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Commodore 64 To Get 30-In-1 TV Game
Lee writes "According to Peek N' Poke, there's an official Commodore 64 30-in-1 'TV game' in development, according to current C64 rights-holders Tulip Computers, who has a Dutch-language news story about it on their site." The Tulip story mentions titles including "Classic Games series from Epyx, inclusief Summer Games, Winter Games, World Games en the seminal California Games", and it's notable that Tulip's partner and exclusive C64 licensor is Ironstone Partners, who also list as a "sister company" DC Studios, software developers of the Atari 10-in-1 TV game.
will it be possible to hack the unit to allow use of arbitrary c64 software? Would we be able to hook up a keyboard and such to make a mini portable C64?
hmm.
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Anyone hear of plans for an Atari 400/800 game device like this?
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2. Any sufficiently well rounded nerd who wasnt born yesterday probably grew up with C64's, or at least played with their parent's antique discovered in a closet...
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Does anyone know where I can get the connections between C64 and a TV? I believe that it is the same connection that my Radio Shack Pong system uses. I would like to be able to use both of these. (Don't you think that a pong tournament would augment an 80s party?) Do these special games/controllers allow for 2 players, like some of the upcoming Atari games will?
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That whole "Games" series was bad. Why put them all together like this? What are the other 23 games on it?
With any luck they will be other great EA games from the time like "Monster Construction Set" "Pinball Construction Set" "Archon" "Seven Cities of Gold" "Arctic Fox" "Caveman Ugh-lympics" "Wasteland"
Just to name a few. Has anyone seen Monster Construction Set anywhere but the C64? It was one of those great R3 games where you customize a monster and send him to fight other monsters for prize money to build better monsters...
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Hmmm .... will it have a proper SID chip in it?
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God , Am i that old that option 2 is actually a possibility for some people ?
this must be the end of the line for me at 30 !
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I'm with you, 30 is the end of a Gamers Life apparently. Those of us that had our first computer experience with a CommodorePET or Apple][e, it's time to put away the joysticks, keyboards and controllers and start prepping our wheelchairs and tuning out hearing aids....
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Feeling old eh? Yeah, me too.
When all the things we grew up with are now considered cool "retro" and "oldies", yeah, makes you feel old.
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Yeah, but I too had a spectrum ZK, an amstrad 464, a 6128, an amiga 500, but that all belongs to the past. I may still play a couple of games from that age but I won't be a zelot about it, just play them again a couple of times in a two year period or sth/.
Other than the Epyx Games series, Realm of Impossibility, and The Movie Monster Game, I can't remember what C64 games I wasted so many hours of my childhood on. 30 games sounds like a lot.
,arshmallow man, or just about any big monster from the 50's B-movies, and the goal was to smash a bunch of cities before the citizens shot you down. It was a riot.
These games were all great, by the way. I'd love to see a remake of the Movie Monster game. I think it was an Epyx game, where you'd be Godzilla or a
If I remember correctly, you were basically invulnerable if you were the Blob, but it would take forever to knock the buildings down. Godzilla was more well rounded.
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I'd like to see for classic c64 games, Skate or Die, Bruce Lee, Karataka, Trolls and Tribulations, Exploding Fist, Last v8, into the eagles nest, green beret, turrican, archon, attack of the mutant camels.
I'm forgetting a game, the battledroid game I think. I couldn't find it on Lemon64.com.
The 64 had some pretty good games, and in the later years when they started pushing the hardware, some good gfx and sound for an 8bit system.
Did you? In which case your memory must be pretty bad because that's a "ZX Spectrum", not a "Spectrum ZK"! :p
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I remember it still. First, you had the 100 meter dash. That meant hitting the space bar very fast for about 15 seconds. Then, you had the 200 meter dash. That meant hitting the space bar very fast for 30 seconds. Then, you had the 400 meter dash and you stopped playing.
