Chessmaster 2000 on the Commodore 64 is a polished, accessible chess program that lets you play, practice, and sharpen your game against a capable computer opponent with helpful learning features.

Chessmaster 2000 for the Commodore 64 brings a confident, tournament-minded vibe to home chess, offering adjustable difficulty, clean presentation, and training-oriented tools that make it as useful for improving your fundamentals as it is for casual matches, striking a nice balance between serious play and friendly approachability, and standing out as one of the era’s go-to digital chess companions when you want your next opponent to be patient, relentless, or both.

The Curse of Rabenstein on the Commodore 64 is a modern homebrew, spooky-fun adventure set around the ominous Rabenstein estate, where you explore creepy rooms, hunt items, and solve puzzles with a wink of dark humor. It leans into classic 8-bit horror vibes—more mystery and atmosphere than twitch action—making it feel like a love letter to old-school haunted-house adventures with a fresh C64-era shine.

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The Dallas Quest on the Commodore 64 is a Cold War spy adventure set in contemporary (for the time) Dallas, where you play a KGB agent trying to track down a stolen laser formula before rival forces and the authorities close in. Part text adventure and part graphic exploration, it has you search locations, interrogate contacts, collect and use items, and piece together clues under a sense of urgency. The tone is more grounded thriller than fantasy, with a cat-and-mouse feel that makes it a neat, era-specific snapshot of mid-80s espionage storytelling on the C64.

The Eidolon on the Commodore 64 is a surreal Lucasfilm Games action-adventure where you descend into a mysterious underground world as a wizard, blasting bizarre creatures and pushing deeper through increasingly dangerous caverns. It mixes fast, arcade-style combat with a moody, otherworldly vibe, using striking visuals and a steady sense of escalation as you hunt for power and survive strange guardians on your way toward the ultimate confrontation. It’s less about mapping and more about atmosphere and reflexes—an odd, memorable slice of mid-80s fantasy weirdness.

The Eternal Dagger on the Commodore 64 is a party-based fantasy RPG from Strategic Simulations (SSI), released in 1987, and a direct sequel to Wizard’s Crown. You can import your characters from the first game and face a new crisis as demons pour into the world through an interdimensional portal that can only be sealed by the legendary Eternal Dagger. The game keeps the series’ trademark emphasis on detailed, tactical, turn-based combat (with an option for faster auto-resolved battles) while sending you across wilderness, towns, and dangerous dungeons in a more refined version of the original system, with expanded magic and updated mechanics.

If you were somehow to be taken back in time and found yourself in the Middle Ages, it is probable that you would find life very difficult, without knowing the rules and ethics of that period of history. In this game that is exactly what is going to happen, so we suggest that you read this instruction manual at least once before attempting the game.

Read ye well seeker, this ancient grimoire of lore and Knowledge o! days afore...Study these runes and learn ye these ciphers-and mayhap ye shall solve the riddle o! the Faery Tale Adventure...

Go for the gold in The Games: Summer Edition for the Commodore 64, a multi-event Olympic-style sports challenge that puts your joystick skills to the test. Compete in events like hurdles, pole vault, high jump, diving, cycling, and more, each with its own timing and technique to master. Choose your country, chase records, and go head-to-head with friends or the computer as you fight for medals and a spot on the podium. With TV-style presentation and plenty of joystick-thrashing action, it turns your C64 into a full summer stadium.

The Games: Winter Edition on the Commodore 64 is an addictive multi-event sports game that lets you compete in a variety of Winter Olympic-style challenges like downhill skiing, ski jump, bobsled, speed skating, biathlon, and more (depending on version). It mixes quick, arcade-friendly controls with just enough technique to reward practice, making it great both solo for high-score chasing and with friends for rivalries and bragging rights. The charm comes from its brisk event variety and that classic C64 sports-game loop of learning each discipline’s rhythm, shaving off tiny mistakes, and slowly turning clumsy first runs into surprisingly clean medal-worthy performances.

