Not gonna lie, the thing I like best about Uridium is how smooth that ship's turning animation is. Like, that is a VERY nice animation.

I will always remember Impossible Mission, the first game I played where they managed to get speech from the SID chip. Stay a while. Stay forever.

You forgot to mention Ben Daglish's excellent musical score for The Last Ninja. Some of the best ever for the system.

I used to own a Spectrum and never really considered the C64 until the day my head was turned when a friend showed me Sanxion. Hearing that glorious score by Rob Hubbard as the game loaded, then followed by the sheer speed of the game and how good it all looked (programmed by Stavros Fasoulas, if memory serves) made me sell "Old Rubber" and switch to the beige behemoth. I loved that computer. I even invested in a disc drive and a printer for it, so I could use it for other things, and then picked up a Freeze Frame and an Action Replay so I could dump games onto disc. But I kept the tape deck for playing Sanxion, I couldn't do without my fix of "Thalamusic". I also remember the old technique for maximising the space on the old single sided 5.25" floppy, where you'd take a Stanley knife and carefully chop out a notch on the right hand side and be able to record on the back of the disc, thus sparing the hideous expense of proper double sided floppies. Ah, those were the days! Computers these days are just too easy compared to then and they're more dull for it, sadly.

REVS - the only driving simulation where you can freely drive in any direction, also the car set-up makes a real difference. I think that was the most complex simulation at the time.

3D Stunt Car Racer, man! I was never a huge fan of it, but getting semi-filled polygons running at that speed was a heck of an achievement.

Elite (complexity, many planets, nice 3d) Head over heels (high resolution gameplay, many rooms)

Trenz is a genius. He pushed the limits of the C64 with *Turrican 2* and the limits of the SNES with *Rendering Ranger R2* 💪

3D game: "Elite" (also worth comparing to other platform versions such as NES). 2D game: "Flimbo's Quest" (especially the tricks for the colours. Also the music is good). Cartridge btw. Or "Shadow Of The Beast" and "ChaseHQ" and "Batman". Maybe "Pang" too but not sure if limit-pushing. Thumbs up btw. :)

Nebulous. I still can't get over that was a C64 game. So much happening and so smooth and solid performance. And Wizball was full on as well.

What always amazed me was the jousting scene (first person scene) in the Defender of the Crown, sure it was hard to win, but seeing the attacking knight and horse running towards you was just amazing.

I was thinking the game "the Last V8" was totally impressive.A bit difficult,great graphics and music and speaking voices to boot. Such a great game!

Excellent video! FWIW, some of my favourite games that you didn't cover were: Creatures (Apex Computer Productions/Thalamus) Creatures II (Apex Computer Productions/Thalamus) Retrograde (Apex Computer Productions/Thalamus) California Games (Epyx/US Gold) Winter Games (Epyx/US Gold) X-Out (Rainbow Arts) Katakis/Denaris (Manfred Trenz/Rainbow Arts) R-Type (Manfred Trenz/Electric Dreams) Salamander (Imagine/Ocean) Ghouls 'n' Ghosts (Software Creations/US Gold)

The thing i remember most fondly about the c64 is the iconic ocean loader music. Loaded games just to listen to it.

THE SENTINEL: 3d, 10.000 procedurally created levels, amazingly tense gameplay, a huge influence on Minecraft.. all too often overlooked in videos like this.

Pitstop II was a brilliant two player game, probably the best. When you were both driving full speed at 251mph the sound of the engines really sang and got you ultra competitive. After a nine lap race trying not to blow a tyre or run out of fuel it was a great feeling to come out the victor! 🇬🇧

Pirates is also quite an impressive accomplishment on the C64.

The one 3D game that impressed me the most on the ol' bread bin was Fighter Bomber by Activision. A couple of adventure games that also blew me away back in the day was Maniac Mansion and Zak McCracken. And Times of Lore - where you could even save your game on a blank tape!

My favorite game on the C64 was Pitstop II. Two player game with a split screen. I think that made it ahead of its time.

Turrican II was the game I was really amazed when first saw it, from the graphics to gameplay to music, all were among the best you can see on a C64, I'll place it at n°1 on my list. More recently I was also impressed by Prince of Persia, it looks and plays almost the same as the original with the same smooth animations.

Wizball was the best 2 player game I had ever seen at the time. One game me and my mate finished to the end. The gameplay is pretty unique.

14:06 Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis performance on a 0.985 MHz Commodore 64 computer from 1982. I'm genuinely speechless.

Creatures 1 & 2 definitely deserved a mention here. They were well ahead of their time.

