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Goodbye Little Guy…..

by on Apr.08, 2010, under RETRO Gaming

……my poor old Commodore 64 just died today. We shared some really good times together. Please pay your respects.

R.I.P.  little guy. You were a fighter in the world of PCs. 

R.I.P.

8 comments for this entry:
  1. uk_commando
    April 8th, 2010 on 6:14 pm

    Good bye Frogger..
    Good bye Yie Ar Kung-fu…
    Good bye Pit Stop II…

    You will be missed!!

  2. Maggot
    April 8th, 2010 on 7:30 pm

    UK:

    WOW! You just named some great classic games. I had Frogger. My favorite was Batman.

    And thanks for paying your respects. I need all the support I can get right now. :-)

  3. Matthew
    April 9th, 2010 on 12:20 am

    I used to have a commodore sx-64, which had a built in monitor. It was strange. I loved the hell out of it though.

  4. uk_commando
    April 9th, 2010 on 2:06 pm

    Hehe, had to be done, that machine was my first taste of computers, when i was still young enough to be dressing up in Batman costumes! Probably responsible for me being the gadget/tech geek i am today, certainly was all downhill from there!

    @Matthew – Never saw that puppy before, but then I was still “pressing PLAY on TAPE” where some other lucky guys had a whole 10Mb hard drive! woot! I had an Amstrad 6128 though, that had a disk drive in the keyboard if i remember right…

  5. Maggot
    April 9th, 2010 on 2:22 pm

    UK:

    How about the Sinclair and the BBC Micro? Those were big in the UK. Over here in the States we never saw the BBC but Timex brought over the Sinclair.

    TI-99 was another biggie in it’s day.

  6. uk_commando
    April 9th, 2010 on 7:25 pm

    Oh yes! the mighty ZX Spectrum! I had friends who had that system, I don’t think it came anywhere near the c64 in popularity though. I used to play around with BBC ‘B’s at school :D Used to keep all my games on a single 5 1/4 inch floppy disk back then! And those were really floppy too! The BBC’s game me first taste of code, even if it was just to hack the game and give myself extra lives :D

    Never heard of the TI-99 though, was it only in the US perhaps? Looks a bit of a beast in it’s day though..

  7. Maggot
    April 9th, 2010 on 7:42 pm

    UK:

    The TI-99 stood for Texas Instrument-99. It was a bit big. It had a slot for cartridges. If I remember correctly, you could attach a voice module much like the Intellivision add-on had.

    And let’s not forget the Coleco Adam, the Atari X800, the Atari ST (Atari Falcon), The Commodore C128 and the Amiga. And then Atari came out with an unsuccesful line of 386sx/dx PCs when Jack Tramiel took over Atari when he left Commodore.

  8. TheRed|Kommie
    April 9th, 2010 on 11:45 pm

    a good lil system that just kept on going, WE WILL MISS YOU!!!

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