The Goonies on the Commodore 64 is a single-screen puzzle-platform game based loosely on the movie, where you control two Goonies at once (swapping between them) to escape a series of trap-filled rooms while staying ahead of the Fratellis. Each room is its own little logic challenge: flip switches, ride moving platforms, kick cages, drop boulders, and trigger Rube Goldberg-style mechanisms so that both kids can reach the exit, all while avoiding bats, guard dogs, and other hazards. Timing matters—sometimes one Goonie has to stand on a plate or lure an enemy while the other sneaks through—and later screens demand pretty precise coordination and planning. It ends up feeling like a compact, clever co-op puzzle game you play solo, wrapped in chiptune versions of the movie’s theme and a steady stream of contraption-based set pieces.

Join Mikey, Mouth, Chunk, and the rest of the gang in The Goonies for the Commodore 64, as you race to save your homes from the Fratellis and uncover One-Eyed Willy’s legendary treasure!

The Guild of Thieves for the Commodore 64 is a classic interactive fiction caper that mixes atmospheric world-building with intricate, satisfying puzzles as you explore streets, mansions, and secretive corners of a well-realized setting, gathering tools, information, and nerve to execute a string of high-stakes thefts and earn a place among the criminal elite, delivering that perfect old-school thrill of feeling smart, sneaky, and just one good idea away from cracking the next supposedly impossible job.

The Guild of Thieves on the Commodore 64 is a rich, puzzle-heavy text adventure where you prove your worth to an elite thieves’ guild by pulling off clever heists across a sprawling city.

The Guild of Thieves on the Commodore 64 is a rich, puzzle-heavy text adventure where you prove your worth to an elite thieves’ guild by pulling off clever heists across a sprawling city.

Welcome to The Guild of Thieves for the Commodore 64, where larceny is an art and you’re the apprentice eager to make your mark! As a newly recruited thief on a picturesque island estate, you’ll sneak through mansions, galleries, churches, and countryside hideaways, lifting everything that isn’t nailed down—and figuring out how to loosen what is. Examine every object, solve devious puzzles, and outwit guards, traps, and locked doors using your wits and a powerful text parser that understands rich, natural commands. With its sharp humor, intricate locations, and a glittering haul of treasures to pilfer, The Guild of Thieves turns your C64 into a playground for the aspiring master burglar—do you have what it takes to rise through the ranks?

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on the Commodore 64 is Infocom’s famously devious interactive fiction adaptation of Douglas Adams’ universe, where you play Arthur Dent and survive absurd cosmic disasters through sharp observation and even sharper puzzle logic.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on the Commodore 64 is Infocom’s famously devious interactive fiction adaptation of Douglas Adams’ universe, where you play Arthur Dent and survive absurd cosmic disasters through sharp observation and even sharper puzzle logic.

Step into the world of Middle-earth in The Hobbit for the Commodore 64, an epic adventure that puts you in the furry feet of Bilbo Baggins on his legendary quest to reclaim treasure from the dragon Smaug. Explore a rich world of locations from the classic novel—Bag End, the Misty Mountains, Mirkwood, and beyond—using powerful text commands and atmospheric graphics to interact with characters, solve clever puzzles, and survive deadly encounters.

Step into the world of Middle-earth in The Hobbit for the Commodore 64, an epic adventure that puts you in the furry feet of Bilbo Baggins on his legendary quest to reclaim treasure from the dragon Smaug. Explore a rich world of locations from the classic novel—Bag End, the Misty Mountains, Mirkwood, and beyond—using powerful text commands and atmospheric graphics to interact with characters, solve clever puzzles, and survive deadly encounters. Talk to dwarves, match wits in riddles, outsmart trolls and goblins, and choose your actions carefully as time passes and characters move and act on their own. With a sophisticated parser, dynamic world, and faithful adaptation of Tolkien’s timeless tale, The Hobbit turns your C64 into a living storybook—will you dare to burgle a dragon’s hoard?

