Last C64 commercial game released by a major software house
Last C64 commercial game released by a major software house
Anyone want to hazard a guess what was the last C64 commercial game released by a major software house in the UK. I mean an original game not a budget rerelease.
I'm suspecting it was around 1994.
I'm suspecting it was around 1994.
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Was it Lemmings?
That must have been right at the end of the C64's life
That must have been right at the end of the C64's life
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Maybe Monster in Mayhem Land. Off now on my long planned journey to the bit of Zzap - Yeovil.
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Technically speaking Mayhem was an independent/homebrew release as the Rowlands released it mail order through their own label.
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I was just playing Lemmings on my 1541u2 last night. Such a shame that it was released so late that it wasn't as successful as it deserved to be. One of the greatest C64 conversions of all time.
Must be worth quite a bit on ebay now.
Must be worth quite a bit on ebay now.
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Actually, surprisingly not. It must have sold fairly well, because it turns up quite regularly.
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What is the most expensive C64 game to bought on ebay?
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I remember seeing a load of them for sale for £3 back in maybe 1995 in an Electronics Boutique (I think). I got one of them, loading errors, got it replaced, still wouldn't load. Didn't bother bringing it back and just got it from the Internet at some stage later.Mayhem wrote:Actually, surprisingly not. It must have sold fairly well, because it turns up quite regularly.
So I guess they were dumped on the market place and thus not that rare. I wonder if any in that bin / basket worked though?
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Probably not! You would have had more luck loading the basket...Iain wrote:I wonder if any in that bin / basket worked though?
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Looking back, you can see why shops loved console games so much, apart from the (I'm sure) much better profit margins, there also must have been a hell of a lot less returns than tape media and no kids blanking out a bit of the tape and saying it didn't work and swapping it for another game, while you "backed" up the original. Yes Graham, I'm looking at you!andy vaisey wrote:Probably not! You would have had more luck loading the basket...Iain wrote:I wonder if any in that bin / basket worked though?