The very first gaming system I had was a Commodore 64, and the very first game I ever bought (or rather, had bought for me) was Dizzy, Prince of the Yolkfolk. It can be said that I have a very nostalgic view of the noble Commodore, but please forgive me for not being terribly excited at the prospect of its library appearing on the Wii Virtual Console later in the year with the first titles being International Karate and Uridum.
Don't get me wrong -- any possible chance to play Wizball again should be cause for celebration, but at 500 Wii Points, the price borders on insultingly excessive. Not only did the games originally retail for £1.99 (practically half the cost of 500 points), you could go to boot sales and buy entire sacks of cassettes for a few measly quid.
Even at £1.00, there'd be no justifying the cost for these games. I love Dizzy and his fellow games as much as the next man, but 500 points is way too much and I don't expect them to sell well at all. How many typical Wii owners will look at a Commodore 64 game and decide to part with money for it? Not many, I imagine.
What about you guys? Are there any titles that will be worth dropping 500 points on? What were your favorite Commodore 64 games and do you expect/hope to see them here? Let Destructoid know.
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8:46 AM on 02.21.2008
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*prays for Top Banana and Captain Planet*
Aren't most of these titles Abandonware by now?
Also, first!
What?
C64?
Uh, I suppose now they'll be able to port Rocky Horror Picture Show: The Video Game...
Yay?
People complain about how loud the 360 is. My 1541 floppy drive could wake the dead!
I had the C64 for like 10 years until the disc drive finally died
Guess how much I am willing to pay for C64 games? NOTHING. Not just because they're not worth 10 cents a game, but mostly because I can simply put a C64 emulator on my PSP and download all the games. Probably at a total of 50MB. Charging 500 wii points is criminal.
maybe if it was a great big bundle, like 10 games for 500 points . . .
I was so young these are but vague memories, so its hard to say if these games actually suck or not. I'm pretty sure they do. Except for Jumpman. That was awesome.I'm pretty sure you're guy is only like 20 pixels, but the gameplay was great. That's worth a few wii points.
anyway, it's way to expensive, i'll stick to playing them on an emulator on my ps3linux
And until until they bring out a multiplayer version of this everything else is just gay. Yeah i said it.
Amiga games would be better though.
even though I don't have a Wii I would not pay for those games. Maybe something like 10$ for the emulaor then free games. Dunno.
Mastertronic and Codemasters titles (LA Swat, Kikstart, Kane etc) were the only £1.99 titles available on the C64, games like Sanxion, World Games, etc were premium cost.
Of course, this was a long, long time ago, so I could totally be screwing up the actual gameplay.
But if I am remembering it correctly, I'd totally buy it.
There was also a Friday the 13th game that was much better than the NES version. I found an emulated version of it, but couldn't get it working. I do believe it allowed you to be Jason...
I remember finding a £20 note once, and bought a big box of 30 games. It was the greatest moment of my young life :(
C'mon Nintendo, play the game! 50 points max for any C64 game!
Phantasie 1-3
Questron
Legacy Of The Ancients
MAIL ORDER MONSTERS
I'd shell out ten bucks to get all six of those together.
I don't know about 500 points for a single game though. That's tough...even getting giddy about reading of the possibility of C64 showing up on the VC, that's a lot of money for games of that time.
It'd be really neat if they were able to package Loadstar sets for purchase...but somehow, I imagine that wouldn't work. Oh well.
The damn thing had FOXES, fer christ's sake...
Foxes..
Ghostbusters would be awesome. Or Bruce Lee. They would be the first VC titles i would actually buy
I would pay to play that again.
- The Last Ninja
- Ultima IV
- Anything from Epyx (Jumpman, Winter/Summer/World Games)
- Anything from Muse (Space Taxi!!!)
- Defender of the Crown
- Arctic Fox
- The Ways of the Exploding Fist
... Christ! So many freaking awesome games!
I pity those who are dissing this just because it's the C64. They just have no clue about what games were like when the game companies had to focus on GAMEPLAY and not try to hide pathetic gameplay with whiz-bang graphics.
The C64 was the best gaming platform ever!
Anyways, I think it's a little unfair to assess the price of these games as "too high" considering you don't have to buy the confounded machine and go into the labor of actually finding the game... I think it's a very fair price even for games I'll probably never buy myself.
Bad Idea: Charging way too much. Seriously.