I had the first one way back in the day.
But I was just a little kid and had zero patience or understanding of any actual strategy or overarching narrative. Still cool to see these things being dusted off for folks though. Now if they'd only remaster the first two of the Myth RTS series
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Cheers for these proper old school classics. These were the games I grew up playing on my C64/Amiga days. Awesome :)
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I still have LOMN on cassette tape for C64 but I remember it got chewed up once and it stopped working for a while. On a really good day it would load and I would play it for hours cause I was afraid it just would not work again the next time. :)
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Mate a real C64 owner owned a decent dual cassette stereo, only to listen to music while playing of course :p
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In those days, they made a mini game for you to play whilst the game was loading and listening to music on my dual cassette stereo :)
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Arrrgh me hearty was the game called Pirates! ? ;)
We played Pirates! so much back then we didn't even need the map or the timetable for the Treasure Fleet, we all knew where it was supposed to be. Hell half the time we didn't even need to use the map for treasure hunting. What an awesome game that was in its day.
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The mini games weren't that good. They would be variations on Snakes or Space invaders. It was just a game to keep you occupied for a few minutes. Pirates was one I didn't get into for some reason. It sounds fun and I wished I tried it.
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hahah - the dreaded tapes... all my games back then were copies - though I didnt realize it at the time - normal shops would sell them back then - with color photocopies, cover and manuals LOL. I remember loading forever :) I used to press play and ffwd together to attempt to load things faster and it worked (not always though). By the time I got a spectrum (from a friend) it came with a microdrive - that was something to behold :)
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I remember doing that once and completely messing up the tape and almost the damn cassette player lol
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One of my old mans mates made a compression utility, could fit a lot more games onto the tape and you'd load the utility at the start and then load a game in say 10 on the counter instead of 200. His tapes would have an index where every game was so you could fast forward to it and then start loading. Still no match for the floppies but it was way better than the regular tapes. They needed to have more games on cartridges though, those things were like the future! haha
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Yeah he was my dads mate, I was only a kid so I thought I knew a lot more about computers than these "old blokes" then he shows up with these cassettes full of games and a program he made to decompress them. Wish I knew what career he had now but he was a heavy smoker and it put him in the ground many years ago.
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Before I moved to the Amiga, I just got into cartridges for the C64 and remember playing Chase HQ 2(Special Criminal Investigations or SCI for short) on it. It was amazing for me as no longer had to wind tapes forward or backwards.
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I went to an Amiga 500 after the C64 too! damn I miss those computers :( I never liked to go main stream, even my first pc was a Cyrix and AMD ever since Cyrix went under, but if Commodore had stayed afloat I would have always been a fan, they were so far ahead of the competition it was a joke.
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C64 for me was the best compared to Spectrum and Amstrad and likewise for the Amiga which was much better than Atari ST.
Once I got to PC however, I don't think I could go back now. There were the good old days though!
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I remember when the C64 had bundles all on one tape and you had to fast forward to the point where the new game started but I don't remember the compression utility. That would have save time so much time back then.
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Ohhhh so sad to hear some say they are not worth it.... these games were so good back when I was a teenager - apart from the nostalgia value - they are still quite challenging and far far more complex than what one could imagine possible from games created to run on 28kb of memory. There is still value in these games, if you can get past the retro aspect :) I will definitely dive into them once more.
Thanks for the heads up :)
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