Fireman Sam (commodore 64)

Posted3 months agoActive3 months ago

jandeboevrie

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Retro GamingCommodore 64Childhood Nostalgia

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A blog post shares a nostalgic look at the Commodore 64 game 'Fireman Sam', sparking discussion among retro gaming enthusiasts about the game's quality and their childhood memories.

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pansa2

3 months ago

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> Always alert to the call to action

Wasn’t that Bananaman?

bitwize

3 months ago

A man of culture, I see.

bitwize

3 months ago

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I love this blog. It reminds me of the early 2000s, with Seanbaby, Zeroes Unlimited, and other funny long-form video game content in text, back before the Angry Videogame Nerd made it almost a prerequisite to make this kind of thing a video.

reaperducer

3 months ago

Too bad it hasn't been updated since before COVID.

grej

3 months ago

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I never played this, but it reminds me the C64 Ghostbusters game which I loved!

tclancy

3 months ago

That was a great one, as was the Alien game. I'm sure there was shovelware crap too, but it seems (in the glorious golden hindsight of the past) like IP was treated better. Or maybe I just didn't care because I was young or because I owned Fast Hack'em and had a few friends with C64s too.

neom

3 months ago

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Fireman Sam and Chuckie Egg are the only 2 games my grade school had for the BBCMicro.

...I wonder how many hours I've put into those games. Chuckie Egg is where the dopamine hits are tho.

varjag

3 months ago

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It was great on ZX Spectrum too! Probably the only platformer I ever finished.

neom

3 months ago

lol, hi varjag <3 - figures i'd be you and me huh, figures. ;)

mgkimsal

3 months ago

Video of actual gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2skjTv1joA

toast0

3 months ago

> Is this theory a complete load of horseshit? Absolutely, but like I said I ended up watching more Fireman Sam than I ever expected and I had to find some way of getting through it.

Yeah, that's a pretty good summary of the show.

tclancy

3 months ago

Thanks for this, I don't think I ever even saw this game. For game players of that era, I had to immediately delete an email (I think I found the site via HN) yesterday informing me of David Crane's newest Atari 2600 game. https://adgm.us/portal/guide03A.html?v=20251008

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