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Every Zzap!64 Gold Medal & Sizzler of 1986 | The Best Commodore 64 Games?
Revisiting Zzap!64’s first full calendar year of Gold Medals and Sizzlers, covering every Commodore 64 game awarded in 1986 and asking whether these really were the best C64 games of the year.
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Chapters and linked CCG game pagesVideo chapters
- 0:00Intro – Zzap!64 Gold Medals & Sizzlers of 1986
- 0:47January 1986 – Issue #9: Ballblazer, Koronis Rift & Robin of the Wood
- 6:17February 1986 – Issue #10: Bounder, The Eidolon, Revs & Fight Night
- 11:36March 1986 – Issue #11: Mercenary, Uridium, Germany 1985 & HardBall
- 18:46April 1986 – Issue #12: Zoids, Field of Fire, Spellbreaker & Questron
- 23:45May 1986 – Issue #13: Alter Ego, Thrust, Ultima IV & Super Bowl
- 29:00June 1986 – Issue #14: Spindizzy, Cauldron II, International Karate & Starquake
- 39:22July 1986 – Issue #15: Leaderboard, Slamball, Boulder Dash III & The Sentinel
- 45:40August 1986 – Issue #16: Kikstart II, Green Beret, Tau Ceti & Infiltrator
- 51:25September 1986 – Issue #17: Ghosts ’n Goblins, GAC, Split Personalities & Jewels of Darkness
- 1:00:02October 1986 – Issue #18: Parallax, Iridis Alpha, Super Cycle & Beyond the Forbidden Forest
- 1:06:51November 1986 – Issue #19: World Games, Dan Dare, Sanxion & Vietnam
- 1:13:28December 1986 – Issue #20: The Sentinel, The Pawn, Antiriad & Boulder Dash Construction Kit
- 1:21:13Final Thoughts – Was 1986 Better Than 1985?
Games linked in the CCG archive
About this feature
This Retro Special goes through Zzap!64’s first full calendar year and revisits every Commodore 64 game that received either a Gold Medal or Sizzler award in 1986. From Uridium, Mercenary, Leaderboard and Ghosts ’n Goblins to World Games, The Sentinel, Thrust, Kikstart II, International Karate, Sanxion, Spindizzy, Cauldron II, Alter Ego, Ultima IV, Green Beret, Ballblazer, Koronis Rift, The Eidolon, Revs and more, it looks at which awards still feel fully deserved today and which choices remain open for debate.
Explore Zzap!64's 1986 Awards
Revisit the Sizzlers and Gold Medals awarded during 1986, then follow the individual games into the wider CCG archive for videos, reviews and supporting material.
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