are great games on both systems but the biggest let down for me with the nes was the controller i know a lot of people like it but for me it just felt crap😂 Great stuff as always buddy and roll on the next one, until then take it easy🙂

@aboriginalmang Жыл бұрын

The C64's biggest letdown for me, aside from the one button joystick when it should've had at least two, are the slow floppy drive and the scarcity of cartridge games. The load time sucks and really hinders the wonderful RPGs it has such as Wasteland.

@ianbraun271 Жыл бұрын

Umm... Sudden Instant Death? Maybe you need say more. lol. Not everyone has played C64, or knows anything about it.

@dangrise6182 Жыл бұрын

This was a really good topic and your examples were spot on. I forgot how good the C64 port of Yie Ar Kung Fu was. I loved that game.

@TokyoXtreme Жыл бұрын

Great music, extremely responsive, highly replayable, huge moveset, and awesome sound design. Also the C-64 version is better than the arcade!

@goatbone Жыл бұрын

No coincidence that most of these NES games didn't get PAL releases.

@triplestar100 Жыл бұрын

whoever said such malarkey had never played C64 gems like its version of "Weird Dreams", "Aztec Challenge" and the original "Great Gianna Sisters"! as to a C64 game that thoroughly mops the floor with its NES/Famicom counterpart in my humblest opinion? "Rambo: First Blood"! sure, they are completely different games one from the other, but as shown on this vid so were the versions of "RoboCop"; and while Rambo's NES game is a confusing, labrynth mess, the C64 one's everything a teen of the mid-to-late 80's would want in a Rambo game: guns galore, explosions from everything from tipped arrows to RPG launchers, rescuing POWs while facing the Russian war machines... what's not to love!

@MudSluggerBP Жыл бұрын

I could spend the rest of my life playing C64 while using a NES to take a shit in.

@willeysingleton3057 Жыл бұрын

Love the C64 Ghost Busters, hell you can save a bank account on that version and buy a nicer car. Was one of my favorites in 88, the c64 was my first system, and kept me entertained for along time before I even heard about the Nes.

@TheSudsy Жыл бұрын

As a Spectrum owner in the 80's obviously you know where my loyalties lie....however my mate had a C64 and to say there were no good games is clickbait or just plain dumbassness. Paradroid was in my opinion the best C64 game (at the time we had them). i used to mither him to put it on, and Kickstart (dee,deee,dee,dah dahah.dahdahdah) or summer games or winter games or hypersports ........... utter bollox.

@stonecoldpes6 Жыл бұрын

Gremlins 2 , super off road , Rtype, Back to the future2 , Slap fight, Ghostbusters 1 ,2 and Real , indiana jones last crusade, rick dangerous 1 and 2 , Robocop ,navy seals , new zealand story , THEY all destroy the Nes and there are many more!!

@SEGAZombie Жыл бұрын

After that certain podcast I've been waiting for this Video 😂 You know I'm a speccy fan boy as that's what I grew with, but I have loads of appreciation for the C64 so me absolutely fantastic games I didn't admit to bitd lol and I'm discovering so many more games I've never played before I also like the NES but for me the 8 bit micros library is far more appealing great video OSG and a couple more C6R games to add to the must play list

@Vindicator18 Жыл бұрын

I really want to hear this podcast. Who was it?

@TRONMAGNUM2099 Жыл бұрын

yes please I want a name

@chriswheatley3146 Жыл бұрын

M.U.L.E. is one of my favorite games on the C64. The Atari 800 version is pretty good as well. I tried the NES version. Meh was about the best I could say about it in comparison as it never felt or played right.

@MyRetroLife Жыл бұрын

Hey man saw you on the Creators discord and had to check you out. This is great! Instant sub!

@oldstylegaming Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, ill check yours out too when i get back from football

@LPetal86 Жыл бұрын

I never had a C64 growing up so these games are foreign to me but learning about games like _The Last Ninja_ trilogy and _Project Firestart_ have been a real treat here on KZfaq. It's baffling that someone would spout such an ignorant opinion about a console without even trying it!

