I never have either,I remember had a Texas Instruments TI-99 computer though.

This is before my time, but I kind of like that it has a whole ass keyboard built in.

That's alright, neither have i.

I had one, wasn't that great.

I was given one in 1996 in exchange for helping a family setup their new Pentium PC that was replacing the C64. That was the first time I'd ever used one. We were a Tandy Radio Shack family, so C64 wasn't on my radar. I messed with it a little, but got rid of it when I moved a couple of years later

Neither have I I've no clue what I'd do with it either lol

It was before my time as well and I'm almost 40. If I had a good relationship with my dad, I could ask him. But alas...

I always enjoyed the ghostbusters port on the commodore more than the NES version. Loading games on it is infinitely easier now since we didn’t have google back then.

The Commodore 64 was great. It had the best GI Joe game ever.

My uncle had one back in the day. I didn’t get to play it often, but it was super cool to me when I was like 6

There are so many good games there, you should really get your hands on one and enjoy some true milestones 🕹️

Same here. I've never even seen one in real life. They seem to be as elusive to the eye as the jackalope.

Crazy, considering it is the largest selling model of pc ever.

Get an emulator and get Space Taxi. I wouldn’t lead you wrong.

My family never had a Commodore 64. But we did have an ADAM.

I feel like this was before my time, but I love that box design! I was born in 84.

I had to look it up. This came out the year before in 1983. It was computer that ran SmartBASIC, a ColecoVision, ran it's own games on cassette, and had an expansion to play Atari games. It wasn't popular because of its cost and size. It required the printer to be connected for it to function.

i had the c64 which was my gateway to the Commodore Amiga 1200 which was amazing for its time.

I learned to type on a Commodore 64… either that or I stopped aliens from invading. By stealing nonsensical words (one of its cassette games!)

Most people haven't I'd assume.

My parents had one couldn't get it to do anything hahaha. My dad sold it to a school teacher who thought it was the coolest thing in the world

Neither did I we had an Amstrad CPC instead 😅

Was my first computer, so many fond memories, not least the Dizzy games and the Great Giana Sisters. I was born in 1979 so this was my introduction to gaming. I still remember the sound and colours on the loading screen.....took ages, but always worth the wait.

@retroblast.bsky.social To add, I left the C64 and all my games in my mums loft when I moved out and some years later tried to find them only to be informed they had been given away when she had a clear out !! I was devastated 😂 my fault for leaving them behind.

Memories of great games. Boulderdash. Bird V Dr J. The Epyx Olympic game series. Karateka, Ghostbusters. Played them all

Same, actually. My friends and I only had Atari. Missed out on the C64 experience.

my father in law recently gave us a commodore 64 but haven't given it a close look yet to see what i need to get it running

New power supply A/V cable if you don’t have one(looks like a midi cable on one end) Retrotink or other converter to convert composite to hdmi SD2IEC device or Ultimate II+L or Kung Fu Flash so you can run roms from usb or sd card Joystick

feeling obligated to open the box now lol

I... THINK i did? Or at least, it was some Commodore system where the games loaded up via casset tape.

took me til after 2000 to explore the library properly having been a Zx and atari St guy back in the day You should investigate there's still some fun to be had there,Wizball being the stand out by a mile Yes it's also on the speccy but suffers colour bleed and doesn't have the incredible music!

Dating myself but.. I did. LOL.

Same here! You're not alone 🫂

Same here. IBM was in town so nobody I knew had a Commodore. 8086s at school and Apple IIcs eventually.

I only knew about Apple IIs because our school used them in the computer lab and we'd play Number Muncher and Oregon Trail on them lol.

Ah.. hacking Oregon Trail. That was fun.

I just caught dysentery

But did you lose time resisting the wiles of Wild Mountain Women? 4th grade wasn't my most enlightened period of life.

I did. Still preferred my Atari.

Me either, but I'd like to. Lovely machine, not an Atari, but still a great gaming powerhouse for sure

I did, but I hardly remember those times at all 😂 Just games on floppy discs. 👍 I have a little sharper memory of the Atari 2600. 😊

Now that's my era

Neither have I. Always felt it was before my time, and I'm over 40.

I think it was way more popular in the UK, but I could be wrong.

I have also....never played a Commodore 64. Nor have I played an Amiga. Or an MSX. Or....well...any early PCs, really. (No, the EGG console port of Silpheed for the PC-88 doesn't count. Nor does the EGG ports of Zanac for MSX/MSX2)

I've seen one at a store once. Think it might have been a Radio Shack or something.

😱

I had an Apple ][...and mocked my neighbor's C64. But, I did clock some quality hands on time with it over whatever time.

I think back how precious everyone was over various systems. Some people still are with Atari & Commodore although more light heartedly.(Unless you're British for some reason😅) But in the end, Apple was the only Computer Company to somehow survive.🤔

"(Unless you're British for some reason😅)"

Neither have I. That's because I am a sham and a fraud. But I'd like to some day.

That is easily remedied, I think this mini ran me $80. Between this and my Atari 400 mini, my childhood memories are easily accessible.

