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From: Andreas Kohlbach on 29 Jun 2010 20:39
Rudolf Harras wrote on 29. June 2010:
>
> Andreas Kohlbach schrieb:
>
>>I think latter games can't be mastered. As they have no end. Some, like
>>Pacman (on the Arcade machine at least) crash when you have reached a
>>certain score.
>
> On the C64 too??

That I don't know, but doubt it.

And as I just read the game does not crash but corrupts the screen due to
the bug on the original machine, which makes it impossible to continue
playing.
--
Andreas
From: Andreas Kohlbach on 29 Jun 2010 20:48
Rudolf Harras wrote on 29. June 2010:
>
> joviyach schrieb:

[...]

>>Someone mentioned Bruce Lee...

I did, writing the original article. :-)

> I also managed this one but my version seems to be one of the versions
> that like to crash about 2/3 of the game with also a 2/3 chance.

Same here. But IIRC it only crashed when you got the thingies (those
Bruce Lee collects, no idea how you would call them (lamps?)) in a
certain order. I believe we figured out when you get them not the
straight way, but skip a certain thingy, get the next instead and then
go back to get this one, it would never crash. Not sure which one it was,
or which level.

[...]

> Also I completed Impossible Mission II and Oerm (which nowadays seems
> easy). For the first Part of Impossible Mission I needed the manuals I
> found in the internet. Also I never could finish the last level of Hard
> Hat Mack.

Impossible Mission was a game I could not even figure out what to do. But
I started it often - for the eye-candy. I've never seen such a nice
animation of a guy running before. Also it used sound samples which IIRC
also was pretty new at the time the game came out.
--
Andreas
From: Kai-Uwe Nielsen on 30 Jun 2010 02:45
Hi,

> What games did you finish? And how long did it take?

The game I remember best because I had so much fun:

Wizball

It probably took just a couple of hours, since there was no save.
It took a lot of practicing though, and I only had a black&white TV,
which made collecting the colors slightly harder I guess.

I think I once made it through Terra Cresta. You had to play that a lot
to learn every attacker wave. I wouldn't be willing to play something
like that today.

Greatest disappointment: After clearing the whole ship in Paradroid,
which felt like beating the game somehow, the next ship came up...

Oh, and I remember finishing Master of Magic: I loved that game,
due to the music perhaps... ;-)

So I can only recall games that had to be played through in one session...


-Kai.


From: joviyach on 30 Jun 2010 09:00
On Jun 29, 2:30 pm, Rudolf Harras <rudi...(a)temporaryforwarding.com>
wrote:
> joviyach schrieb:
>
> >I made it through quite a few games on the Commodore. Pirates!
>
> You can complete Pirates?
>
> >Someone mentioned Bruce Lee...
>
> I also managed this one but my version seems to be one of the versions
> that like to crash about 2/3 of the game with also a 2/3 chance.
>
> >The
> >one I am most fond of was Neuromancer, because it was a collaborative
> >effort between three of us.
>
> I would like to record it for the C64 Game Archive but it is even too
> complicated with a solution.
>
> Also I completed Impossible Mission II and Oerm (which nowadays seems
> easy). For the first Part of Impossible Mission I needed the manuals I
> found in the internet. Also I never could finish the last level of Hard
> Hat Mack.

You could play Pirates until you retire, or if you played long enough
you would basically be forced to retire too.l
From: Rudolf Harras on 30 Jun 2010 16:31
Andreas Kohlbach schrieb:

>> On the C64 too??
>
>That I don't know, but doubt it.
>
>And as I just read the game does not crash but corrupts the screen due to
>the bug on the original machine, which makes it impossible to continue
>playing.

Yes, but anyone that figured out if that happens with the C64?
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