"Pirates!" and "Elite" just aren't the same on the PC.
WHY???????????????..........
Cool chick: builds/races modified dirt racers and computer chips. All for fun!
Great story - why America is such a great place for people with a great idea and lots of work ethic...
"Elite" was cool.
I still have mine. And software for a GUI. I don't know how they did that with 64k.
Cool product and fantastic story about the designer!
I loved my Commodore 64. As a writer, in economic terms it provided the greatest amount of utility -- i.e., the ability to revised without retyping -- I could then imagine. I wrote a book that was later published on mine!
They have the same thing for Intellivision.
You can buy it for 19.95 and it has all the most popular games on a chip and it's just one controller you plug into the TV.
I thought about getting one.
I think the new "all in one" handheld systems are great. There are several for Atari, a couple of Chinese knockoffs for Nintendo, and this one. Even my 7 year old nephew, who's great at all of the major gaming systems (Xbox, PS2, GC) loves these things.
Irony moment. QVC's studios are in Commodore's former corporate HQ in West Chester, Pa.
I used to play a great tactical level military game on the C64 called "Combat Leader" - I'd love to get a copy that would run in one of these devices, or that would run on a PC.
Likewise a late '80s Mac game called "Strategic Conquest"
Below The Root is one of my favorite games of all time.
They had this great game for the C64 where you were basically a virus in a space station occupied by robots and you had to infect/ conquer your way through the station. My girlfriend had it and her friend Dave was amazing at it, I totally sucked but I could watch Dave play for hours.
Games just don't have the replayability today.
load "Zaxxon",8
I still remember: Load *.*, 8, 1 haha...
I remember our first Vic 20, too. Tape drives owned!
Too bad they don't have load runner or Archon. I think EA made Archon and probably wouldn't release it.
Archon was kind of like chess. You had different pieces that moved across a board in special ways. But the catch was that if your move landed on an apposing piece you had to duke it out on the battle field. Each piece had unique fighting abilities. There was an Archon I and Archon II.
Another high school dropout does well. How much does it cost to get an indoctrination at a major Leftist university these days?
Oh my are you bringing back the memories. I actually forked out $800 as a young teen to buy a gigantic 40Meg Hard Drive and ran a BBS for the "elite" minded.
Those were the good old days.