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Kerotan on 30 September 2017

What company owned this console back in the day?



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HoloDust on 30 September 2017
Kerotan said:
What company owned this console back in the day?

It's not a console, it's (what was known as) home computer.

Commodore



Nighthawk117 on 30 September 2017

Ok, I too was a die-hard C64 gamer back in the day. Heck, I even bought a C-128D later on.

Of that list of games shown, I only remember a few: Winter Games, Speedball, and Impossible Mission.

The games I'd like to see included are:

Sports: Hardball, One-on-One, Superstar Ice Hockey, Star League Baseball

Action/Fighting: The Way of the Exploding Fist, Spy vs. Spy

Simulation: Gunship, Airborne Ranger, Project Stealth Fighter, Red Storm Rising, Strike Fleet



SvennoJ on 30 September 2017

Interesting. With all these retro consoles it would be nice if somebody sold a retro CRT tv with hdmi input.... Perhaps they're compatible with any hdmi 1.3 to composite av converter.



Spindel on 30 September 2017
HoloDust said:
Green098 said:

Well unless someone told me about it or learned it somewhere, I wouldn't actively question it and look it up. Although I just looked it up now and heard that it never caught on in Europe the way it did in the US so that's probably the reason why, well other than the fact it came out in 1982.

It was very popular in Europe (yeah, I'm that old), but competition was stiffer than in US - Europe had ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 as well.

It was very good machine for its time, with a lot of great games and some genres not found on consoles and (what is now called indies) lot of bedroom/garage developers.

i would rather say it was bigger in western europe than in the US. Just look at the amount of games made by european (mainly UK) developers and a lot of them never reached the US (where only made for the PAL version). 

 

C64 is the reason europe has been PC-centric and he US has been console centric. 



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Kerotan on 30 September 2017
Spindel said:
HoloDust said:

It was very popular in Europe (yeah, I'm that old), but competition was stiffer than in US - Europe had ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 as well.

It was very good machine for its time, with a lot of great games and some genres not found on consoles and (what is now called indies) lot of bedroom/garage developers.

i would rather say it was bigger in western europe than in the US. Just look at the amount of games made by european (mainly UK) developers and a lot of them never reached the US (where only made for the PAL version). 

 

C64 is the reason europe has been PC-centric and he US has been console centric. 

Europe is both pc and console centric 



HoloDust on 30 September 2017
Spindel said:
HoloDust said:

It was very popular in Europe (yeah, I'm that old), but competition was stiffer than in US - Europe had ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 as well.

It was very good machine for its time, with a lot of great games and some genres not found on consoles and (what is now called indies) lot of bedroom/garage developers.

i would rather say it was bigger in western europe than in the US. Just look at the amount of games made by european (mainly UK) developers and a lot of them never reached the US (where only made for the PAL version). 

 

C64 is the reason europe has been PC-centric and he US has been console centric. 

Honestly, not sure on numbers - they range from 12.5-22M - I usually go with official Commodore's number of 17M + 4.5M C128 (backward compatible).

Out of those I remember I've read somewhere about 1/3 was NA, but not sure how well it sold outside of Europe.

But yeah, Europe has been much more computer centric then NA back in days...I think it kinda balanced out these days.