@Hilbert Hagedoorn Typo? "...For those that where born after the 90'ies, the Commodore 64 was THE personal computer back in the days...". You mean before the 90's. I was born way before 90's, C64 was my first love 🙂 So far I'm not interested into buying this. Mostly because I still have two fully functional C64's (original/beautiful "gray fat" and that ugly slim white). Second reason are games bundled with this replica. Lots of great C-64 games are missing: Last Ninja series Turrican series SilkWorm Commando Barbarian Bubble Bubble Ghosts 'n' Goblins Rick Dangerous Laser Squad Bruce Lee Myth Defender of the Crown ...I could do this all day long. It was long time ago but the games (good ones) I still remember bundled with this "replica" are: California Games Summer Games II Creatures Cybernoid II: The Revenge Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine Speedball Thing Bounces Back Impossible Mission Impossible Mission II Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe Uridium Who Dares Wins II Winter Games ...and that's it. Maybe I've missed few ones from the list, can't remember all games I've played more than 1/4 century ago 🙂 But if new games could be loaded via USB flash-drive then I might consider buying this, we'll see...

Fox2232:

To add something. Best game of all times for given hardware capabilities: EXILE - c64!!! Who here finished it without trainer?

Can't even remember Exile, guess it wasn't part of my C64 game collection. For me, like you just said "best game of all times for given hardware capabilities" on C64 were these games: Turrican & Turrican II (superior graphic, great variety of weapons, huge levels with lots of hidden stuff and MASSIIIIVEEEEE sprites: up to one and a half screen tall bosses!!!) Last Ninja series Rick Dangerous Myth

Why do people pay for this junk? This is NOT a C64. It's just an emulator. Get a Pi, install RetroPi on it, there you go. Cheap, and it emulates multiple retro machines, not just one. You can buy a case for it too, that looks like an NES or whatever you want it to look like.

Fox2232:

I played Turrican 1 so many times till I finally completed it. That day was something... Parents went out with my brother to my cousin (I signed myself out as busy). And played for like 12 hours without leaving chair. I did not take break after finishing, then my family came back. And i went to say: "Hi". I made exactly 0 steps as my legs were out of blood and I fell. I never felt any part of my body that stingy... "Ants and needless!" And I did laugh happily, because I still finished game!!! So big challenge.

I remember finishing Turrican and Turrican II on C64 was so satisying. My brother and me we we jumping all over the room 🙂 Completed both games at least two times each. Damn, I forgot to mention Elite on C64: my brother and me we were playing that game without turning off C64 for days 😀 because there was no savegame option backthen, untill we managed to harvest iirc 110DEM (equivalent of todays 55€) and bought Final Cartridge II. After that it was much easier to "savegame" any game: press on (was it called like that?) Froze button on FCII, dump everything from C64 RAM to tape or 5.25" FDD and later load that memory dump back to C64 via FCII and continue with game on same spot. Still have FCII, few months ago together with Hilbert and few other folks here on different thread we posted few pics with our own C64 (and A500) hardware.

LIGuitar77:

I had a 300 baud modem ($30 U.S.D. in 1985), Q-Link (AOL before it was AOL), GEOS...

I also had 300baud modem backthen to access local BBS's. GEOS was great, had that too on few 5.25" FDD's.

Cute thing but i recognize very few games so i´m gonna skip this one. Maybe they will release next a mini Amiga 500 with the games i love, if that happens they have a customer.

I have no idea how many games I played on C64, but I do know I didn't finish a whole lot of them. But then again, back then I wouldn't spend hours playing a game, forgetting the time entirely. Except maybe with Ultima V...

Fox2232:

Yeah, Turrican II was not that satisfying for me. Was easier. But I loved music. Listened to it for years to come.

Yeah, music in Turrican games was out of this world. I remember well my brother and me we loaded last scene (outro) via FCII RAM dump in these games multiple times just to enjoy listening to the music. Sad thing while listening to that music we were aware those were the last days for our beloved fatty. Amiga 500 was out in the wild... C64's SID chip was superb compared to anything else in home computer market, until Atari 520ST and Amiga 500 came out. Amiga's sound capabilities were nothing more than brutal.

