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As a child I spent many hours hunched over the loudly clicking keyboard of the Commodore 64, typing out programs in BASIC and saving them to cassette drive. Commodore brings that wonderfully noisy keyboard back, only this time there's a hard drive as large as one terabyte hidden inside. More »
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The Commodore 64 is a machine beloved by many who grew up in the 1980s. Like me. Which is why it's fun to hear that it's parent brand is making a comeback. More »
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It's become something of a tradition ‘round the Tower to observe Easter with, what else, lists of Easter eggs. So here is my dirty half-dozen, from well before the 8-bit days. More »
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Thanks, Marshall Alexander! Were it not for your heart-meltingly cute papercraft renditions of 70s/80s game machines, we don't know how we would have made it through Monday. But make it we did, clutching that little C64 to our hearts all day long. Hit the link below for the papercraft templates in question. More »
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Get me Valve on the phone. Tell Lombardi that the Portal prequel dev team can go home - their services are no longer required. More »
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OK, this is about as Commodore as Phil Harrison's Atari is Atari, but still. There's a Commodore logo on the thing, it's called a Commodore and it even shares that common Commodore aesthetic, so it'll do. The Commodore Netbook is the first machine to hit the showroom floor following the brand's reanimation, and while it's not necessarily a gaming machine, again, it's got a Commodore logo on it. And it will play games. Which is good enough for us. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5044662&view=rss&microfeed=true It's the wonder computer of the 1980's! Or at least so says William Shatner in this old commercial for the Commodore Vic-20. Not only does he think it's great, but even takes a jab at good old Atari and Intellivision. After all, Atari and Intellivision don't have a real computer keyboard! And it's under $300 which according to the inflation calculator would be about $800 today. A true bargain. More »
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More Dutch bashing over the interweb as Commodore is releasing the sale of their new box-thing dedicated to PC gamers. As of today, those living in Great Britain and Ireland who want to shell out from $1,759 GBP ($3,500 US, baby) can order it online at the Commodore Gaming site. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=254749&view=rss&microfeed=true When the news broke about the new line of Commodore gaming PCs being unveiled at CeBIT this week broke, a strong sense of nostalgia completely overtook my common sense. I was imagining boxy beige computers with a built-in keyboard like way back in the day, and of course what we're getting is much, much different. I know I shouldn't have expected anything less than the super-powerful machines with customizable art they are calling C=kins (skins). At least the familiar C= logo survives somewhat. Pricing details have yet to be revealed, but I'm expecting them to be somewhere between 'more than I could ever afford to spend on a computer' and 'who needs a car?' Press release follows. Michael Fahey More »
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Commodore is back. Make that, Commodore the name is back. The brand has risen from the ashes, and a new Commodore PC geared for PC gaming will launch in Germany at the CeBIT show on March 15th. Commodore Gaming CEO Bala Keilman says that the new gaming PCs will provide "what gamers need and want." Which is...? Brian Ashcraft More »
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Around the time old man Crecente got his first gray hair (1982), the Commodore 64 was released. The gaming PC eventually died out in 1993, but Crecente's gray hairs kept coming (hence, his mysterious trip "abroad"). More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=180517&view=rss&microfeed=true You can tell you're at the losing end of the home video game market when even Captain Kirk can't sell talking points like "It has a keyboard" or "It plays Gorf" to an armada of geeks. - Florian Eckhardt More »
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I just had the hugest sense of deja vu after coming across this. Pazzazz Games just released a game for Palm and Pocket PC devices called Moonfighter!, in which you pilot your spacecraft around lunar terrain collecting energy spheres to keep your mission going. It's a side scroller, which makes it pretty darn close to a title called Jupiter Lander for the Commodore Vic 20. I can't remember much of 8th grade because I played that stupid game for hours on end, and daydreamed about it when I wasn't home. More »
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Why can't they just let the Commodore brand rest in peace? According to TMCnet, Yeahronimo Media Ventures has bought the brand and will try to exploit the zombie company's reputation for games and multimedia to make a new batch of products, including a home media center, portable GPS unit (what the ...?) and media player. More »
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