COMMODORE 64 GAME REVIEW ARCHIVE

The Capcom arcade that came to the C64 to remind you that you're rubbish with a joystick. A knight in armour, a graveyard full of zombies and the most memorable mechanic of the eighties: first hit strips you to your underpants, second hit turns you into a pile of bones. A brutal classic.

Four-time world champion and his face on your C64 game cover. Dinamic Software squeezed Jorge Martínez Aspar into 64 kilobytes: real circuits, full championship season and the most demanding bike physics you'll remember. The rider from Algemesí nobody expected, who won everything.

Four goals against Denmark in '86 and his face on the cover of your C64 game. TOPO Soft achieved what no English studio could: give you a game that was yours, El Buitre's, belonging to the Spain that believed itself invincible that summer. Spanish football pixelated in 64 kilobytes.

"Another visitor. Stay awhile... Staaaay Foreverrrr." A voice in 1984. A silver-haired villain. A game that most of us couldn't finish but none of us could walk away from. The Epyx milestone that invented the digitised villain.

The game that appears on every list when you ask which was the best on the C64. Three simultaneous fighters, Rob Hubbard's music permanently lodged in your brain, and gameplay that in 2026 works just as well as it did in 1987. But is it really the best or is nostalgia talking?

Stallone on the box, promises in the air and a game that delivered none of them. Ocean bought the licence to the 1986 blockbuster and delivered a platformer with neon-green ninjas that nobody asked for. An expensive lesson in not trusting covers.

The Real Madrid idol pixelated on your C64. Dinamic immortalised the first Spaniard in the NBA with a basketball game featuring music from SID wizard Jonathan Dunn. More than a game: a cultural document of 1980s Spain.

The most censored cover in Spanish software history. Johanna, the space warrior in Azpiri's armour, scandalised the Germans and became a legend. Music by Martin Galway and the trademark Dinamic difficulty you loved to hate.

The C64's most famous ninja lands in New York. Central Park, sewers, Manhattan rooftops and a Matt Gray soundtrack that has lived rent-free in everyone's head for decades. One of the greatest games ever made for the Commodore 64.

The game that took Dinamic to the international market. Jeep, helicopter, jungle and a brutal difficulty that made the bravest cry. The C64 version programmer hid his personal confessions in the code. Music by Fred Gray.

The toughest hero to come out of Madrid. Dinamic Software created with Freddy Hardest more than a game: a character with personality, two completely different phases and proof that Spanish software could compete with the best.

A 17-year-old kid with an arcade cabinet in his garage. That's how the most beloved conversion of Sega's classic came to the C64. With SID music by Jason Brooke that still gives you goosebumps.

The unofficial Super Punch-Out!! clone that reached the British Parliament. The story behind it is as good as the game itself: arcade frames, 8 opponents with controversial stereotypes and the SID chip doing what it does best.