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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. hacking it.. by greywire · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  2. 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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  3. Cheap Sid Chips ? by polyp2000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hmmm .... will it have a proper SID chip in it?

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    1. 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.

  4. c64 games by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  5. Sports Games fun by Flyboy+Connor · · Score: 4, Funny
    Ah... Epyx Sports Games.

    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.