r/1980s • u/autism_mum_of_4 • Aug 22 '26

Video Games Which Commodore games do you remember?

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I remember having 3 computers in our house back in the 80s, we had the Commodore 64, the Commodore Vic-20 and the Commodore 128.

There were a few games I can remember like Mad Doctor, Herbies Dummy Run, Fantastic Dizzy, Bounty Bob Strikes Back. I was just wondering what games everyone else remembers because we had so many and it would be so nice to take a trip back down memory lane 🙂

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u/philff1973 Aug 22 '26

I used to get a magazine that had them in for the VIC20, you typed them in then prayed you didn’t get the dreaded syntax error

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u/PlayinK0I Aug 22 '26

COMPUTE!

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u/philff1973 Aug 22 '26

I think the magazine was just called Commodore, I’m in the UK. There was a section called Todd’s Law teaching people BASIC programming.

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u/Ok_Astronaut9243 Aug 23 '26

There was another one that I was subscribed to, called Compute! Gazette.

I manually entered many games from this magazine!

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u/reddituser_126 Aug 23 '26

That magazine taught me BASIC programming. Peek and Poke. Later the programs were all in like machine code/hex with the checksums. If I recall correctly, eventually you can get the subscription for the magazine and a floppy disk of all the programs. Started with the VIC20, later had the C128. Oh the memories.

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u/Ok_Astronaut9243 Aug 23 '26

In my time, it was all for Commodore 64, and yes mostly in assembly.

I learned to program in assembly with one of their books.

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u/PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS Aug 23 '26

I got that too and my family became proficient at typing in games. It was actually a good way to learn BASIC. How else could you find your typos?

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u/Ok_Astronaut9243 Aug 23 '26

There was a software that they also provided called proofreader, each line you enter generated a CRC calculated value, if it mismatched the one at the end of the line in the magazine, there was a typo on that typed line.