@LUCKO2022 Жыл бұрын

I say Maniac Mansion on the C64 is better than the NES version.

@oldstylegaming Жыл бұрын

Defo

@RETROCENGO Жыл бұрын

Brilliant video. Instant thumbs up, from the get go I was thinking, hope robocop is included. Robo was superior and don’t get med started on the music. One of the best versions ever

@jameslocke1416 Жыл бұрын

Maniac Mansion was one of my favorites on the C64. But when I played it on the NES, I couldn’t believe how bad it was. The music and sound effects were horrible, and the controls were a nightmare in comparison. Why did they even bother?

@Earths1stgamer Жыл бұрын

I went from an Atari 2600 right to the Atari 400 in 1982 so i never had a C64 but the 64 for 1982 has real nice graphics and the game library is pretty good i did an NES vs 7800 comparison on Winter Games and i think the 7800 won that one also good video i enjoyed it alot good luck on your channel.

@consty715 Жыл бұрын

Exploding fist, when evercade released it recently I couldn’t believe how crap it is on NES i know it was a demo, but still

@20thcenturygamingc64 Жыл бұрын

C64 I salute you. And nothing else will come close, ever. Well defended lad.

@freddiejohnson6137 Жыл бұрын

Personally I would never include Robocop on a list of games that are better than ones on other systems since it was made to be overly difficult in places so you couldn't progress past a certain point because it was broken and unbeatable essentially. For that reason alone it's worse than pretty much every other version.

@oldstylegaming Жыл бұрын

Its fixed now though

@freddiejohnson6137 Жыл бұрын

@@oldstylegaming yes but a long time later and should have been recalled at the time by Ocean and fixed. If a fixed version for that game counts as making it better then other versions then the remaster Ghostbusters on the NES should also count. Just my opinion there.

@eol6632 Жыл бұрын

I had this game for C64 when it came out. It being fixed now doesn't make it acceptable. I liked the game but no game should be released like that then or now.

@SuperJim Жыл бұрын

Some proper goons out there mate. Keep fighting the good fight. Your channel actually contains content. And I love it ♥️

@TheRealMirCat Жыл бұрын

Could you imagine trying to play Neuromancer, Wasteland, or Battletech on the Nintendo? Then there's Red Storm Rising which used almost all the keys on the keyboard.

@grymmjack Жыл бұрын

They did try with ultima. But yeah I hear you man. Wasteland!

@wongojack Жыл бұрын

I LOVED Red Storm Rising. Nobody talks about it, but I think it is one of the best Microprose games ever.

@interlace84 Жыл бұрын

Let's not forget Maniac Mansion and all of the point&click adventure genre as a whole not getting (properly) represented on the NES whatsoever! Can't beat a nice round of Turrican 1/2 either :)

@ACanOfBakedBeans Жыл бұрын

Pretty much any flight simulator was also pretty crap on the NES (the NES port of Elite comes to my mind), although in the NES defence , that was more to do with the NES controller not being practical for those kinds of games than the actual system itself

@ichbins8588 5 ай бұрын

"Defender Of The Crown" - C64 version was even better than the Amiga version! For sure, the Amiga version looked nicer, but, it was sobering to detect it lacked some gameplay options (I remember there was no strategic map any more)

@jpjokela1 Жыл бұрын

Kind of shocked that you didn't list: Ikari Warriors Nebulus (Castelian on NES) Cybernoid (music...) Every Ultima series game on the NES Also, if Famicom exclusives are ok too, then Law of the West definitely.

@ACanOfBakedBeans Жыл бұрын

The Bard's Tale was also far better on the C64, and don't even get me started on pretty much every flight simulator on the NES

@billc.6096 Жыл бұрын

Maniac Mansion is another example of a game better on the C64.

@scottythegreat1 Жыл бұрын

The NES version of Pirates! Is missing. Great game on both systems, but the random generated fort attacks and unpredictable fencing makes a difference. Rare left in the initial fencing battle before you start the game, and it was in computer versions for preventing illegal copies of the game that didn't have the treasure fleet and silver train information needed to prove you had a legitimate copy of the game.

