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Commodore 64 TV Game for Sale

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kids-these-days dept.

KodaK writes "The Commodore 64 Direct to TV is on sale at QVC. QVC bought all available units (250,000 or so) so, for now, this is the only place you can get them. This is a full C=64 in a joystick form factor with 30 games included, meaning you can hack this sucker to add a keyboard and/or other IEC peripherials (like a disk drive). The full BASIC ROM is included. Buy one now and impress your friends. BTW, this was developed by Jeri Ellsworth, the engineer responsible for the C-One. Cool stuff." We mentioned the development of this earlier.

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  1. Re:What games are included? by cockroach2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's the "Learn More" link. The games are:

    * Bull Riding
    * Championship Wrestling
    * Cyberdyne Warrior
    * Cybernoid
    * Cybernoid 2
    * Eliminator
    * Exolon
    * Firelord
    * Flying Disk
    * Gateway to Apshai
    * Impossible Mission
    * Impossible Mission 2
    * Jumpman Jr.
    * Paradroid
    * Pitstop
    * Pitstop 2
    * Rana Rama
    * Silicon Warrior
    * Speedball
    * Summer Games
    * Super Cycle
    * Sumo
    * Surfing
    * Sword of Fargoal
    * Tower Toppler
    * Uridium
    * Winter Games
    * World Karate Champion A
    * World Karate Champion B
    * Zynaps

  2. More Games by aoteoroa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Other classic consoles are also available including Atari, Activision, Nameco.

  3. Re:The Hardware for I/O is all exposed?? by tpr · · Score: 5, Informative

    The pins for keyboard data and clock are definitely exposed. Jerry was showing them to me a couple of weekends ago. Disk drive conn.? MM, not sure but I wouldn't be surprised. She's _very_ good at this stuff.

  4. Re:Bah! by Horse+Rotorvator+JAD · · Score: 5, Informative

    Included Games
    * Bull Riding * Championship Wrestling * Cyberdyne Warrior * Cybernoid * Cybernoid 2 * Eliminator * Exolon * Firelord * Flying Disk * Gateway to Apshai * Impossible Mission * Impossible Mission 2 * Jumpman Jr. * Paradroid * Pitstop * Pitstop 2 * Rana Rama * Silicon Warrior * Speedball * Summer Games * Super Cycle * Sumo * Surfing * Sword of Fargoal * Tower Toppler * Uridium * Winter Games * World Karate Champion A * World Karate Champion B * Zynaps

  5. Rights to old games can be hard to locate by jamiefaye · · Score: 5, Informative

    I ran into Jeri at a conference recently and we talked about why certain games are available (or not).

    Its often an archeology problem - figuring out who owns the copyrights and getting them to respond.

    For example, most of the Bally/Midway games that I was involved with at DNA (Dave Nutting Associates) are in this limbo. My contract with Midway had the game rights reverting to me, and we think that Dave's contract with Midway has the same thing, but he lost all the paperwork, so he does not know for certain. Thus we cannot assure potential distributors that the title is clear. (I actually kept my contract in a file box I was able to dig out, so MAME has Robby Roto).

    Its too bad - because we would love to see Gunfight (the first game on a frame-buffer system), Sea Wolf, Gorf, Wizard of Wor, and a host of other titles available on MAME and neo-retro systems like Jeri's.

    -- Jamie