With my C64, I was never into any of these types of games. They never even crossed my radar (well maybe "The Last Ninja" did a little. I played a LOT of games, but none of them were space shooters, arcade type games, or platformers. I was really into computer RPG's, and strategy games at the time. My absolute favorite game on the system was "The Adventure Construction Set". I pushed that game to it's limit, designing all kinds of games with it that the design kit was never made to create. Things like "Bard's Tale", and the Epyx rouglikes were really my jam. And I LOVED simulation games, and board war games. The C64 was the first system I had that actually had games like these. I even preferred the games that I played on the C64 to the games that the NES had at the time. NES games bored me, and seemed like kid stuff by comparison.

Nice alliteration..."taupe tantaliser" made me smile, but "diarrhea pillowcase" made me lol hard!!! Well Done Sir, Well Done!!

Cool video. I missed out on C64 as a kid, but like the charm of the c64 graphics.

Test Drive on Commodore 64 was my favorite. It was done pretty well.

It's amazing how much enthusiasts could squeeze out of this 1 Mhz machine. 16 year after Mayhem in Monsterland we got Minecraft to prove how little can be squeezed out of 3 Ghz machines ;P

Last Ninja and Gunship were my go to games on my C64 still remember playing Gunship 30 hours straight lol.

Power drift is one of the games I remember pushing barriers. Despite the meager hardware, it looked and felt fast and the music was fantastic.

When multiload games came in they made a big difference to the size of games, and the amount of content if not the looks of the game. One of my absolute favourite was Gunship. It chugged along at maybe 6 or 7 FPS, and took 40 minutes of loading before you actually got to fly the mission. That you had to do in under 20 minutes to stand a chance of a medal. And I used to play with a friend, taking it in turns. That meant 1 hour and 40 minutes or waiting for loading or watching your mate play for 20 minutes of actually playing the game. I still have it, and the tape with my friend's and my career saved. Oh, and Creatures 2 I thought looked great for the C64.

I'm not complaining, but, one that blew me away back then was Mean Streets. Its the only C-64 game I can remember that had full facial animations of a real actor. Yes, they were grainy and pixelated. But, my C-64 was stock and it ran it fine. And it was a digitized human face....on an 8bit computer with 64k memory. Dang. The rest of the game was a combination of side scrolling shooter, point and click adventure and flight simulator. Yes...flight simulator. You played as the detective Tex Murphy trying to solve a crime for a client. (basic bad girl type a la the Noir detective genera)

I would add Chris Butler's Turbo Charge, by far the most impressive pseudo 3D racing game for the C64. Very large objects running very fast, tons of graphical interludes and racing and shooting that actually plays well and has some variation.

These games really bring me back, thank you for this! Looking forward to the next one.

Really high quality in both presentation and content. Love all these Games That Push The Limits series as a developer.

Almost forgot this one....some kind the forerunner of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". 10 questions, 4 options, make it til sunrise! And that was sold as a commercial game. But I loved it for its graphics.

Powerdrift was a fantastic arcade port to the humble C64. A rare case if the developer NOT trying to make an arcade perfect port and instead interpreting it differently. And it works. Midnight Resistance was another feat of programming too.

u forgot to mention one KEY aspect in C64 gaming success: the SID chip; this sound masterpiece along with musical talents like Ben Daglish, Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway paved the way for true 8-bit multimedia genius back in the day; and almost 40 years later the demoscene is vibrant and pushing the limits

Very well executed video, mate. I appreciate that you embrace the retro nostalgia without letting yourself be blinded by it. Cheers.

Brilliant wrap up. Thanks.

I remember getting Way of the Exploding Fist and it was next level stuff compared to my previous games.

One of my favorite games for this platform was Airborne Ranger (aside from SSI's Gold Box series and the Bard's Tale series).

I used to work in a computer shop in Liverpool called Bits and Bytes from we 1986 to 1989 and loved every minute of it..we had the sid chip on number 11.📢

