Mini version of Commodore 64 will be released at the end of March

Oh can't wait to see it on my hands!

 

In case you wondered here is the full list of games included and yes the classic Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe is in there, ice-cream anyone

AlleyKat
Anarchy
The Arc Of Yesod
Armalyte: Competition Edition
Avenger
Battle Valley
Bounder
California Games
Chip’s Challenge
Confuzion
Summer Games II
Spindizzy
Slayer
Star Paws
Super Cycle
Cosmic Causeway: Trailblazer II
Creatures
Cyberdyne Warrior
Cybernoid II: The Revenge
Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine
Deflektor
Everyone’s a Wally
Firelord
Gribbly’s Day Out
Hawkeye
Street Sports Baseball
Speedball
Temple of Apshai Trilogy
Thing Bounces Back
Thing on a Spring
Heartland
Herobotix
Highway Encounter
Hunter’s Moon
Hysteria
Impossible Mission
Impossible Mission II
Insects In Space
Zynaps
Mega-Apocalypse
Stormlord
Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe
Trailblazer
Uchi Mata
Uridium
Mission A.D
Monty Mole
Monty on the Run
Nebulus
Netherworld
Nobby the Aardvark
Nodes Of Yesod
Paradroid
Pitstop II
Rana Rama
Steel
Snare
Who Dares Wins II
Winter Games
World Games
Robin of the Wood
Rubicon
Skate Crazy
Skool Daze

 

Unless it is enhanced HW replica capable to run all code in native mode, it is going to end same way as other emulator HW boxes.

 

@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...

 

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

 

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.

 

Android box with c64.emu and wireless controller anybody?

 

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.

 

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.

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

 

Yeah, Turrican II was not that satisfying for me. Was easier. But I loved music. Listened to it for years to come.
With my brother we finished Bubble Bobble together. Repair on our joysticks... We never went brutal or raging on them, but we played so much.

On Elite, I remember saving... I was master trader, writing down prices through every system I went through. Saving... Then came cute tribble... Then realization that i ruined my saves, because tribbles were not as much cute as disaster in waiting. Elite was another great concept. (Concept of "endless" game.)
Same can be said on Original Sim City. (Author was guy who made damn hard game: "Raid on Bungeling Bay".)

 

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...

 

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.

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

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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.

 

Where the hell is Paper Boy and Spy Hunter??????

 

A full version is appearing at a later stage as well, i tried to get one of my own C64 game releases put on this package but couldn't get a deal done unfortunately but this mini version sure should sell well.

 

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.