Commodore 64 here.

The Commodore 64 Mini is coming in October 2018, I believe (for Canada).

https://thec64.com/

I am looking forward to it!

Or just play it online like with http://www.virtualapple.org/loadrunnerdisk.html ... Try Commodore 64 and others as well.

Updated graphics look great! I don't get the beef, but then again I grew up on Atari and Commodore 64 graphics. Graphics ain't really mah thing.

The years after the crash but before the appearance of Nintendo were Golden Years for my brother and me. We were picking up cartridges for our Intellivision for a dollar a piece (or less) at retail stores and sometimes for free at local garage sales. I know our game library was over 50 games at one point, which as kids we never would have been able to afford if not for the crash.

We also switched to PC gaming. My dad received one of the very first laptops (with an LCD screen) from his job and I managed to get Bard's Tale up and running on it. Some of my friends went the Commodore 64 route.

So after the crash, we never stopped gaming, really, and just transitioned to the NES when it came out. But of course games became more expensive then. We gave up on owning anything but the most popular games (Mario, Zelda, etc.) and instead would swap games with classmates to try out other stuff. Mom and pop used games stores also popped up around that time and usually we could trade in an old game for a new one with an out-of-pocket expense at around $5, which was around my weekly allowance at the time and let me get a new game once a week.

Yeah, but that isn't the purpose of these. They tried that with OLPC and it was a good design but there were much more helpful ways to spend money to help third world children and it didn't really work out for a variety of reasons. These are, at best like the Raspberry Pi, intended for poor and middle-class western kids, to give them a 'hackable' platform that encouraged learning about how computers work (like the Commodore 64s and BBC Micros of old). Ideally, they would be distributed to public school students. Cheap is important, but not if it means you forgo the 'hackable'-ness.

But also my advice was really more intended for those here, who would be buying something like this to mess around with for DIY stuff.

Grand Theft Auto V - The Commodore 64 version has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-The-Commodore-64-version

There was actually a 1985 G.I. Joe Commodore 64 game from Epyx:



It was open ended, and, from what I recall only loosely based on the movie... but it's an interesting comparison to this animation.

My progression was.....
Commodore 64 (1983),
Atari520ST (1987),
Atari 1040ST (1987), (Hard drive!)
IBM PC/AT (1988),
Macintosh 2 (1990),
80486 66DX2, (1992),
Pentium overdrive for the 486DX2 (1995),
Dual Pentium MMX 166 (1996) ,
Pentium-2 333mhz (1998), (Dual voodoo-2)
Pentium-3 800mhz (2000),
Pentium D 2.8gz ( 2006),
Core i7-920 ( 2009),
Core i7-970 (2011).

Lesser machines along the way... a Macintosh SE I cant place on the timeline. My biggest regret was sticking with the Pentium-3 for so long. Wasn't so interested though.

Hmm...
>> ^deathcow:

I'm not sure what you mean sir, I was naturally referring to the ice cream treat:
http://www.icecreamsource.com/assets/images/Uploads/Dibs_crunch_lg.jpg

I had my Commodore 64 seized by the police after hacking into the school district, I must be at #11

>> ^ReverendTed:

dead


Dang it. I couldn't find a replacement except a horrible PC port: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DQ3-raKKg

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