I always felt the Ultra TMNT game is one of those titles that could've used a modern remake.

I had a C64 when everyone else had a nintendo . You don't know the struggle.

We learned patience in the UK since almost no one had a disk drive and had to sit there waiting for cassettes to load.

I've never had issues with games being hard to work. Commador was my fav thing in the world. You just need patience

I had Commodore Amiga 500 back then and I loved paying first TMNT game on it.

Thank you for the warm fuzzy on the C-64. I'm figuring out how to use my smart phone as a C-64 and pair it with a joystick.

The keyboard problem is likely due to the joystick contacts needing cleaning or bending. Contacts that shouldnt be shorting are shorting. Which also explains why he is jumping when he is pushing the button, instead of jumping by pressing up.

A few things that I hope can help. You don't need the 1 at the end to load a floppy. Just Load"*",8 will do. When loading from tape you just press shift and run at the same time, then hit play on the tape. Hit the C= button when found comes up to finish loading. If you get a bad load you can rewind and try again, but your tape deck may need cleaning, or a head aligning. There are head aligning programs available on both floppy and cartridge, or are also up for download if you have something like an SD2IEC

people that are in the c64 community don't say the games are hard to load it's easy to load as long as the disk is in good shape and you can get an sd reader to make it easier

"Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" - this is the European version of the Turtles, as the "Ninja" part had to be changed for release in Europe. On a positive note, the computer cassettes I've used tend to last far longer than 5.25" diskettes, as they're less bendable and sensitive to temperature changes. They also don't have that oval-shaped area you're never supposed to touch, which the 5.25" disks were notorious for. Thank God I know how to safely clean those areas now; I certainly didn't know back in the day.

I owned Contra, as he mentioned, for the C64. The way they set it up was that the main game controller button fired, and the button on the second controller jumped. I had a C64 controller rewired to do that with an extra button added.

"Comma one, comma eight, UGH!"

James doesn't know the difference between quotation marks and parentheses.

For what it's worth, the tape version that he tried to load is the same as the disk one, albeit an American release retaining the "Ninja" of the title.

"They use this brown paper so it can't be easily photocopied, so you can't make copies to pass around to people." Because we live in a world where handwriting doesn't exist.