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The Commodore 64 had lots of games. Not all of them are good. In Zapped to the Past, we cast a retrospective eye over those games reviewed in each issue of Zzap!64 magazine. Hosted by two lifelong C64 fans, we throw off those rose tinted specs and see if those games are still worth playing today.
Episodes
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Zapped to the Past Episode 2 Part 2 June 1985
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
In the jaunty month of June 1985, many games were released for the Commodore 64. In episode two - part two of Zapped to the Past, we conclude our look at some of those games, including the Dreary Dambusters, the bewildering Blagger Goes to Hollywood and the hypnotic Hypercircuit and wonder just what the fascination with Quasimodo was…
Games covered in this episode:
- Hypercircuit
- Quasimodo
- BC II - Grogs Revenge
- Big Mac
- Dambusters
- Blagger Goes to Hollywood
- Glider Pilot
- StarFire/Fire One
- ESTRA
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Monday Feb 15, 2021
Zapped to the Past Episode 2 Part 1 June 1985
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
In the jaunty month of June 1985, many games were released for the Commodore 64. In episode two - part one of Zapped to the Past, we look at some of those games, including the terrifying Theatre Europe, the exasperating Everyone’s a Wally and the splendid Super Pipeline 2 and wonder just who exactly Richard Petty was.
Games covered in this episode:
- Theatre Europe
- On Court Tennis
- M.U.L.E
- Super Pipeline 2
- Loderunner
- International Basketball
- Everyones a wally
- World Series Baseball
- Richard Petty's Talladega
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Monday Feb 08, 2021
Zapped to the Past Episode 1 Part 2 May 1985
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
In the misty month of May 1985, many games were released for the Commodore 64. In episode one part two of Zapped to the Past, we conclude our look at some of those games, including the perplexing Pastfinder, the slothful Shades and the bland Buck Rogers and wonder just how invigorated the Lords of Midnight really were…
Games covered in the episode:
- Give My Regards to Broad Street
- Pastfinder
- Lords of Midnight
- Dark Tower
- Penetrator
- Shades
- Web Dimension
- Buck Rogers
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Monday Feb 01, 2021
Zapped to the Past Episode 1 Part 1 May 1985
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
In the misty month of May 1985, many games were released for the Commodore 64. In this first episode of Zapped to the Past, we look at some of those games, including the expansive Elite, the stylish ShadowFire and the creepy Cauldron and we ponder whether Tim really does love cricket..
Games covered in this episode:
- Elite
- Spyhunter
- Pole Position
- Airwolf
- Tir Na Nog
- Bounty Bob Strikes Back
- Tim Loves cricket
- Super Huey
- Cauldron
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