What is missing: Sound, sound and more sound. Today, that is what every C64 follower remembers, the music quality in the games that were developed. There was nothing ever mentioned about the Sound Interface Device (SID) anywhere in this video. So, lets get started: Back in the older days, games were developed by one man (ie. one man, one game), it was a bunch of programming nerds that knew the assembly language and knew very little about music. That was about to change, as more people started to look at computers and how to program for them, there were people with backgrounds that werent just about programming. A man that worked for a game company called Synchro was working on a running man game with a bow in his hand. Too bad Synchro went bankrupt to be bought by Cosmi. Cosmi loved the game and it was 75% complete and they hired the man that made the game, which eventually became Forbidden Forest. Paul Norman was a studio musician at first and started programming for computers as they were the future of music. There was a reason why his early games sold well, because they had great music and atmosphere, but as time went on and games required more, his later works only had music during the title. This game kind of got the ball rolling with musicians slowly realizing the potential of the Sound Interface Device inside the C64. Paul Norman wasnt the only person to realize the future of music landed towards computers. Another studio musician also entered the scene with his own games, his name was Rob Hubbard. Too bad his games were dog awful, but Gremlin Graphics loved his sound programming and hired him to make games for their games (although he was a freelancer, it was Gremlin Graphics that noticed everything). Rob Hubbards music is highly recognized today (75 C64 games had his music, but lets just focus on one game). The one game that really put the SID to the test was Skate or Die. That heavy metal title screen music couldnt beat anything in terms of music, its still impressive by todays standards. Back then, not too many games had speech synthesis. Although some programmers (ie. Silas Warner) had their own speech synthesis programming, the most commonly used speech synthesis programming was done by: Electronic Speech Synthesis. This company was best known for being involved in the production of Impossible Mission (too bad they raised their prices after this game was successful). Just one flaw in the SID made speech possible, and memorable. Of course, speech is very common today, but back then, it was amazing to hear the speech coming out of games.

Bard's Tale 3. Largest rpg story I have ever seen.

I remember "super wonder boy in monster world" being an AWESOME game for the c64.

7:09 the parallax is very impressive! And the last game...wow

Indian Jones and the Last Crusade by Lucas Games impresses me very much. It’s 3D, challenging, fun and varied, just like Impossible Mission II.

Turning around felt soo dynamic in Uridium lol Loved it + its Soundtrack

Where's Sam's Journey? It absolutely has to be in such a list!

My favourite Christmas was waking up to the Hollywood pack c64..platoon was unreal 👌

Really glad i found your channel. Top quality content. Thanks.

"...the ol' diarrhea pillowcase..." -- christ, dude, crackin' up. 🤣

Manfred Trenz "THE MASTER"

By 1993 I had an amiga 500 but I grew up with commodore(s), my father bought the classic one with tapes, later he bought the external floppy drive and later the SX... It was placed in my room. Back then, most of the games shop would copy the games or there were pirate mailorders sending huge printed catalogues. I always thought that the most console like games were Creatures, Midnight Resistance, Strider and another one with a little Ninja that I bought original.

Great video! i've just purchased a 2nd hand C64 mini and after the firmware update i downloaded ALL games ever released for the breadbin and, after finishing Giana Sisters, i'm now looking for hidden gems. This video sure has some!

To be honest, the HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE C64 demoscene pretty much desensitised me. Now there's no longer a surprise when someone manages to, say, port the Unreal Engine 4 to the C64.

Impossible Mission. That's what made me buy a C64.

Very nice piece of Nostalgic history, thank you for this!

Excellent video. Your collection "games that push the limits..." is amazing. Won another subscriber.

I enjoyed the living crap out of Raid on Bungeling bay on the C64

So, I was probably a vintage gamer even when I got my C64 having had a pong and VCR machine. I had also enjoyed Jet Pac and Sabrewolf on my Sectrum but the C64 is when it all came together. Uridium, Choplifter, Dropzone, The Sentinel, Impossible Mission, Kennedy Approach, Thrust and Buggy Boy all shone on the C64. It didn't matter that it took 10-15 mins to load a game, it stayed on all night! When imagination counted before pixels!

‘Is that really running on the old commode’ - fantastic!

Amazing! I can still remember the final assault on the c64! the Sid chip alone is Marvel of analog engineering!

Don't forget Creatures, that was game!

I got one of the original C 64 systems when it came out. (I just dated myself) I played almost all of these featured games. 2 that I think should have made the list are Maniac Mansion and Paradroid. The later of the 2 was easily my favorite. As simple as it was I thought it was genius.

I remember the cartidges made for the c64, closest to arcade ports of donkey kong, ms. Pacman, dig dug and others at the time.

Turbo Outrun!!! Inc. excellent music remix!!

'Creatures' by Apex Computer Solutions, published by Thalamus, mainly for its music although for some of its visuals too. The music of Monty on the Run.

