My family owned a Commodore 64, but I didn’t have a whole lot of games for it. For the longest time it was used for family business-related projects. It wasn’t until 1989 or so that it finally came home to roost and by then, games were getting hard to find and the ones you could find usually weren’t very good. So while I can’t speak from experience about these games, but I think they look pretty interesting nonetheless.
The Transformers (1985, Ocean Software)
The very first Transformers game. By most accounts I’ve read, it seems to be a mixed bag, usually faring no better than “average” and supposedly the controls are really bad. It’s a platformer with the goal of collecting pieces to form an energon cube. You can play Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Hound, Mirage or Jazz and you battle the likes of Megatron, Soundwave, Starscream, Buzzsaw, Skywarp, Laserbeak, Ravage, Frenzy and Rumble.
This is one of those weird cassette games Commodore had going in addition to their more standard floppy disk games.
The Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth (1986, Activision)
The Angry Video Game Nerd briefly touched upon this game and how bad it is. Though the box art does not show it, the game’s full title is The Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth. This time, the game was more RPG/text based with a few first person shooter scenes and you’re trying to prevent the Decepticons from building the ultimate weapon. I’ll take a bad platformer over a bad text game any day.
Another Commodore cassette.
June 30, 2009 at 12:23 am |
I love text games. I just wish they could make G1 Transformers games now. Ugh, how I hate the new Transformers with a passion.
June 30, 2009 at 11:00 am |
Same about not liking the new stuff.
Yeah, I would love ANYTHING G1. I don’t know my TF history well, so there may be nothing to go back to, but I’d love to see a G1 cartoon picking up where it left off or a restart that’s true to the original series like Masters of the Universe had years ago.