The Commodore 64 is coming back!

[megatabbers]

That probably doesn't mean shit to most of you on here, but to an "old timer" like myself...

new-commodore-64-nyt: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

 

[Godspeed]

does it comes with turbo 250 for the games?
I broke many joysticks with summer Olympic games and combat school

 

[Rexibit]

Will definitely buy one of these lol.

 

[JakeStratham]

For those too young to remember, that's a "video game" some of us old-timers used to play on the 64.

 

[zxcvb]

For those too young to remember, that's a "video game" some of us old-timers used to play on the 64.

So how old are you guys? 64?

 

[JakeStratham]

So how old are you guys? 64?

Kidding.

 

[Fiver]

For those too young to remember, that's a "video game" some of us old-timers used to play on the 64.

I had Zork 1, 2, and 3 but never finished any of them.

 

[Nikko]

I loved my commie 64. I remember how jazzed I was when I upgraded to the 128...

 

[JakeStratham]

I had Zork 1, 2, and 3 but never finished any of them.

I had 1 and 2, but not 3. It was just as well. I couldn't have finished 'em if my life depended on it. My brother, on the other hand, was a whiz. He got the brains; I got the looks (so said the guy on the interwebs).

 

[kingofsp]

Ain't got nothin' on Coleco.

 

[JakeStratham]

Ain't got nothin' on Coleco.

You wouldn't believe how excited I got when this came out:

Almost did this:

 

[pocketrockets]

I had the VIC-20!

 

[Firelead]

LOAD "This is Awesome",8,1

 

[oknetwork]

I had this http://www.leningrad.su/museum/show_calc.php?n=301

 

[DewChugr]

I've got an Atair 2600 with about 20 game cartridges.

 

[edward_b]

I got given a Sinclair ZX81 as a present when I was about 8-9. It had 1kb RAM (not a typo). Probably the worlds most awful computer ever. You had to program it in basic to do anything at all, and there was no means of saving/doing anything else once you'd run your program. I hated it

Then came a Vic20 which seemed a lot more fun, and then a 64 which just seemed totally ballin' at the time, and then the big leap to a Spectrum 128kb. Ah, the memories...when I get pissed off with windows I try and remember how incredible computers are now compared to that horrible zx81

 

[tomaszjot]

So what were your favorite games for C64?

Here is my short list:

1. International Karate
2. Leaderboard Golf
3. Bruce Lee
4. Green Beret
5. Microprose Soccer

Unfortunately in early 2008 I realized C64 does not cover all my needs and had to move to Amiga 1200.

 

[pocketrockets]

I remember playing Choplifter a lot, lol

Oh man, I forgot Shatner plugged the Commodore back in the day, lol
This thing was $300 back then.. that is equal to $800 in today's dollars!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEI7mm8M7Q"]YouTube - Commodore Vic-20 commercial[/ame]

 

[valkerie]

So what were your favorite games for C64?

Here is my short list:

1. International Karate
2. Leaderboard Golf
3. Bruce Lee
4. Green Beret
5. Microprose Soccer

Unfortunately in early 2008 I realized C64 does not cover all my needs and had to move to Amiga 1200.

Summer Games, Winter Games, Joust?, and Impossible Mission.

Then I worked for a bunch of programmers and discovered the networked Wang, which had the Adventure text game. I was hooked. Then my boss got an IBM 286. It cost 5K. Learned spreadsheets and that anything over 16 hours of OT was taxed to shit. Found CompuServe before AOL ruined it.

Wait - Dude - 2008?

 

[Armakuni]

I wasted so much time on the C64... I always preferred the longer action/strategy games, never cared much for platform games.

Favorites:
Last Ninja 1 and 2 (revolutionary action games)
Red Storm Rising (surprisingly sophisticated submarine simulator)
Pirates! (The ancestor to Sid Meier's Pirates for the PC. Pretty much the same game.)
Ace of Aces (WWII Flight simulator/action game)
Impossible Mission (The thinking man's platform game)