@t-max7261 Жыл бұрын

Ah, makes sense now- I obviously had an illegal version, but somewhere in there was a program that you could load that would tell you the Silver Train and Treasure Fleet dates, which I didn’t know about for the longest time. That said, you could still win the initial fencing battle, but if you got the question wrong, it still said that you lost and you had to start the game basically destitute, with all countries hostile to you, next to no crew, a crap reputation and only a sloop in your fleet. You could eventually overcome these disadvantages, but it took a good year or two to do so and even then, some countries still chose to dislike you for whatever reason. I remember randomly getting the question right a couple of times and it was such a difference- almost like a cheat code! Pirates was probably my favourite C64 game- I spent hours and hours playing it as a kid

@mrtoon4197 Жыл бұрын

To say there is nothing good to play on the c64 is crazy,there is a ton a excellent games on the c64 to play.

@johnatkinson1039 Жыл бұрын

I never owned a C64 or NES but my problem with 80s home computers (having played C64 at a friend's house) was waiting ages for the game to load. I've always loved the plug in and play that consoles allowed.

@neophytealpha Жыл бұрын

Way of the Exploding Fist. Bruce Lee. Championship Lode Runner. Elevator Action

@jeffr23817 Жыл бұрын

You mentioned the AVGN episode of Last Ninja, but you didn't talk about his episode for Winter Games.... That is by far one of my most favorite AVGN episodes!!! It's SO fucking hilarious!

@stimorolication9480 Жыл бұрын

The Last Ninja games on C64 were such impressive games that I envyed as an Atari ST owner at the time (before I switched to Amiga 500). Another one where the C64 had the best version of them all was NARC. Both systems have great libraries, and in most cases I find that games are best on their original platform. When NES ports really shine they are often so different from the original that it is almost a different game.

@Stephen_Eee Жыл бұрын

I loved that the wii had a decent c64 selection.

@gumdeo Жыл бұрын

The mighty Commodore 64 laughs at the trolls.

@vallaurianv6024 Жыл бұрын

Great video. I loved my C64 growing up but have to be honest was jealous of my mate’s NES. To be fair that wasn’t comparing ports of the same games but based on Mario, Mario 3, Castlevania, Castlevania 3, Turtles arcade and Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers.

@funnylumpy Жыл бұрын

Nice comparison. I played all the ones in c64 you listed but only a few on the nes. Ty for the upload.

@robertespley248 Жыл бұрын

Aw man this is a great flashback to my childhood. I have hugely fond memories of ..... Turrican, Last Ninja, Armourlite,Robocop 2( cart version), Creatures , Rainbow Island to just name a few. Happy memories .....and now I come to think of it I never did finish Last Ninja 3 . Dammit 🙁

@Simon0 Жыл бұрын

Interesting video. I was a c64 owner. I think in general nes looks like a cool system too. Anyway thanks for the video

@Retrogirlsuk Жыл бұрын

Hey, I have just subscribed to your channel. Great content 😀

@oldstylegaming Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@paulweiser6350 Жыл бұрын

Another good comparison would be Spy vs. Spy. I remember buying it at Target, and I got games one and two for C64 and almost half the price of the NES version, which only had the first. Graphics hugely different.

@kicksex Жыл бұрын

I was always so disappointed in the NES Ghostbusters compared to the C64 Version. It didn’t even come close. The c64 was a superior machine in so many ways. But where I grew up, more people had Nintendos so that’s what I ended up playing the most

@DGrann Жыл бұрын

nobody mentions Maniac Mansion, the NES version is censored, music and sounds are bad and graphic sub par. C64 is superior in every way on NES except for the controler IMO

@LordmonkeyTRM Жыл бұрын

You love to see it! OSG days away from 35k subs. ♥️ Hope you're okay buddy. Top video as per...

