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Title: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: mitsuman on 05/04/2018, 10:31 AM
I remember playing Sidearms at a local convenience store when I was a kid, a few years before the TG16 was launched in the US. But I had no idea it was on the C64 as well. I found this while going through a big lot of stuff I recently picked up.

(https://image.ibb.co/dGaZtn/Unknown_1_copy.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cyRw67)
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: tbone3969 on 05/04/2018, 10:40 AM
Pretty cool.  I like Sidearms.
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: NecroPhile on 05/04/2018, 11:05 AM
Heh, neat.  How's it compare to the Turbob version?
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: mitsuman on 05/04/2018, 11:12 AM
Quote from: guest on 05/04/2018, 11:05 AMHeh, neat.  How's it compare to the Turbob version?
Oh that I don't know. It is just the manual unfortunately.
Maybe I'll stick it with my PCE version of Sidearms I have since it is the hucard only.  :lol:
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: bob on 05/04/2018, 01:31 PM
really cool.  would love to see it in action.
looks like the 5.25 floppy is asking ~$100 for current active listings
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: spenoza on 05/04/2018, 01:42 PM
It was a 1986 arcade title. It hit C64 only a year before the Turbo.
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: mitsuman on 05/04/2018, 01:51 PM
Quote from: guest on 05/04/2018, 01:42 PMIt was a 1986 arcade title. It hit C64 only a year before the Turbo.
Oh, well damn.
I was thinking it was earlier. I keep forgetting the C64 ran games into the 90s.
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: Purple1308 on 05/04/2018, 09:42 PM
Funny I just bought sidearms special for cheap. Which is weird getting use to the controls.
Title: Re: Sidearms has been around longer than I realized.
Post by: majors on 05/05/2018, 10:49 AM
One of my arcade fav's.

...better than Ordyne!