Thud Ridge: American Aces In Nam

Thud Ridge: American Aces In Nam was released in 1988, by Three-Sixty Pacific, Inc. The premise of the game you were a Republic F-105 Thunderchief pilot known as the “Thud”. Set in Vietnam was you were to fly conventional strike and defense suppression missions.

You start out in as a Lieutenant in the “Wild Weasels” and you first mission is to get a feel of your “Thud” craft. Missions that follow vary from eliminating tankers, bombing bridges, dropping leaflets, even engaging MIGs. Your rank will advance if missions are completed.

You can see in the 3rd photo that this game used a look up code for it’s form of copy protection calling it the Flight Verification Code.

It actually uses the RED sheet of paper with black letters making it hard or impossible to photocopy.  Here is also the code table in PDF format. Thud Ridge Flight Code Chart

Again thanks goes to Craig Ernster for providing the photos and information.

Monday Night Football didn’t have on disk protection but a code you have to look up. First let me know you have do wait for the game to load through about 4 or 5 intro screens before you even get to the code screen.

See the screen below with the couch looking guy. There is a Passcode on the bottom left. Look up that code on my PDF code sheet here: Monday Night Football CODE SHEET

The Passcode on this screen is 24 so you need to enter in ’59’ and the game will then load.

Castlevania – Code Sheet

This game was released for the Commodore 64 in 1990 by Konami, which was another hugely popular game on the Nintendo NES.

The Commodore 64 disk of Castlevania did not have any copy protection on it, BUT instead you had

look up a password from the Castlevania Password Book. Like many code sheets from this time it was on dark red paper, making it very hard to photocopy. See below.

Thanks to Klotz, I was sent scans of  the original sheet. As usual I converted it to Black and White and put into a PDF.

You can download it here: Castlevania-codes

Blades of Steel was released in 1990 by Konami for the Commodore 64. Most people will remember this great game from their old Nintendo NES days. This was also a fun game for the Commodore 64.

The disk do not have any copy protection on it, but instead the game used a “Code Sheet”.

You needed to enter a four digita password code before being able to play the game.

Again Thanks to: Craig A. Ernster we now have that code sheet online.

Here it is in PDF:
Blades of Steel Password Book

Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus was released by Flair software in 1992. This game is a must play game if you have a C64. It’s FUN to play and has some amazing graphics for the Commodore 64. The USA version came on 4 disks. This game does use a CODE WHEEL and thanks to Craig A. Ernster, we now have it documented online for others. Here is a PDF of the three parts: elvira codewheel. Again you just need to Print out and Cut out! Check out some screen shots from this game.

STARFLIGHT was a role-playing game released in 1989 by Electronic Arts.

It’s copy protect was a Code Wheel.

I’ve seen the two different code wheel colors.
One is Purple with white text and the other is Black with white text. I converted the purple one to black and white and posted online below.

This will be easier to print out and save you some ink!

But here is the Purple one in a PDF file just incase you want that also! Starflight Codewheel

RIGHT-CLICK and save.
Print out and Cut out!

Codewheel Credits to: Craig A. Ernster