Great vid, for those of us growing up on 16 bit. I love to learn and see what old systems could do. Also west of the pond love to learn about the uk gaming experiences . And great script. Cheers

Many years ago, I walked into a local computer store. At that time, game demos were not really a thing, but there was a "rolling" demo of nebulus, I just stood there for ages staring open-mouthed at this tower rotating on the C64

giana sisters showed everyone how music was done on a c64

Exile, Mercenary, The Sentinel, Ultima 4, 5 & 6, Gunship & F117, Rainbow Islands, Vendetta, Tusker, Space Rogue, The Eidolon and a really clever Time Travel adventure whose name escapes me.

Can't wait to dive in to the C-64 gaming pool! Just ordered the C64 Maxi and the preloaded games list is looking very weak indeed. Your videosl will definitely help me flesh out a powerhouse classic C64 gaming library. Thanks my friend! 👍 👍

Just found your channel today and subscribed, liking the content and your presenting style. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more of the 'Games That Push The Limits...' content, an Amiga episode would be welcomed'.

Loved my c64 spent hours on it

Loved Beach Head 1 and 2, sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger did some of the voice acting in Beach Head 2 lol

Fiendish Freddie, Defender of the crown were two that impressed me. Great vid subbed,liked and notified.

Take a look at the game Sam's Journey for the c64 and you find your absolute winner right there :)

Raid overr moscow my favourite c64 game and forbidden forest

So what did you miss? Well, Wizball, for one thing. I mean, you showed it at the end, but didn't spend a single word on it! It was Sensible Software's original masterpiece. A true original. As for other games that pushed the envelope at the time they came out, I think Defender Of The Crown deserves a mention as well. Oh, and IK+ too.

TURRICAN II. My favourite gave on C64. Wow that brings back memories.

Great examples of the evolution of Commodore 64 games!

I'd just watched the ZX Spectrum counterpart video and was really looking forward to this one. Cheers!

R Type on the C64 was almost as good as the Sega Master System version. Gotta love the old commode!

Walking down memory lane, playing Aztec challenge and revenge of the mutant camels. Oooh the memories.

I know Sam's Journey it's a new game ... but it's by far the best platform ever created!!! no just graphics!!! best music and sounds Fx ... and the best & most important part... The Gameplay it's Superb!!! If you haven't played yet ... You must trying it!!!!

I found the game Forbidden Forest pretty good considering the C64 hardware, all the dual layers give that game a good field of depth an also it's music was perfect. The slowly moving moon across the sky was also a nice feat. - Cyberdybe Warrior was like Turican 2 and equally as impressive Then you had Falcon Patrol, a fighter jet platform game, graphically very nice to see. And who can forget Bruce Lee? A wonder platform fighting game that played very smoothly with nice levels. My first ever game played on the C64, which made me love the machine was actually Choplifter. Although not a graphical impressive game, it was just a FUN game to play.

I recall playing a certain AH-64 simulator for hours on end on my C64...

Last ninja 2, best cinematic intro and score. Also from the Brothers Roland, Creatures 2 was amazing. Same style and technical wizardry.

Choplifter, a great looking challenge and a half. Popped up in my feed, subbed, keep it up.

a brilliant video and fond memores. A great 3d driving game? Pitstop 2

Rocket Ranger and Neuromancer both caused by C64's power supply to get a tad warm...

great video, thanks for uploading

3:41 maybe he wouldn't be the last one if ninja battles weren't all about nut shots Great work, I'm really enjoying the limit pushers series!

"Old Commode" Im going to use that.

Hammerfist and Time Machine were also good examples of what the humble C64 could achieve.

I still have and love it, missing....Bards Tale , Eye of the Beholder , Giana Sisters , Bubble Bobble and the best next to Turrican....Zak Mckraken and Maniac Mansion.

Well, we had the second revision of the board of the C64, ours was a modified PAL version the machine broke down TWO TIMES while palying Giana Sisters. The last one, the back of the machine was incredibly HOT to touch on the VIC II area. So, yes, hats off for the coders, but, the VIC II was turned into a toaster. At this time themral throtling didnt even exists so the VIC II "redlined" without any limit. C64 neglected the heat disipation on the first two revisions of the board and VIC II was above the 2W disipation power that it was too much for plastic packaging (I read this info). Cerdip package was more appropiate but ... costs reduction. The 64 "C" (cost reduced) came to solve many of this issues because the second voltage for the VIC was reduce from 12 to 9V. This helped a LOT. 15 years later I reapaired the original C64 myself, the one that stopped working after a Giana Sister Gameplay. VIC II was fine, socket was melted in 3 spots and it has a faulty latch or buffer (one of the several glue logic chips around).

Great article. IMHO the blur effect to avoid the 4:3 clip is extremely distracting though.