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Commodore 64 To Get 30-In-1 TV Game

Posted by simoniker on from the commie-plus-plus dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Seriously by greywire · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Nerds like like video games
    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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  2. Re:Cheap Sid Chips ? by hiroshi912681 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm betting that they'll be quick and dirty ports of C64 titles, and most likely won't feature decent SID emulation. Just take a look at the Atari TV Games or the Namco arcade games... The Adventure easter egg is missing on the Atari TV Game, and the Pacman "patterns" are missing on the Namco one. Definitely not the original hardware... just ports that are good enough to fool you at first glimpse.

  3. Re:My votes for inclusion by Bambi+Dee · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The websites is low on details, but it mentions a price of EUR 30 -- no idea what that means with regard to production costs, but somehow I don't think there'll be anything particularly cool about this little toy. Apparently similar joystick consoles contained sloppy ports rather than originals, and if they go that route there'll be no need to simulate the original hardware too accurately.

    What I find somewhat more interesting is that Tulip's hinting at further Commodore-branded gaming products; though frankly I don't see the need for cheap reduced-functionality clones whose only appeal is that something about them is fashionably "retro".

    Considering your eclectic taste in games, there's a chance those 30 games won't include *any* of the rather cerebral games you would prefer. Straight arcade games seem more likely. Is more in tune with the retro schtick anyway - something undemanding and grotesquely pixelated for modern people to simultaneously enjoy and laugh about. (Jaded? Me? Jumping to conclusions?)

    Now if this TV stick thingie used 30-in-one cartridges instead... oh, well.