Return of the Commodore 64

[Halb]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/commodore_...

Can't wait to play Bruce Lee, Forbidden Forest and Twin KIngdom Valley again.

[Si_steve]

I have never wanted anything so much as I want that. Oh the days I wasted playing salamander, impossible mission(all of them),dambusters and elite.

[Halb]

...stay a while....stay FOREVER...HA-HA-HA-HA....

[The_Jackal]

Isnt that just a laptop without a screen?
It says you can run the Commodore OS with emulation help, which you can do right now on your PC.

If I stick a Commodore 64 sticker on a spud do you reckon I could get a load of retro romantics to buy it?

[JonRB]

Only it's actually a rebadged one of these:
http://www.cybernetman.com/en/products/zero-footpr...

And the company have not yet got the rights to use the name "Commodore 64" yet.

And it's really just a laptop with the screen taken off.

The_Jackal said:

If I stick a Commodore 64 sticker on a spud do you reckon I could get a load of retro romantics to buy it?

Exactly.

Edited by JonRB on Thursday 25th March 12:28

[Hub]

I was going to say what's the point?!

Where's the cassette drive?

You can probably get every commodore game ever onto a memory stick let alone pre-load them onto a computer - but I guess it would be a licensing nightmare.

I have also found the 90% of retro gaming experiences are disappointing, and the nostalgia is best left as just that!

[ShadownINja]

Hub said:

I have also found the 90% of retro gaming experiences are disappointing, and the nostalgia is best left as just that!

Yep. While playability is important, if the graphics is so behind the times, it really negatively impacts the experience. I was a hardcore Elite fan, but I'd rather play Eve Online.

[eybic]

+1 I had illusions of sonic the hedgehog on the mega drive being an amazing game as it was when new, I played it at a mates house recently and was very very disappointed and that's it illusion shattered.

[Shinobi]

Wahoo Flimbo's quest! Never did complete that, think I only got to level 7 the ones with the witches.

[JacksHereR]

hmm just download the emulator for the PC?

[ge0rge]

Hub said:

I was going to say what's the point?!


I have also found the 90% of retro gaming experiences are disappointing, and the nostalgia is best left as just that!

Here here, yeah I remember getting an amiga emulator down. Massive waste of time & effort ! Those graphics and sounds were the best when i was 10, now theyre like the atari st graphics equiv to the amiga at the time..

[JonRB]

Hub said:

I was going to say what's the point?!

There is no point, other than to hawk a rebradged screenless laptop on the back of nostalgia by calling it a "Commodore 64".

[T89 Callan]

Halb said:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/25/commodore_...

Can't wait to play Bruce Lee, Forbidden Forest and Twin KIngdom Valley again......

.......and ruin all of your rose tinted memories?

[Sixpackpert]

Jack the Nipper. Great game!

[FellowPazzini]

Rambo, Robocop, Platoon, Gauntlet, Dizzy, Conan (etc) all fantastic games BUT think I'll stick to MW2 & keep the memories nice

[JacksHereR]

hungry horrace and maggotmania stole the most time of my childhood. Manic miner, chucky egg, beachhead! raid over moscow! Bruce Lee - was that the best co-op game?

aligator softwares Blagger!! best platform game ive ever player/will ever play regardless of platform or graphics.

potty pigeon, and some witch on a stick game

the whole tape loading thing was character building

[Odie]

ge0rge said:

Hub said:

I was going to say what's the point?!


I have also found the 90% of retro gaming experiences are disappointing, and the nostalgia is best left as just that!

Here here, yeah I remember getting an amiga emulator down. Massive waste of time & effort ! Those graphics and sounds were the best when i was 10, now theyre like the atari st graphics equiv to the amiga at the time..

I agree but i did like having a snes emulator on my old nokia n95 I think emulators have a place and that place is on a mobile phone.

[Thudd]

I was just going to post something similar. I want this in the iStore!