The 10 Best Commodore 64 PETSCII Games Ever Made!
582*Disclaimer : some of these games use hardware sprites
Hey guys OSG here with a new Patreon request. Grymmjack who joined my Patreon a couple of weeks ago asked me to do a video on C64 PETSCII games…. Well I have to admit that I had no clue what that was….a quick google later and I found that a friend of the Channel Robin from 8 Bit show and tell knew all about them so I have drawn on his knowledge to complete this request.
So ascii is the use of standard keyboard character set that most of us will have seen in terminal programs or mostly in that little .nfo file that comes with games that when opened with notepad tells us how to install and play the game. It’s something that I regularly use when making game launcher batch files just to give them that more professional look. But it’s not a new thing it’s been around since 1963 when the first edition of the standard was published. Pretty soon after coders started to use the ascii character set to create graphics rather than the usual bitmap graphics Since then there has been many revisions and today we will be looking at the Commodores own version of Ascii known at PETSCII.
Anyway, that’s the history of PETSCII just to give this video some context but the real request was for a list of best C64 PETSCII graphics games. I’ll just say that this list wasn’t an easy one as some games that I have played loads of times I never even knew were PETSCII but after a discussion with Robin from 8-Bit show and tell he pointed me in the right direction and a post on Facebook from Hársfalvi Gábor which named a lot of PETSCII games which I went away and played and came up with 10 great games that used PETSCII graphics
So without more delay let’s take a look at the 10 best Commodore 64 PETSCII graphics games in order of greatness.
Check out 8-Bit Show and Tell
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Check out The 8-Bit Guys video on Attack of the PETSCII Robots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyf7tiSO9vo
Also Thanks to Hársfalvi Gábor
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