My very first gaming experience was on my dad’s Commodore 64

Tbh i haven’t either,especially since not many things were known where i grew up. Though i wish i could’ve asked my dad a long time ago on that 😣

this is my first time seeing one

We were Atari folks

My family's first computer was a C64. I'd like to replay some of those old games and see if any of them hold up.

It was my first ever computer... and it's still with me 😅. Though mine is the redesigned C model. Deffo worth a look, but if you're going to try to find actual hardware, I'd recommend seeking out an SD2IEC cartridge. That way, you can put disk images onto an SD card & use them with the C64.

We had C64. I had "MTV's Remote Control", "Classic Concentration," and "Ghostbusters", and "Garfield's Print Shop", plus a Huey helicopter sim and typing games. I used to practice programming in BASIC for funsies. We had a switcher to flip between that and the NES. 👌 The "monitor" was an old 13" TV.

So many classics… Ducks Ahoy, Congo, Zaxxon, Adventure which introduced like four year old me to programming, that fucking seahorse game.

My friend grew up with Ducks Ahoy and had me try it out, it's so cute! 😄 youtu.be/P_8s37m2gb4

I really hated that hippo. And I would pump pump jump whenever I got into a swimming pool.

My brothers had a VIC20, and our neighbor had a 64. I got the job of reading out the code in a Compute magazine so they could try the games.

A childhood of hours and hours and hours of sitting waiting for the tape to load - followed by hours and hours of Snake and The Hobbit.

I grew up with them. I think my first one was when I was 11-12. The coolest thing I found was the magazines that provided games you could actually code. I rarely did it accurately but I was fun to try and code the program.

I played one Commodore 64 game when it was ported to the Wii's Virtual Console: The Last Ninja. It played like hot garbage

Humble beginnings!

The one that started it all... and will be returning. www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/09...

Ah, for fuck's sake

my brother had it but i never played it either lol

i haven't either

I think I have been in the same room as one, but that's it.

Couple reasons why: - I grew up in an area where no one had them, at least no one I knew. I never even saw them in stores or in anyone else's homes. - It's a blind spot that went unseen for so long that I just haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

Not only have i never used one, i honestly wasn't even aware of it until i was well into my adulthood. NOBODY I have *ever* known IRL had one, or ever even mentioned one.

There was ONE guy in my area that had a C64. They were definitely very scarce hereabouts. There were certainly some good games, and the sound was, from the POV of a Spectrum owner, mind-blowing. Plugging joysticks directly into the machine, no interface required, was really quite something, too.

I played a version of Maniac Mansion on the Commodore 64. It hurt my soul.

From video I've seen of many of the games, it hasn't aged all that well. Fundamental for the time, but hard to go back to.

Well if you're from the UK that's not surprising. In America ZX Spectrum didn't exist. We had a Commodore 64 instead.

Yep. In Spain the Spectrum was more known.

Fake retro gamer wow

It was a neat computer back then, the games were hit or miss. You really needed patience back then, removing disk to turn side, then remove it to insert disk 2 just to play some and then remove it again 🤣 Of course you also need to know the commands to run the games. Very different times

The first time I played legitimate SNES software was two months ago. I had a Genesis as a kid and relied on ports and emulation, but when I started retro collecting in earnest last year, I decided that I needed to play one. Bought games and then bought a Retron 2 in July.

I used to get C64 magazines where you would type in hundreds of lines of hex code from the magazine into a compiler and it would run a game! I got really fast at typing them in!

My brothers would spend hours playing Ultima IV on it!

Don’t think I have, either. I think we may have one, but it would’ve been from before I was born. So, I’ve never touched it.

Game loading "DON'T TOUCH THE JOYSTICK"

Me either. We only had an Atari…but I wasn’t allowed to touch it…so I’ve never played an Atari as well 👀 But I had this:

Remember my mom yelling at me to turn the sound off while we were in the car going somewhere while playing this exact game... but i needed the sound queues to hit the button at the right time. She was right though, in hindsight, the sound is incredibly high pitched and annoying.

Tiger Games were the ultimate road trip companion for a long time!

I took mine EVERYWHERE 😂

You should go to commodore.net and get on the list to buy a new Commodore Ultimate 64.

I taught myself BASIC on a C64 and wrote my first game on it. It was a sweet D&D-accurate text game similar to Bard's Tale. The dice rolls and such were easy to program, but the map was hard. I don't know how the INFOCOM guys did it all the time.

Only played one a couple of times at a friend's house, and even then, all he had were text-based games.

Load "8", "1". Run

Me neither.

I never had one growing up, but I got the mini C64 with the built-in games that was released a few years back just to see what I had been missing. Definitely worth checking out.

I guess it comes down to age and location. C64s were very common here in NZ in the 80s. However NES consoles didn't really exist here at all. I don't think I played on one until the early 2000s.

Honestly same, my first was the Sega.. Is… is that what it looks like?

Yup, that is what a C64 looked like, in all its "breadbox" glory.

That is the most intricately password protected breadbox I’ve ever seen!

I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure, but I think so lol.

The blind leading the blind. Oh the places we’ll go 🤣