The Last Ninja on the Commodore 64 is an isometric action-adventure where you play Armakuni, the sole survivor of a massacred ninja clan, journeying across the island of Lin Fen to infiltrate the palace of evil shogun Kunitoki, avenge your brethren, and recover sacred ninja scrolls.

The Last Ninja on the Commodore 64 is a standout isometric action-adventure where you play Armakuni, a lone ninja returning to a corrupt, enemy-held island to restore honor and defeat a powerful warlord. Blending exploration, puzzle-solving, and tough martial-arts combat, it sends you across atmospheric locations—from temples and forests to underground passages—while you gather items, decode clues, and master precise timing in fights. With its striking visuals, moody sense of place, and legendary soundtrack, it’s one of the C64’s most iconic “serious” action epics and a high-water mark for the system’s cinematic adventure feel.

The Last Ninja on the Commodore 64 (published by Activision in some regions) is a landmark isometric action-adventure where you guide a lone ninja through trap-filled islands, blending exploration, combat, and puzzle-solving with iconic atmosphere.

The Last Ninja on the Commodore 64 is a standout isometric action-adventure where you play Armakuni, a lone ninja returning to a corrupt, enemy-held island to restore honor and defeat a powerful warlord. Blending exploration, puzzle-solving, and tough martial-arts combat, it sends you across atmospheric locations—from temples and forests to underground passages—while you gather items, decode clues, and master precise timing in fights. With its striking visuals, moody sense of place, and legendary soundtrack, it’s one of the C64’s most iconic “serious” action epics and a high-water mark for the system’s cinematic adventure feel.

The Legend of Blacksilver on the Commodore 64 is a sprawling open-world fantasy RPG where you explore the island of Grawn, build a party, and hunt for the pieces of the shattered magical Blacksilver weapon to stop an evil force threatening the land. It plays in a classic first-person, tile-based style with towns, wilderness, and big dungeons, leaning hard into exploration, character development, and steady loot-and-level progression. Think of it as a huge, old-school quest with a strong “go anywhere, piece it together” vibe and plenty of hours of adventuring if you enjoy mapping and methodical party-building.

The Lurking Horror on the Commodore 64 is Infocom’s chilly Lovecraft-tinged text adventure where you play a skeptical G.U.E. student investigating a string of bizarre deaths and disappearances around a decaying campus complex during a brutal winter storm. As you explore tunnels, basements, and sealed-off spaces, the story escalates from creepy rumors into genuine cosmic horror, mixing grounded, clever puzzles with a steadily tightening atmosphere. It’s one of Infocom’s best late-era scares—smart, tense, and unsettling in that slow-burn way that sticks with you.

The Lurking Horror on the Commodore 64 is Infocom’s Lovecraft-tinged campus chiller where you investigate eerie deaths during a winter storm as the mystery escalates into true cosmic horror.

The Lurking Horror for the Commodore 64 is a deliciously atmospheric slice of interactive fiction horror that traps you in a snowbound campus as strange noises, power failures, and mounting dread point to something ancient and wrong beneath the building, blending Infocom’s sharp writing with tense exploration and clever puzzles, and delivering a slow, claustrophobic escalation that feels like a love letter to Lovecraftian fear filtered through 80s computing culture.

The Magic Candle on the Commodore 64 is a deep, party-based fantasy RPG where you lead ranger Lukas and up to five companions on a quest to keep the demon Dreax imprisoned inside a slowly melting candle.

The Magic Candle on the Commodore 64 is a deep, party-based fantasy RPG where you lead ranger Lukas and up to five companions on a quest to keep the demon Dreax imprisoned inside a slowly melting candle. Instead of just grinding to a final boss, you roam the kingdom of Deruvia talking to NPCs, gathering ritual components, learning chants, and solving quests that all feed into restoring the candle’s power before time runs out. The world feels unusually “alive” for a C64 game: your characters get hungry and tired, shops close at night, weapons wear out, and you can even split the party so some members work jobs in town or train while others explore dungeons. It ends up playing like a very intricate, simulation-flavored alternative to the Ultima-style RPGs of the era.

