World Class Leaderboard
1987 Access Software
This is the original game with the Punch Shot option and without key protection. It features the following courses:

Cypress Creek
Doral Country Club
St. Andrews
Gauntlet Country Club

Famous Courses, Vol. I
1987 Access Software
The first famous courses disk with the Punch Shot Option and without key-protection. This was released in Europe as Famous Courses, Vol. II. It features the following courses:

Dorado Beach
Sunning Dale
Harbour Town
Pine Ridge

Famous Courses, Vol. II
1987 Access Software
The second famous courses disk with the Punch Shot Option and without key-protection. This was released in Europe as Famous Courses, Vol. I. It features the following courses:

Colonial Country Club
Pebble Beach
Muirfield
Glenmoor Country Club

Famous Courses, Vol. III
1987 Access Software
The third famous courses disk with the Punch Shot Option and without key-protection. It features the following courses:

Firestone Country Club
Sawgrass
Royal St. Georges
Banff Springs

Gemstone Healer
1986 Strategic Simulations Inc.
This is the sequel to Gemstone Warrior, as requested through our forum. We recommend using G41 disks (also known as G64 disks) whenever you create a playing disk for this game, in order to avoid various emulation problems. Interestingly, the aforementioned prequel (Gemstone Warrior) seems to load without problems only on the C64S emulator. This copy contains a ready-made data/map disk made in a D64 image. The D64 data disk can be used with the C64S emulator, but not with CCS64. If you want to play it on CCS64 you must create a G41 data disk instead. This game won't run on VICE.

Micro-MUD
(Multi User Dungeon)
1988 Virgin Games
MUD was a popular multi-user online game, one of the pioneers in the field. Enjoyed and loved by many, it still survives today through sites like http://ireland.iol.ie/~ecarroll/mud/. This C64 version of the game is an attempt to create the illusion of playing online, without actually being online. As such, it involves real time playing (like Infocom's Borderzone) and many NPC's which are trying to immitate real online players' behavior. This game is not only rare...it's ultra-rare: It appeared on the shelves for a very short time, and, what's more, NO version was made for any other computer besides the C64!!! No wonder you won't find a walkthrough for it anywhere, so, be our guest, and try to solve it! Note: Use 'normal' loader on CCS64, or the game will crash while loading the main part.

The Rocky Horrow Show (128k Version)
1986 CRL
This week we make a small exception and present a game that won't be in Gamebase64. Why? Because it's for the C64's bigger cousin, the C128.
The only game to my knowledge that has significant improvements in the graphics from the C64 version, this is a worthy addition to anyone's collection. Note: Play it on Vice's X128 emulator, only make sure to turn disk drive emulation off and music on before you load it up.

The Shadows of Mordor
1987 Melbourne House
This week we bring you the Shadows of Mordor right at your fingertips! The game's tape (text-only) version is widely available, however this is the disk version with graphics portraying all major locations.

Footballer of the Year
(Greek Version)
1986 Gremlin Graphics
Does this week's rare game seem Greek to you? Well, it should, since it's the Greek version of the popular Gremlin title!! :-D

Tangled Tales
1990 Origin Systems
This is classic RPG from Origin sporting very beautiful and colourful graphics. It uses an icon control system reminiscent of the one used by Sierra On-Line in its first adventures for Windows and is also one of the few 40-track C64 games around--in fact, if you know another 40-track game, drop us a line in the forum!

QIX (US Version)
1989 Taito
This week we upload the US version of QIX, graciously donated by Mason. For trivia sake we'd like to mention that the usual version of QIX around (by A.Trott) is a clone of the QIX game and was originally published as STIX by Supersoft in 1984.

PORTAL
1987 Activision

The first 100% emulatable copy of Portal (to our knowledge), created only last week for your amusement.

