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New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Cornerb0y — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:34:47 MST

Very excited/happy to see commodore is back in the game. Sega...take notes.

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Kuromimi — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:41:59 MST

Ugh. Same old white-beige like every other company. Bring back the brown and tan, maybe with ascii codes on the front of the keys.

Sadly, nothing to do with the Commodore from days of old.

Kuromimi

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

quen — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:31:33 MST

What gamers need: A shower.

What gamers want: Money-grubbing asshats to stop pretending to revive Commodore by sticking the logo (which they probably bought rights for 20p) on random shitty computers / dvd players / razors / toilet paper.

Amiga was great. If Commodore the company was coming back? With the same technical staff somehow miraculously regrouped after having been working in other places for decades? That'd be interesting. Commodore the brand name? Utter bollocks.

quen

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

embee — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:22:29 MST

Commodore's back...

...in POG form.

embee

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Vidunder — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:00:47 MST

BRING
IT
ON.
PLEASE.

Vidunder

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Poita — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:36:02 MST

What's with you American biatches harping on about the C64. They also made the Amiga, one of the greatest home unit gaming machines ever.
True, Commodore were a sucky company but they had a great product in the Amiga and it had an amazing community, many of whome are rampaging thorugh the console and pc gaming world today.
Biatches standing on the shoulders of giants should show some goldarn respek, nat a meen?

Poita

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Ca1amity — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:15:11 MST

I will say this for Commodore; the C 64 I inherited from my grandfather still works perfectly.

512k RAM module upgrade (1/4 the size of the whole unit), GEOS operating system and Pools of f'n Radiance FTW.

and as Marlor said an old school hack-away system would be awesome but somehow I think this is just going to be more badge-slapping by the Commodore kids... Sorry old schoolers, probably best to put your hopes back in the drawer with your nostalgia.

Ca1amity

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

dowingba — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:24:07 MST

I'd love it if they called it the "Commodore 64", assuming it has a 64-bit processor under the hood.

dowingba

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Marlor — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:15:47 MST

I'd like to see a gaming PC that had the same principles as the original Commodore: hackability and a simple mechanism to store the initial state after you screw up.

The best thing about the Commodore as a PC was that you could POKE around with it all you wanted, but it was virtually impossible to mess it up, since you could just restore the initial state with a flick of a switch.

It would be nice to see someone try to attempt a similar thing again. A system that has the best aspects of both PCs and consoles.

Marlor

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Blaaguuu — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:15:10 MST

Meh... Building your own rig is still the best way to go. I doubt this will be anything special.

Blaaguuu

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Zadaz — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:08:47 MST

Will this be more or less successful than, say, the C= "E-Vic" mp3 player or any of the other retro-badged garbage they've churned out under the brand.

Commodore is starting to look like the town bicycle.

Zadaz

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

whitesanjuro — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:06:44 MST

@AZTriGuy:

ah! you beat me to it :)

whitesanjuro

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

cerberus_oz — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:04:52 MST

Commodore Gamer PC.
"We got transistors, bitch!"

cerberus_oz

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Sloopydrew — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:04:35 MST

"Which is ..." a girlfriend?

I think this Commodore thing could be do well, thanks to the nostalgia factor. I know it's been totally turning my crank, based on nothing but the name and logo. They'll really need to capitalize off of the whole nostalgia thing for it to fly, though. Then again, just calling it a "Commodore" is a good indication that's already exactly what they're doing.

Sloopydrew

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Digital_Sky — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:57:38 MST

Oh, man, the memories! Gotta figure it'll just be a new flavor of Alienware under a different brand though. Still, I had to post just seeing that old logo and name. Oh Paradroid, where art thou? ;_;

Digital_Sky

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Draconis — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:53:09 MST

I'll know it when I see it.

Draconis

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

AZTriGuy — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:50:50 MST

It's got electrolytes, it's what gamers crave...

AZTriGuy

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

Hand_O_Death — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:12:19 MST

Which Is... Being able to play games off of tape cassettes again.

Who needs Blu-Ray games when I can rewind my GoW tape on my new C256?

Hand_O_Death

New Commodore Gaming PC: "What Gamers Need"

humilitybecomeshim — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:12:14 MST

Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you! In a camp, retro 80's kinda way.

humilitybecomeshim