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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.
Not in the US. The C64 and Atari 2600 used manually switched RF cables and lacked the extra voltage or whatever that made the NES and SNES RF switch boxes automatic.
Last I checked, (3 or 4 years ago) Radio Shack was selling the manual switchboxes that would work with the C64. An RCA to Cable TV style coax adapter will do it too, if you don't mind unscrewing it every time you want to switch between the C64 and your cable TV/antenna connection.
But why use the RF outs? Unless you have an old TV or you like static, the C64s A/V outputs are much nicer. Most even have separate (a.k.a. "S-Video") outputs, but you'll need to whip up a custom cable to use that.
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.
You don't remember it quite clearly though. It required a joystick. For the sprints, you had to rock the joystick back and forth really rapidly. For things like diving, you basically just beat the shit out of the joystick trying to pull off as many tricks as possible.
I think the Sumemr Games box should have had a picture of a broken joystick on the cover.