A friend of mine had an easy time winning those dash events. But he had fixed a small strip of wood to the end of a drill and used that to hit the space bar with something like a 100 RPMs. His character finished in a few seconds. Not so good for the keyboard, though.
Many classic C64 games used the keyboard - either for all or some gameplay functions. Even Jumpman (the best game ever - try my free remake!) used the keyboard during the menu screens (and to select a run-speed).
Are they going to include a keyboard? If not, are they going to try to rewrite parts of these games? Or are they going to limit this to really bad titles like "California Games" and whatever else they can find that doesn't use the keyboard?
Perhaps they can munge together necessary functionality by having a few extra buttons that function as different keyboard keys according to the game being played?
Let's not stir that bag of worms...
All I can say is I hope this one is truer than some ofthe current Jakks games. I grew up on the C64 and will be the first in line!
The first digitized porn I ever saw was on my C64 - It was just a loop of six or so frames, but it set me up for life :)
It had a name like inner zone or inner space or something, has anyone else seen it?
Awwwwww! You're thinking of onions. If Abe Simpson tied garlic to his belt, he'd be fighting vampires; and that would, somehow, make sense.
Best C64 game ever. This should be included... except, a keyboard would be needed to write on the blackboards.
Throughout any and every C64 discussion I've ever seen, I've never heard anyone reference this game.. does anyone else know it but me?
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Wonder if they could possibly work out a deal to have the original C64 version of Defenders of the Crown. God I loved that game on the C64. The PC version never had the graphics and that sorry NES version just never captured the magic.
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M.U.L.E.!! Actually, anything by Sid Meier (Pirates!)or Dan/Danielle Bunten (Seven Cities of Gold, Heart of Africa. Also Robot Rascals, but you'd need the extras to play that game.)
Those are obvious, what else....
I spent a lot of time with a Electronic Arts game called Racing Destruction Set. Also Adventure Construction Set, though I don't know if I'd expect non-freaks to learn that system.
Portal was an absolutely killer idea for a game, storytelling through research.
Maniac Mansion has to be mentioned. "Oh, if only someone would mention Maniac Mansion!" Maybe Zak McCracken too, though I don't know as much about that.
Many of the old Atarisoft arcade ports are actually of very good quality. Rights, rights!
And, although I'm biased, old issues of Loadstar, as it'd be nice to see some of my old games again....
However, it has to be asked: how will this work? Most Commodore games were tape or disk-based. Its disk drives, in particular, had their own microprocessor, and some programs were known to make use of that. In a software-based emulation solution those considerations are bad enough, but a hardware emulator will have to work that much harder to solve them.
And will it contain a fake internal disk drive? Maybe with a writable flash memory area? That'd be rather cool.
You said "seminal".
What good would a C=64 emulator be if it diddnt include Lemonade Stand?
And there's been so much development since then. *winks*
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And there's been SO much development since then. *lol*
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but can it run Contiki?
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Would be cool to have Mission: Impossible... Or was it Impossible Mission? Also Raid on Bungeling Bay would be sweet.
Will be lots cheaper than building a mame box, and my son might actually be able to make sense of it!
Crikey, I feel really old then, and i'm only 29. My C64 was actually my third or fourth computer. I owned a Spectravideo, a TRS80 and a couple of others before I fell in love with my C64.
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Was BAR NONE the best 8 bit computer. All you Atari or Apple users know its true too! VGN --- the BEST emulation related resource on the net!
I cannot believe you people forgot M.U.L.E. For shame.
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I sure hope you can somehow hook two units together to multiplay. Anyone remember Wizard of Wor? It was actually the first computer game I ever played, in 1983. Damn those were some good times, back then... I still play it with Vice sometimes, though you want to play it co-op multiplayer for maximal fun.
If you would like to get stuff for Vice, check out Arnold. It seems they have every C64 title I've ever heard of.
What about the billions of other classic games for the C-64? What about Mail Order Monsters, Seven Cities of Gold, Auto Duel or M.U.L.E.?