Remember this game...

[secal]

Oh yes, Mail Order Monsters (Electronic Arts 1985) for the C64.... The good old time.
I really liked my customized Lionbear tearing everything apart with its claws!
See the game here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Order_Monsters

I also enjoyed its "predecessor" Archon (Electronic Arts 1983). It was a kind of "Battle Chess", where the figures were monsters which had to fight with each other in an extra action-game.
See it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_%28computer_game%29

[zookeeper]

2004 was also the good old time, but resurrecting threads that old isn't cool. Split.

[Gambit]

Pox could also be considered a successor.

Sadly, media-retards tried connecting the name to a disease, claimed the game had players pretending to commit bioterrorism, and it didn't go all that well for the game.

[Ken_Oh]

I loved making amoebas in MOM, but the last time I tried the game it didn't have the appeal that it did back when I was 5.

Archon, on the other hand, still holds up. Archon II is brutal though. I've yet to be able to beat the computer.

[ahyangyi]

I think there's a open source remake of archon. Is there one?

[Ken_Oh]

Here's what the Google found: http://xarchon.seul.org/

I'll have to try it out sometime.

[secal]

Maybe it´s best to use a C64-emulator if you want to play "Archon".

A page with one and the game is here:
http://www.classic-pc-games.com/c64/games/a/index.html

I didn´t try it out though, so I dunno if it´s working well...

Yes, the computer was difficult to beat in Archon II....

Does anybody remember the game "The Bard´s Tale" (Electronic Arts 1985)?
It was the first computer game I became addicted to...
See it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard%2 ... eo_game%29