Background: Some years ago, a collection of C64 games came out by Activision, playable on the PC using a custom-made emulator. Because that emulator could not cope with Portal's GCR-based protection, the code of the game had to be modified. The modifiers weren't bothered with Portal's save routines--they just disabled them and instructed any would-be players to use the emulator's save routines and save the whole emulator state when wishing to save the game. The resulting version of Portal was not playable in a real C64 (when transferred), nor on any emulator -- with the strange exception of C64S (any more info on why this was so is welcome).

A long time ago somebody copied for me his original Portal disks. Unfortunately, after playing the game for some time, I discovered that his 4th side was corrupted, so there went my chance to ever reach the end of the novel. When I first got an internet connection, one of the first things to do was copy my freshly downloaded 4th side of Portal over the corrupted one. Luckily (since I didn't have the knowledge at the time to do it on purpose) this procedure kept the original's GCR data, while copying the fresh data blocks over the rest of the disk. This enabled me to finally see the end, the portal, and the...fate of the dolphins!

What had to be done: Portal cannot function in D64 images because of the way it uses GCR IDs to detect disk changes. In emulation, this is usually overcome by putting the GCR ID in place of the header ID (for example this is how we fixed Might & Magic I). The emulator's code then actually reports the header ID to any routine requesting the GCR ID. Unfortunately this method could not work on Portal for the simple reason that it has no space for the header ID, as the whole track 18 is filled with game data. As a result, the use of G64 images (lately renamed to G41) was the only way out. I knew for some time that I could make a decent version of Portal if I spent some time on it--and here you have it! A version of Portal that can be played in CCS64 and VICE and will properly save your position when asked.

Tai-Pan
1987 Ocean
Most copies of Tai-Pan around seem to be single-filed freezes from tape, so here comes the complete disk version. Enjoy!

Demon's Winter
1988 Strategic Simulations Inc.
This game's copies on the net do not contain the 3rd side, resulting in confusion of players when faced with the 'Please Insert Side C' message. In addition, password protection forbids the average player from entering the game proper. A password file had to be written--and if anybody can properly remove the protection pls let us know!

UPDATE!
You can now download a password-free version, thanks to Stephan Andres who succesfully performed this difficult surgical operation! :)

Type anything at the password screen (but you have to type something!)

Lapis Philosophorum - The Philosophers' Stone
1985 Ariolasoft
The German version of this adventure is everywhere, but the english version is not as abundant--a fitting choice for the Corner!

Where is Europe is Carmen Sandiego?
1988 Broderbund
All online copies of this game do not recognize side 2. That is not the case with the copy presented here...

Cyborg
1982 Sentient Software
Talk about a rare game! Most people don't even know that a C64 version of Michael Berlyn's classic futuristic adventure was released! Anyway, here you have it. For your information, the C64 version (like the PC version) does not contain the arcade sequence of the Apple version. I've actualy completed this game (using a walkthrough) so I can verify that the copy presented here is 100%. It is heavily error-protected, so you can play it only on the latest release of CCS64, or on VICE.

Fun School 2
Database Educational Software
A collection of eight neat games with an educational purpose... donated by Warren Pilkington!

If you have Fun School 1, pls contact us!

Fun School 3
Database Educational Software
A collection of six neat games with an educational purpose!

This is the Over 7s version.

Fun School 4
Europress Software
Another collection of six neat games, certainly more polished than the previous and equally fun to play. Great stuff intended for 7-11 year old kids, but a laugh for all ages, nonetheless!

This is the Over 7s version. If you have the 5-7s version of FS4, pls contact us!

Trump Castle
1988 Capstone
As requested (quite insistently:) in our Forum, a working copy of "The Ultimate Casino Gambling Simulation" is here -- featuring games of Blackjack, Craps, Keno, Poker, Roulette, and Slots!

Update! Use NTSC mode or you won't be able to bet on all games located on side 2!

Millenium Warriors
1989 First Star
A great two-player game which offers challenge to the single player as well. Not well known, as it was published in Europe in the early 90s when the fate of the C64 was dwindling.