@oldstylegaming Жыл бұрын

Thanks hope you are good too mate long time no see

@LordmonkeyTRM Жыл бұрын

@@oldstylegaming Yeah man doing well ta.

@GenerationPixel Жыл бұрын

Cracking video mate, thoroughly enjoyed that 😎👍

@EpicLebaneseNerd Жыл бұрын

i recently found one of my old computer games magazines and in it is a poster of the MYTH and it looked so good that i had to take out that page and hang it on the wall, i think it is drawn by the same person that made golden axe posters....it was much later in life that i know Myth was buchered into the conan game and that even this game was different on other platforms.

@ThunderFist1978 Жыл бұрын

The Famicom version of Yie-Ar Kung Fu seems to be based on the MSX port, or else the other way around.

@adultmoshifan87 Жыл бұрын

Isn’t Robocop that game where they made a level in the C64 version impossible to hide that they couldn’t be bothered to program the rest of the game?

@oldstylegaming Жыл бұрын

Yes and no... yes they made it deliberately hard but not cos they couldn't be bothered, it was coded but had a massive graphical glitch that if they had tried to sort probably would have resulted in the game missing the golden window of being released along side other versions and the movie. Its actually just one level that was effected

@KorenLesthe Жыл бұрын

Nice list ^^. If you want a game where even the Amstrad CPC beat the NES, it’s Ikari Warriors :).

@satan3959 Жыл бұрын

To be honest, even the C64 version (European version, not the shitty US version) of Ikari Warriors beats the NES version. Not a fan of the NES version at all.

@nerdygeezer78 Жыл бұрын

Cracking vid mate..... totally agree that these where better on the C64 hands down. That comment on that podcast was just laughable

@purplehaze2342 Жыл бұрын

Dragon Ninja and shinobi are two that spring to mind for me

@313Games Жыл бұрын

All hail the C64! It will forever be my first and favourite machine!

@nemoeponymous256 Жыл бұрын

The Commodore 64 Donkey Kong is not only superior to the NES version, it's also the best port of the game on any 8-bit system.

@ACanOfBakedBeans Жыл бұрын

Which port though? There were two official ports, one from Atarisoft and one from Ocean. I hope you do not mean the Atarisoft port

@Zhixalom Жыл бұрын

The C64 still to this day, holds the record of the most sold model (as in same circuit design) of home computer EVER! This also means that, if you were to count the games from all the other home micros and gaming consoles from the '70s up through the '80s and '90s (yes; including the other Commodores, Sinclairs, Amstrads, Ataris, Nintendos, Segas, and even the Sony PlayStation, etc. etc.) and then sum up all the totals... the C64's game-library would still be bigger. So, even if you know absolutely nothing about the C64, you should be able to deduct, from a sheer statistical point of view, that at least some of them have to be good, if not great or even awesome. That is unless of course, your brain only consists of 2 neurons, were one is in a wheelchair and the other one stubbornly refuses to push.

@timoheinonen9570 Жыл бұрын

If you count the games from all the other home computers and consoles, the Commodore C64 is not even close to that. In fact most likely ZX Spectrum alone has bigger library of games than the C64. While Commodore C64 was the most sold computer, no one really knows how many ZX Spectrum compatible computers exists, including unofficial and self made clones were made in total. I am only one person and I have about 16 working ZX Spectrum clones. Lots of people were building ZX Spectrums, and still do to this day and none were making C64.

@SaintDomingo1 Жыл бұрын

Loved hearing you getting so wound up by these idiots. I loved my og C64. It was my childhood. I also had a C16. I was only very little when I had that though.

@stesilaus1688 Жыл бұрын

Great video! And let's not forget that the C64 had C64 OS and C64 BASIC too! Good though it may been for playing games, what did the NES ever have for writing your own programs?

@aboriginalmang Жыл бұрын

The NES had a Japan only BASIC cart. Not that there's much you could do on it, with only like 3 or 4 KB RAM available.

@BigJuffer Жыл бұрын

Great vid mate, nailed it perfectly

@michaelhill6453 Жыл бұрын

Any disc-only game will win the battle over NES. Take a peak at Bards' Tale or Pool of Radiance.

