Confessions of a Commodore Kid
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My Favourite #C64 Two Player Games No. 13
Barbarian
Palace’s sword-swinging classic came with plenty of controversy, from the risqué adverts to the blood, gore & infamous decapitations, and in 2-player mode, nothing beat the savage satisfaction of chopping your mate’s head off. Brutally brilliant.
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My Favourite #C64 Two Player Games - No. 19
Armalyte
This top-drawer, super-slick and utterly gorgeous shooter is brilliant solo, but the simultaneous 2-player mode turns it into a proper co-op blast. Fast, tough and chaotic, it’s all about covering each other and somehow surviving the onslaught.
My Favourite #C64 Two Player Games – No. 18
Beach Head 2
“HEY! DON’T SHOOT ME!” Beach-Head 2’s real fun began in head-to-head mode. As kids, nothing was funnier than blasting your mate to bits or catching him round the lughole with a perfectly aimed knife throw. Another Carver brothers classic.
My Favourite #C64 Two Player Games - No. 17
International Karate
Archer Maclean’s karate classic is slick, stylish and brutally competitive. The 2-player mode is fantastic fun, with tense one-on-one bouts, flying kicks to the head and last-second knockouts. Simple, sharp and still great fun.
My Favourite #C64 Two Player Games - No. 16
Street Sports Basketball
Andrew Spencer took International Basketball to the streets & gave us another gem. Cool presentation, fab graphics, loads of humour & brilliantly playable, it’s terrific two-player fun. Simply the best basketball game on the C64.
My Favourite #C64 Two Player Games – No. 15
Ikari Warriors
This brilliant but tough-as-nails arcade conversion really comes alive with a buddy alongside you. Stomping through the jungle, spraying bullets, lobbing grenades and nicking the tank makes for cracking two-player Commando co-op action.
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My Favourite #C64 Two Player Games – No.20
Wizball
This strange and super-slick shoot-'em-up was like nothing else when it bounced onto the C64. In 2-player mode, one player controls Wiz while the other guides the Catellite, turning its quirky, colour-collecting chaos into cracking co-op action.
My Favourite #C64 Two Player Games - No. 11
Way of the Exploding Fist
The first proper one-on-one karate game on the C64, Fist was absolutely stunning when it arrived in the summer of 1985. Tense, tactical and wonderfully satisfying, its 2-player bouts were brilliant - a stone-cold classic.
My Favourite #C64 Two-Player Games – No. 14
Alien Syndrome
Charging around alien-infested bases with your buddy, rescuing hostages and blasting horrible space beasties before the timer runs out makes for tense, frantic 2-player action. A cracking conversion of Sega’s ace Aliens-inspired coin-op.
