<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-poagc6c7qQ&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-poagc6c7qQ&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Commodore 64 still loved after all these years (CNN) -- Like a first love or a first car, a first computer can hold a special place in people's hearts. For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64. Twenty-five years later, that first brush with computer addiction is as strong as ever. "There was something magical about the C64," says Andreas Wallstrom of Stockholm, Sweden. He remembers the day he first laid eyes on his machine back in 1984. "My father brought it home together with a tape deck, a disk drive, a printer, and a couple of games...I used to sneak home during lunch to play [on it] with my friends." Learn about the components of the C64 system ยป Wallstrom is the webmaster and designer for C64.com, a Web site dedicated to preserving the games, demos, pictures, magazines and memories of the Commodore 64. C64.com visitors are mostly nostalgia seekers -- men in their 30s looking to download their favorite childhood games. Emulators let them play the games without having a machine. Popular downloads include "Boulder Dash," "Ghostbusters," and "The Great Giana Sisters." "It may have not been the most sophisticated computer, but it did have a lot of personality and it was lovable and remains loveable," said Harry McCracken, vice president and editor in chief of PC World. CONTINUE READING
My friend's dad had one back in the early eighties and we would play Omega Race all of the time on it.
I had one. I had Platoon, Jack Nicklaus Golf and Dr. J vs Larry Bird for it. I wrote a bunch of text based games for it too. I was .
My very first computer. There was something very special about the C64. Spent countless hours playing The Bard's Tale 1, 2, & 3. Load "*", 8,1
Didn't own one. But I remember this: <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PUEI7mm8M7Q&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PUEI7mm8M7Q&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
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My folks didn't own the Commodore, or the even less popular Odyssey. My family's first computer was the Apple IIe.
Ah... now my family DID OWN the world's first home video game console, The Magnavox Odyssey (NOT the Odyssey 2, mind you). here's the Odyssey:
I built a few of these puppies in either '76 or '77 (I think it was '76) as a part-time job for a Houston university.
I would sit for hours typing simple game and graphic programs into that thing when I was a kid. Larry Bird vs. Dr. J was truly awesome when it came out -- that and California Games (surfing).
