The C64 is a full-sized Commodore 64 reboot, coming December 2019

IndyColtsFan said:
I’ve been playing video games for 40 years, with Space Invaders being the game that sent me down this path. I’ve owned several consoles (Atari 2600, various Xboxes, various Playstations) and went from a VIC 20 to a Commodore 64 to a Commodore 128 and then to an Amiga 2000 before I switched to PCs. Over all these decades and systems, no other system meant more to me than the Commodore 64. The games were amazing and engaging in ways games today just can’t match. As a matter-of-fact, I’ve pretty much given up on modern gaming and am seriously thinking about pulling my Commodore machines (yes, I still own them) out of the garage and setting them up.

As someone earlier said, it was a magical age and a great era to live through. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and I believe that was truly the best time to be a kid.
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I love this, my sentiments exactly!
 
Mazzspeed said:
I love this, my sentiments exactly!
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It is hard for people who didn’t live through that era to understand what it was like and the implications for the future. Those of us who lived in that era basically witnessed the birth of the modern world. I was born in 1970 and sometimes, I wish I would’ve been born a few years earlier so I would’ve been old enough to remember some of the developments in the early 70s. But one game - Space Invaders - changed it all for me when I played it for the first time in a movie theater in 1979. I ended up with a degree in electrical engineering and do software development and consulting, all because my mom gave me a quarter to play a video game in 1979. I wonder if kids will ever have such an experience again.

I mean, imagine witnessing the progression of going from Atari 2600 graphics to Commodore 64 graphics to Amiga graphics in less than a decade. We haven’t seen a leap like that in decades and may never again in the world of computers outside of some amazing possibilities with VR.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
I’ve been playing video games for 40 years, with Space Invaders being the game that sent me down this path. I’ve owned several consoles (Atari 2600, various Xboxes, various Playstations) and went from a VIC 20 to a Commodore 64 to a Commodore 128 and then to an Amiga 2000 before I switched to PCs. Over all these decades and systems, no other system meant more to me than the Commodore 64. The games were amazing and engaging in ways games today just can’t match. As a matter-of-fact, I’ve pretty much given up on modern gaming and am seriously thinking about pulling my Commodore machines (yes, I still own them) out of the garage and setting them up.

As someone earlier said, it was a magical age and a great era to live through. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and I believe that was truly the best time to be a kid.
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Yes, a time when games couldn't rely on fancy graphics and production to mask a rotten core and actually had to be good where it counts.
 
aliaskary77 said:
wow, I had never heard of these until now.
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IndyColtsFan said:
It is hard for people who didn’t live through that era to understand what it was like and the implications for the future. Those of us who lived in that era basically witnessed the birth of the modern world. I was born in 1970 and sometimes, I wish I would’ve been born a few years earlier so I would’ve been old enough to remember some of the developments in the early 70s. But one game - Space Invaders - changed it all for me when I played it for the first time in a movie theater in 1979. I ended up with a degree in electrical engineering and do software development and consulting, all because my mom gave me a quarter to play a video game in 1979. I wonder if kids will ever have such an experience again.

I mean, imagine witnessing the progression of going from Atari 2600 graphics to Commodore 64 graphics to Amiga graphics in less than a decade. We haven’t seen a leap like that in decades and may never again in the world of computers outside of some amazing possibilities with VR.
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Space Invaders - I can still imagine what that game sounded like - definitely a game changer.

'66 model here - I think you'd want to go back decade so you'd be 10 at the time of the moon landing. As an engineer myself, being involved in aerospace from 1940-1960 would have been amazing - from biplanes to 707s, B52s and F4s.

The $4 microcontrollers I program today have more power than the 4K Rat Shack Color Computer that I learned to program on.

If history tells us anything this sort of revolution will happen again, but it will likely be something other than computers.

-Mike
 
defaultluser said:
They don't even tell you the specs - not a good sign, At least the previous model was up-front about that.

It's not like you need more than an entry-level Atom to emulate a C64, so they will probably do the same thing they did last time, and still have the guts to charge you $600.

Even though you can buy Atom systems with Windows for under $200.
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It's 115 euro, so likely to be around $115 in the US (taxes and exchange rates basically cancel each other out)

Fairly hefty, but not too ludicrous for an arm based emulation box.
 
Look I have big love for the C64, it was my first computer and basically cemented the deal that I would be working on computers for life. But we don't need another one.

I don't understand why we can't have an Amiga mini. Yeah I know UAE and all that, but I would buy an Amiga mini. I'm not buying a C64 mini, much less a full size C64 reboot.

And everyone is spot on about the nostalgia... yeah Ultima 4 and Bards's Tale were awesome back in 1986 but they are basically unplayable today.
 
For gaming nostalgia I tend to go with golden age coin ops rather than 8-bit home systems. Though there are a few home games that are memorable.
 
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