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. 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.
John Twiddy paused work on it to rewrite/rescue System 3's The Last Ninja. In ZZAP in Oct 86, he said he was working on IW & hoped it would be finished in 5 weeks, but it didn't surface until 1988! ZZAP reviewed it in March 88, describing it as having been ‘missing in action for over 18 months’. 👇
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.
