Games That Push the Limits of the Commodore Vic 20
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Published 2023-09-29
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Games featured:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Radar Rat Race
01:08 Jupiter Lander
01:40 Choplifter
02:33 Avenger
02:53 Dig Dug
03:07 Gorf
03:26 Gridrunner
04:48 Gridrunner 2
05:36 Jetpac
06:53 Tutankham
07:11 Capture The Flag
08:32 Galaxian
09:10 Dragon Wing
09:55 Astro Nell
10:22 Doom
12:10 Manic Miner
12:34 The Perlis of Willy
13:00 Pitfall
14:09 Hero
15:14 Chuckie Egg
15:42 Cheese and Onion
17:14 Pentagorat
17:44 Pulse
18:19 Realms of Quest
18:36 H3LP BODG3
18:44 Robotic Warrior
All Comments (21)
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The VIC-20 was my first computer. I had no games for it; it was strictly a BASIC machine. It was still awesome.
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I had a used Vic-20 when I was 6. I used it so much that I wore the ram out. Loved that thing.
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The Vic-20 was my first love. Seriously though, I learned the principles of computing on it.
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That's actually my preferred platform to play Doom on. Thanks bud.
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I had one friend in high school with a VIc-20. Everyone else had an Atari, Apple, or C64. He was certain it was evidence proving his parents hated him.
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This is my favorite series on Youtube - I'm a modern game developer that grew up with a C64 -> Amiga but wasn't capable of coding games back then. These systems and their games remain magical in my mind and these kinds of videos remind me why I became a developer - I used to love games :P
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I had choplifter and Galaxians carts for my vic 20 - absolutely loved them but choplifter was my all time favourite- thanks for the memories
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I picked up a C64-Maxi so I could build up a library of C64 and Vic-20 classic games and it's been a blast! Never had any Commodore hardware but the gameplay videos inspired me to jump in the Commodore pool. Thanks for the video my friend, good stuff! 👍
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Wow - I loved seeing this pop up in my feed, since I really don’t recall seeing any videos about the Vic-20 on YouTube! Thanks for sharing and this is well put together. I remember most of the games, and this was the first computer I remember having! Fun memories! Such a different world back then!
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Nice 👍 My first computer was a VIC 20 with a datasette, I did have a few games both cassette and carts, but really it was a great machine to learn programming and the user manual would actually teach you how to program. The weakest part was the 5kB of memory and ram expansion carts were very expensive.
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My first computer I’ve owned and used great memories of the old computer thus the machine still going strong after all these years.👍
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7:22 Holy f**k! Mind-blowing! Ray-casting in 1983 on the Vic!
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I’m disappointed Petscii Robots didn’t at least make the list. It may not push the limits on graphics and sound, but definitely pushes the limits on game complexity.
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Cheese and onion looks like something that could be on the switch. That's incredible for the Vic20
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After the Fairchild Channel F (my family owned one) and the Atari 2600 (next door neighbor had one) the Vic-20 was the 3rd games machine and 1st computer that I ever had significant exposure to way back when. My uncle owned one and loaned it to my parents for several months right after the C64 was released. I remember playing Radar Rat Race and a few of the other early games mentioned in this video. Good times!
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No "Productivity Software that Pushes the Limits of the Vic 20" video?
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My first Commodore was a C64, but it gave me a love for 650x assembly. Assembly is so cool once it all clicks in your head. VIC 20 doom is kinda great for what it is. Thanks for showing that.
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I loved that computer. It was my second computer. The Timex Sinclair 1000 was my first. The full sized real keyboard, sound and color blew my mind. It jump started my interest in computers. Especially in my digital electronics projects, thanks to the user and expansion ports giving me access to the hardware.
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Atarisoft made an impressive official port of Battlezone for the Vic-20. It doesn't have true 3D vector graphics like the arcade game had but it still has a good approximation of the arcade game's visuals given the limitations of the Vic-20.
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Thanks for the mention during the Astro Nell section. 😊.