Fox2232:

With my brother we finished Bubble Bobble together. Repair on our joysticks... We never went b

Hahaha! I remember that like it was yesterday. We also played Bubble Booble co-op via two QuickShot joystick, iirc level 98 had some kind of bug/glitch resulting in complete game freeze (followed by mostly my raging sessions on my brothee lol), but not always, so one of us had to blow insane number of bubbles and the other one had to jump up to reach iirs some kind of item (white egg?) to jump straight to level 100. Oh, good old days, wonder if he remember all those things like I am, bet he do... My first electronics repairs were weekend days and repairing joysticks for our own and C64's of our friends after all kinds of joystick smashing games like Daley Thompsons. But now looking at those joysticks sports raging sessions tbh they were "healthy" for us as a young boys, more power to our hands, especially that right one if you know what I mean 😀

10 PRINT "AWESOME" 20 GOTO 10 RUN

I remember playing some Egyptian runner avoiding sparrows and Buck rogers space shooter lol that loading screen skizofrenia attack xD

CrazY_Milojko:

@Hilbert Hagedoorn Typo? "...For those that where born after the 90'ies, the Commodore 64 was THE personal computer back in the days...". You mean before the 90's. I was born way before 90's, C64 was my first love 🙂

Looks ok, maybe you misunderstood. check whole 2 sentences bellow 🙂 THE computer to get back in the 80ies, and thus this is a lot of nostalgia. For those that where born after the 90'ies, the Commodore 64 was THE personal computer back in the days.

Thalyn:

They go to all this trouble to stylise it after a C64... and then supply it with an Atari-style joystick (looks to be a replica of the Competition Pro 5000). Commodore had their own joystick design which they used for the C64 and 264 series - the T-1341 and C-1342 - and it would have been a fantastic touch to include a revamped one of those instead. I can almost guarantee it would be far harder to fix, and much less fun to do so, than an original C64, though. Still, it's a pretty decent list of included titles - but no International Karate Plus seems like a missed opportunity, among the other titles mentioned.

I had the Competition Pro 5000, but, I had the transparent version - and yes, no one believed me and probably to this day, but it was real. https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/ClsAAOSwjPdZ2NCO/s-l225.jpg

OMG what a crap list of games that is. I wonder if this will sell well. especially since the games are pre-historic and every phone plays better games. I wonder if they included the SID chip.

Anybody looking to enjoy a fully licenced C64 emulator should go try C64 forever, the best way to play any C64 game these days, and it wil also play all other Commodore games from the Pet,Vic-20, C16,Plus/4, and 128. And while you are at it grab Amiga forver as well, two of the best ways to play these old games today without the hardware, now if only they would hurry up with Atari St and Speccy forever. 😉

Good news for gamers, as long as no one can put this into mining

Vtech:

Good news for gamers, as long as no one can put this into mining

No mate I think we're safe, no one is going to be using a Commodore 64 for mining

flimbo:

So what's the difference between this - and me running winvice on my pc rigged up to my big flatscreen via hdmi cable? Apart from the fact I can play ANY c64 game on my emulator? Oh £64.99 that's what. I think I'm better off my way....

honestly fauk all mate, who even profits from this now? Certainly not the creators or the original makers of the games. I'm about 5-10 yr too young for c64/atari, and what I played was bad games. Nostalgia at it's finest.

scatman839:

honestly fauk all mate, who even profits from this now? Certainly not the creators or the original makers of the games. I'm about 5-10 yr too young for c64/atari, and what I played was bad games. Nostalgia at it's finest.

I had a C64, but it was in the late 1980's (forgot when exactly,) where it was considered outdated already, and thus you could get a used one very cheaply. The majority of the games on the C64 don't hold up today. Except for the music, that SID chip was really good. But back then, these games were a lot of fun and I have fond memories from that time. And it's that kind of nostalgia these "Mini " devices are exploiting. But this doesn't work on me. I see these "Mini whatever" systems as complete fakes. A cheap emulator setup with a bunch of ROMs. In other words: junk. (I love emulation otherwise, mind you. But not this. A Raspberry Pi will do the job a million times better at about the same price.)

flimbo:

So what's the difference between this - and me running winvice on my pc rigged up to my big flatscreen via hdmi cable? Apart from the fact I can play ANY c64 game on my emulator? Oh £64.99 that's what. I think I'm better off my way....

The difference is that a good retro console is much better than playing the same games on a PC. I speak with experience because i´ve bought the NES and SNES mini and playing on them is an absolute joy, much better than using emulators on a PC. Just the controllers alone are worth the money they ask. Of course i´m talking about quality items made by Nintendo and this mini Commodore doesn´t seem to have the same quality standards...

H83:

The difference is that a good retro console is much better than playing the same games on a PC.

I doubt it. On a PC you can find very accurate emulators that are too demanding for the CPU that's in an (S)NES mini. You can also use g-sync and get input latency that's just as low as the original hardware (or even lower.)

RealNC:

I doubt it. On a PC you can find very accurate emulators that are too demanding for the CPU that's in an (S)NES mini. You can also use g-sync and get input latency that's just as low as the original hardware (or even lower.)

Yea you can get all that and even more but retro gaming is about the gameplay and that "familiar" feeling not about better or enhanced graphics and the controllers really help on that aspect. Of course this is my opinion and i understand others thinking the opposite way.

For this to be authentic, you should have to type in some code to run anything.