@westmcgee9320 Жыл бұрын

In case anyone was having an issue with the accent, the cc option seems to work really really well. Enjoy.

@rcchronicles25 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for saving the c64s rep! 👌 Great list osg

@KC9UDX Жыл бұрын

The biggest reason there weren't that many similar games was licencing.

@SatoshiMatrix1 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely think there are great C64 games. but I can understand why someone who is an NES fan first wouldn't think so. The C64 and the the NES aren't very comparable, with the NES quite frankly a generation ahead of it. The C64 much more closely compares to the like the Atari 2600, Intellivison, Colecovision, and so on. An eight way joystick with a single fire button limits what you can do, as does the playfield resolution of the C64., maximum colors, number of sprites, even CPU speed. The NES also has access to all of the cartridge based expansion chips built into the various mappers to further agument the platform. So instead of someone comparing the C64 to the NES, I would instead redirect them to compare the C64 to the Arari 8-bit, the 5200, the 2600, and so on.

@wishusknight3009 Жыл бұрын

The biggest gripe I had with the C64 was its painfully slow load times. Our main computer in the early 80s was an apple ][ E. And it had really fast floppy access compared to the C64. It didn't seem to matter to me that the graphics on the Apple ][ were complete pants.

@gamingquarterly6353 Жыл бұрын

I never owned a C64, but even I am not that stupid to say there are no good games on the Commodore. Nice video!

@inphanta Жыл бұрын

I don’t know who this person was, but he was clearly courting controversy for clicks, which is pretty childish. Anyway this was a good roundup. Both were good systems but served very different purposes. Arguably even worse that saying the C64 had no good games, I’ve heard people try to argue that the NES’ audio capabilities are superior to the SID which is insane to me. That’s not to say there isn’t cracking music on the NES (of course there is), but it doesn’t come close to the SID. Fanboys are a strange bunch…

@Aeduo Жыл бұрын

He is a robot. He is a cooooop. He is a robocoooooooop.

@TANKTREAD Жыл бұрын

The C64 RoboCop music is brain numbing, at least the NES version has a variation of the movie theme composed by the awesome Basil Poledouris.

@JimmyBackbeat Жыл бұрын

I played a lot of Outrun on the C64. Ninja, Park Patrol and Blue Max too. Rambo, California Games and Pit Stopp II G.A.C.C.R.R and Fist. There was a lot of fun times that I had on that machine. Though we only had the tape deck so the load times did seem rough compared to NES

@canadairishguy Жыл бұрын

I LOVED Ghostbusters on 64.

@menhirmike Жыл бұрын

Maniac Mansion - the NES had two different versions (the Japanese one is a completely different port than the US one), and they were both bad.

@scottythegreat1 Жыл бұрын

I don't know about writing off the NES American port. The fact that the NES version was faster and had a great soundtrack tips the scales over the extensive censorship requested by Nintendo of America. Still, Nintendo missed the microwavable hamster, at least initially.

@TeeVeeGames Жыл бұрын

It's easy to say that the c64 is nothing but crap because there was a tidal wave of games that came out for the machine, made with wildly different levels of competence. But when the C64 shines, it really, really shines. And there are plenty of games I still enjoy, even today. Also, for some reason C64 (or any 8-bit computer) games almost always translated poorly to the NES. Something like Skate or Die always seemed out of place as a Nintendo game pak rather than a floppy disk, and infinitely less fun.

@milthyswinbuckle5158 Жыл бұрын

Claiming that there are no good games on the C64 makes less sense than claiming that being kicked in the balls repeatedly is good for you!

@madspunky Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to 10 games where the NES kicked Commodore's ass! : D

@oldstylegaming Жыл бұрын

Ill do that video

@sethreichenbach1444 Жыл бұрын

C 64 had so many good games. A few of my favorites are. Pole position, super huey, howard the duck, train, barbarian, high noon Ghostbusters. I could go on and on.