Top 50 Commodore 64 (C64) games of 1986 - in under 10 minutes

Did I miss Castlevania?

OMG I played most of these and loved every moment.

Agree this was peak C64 year for me. Finally off the tape games and with my 1541 disk drive I was trading & swapping mega-hard at high school ! I remember the concept of The Sentinel just blew my mind and still does.

1986 for me was one of the best years of C64 games. Very nostalgic looking back at these games. Great video!

It was a time, when they had to stimulate our imagination with shiny covers to the cassettes to enhance the games. Raid over Moscow was like real nuclear war to me, as I was brought up in the era of the cold war. Strip poker, was like really playing it live with hot chicks, as I was just 13, and it would give me a woody lol International soccer was just like real football in my brain.

Between 85 and 86 something dramatically changed

One of these (Ultima IV) is regarded as one of the best games of all time.

Finally some recognition of Firelord! 😄 So many hours (countless!) spent there....❤❤❤

I only had 6 games on this list. Top 6: 1. Leaderboard Golf 2. Ninja 3. Super Cycle 4. Paperboy. 5. Donkey Kong 6. Mermaid Madness.

Never seen a worst c64 list likes this...

Still amazes me how good Paperboy and Gauntlet turned out on the C64. .

Brilliant and to.think I had all the commodore computers and now I have a tiny emulator box with 175,000 games plugged into my television with games on it reviewed here lol 🤣

Never seen 'Ultimate Wizard' before - and, I must say, that it look an awefull lot like 'Jumpman' - one of my personal alltime favorites.

Dragon Riders of Pern or Jumpman Series?

I'm surprised just how many of these games I either owned or played on a friends 64...
On another note, did anyone else ever spend half a lifetime typing out a huge program script from a c64 magazine? Normally resulting in a ":syntex error in line> 123 (or something) when you went to /RUN the darn thing

When life was simpler

Quite terrible, nowadays even teens make higher quality games... That shows that the new generation has significantly higher IQs

I remember some games were so limited-looking or weird they were actually scary (I was just a kid) But some were so fantastic looking it still impresses me to this date. To name a few, Uridium, Int Karate and of course Paperboy. As I remember the best, Saboteur and others were the gems of the past trying to stay, and created the industry, they weren't just passing by.

Wizard!

El mejor año para la C64

Loved the magazines of the time too ... I was a Commodore User man, not a Zzap 64 man. Actually inspired me to eventually get into magazine journalism ... once I got there the good times had gone sadly so I quickly left.

Off the top of my head, top 5: Wizball, Head Over Heels, Parallax ... partly because of the brilliant music.

Played most of these games a lot. Got the C64 for christmas 1985 and played a lot during 1986. This was the "prime gaming year" for me as I started my record collection in 1987.

I never had a C64 my neighbours had one though. I had the Amstrad CPC464 which had brilliant games such as Sorcery which was also on the C64 but just didn't look anywhere near as nice. To this day that game still looks amazing on the Amstrad. Then i got the Amiga 500.

That Enigma Force music sounded a lot like M.U.L.E.’s to me!

ULTRA MEGA OVER KULT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Totally had forgotten about Enigma Force, played that for days on end.

Great list thank you for uploading it brought back some memories.
Cauldron 2 that was an infuriating game

too few comments, too few views. Thanks for uploading this

Definitely the best year for C64 games. So many memories and more still trails to blaze as there are some games on this list I wasn’t aware of and look like great titles to check out!

having flashbacks

Good list :)

Another great year

Great year for C64. A request, how about a C64 vs Atari 800xl video please?

Fabulous video, one of the best years for C64 game releases. Some absolute triple A titles among them.
Love these videos, keep them coming 🙂👍