The Magic Candle on the Commodore 64 is a deep, party-based, top-down fantasy RPG where you guide ranger hero Lukas and up to five recruited companions across the kingdom of Deruvia to keep the demon Dreax imprisoned in a slowly melting magical candle.

The Magic Candle is a game with many features and options. As you progress, you will need to read the "Sage Advice" later in this book. The advisers of King Rebnard will provide your hero with information he must know.

You should get a feel for the game before you seriously attempt to take care of the problem of the magic candle. Follow these directions for a quick start. Later, you may decide to start over. But, first, go through this process to become familiar with the game system.

The Mask of the Sun on the Commodore 64 is a classic fantasy adventure/RPG where you explore a huge world of towns, wilderness, and dungeons searching for the legendary Mask of the Sun to defeat an evil threat. It plays with an old-school mix of exploration, party management, and turn-based combat, and it’s known for its ambitious scope for the era—more about the long journey, discovery, and building your strength than flashy action. If you like sprawling 80s questing with a “go anywhere, piece it together” vibe, this one scratches that itch.

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The Movie Monster Game for the Commodore 64 is a 1986 action-strategy title by Epyx that lets players wreak havoc as giant movie-inspired monsters across famous global cities.

Players choose from six monsters—including Godzilla, The Glog (a Blob-like creature), and others inspired by Mothra, Tarantula, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man—and then select a mission type such as “Berserk,” “Escape,” or “Search.” Each scenario unfolds in a destructible city like Tokyo, Paris, or New York, complete with recognizable landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty. The game begins with a clever cinema-themed intro and offers 216 possible combinations of monster, mission, and city, giving it high replay value. With its isometric perspective and endurance-based gameplay, it blends campy monster movie charm with arcade-style destruction.

The Pawn for the Commodore 64 is a Magnetic Scrolls classic that pairs rich parser-driven storytelling with striking visuals, dropping you into a strange, witty world where your lost identity and a larger magical mystery slowly come into focus as you explore varied locations and tackle layered, logic-heavy challenges, delivering a satisfying old-school blend of atmosphere, wordplay, and “aha” problem-solving that helped define the premium feel of mid-80s interactive adventures.

The Pawn for the Commodore 64 is a Magnetic Scrolls classic that pairs rich parser-driven storytelling with striking visuals, dropping you into a strange, witty world where your lost identity and a larger magical mystery slowly come into focus as you explore varied locations and tackle layered, logic-heavy challenges, delivering a satisfying old-school blend of atmosphere, wordplay, and “aha” problem-solving that helped define the premium feel of mid-80s interactive adventures.

The Pawn for the Commodore 64 is a Magnetic Scrolls classic that pairs rich parser-driven storytelling with striking visuals, dropping you into a strange, witty world where your lost identity and a larger magical mystery slowly come into focus as you explore varied locations and tackle layered, logic-heavy challenges, delivering a satisfying old-school blend of atmosphere, wordplay, and “aha” problem-solving that helped define the premium feel of mid-80s interactive adventures.

The Pawn on the Commodore 64 is a tough, witty graphic text adventure by Magnetic Scrolls, set in the whimsical fantasy land of Kerovnia after you’re mysteriously whisked away there from an ordinary park by a dwarf. You explore forests, castles, and odd little corners of the kingdom, meeting sarcastic wizards, scheming royalty, and assorted fairy-tale weirdos while a surprisingly involved political mess unfolds in the background. Play is driven by a powerful parser that accepts fairly natural commands (“ASK WIZARD ABOUT SPELLS,” “PUT GEM IN BOX”) alongside detailed location illustrations, and many puzzles demand close reading, experimentation, and a taste for dry British humor. It’s famous for being both beautiful and brutally difficult—very much an early “next-generation” adventure that expects you to map, take notes, and really think.

