"Epic" games for the Commodore 64

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I think you gotta go with a colon.

Commodore 64: 32 Great Games, 32 Pieces of Shit
Commodore 64: 32 Classics, 32 Bags of Shit
:Shit

[pinback]

I think if you go with a colon, the shit just comes with it!

[Flack]

Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, died on Sunday.

So now I'm thinking about calling the book "Games so bad they killed Jack Tramiel."

[AArdvark]

This is me waffling again. It seems that I spend so much time in 64 Forever, arraigning the disc images in just the right configuration, that I hardly ever PLAY the games, which was the original goal. I have hundreds of titles now, (something that was impossible in 1988) and all I seem to do is add screenshots or fill in publisher data or fix the spelling, crap like that. Dammit! These are not baseball cards, these are games. They should be played.
So anyway, I threw all the discs in one big folder (none of that alphabetized by folder stuff for me) and renamed the titles that needed it, and there I go. Just like the old days.
No screenshots, just a name on a label.

THE
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
AARDVARK

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, died on Sunday.

So now I'm thinking about calling the book "Games so bad they killed Jack Tramiel."

This is the best would-be title so far.

[Flack]

I was going to make a few of these for you, but this first one turned out horribly.

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This was played via emulation, with the video being captured by Camtasia.

The video capture worked well. Although there's some slight blurring, it essentially looks accurate -- or accurate enough for a YouTube video.

The audio ... well, there's two issues. The first is, because I was just improvising, there are a ton of "ums" and "uhs" and pauses that make it sound terrible. On the next one I might play the game first and then overdub my commentary track over the top of it afterwards. My brain's not so good at the multitasking.

The second issue is, I was playing the game using the keyboard, and my microphone is sitting on my desk right next to the keyboard, so the mic picked up all the thuds from the keyboard as I was banging away on the keys. I didn't even think about that. On the next one, I will either relocate the mic, or play using a joystick.

This has been only a test.

[Tdarcos]

I think if you go with a colon, the shit just comes with it!

ROFL!
But I've found one that trumps your Buzz Killington skit:


TV Tropes talks about movies or other media that so many titles in the title that have multiple qualifiers separated by colons that they have a name for it: Colon Cancer

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The full name of my second book is In the Matter of: Instrument of God and the name of my first book is In the Matter of: The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts. The sequel to that book is In the Matter of: The Gatekeeper: The Gatekeeper Admits

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

So, I think there is some way to set the level start for Forbidden Forest, but I can't figure it out. When I play the disk version on my MiSTer, it starts with the bees level. That's not correct. Is it? Isn't it spiders first?

https://archive.org/details/Forbidden_Forest_1983_Cosmi has the game.
https://archive.org/details/Forbidden_F ... i/mode/2up is the manual for the Commodore version.

Does anyone recall how to start the game properly?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I figured it out. I was running a "disk" version. There was a "tape" version (a .t64 file) and I was like - there is no FREAKING way this is a tape game. No. Sorry. No. Sorry. Sorry. No. No. Sorry. Sorry. No. No. Sorry. No. Sorry. No. Sorry. Sorry. No.

Well, I found a "Let's Play" for Forbidden Forest on the Commodore 64, and the first screen that shows up allows you to select the difficulty level. F1 is neatly mapped to F1 on a MiSTer. Was this really - was this a guy playing the .t64 file?

I think so. I transferred the .t64 to the MiSTer, started it up, did a LOAD"*",8,1 and RUN (and I did not think it would load from the cassette when I did that, and I still don't. That can't be right) and what do ya know, the same screen came up allowing me to select the easy mode. Called "INNOCENT".

And I was fighting spiders.

I am two weeks behind on my blog post for this project. I ran into another problem with the replacement game. I really should have just picked Pac-Man last week.