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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. Bah! by ThesQuid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I feverishly search the list of included games.... No M.U.L.E.?!?!! Useless!

    1. Re:Bah! by fz00 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What?!?! No Archon?!?!

    2. Re:Bah! by Pxtl · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Wow.... that list sucks. Only good ones there are Fargoal, jumpman jr and speedball... I have dim memories of Apshai.

      Where are the real games? Archon (1/2)? Space Taxi? Racing Destruction Set? Way of the Exploding Fist? Beach head II? Quest for Tires? Cosmic Tunnels?

      Where?

  2. why no AC power? by BobWeiner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nice idea. Too bad you can't use an AC adaptor in place of batteries. Any idea what the battery life on these units are anyway?

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  3. Winter Games by Smiffa2001 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Problem I see with this is that if you break the unit by 'waggling' to much, you've got a heftyish replacement fee. Maybe that's why QVC are sellin em in packs of two.

    On the hardware front, hope it is hackable to a degree, I'd like to see some of the Rowland Twins (or ACP) masterpieces like Creatures, Creatures 2 (LOVE those torture chambers) and Mayhem in Monsterland.

    And Park Patrol and Wizball and.....snip!

  4. Xbox all in one by pluke · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I got fed up a few years back of the sheer amount of consoles i had sitting under my tv (nes, snes, mega drive, mastersystem, saturn, N64), the wires were getting some what cumbersome. These individual controllers go a long way to solving the problem but the best solution now adays seems a unit like the xbox or a tiny computer. to be honest i wouldn't play any new games on it, bit of a retro fan, i would mainly stick with emulators, offers a host more functionality, i.e. saving games, screen shots, four player support, and you can more or less drag and drop games as and when you like. For the moment my 300+ cartidges and cd's are very much retired to the loft. Is there really a need for these fancy game console controllers for anyone with a reasonable budget?

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