The Queen’s Footsteps on the Commodore 64 is a modern interactive fiction adventure by Davide Bucci set in a steampunk-flavored Italy in 1904, told across multiple parts and played with a classic text parser. A newer C64 “graphics/text” modified release credits Marco Giorgini for a 2024 version/port that adds visual flavor to the experience, but the core appeal remains story-driven investigation and puzzle-solving in an elegant old-school style.

The Quest for the Commodore 64 blends illustrated scenes with parser-driven commands in an early, ambitious take on the graphic text adventure, casting you as the king’s adviser who issues orders that are carried out by your party—especially the warrior Gorn—as you explore a medieval world, gather key items, and tackle the dragon menace through nonlinear problem-solving, making it a charmingly old-school hybrid of story, exploration, and puzzle logic that stands out for its era-spanning design and unusual “you command the hero” structure.

The Rocky Horror Show on the Commodore 64 is an action-adventure game where you play as either Brad or Janet, exploring Frank-N-Furter’s bizarre castle to rescue your partner who’s been turned to stone. You must search the maze-like rooms for scattered pieces of the Medusa machine, carrying them one at a time to the De-Medusa device while also finding keys to unlock doors and disable force fields. All of this has to be done against a time limit before the castle blasts off into space, and you’re constantly harassed by familiar characters like Riff Raff and Eddie who try to hinder your progress.

THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PRIME is an interactive science fiction-horror from Marco Innocenti, the acclaimed and IFComp winner author of the Andromeda Legacy series, sequel to A1RL0CKby the same author.

The Secret of the Silver Blades on the Commodore 64 is a classic AD&D Gold Box RPG where your party ventures into the frozen wastes of Icewind Dale to uncover a sinister mystery tied to an ancient, evil power.

The Seven Cities of Gold for the Commodore 64 blends big-picture exploration with tense moment-to-moment decisions as you outfit ships, land on unknown shores, map vast territories, and encounter indigenous civilizations whose reactions can range from trade to war depending on your choices, giving the game a thoughtful, sometimes sobering edge beneath its adventurous premise, and making it a pioneering, highly replayable classic that feels like an early ancestor of modern exploration and 4X-style strategy.

The Seven Cities of Gold on the Commodore 64 is a landmark exploration-strategy game where you lead a Spanish expedition into the New World, balancing discovery, diplomacy, and survival in a surprisingly open-ended quest for legendary riches.

The Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle for the Commodore 64 is a tough, atmospheric early adventure that drops you into a sprawling, trap-laced stronghold full of strange rooms, cryptic clues, and lethal surprises, asking you to map carefully, experiment with objects, and think like a cautious treasure-hunter as you push deeper toward the heart of the fortress and its sinister master, delivering that pure 80s computer-adventure vibe where patience, curiosity, and a willingness to learn from brutal mistakes are the real keys to victory.

The Standing Stones on the Commodore 64 is an early Electronic Arts fantasy dungeon-crawler/maze-RPG released in 1984, designed by Dan Sommers and Peter Schmuckal, that puts you in a first-person 3D (wireframe-style) underground labyrinth to fight monsters, gather treasure, and survive increasingly dangerous depths. It’s a lean, old-school experience focused more on exploration, resource management, and the tension of pushing deeper versus retreating to recover than on elaborate story, and it sits in that interesting early-’80s space between pure maze games and fuller party-based RPGs.

The Sword of Fargoal for the Commodore 64 is a classic bite-sized adventure that mixes simple action with the tension of procedural dungeons, asking you to fight monsters, grab loot, manage limited resources, and learn when to push your luck or retreat, all in a quick, replay-friendly loop that makes each descent feel a little different and each victory feel surprisingly heroic for such a compact, elegant, and relentlessly playable C64 gem.