I had joint ownership on a '64 for about three months during the mid eighties,

the Basic was pretty much PET with no real additions to make easy use of

the extra stuff in the machine... pity really because I really couldn't be bothered

with remembering another series of pokes. Did get the sprites to work tho :)

Best memories of the 64 are playing some classic games with my bro, so

here for your delight are some screenshots of my favourite games. These were

taken recently from testing my new addition to the muse.

I should say here that one of the main aims of the museum is to save these

old systems so that the games can be played on the original equipment.

An emulator, though admittedly very cool, just doesn't give the correct setting

for the game. In particular, flicking through a set of two thousand game roms

in mame or mess is too easy. In todays wow playstation generation we're used to

those poly's zipping about at two zillion per second. The underlying gameplay

might be pants but the eye-candy's very nice. The old 8 bit games look pretty

pants but spend a bit of time on a game and the rewards will come.

First stop on the way to reclaiming the respect for 8 bit games writers is probably

to enforce a realtime loading screen within emulators worldwide...

I betcha you'd spend a bit more time on that game if it took 7 minutes to load!

And the rewards oh king...

Forbidden Forest - in all its 8 bit glory... complete with archer who breakdances

between levels (the third time is just once too many, play it and you'll see what I mean!)

Revenge of the Mutant Camels - a Jeff Minter masterpiece, the smoothest

program I ever saw on the 64. Great music, chilled imagery, telephone boxes and CND signs,

it just can't be beat.