I had so many games for my Commodore 64 I had a big bin full of cassettes. I remember my mum and dad showing me how to use it. We would "press play on tape" and wait. Mum would put the kettle on and make tea. We would know when it had finished loading because of the music changed.
I remember once I don't think I quite rewound the tape all of the way and it said "found Batman" instead of the game we were trying to load. Had to restart it and try again
The games always had good catchy 8-bit music.
The best games I had were, Cosmic Causeway, The Untouchables, a Formula 1 type game called Pit Stop. I had a light gun too if I can remember. Batman was pretty good.
All of the games were pretty difficult and near on impossible to complete. The Cosmic Causeway one went on forever. Recently me and a friend loaded that game in an emulator and only completed it by using the save and reload function in the emulator. The levels are impossible.
One thing I remember pretty clearly is my dad bringing this game home and us sitting down. You were this man on the screen and you started off in a box shaped room. There would be one or more exits and sometimes there would be things to collect on the floor etc. In one of the rooms there was an object that resembled a "skid mark" of the brown underwear type. You had to pick it up to get through somewhere.
I'll always remember that usually we never knew what we were doing or what was going on in the game.
And then one of the games was a fighter pilot game. One year dad took us to Lanzarote in Spain and they had the same game but it was a moving simulator.
It was great times being 4 years old. I'm 27 now, so the commodore must have been quite dated then, or else I was younger.
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