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VanillaGorilla:

--- Quote from: RayB on April 08, 2011, 01:16:09 pm ---People still pay as much as $40-$50 for those monitors (or maybe I am thinking of the model with stereo speakers).

MacGyver: Your idea of a USB keyboard in C64 style is great. THAT would sell.


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If you go to the commodoreusa.net site, that is an option. You can buy a bare cassis with keyboard/card reader/usb hub for $250.

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64Select.aspx
Bootay:

--- Quote from: markronz on April 08, 2011, 01:40:36 pm ---For me, I guess I'm just nostalgic about it because it was the first computer we had ever had.  My brother had a modem hooked up to it, and he dialed into a bunch of BBS's and downloaded like every game every there was.  So having this massive collection of games is probably why I am on this forum with all you good folks, emulating all these classic games, and taking pleasure in having every game ever.

I will admit though that, while at the time, it was amazing, I have a hard time playing the C64 games now.   I much prefer the versions of the games released on other systems, or in the arcade.  But still, there are a few games on there that, to my knowledge weren't on other systems.   Like Law of the West, and Skool Daze.  Although I just looked it up and it says Law of the West was on NES... I will have to investigate this!  I'm sure there were more games though, just can't think of them at the moment.

Any way you look at it though, there will always been a special place in my heart for the C64.

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My feelings exactly except I still enjoy a lot of C64 classics. People who don't understand didn't grow up with them like I did. Much like the kids who were NES nuts back in the day still are today. I was a Commodore nut and still am. Sure the graphics aren't great today but the same can be said for all classic game systems. Who cares..its about what you grew up with. No one needs to piss on someones else's parade because they didn't like/own one or are too young to remember when those graphics were considered good.  ;D

Just like some people can't appreciate when Atari 2600 looked good. I can because I was one of those kids playing that ---smurfy--- Pac-Man port and liking it because it was the best we had without going to the arcade.
RayB:

--- Quote from: markronz on April 08, 2011, 01:40:36 pm ---Any way you look at it though, there will always been a special place in my heart for the C64.
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Sounds like you adore your 64 !




Bootay:
LOL
VanillaGorilla:

--- Quote ---Dear god could someone please link me to some of these awesome Commodore 64 games that are making you people so nostalgic because I just don’t get it.
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It wasn't just the games, my young friend.

I can STILL remember how it smelled when I cracked open the boxes straight home from K-mart! I dont think anything could ever top that level of excitement and anticipation I felt that day. I remember it cost $400, and I can still see the cringing of my dads face as he laid out the cash for it ;D I ran a punter BBS on it called The Pleasuredome...1200 baud goodness, I had my own phone line in my bedroom just for it. I used to have bushy bearded dudes driving over to my parents house in IL from Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, etc and we would set up 5 or 6 machines, with stacked up 1541's and have massive copy/trading sessions...Fred Fish disks, Telengard, Temple of Apshai, Fast load cartridges, writing my first term papers using the Paperclip word processor, the memories are truly endless.

Who remembers user group meetings!!! Demon dialer? Taking over the phone lines in Canada and setting up party lines with 100 or so geeks/hackers! We were 12 year old kids for gods sakes!!!

Then once I got a hold of Sprint telephone codes, I began trading with people in Belgium, England, France... That machine opened up the whole world for me... I used to shudder in fear if a truck from the telephone company came down our street! Ultimately one of my buddies did get busted for sharing phone codes. He had to do 400 hours of community service! (He also went on to develop the I-sight camera for Apple in the early 2000's).  Eventually I got the Amiga 500 and I've never really been the same since. Now I'm a database developer/web programmer. That single computer cast the die for the course of my life. Amazing. I do adore my Commodore 64. And my dad thought it was all 'just a phase'  :D
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