C64 Game - Breaker : Search and thou shalt find!!

Commodore... The memories of the 64...

When I was little, my brother and I used to play a lot of games. Among those were games we had for our Commodore 64.


The graphics were bad - nowadays it would not even pass the shop counter - but back then we didn’t care, as long as we got to play games. There were quite some games we used to have in our possession, but I don’t recall all the games we had (as unfortunately the games and the C64 were lost) but some games are etched into my memory.


I recall fun times with playing on the C64, using the tape loader, the black and red joysticks, and those bright colorful lined loading screens… And the weird music … The three games I remember playing the most are:


Highway Encounter

          

Highway Encounter is a strategy/action game played from a 3D isometric perspective in which you must successfully chaperon a bomb along a long, straight stretch of highway and into the alien base at the end of it. There are thirty screens to pass through and most are filled with hazards that threaten to block your progress (such as barrels) or destroy you (aliens and explosive mines).
                      
Players control a robotic "Vorton" (resembling a dalek from Doctor Who) and one of the things that provides Highway Encounter with its unique appeal is that the bomb is constantly being pushed onward by your extra lives - four more Vortons, who accompany you along the highway. A key strategic element to the game is for the player character to travel several screens ahead of the bomb to clear a safe path for it; normally this would be done by temporarily blocking the bomb's forward motion. However, if the bomb is left in an unsafe location, it is possible for all your extra lives to be lost without the player character being destroyed once. Once all spare lives are lost, the player character must manually push the bomb.


Red Max

Red Max is an arcade game where you basically have to save mankind. Following a devastating nuclear holocaust on Earth the survivors regrouped and began to rebuild civilization. They soon discovered their sun was just about to go supernova. The survivors set about finding a way of escaping the impending holocaust. A scientist worked out that the Moon could be colonized and a giant anti-gravity orb assembled on the dark side. This could be activated at the moment the sun would explode to send the Moon spinning away from danger. The humans would then go into suspended animation for a couple of million years until the Moon’s computers would find a safe sun where it could park itself in orbit.


All went according to plan until an alien race landed on the Moon, dropped a load of fission mines on its surface and sabotaged the power plants for good measure. To remedy the situation you must deactivate all twenty-seven mines, proceed down to the engineering level, turn on eight backup cooling systems and shut down the four power plants, then go down to the hibernation complex and reanimate nine crew members so that the aliens can be destroyed. To help you in your task you have a Red Max moon bike.


Afterrmath

 
Aftermath is a shoot'em up, V-Scrolling game where you are a pilot who has decided to pit his fleet of three airborne assault vehicles against the entire Sauran fleet. The action takes place over a horizontally scrolling backdrop, Your ship is at the bottom of the screen and is maneuverable within the entire screen area. Sauran craft emerge from the top of the screen and fly downwards, spitting deadly laser fire. Contact with either ship or shot spells doom and one of the fleet becomes history. However, your craft have offensive armory and can fire missiles at the oncoming  enemies, killing them instantly.


Ground targets are destroyed by bombing. Line up the cross hairs at the front of the space fighter, pull back on the joystick and press the fire button to send a deadly incendiary device hurtling towards the ground. The majority of ground installations are harmless but occasionally one may spit a missile in your general direction.
The Sauran craft become more and more aggressive as the mission progresses.


Brick shooting game, name unknown?


There used to be this brick shooting game for the C64, of which I don’t recall the title, just the music, but I’m 100% certain it was not Arkanoid. It looked somewhat like it, though. I remember playing this a lot with my brother but he and I both don’t recall the name of the game. If only I could find the name… This game, I enjoyed it a lot. Nowadays you have all sorts of versions for it and for every console possible.

Welcome!

As far as I can remember, I've been playing games for ages on consoles. It started with the C64 when I was little and through the years I've played on different consoles, with my all time favorite games on the PS3.

In this blog I will pass through the games I have played, games I would like to play, and also some games for the Android smartphones. Yes I have games on my phone :P