Remember Commodore?

[Wizzo]

Commodore return to the games world.

Promising the “fastest, most powerful Gaming PC money can buy,” both come with quad-core Intel processors humming along at 2.66GHz - with an 8MB Cache, an ASUS P5N32-E NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI™ motherboard, 2 500GB 7200 RPM SATA Raid 0 hard drives, and up to 2GB of Corsair™ DOMINATOR™ DDR RAM.

Also included are a standard DVDRW drive, a massively powerful 850W ICE Cube power supply, Creative’s hallmark SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer card, and not one, but 2 NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX 768MB SLI™ graphics cards. The GX and XX PCs run on Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium and even come with a custom “C-Kin” paint job on it’s removable panels which seems more silkscreened – not that it’s a bad thing.

But what’s really fun, is that they also come preloaded with an emulator – to play all those classic (and graphically challenged) C64 games!

With that kind or work under the hood, it’s no wonder that the cost is between $3500-$5800 or more!

Suddenly that overpriced PS3 looks a lot more attractive.

[cosworth151]

Reminds me of when I first started with the company back in 84. The only PC in the place was a Commodore CBM in the front office - two 5 1/4 inch floppies and no hard drive.

[davewilson]

My son had one,at the time it was the only one you could do music on.

[romephius]

I always played my uncles commodore 64........it was an awesome gaming machine.......with the tape deck......floppies were really teknikal..........

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[FW14B]

I had (well, borrowed from a friend) a commodore 64, it was a great machine even if the games were pretty obscure and nigh on impossible.  Standouts were Dizzy and the Ghostbusters game for me 

[Alianora La Canta]

I liked Dizzy as well (though I preferred Kwik Snax on the MSX), as well as Little Computer People. I used to play C64 games on my grandparents' machine, though I now have emulation software on my PC.

[johnbull]

I now have emulation software on my PC.

That sounds painful. Is it contageous?

[Alianora La Canta]

Unless you count the fact that the software appeared to have multiplied on the CD into about eight programmes, not really. I keep some codicide ready just in case the software gets ideas above its station on my hard drive.

[CrazyHorse]

i was a deprived child, my parents bought me a a vic 20 for xmas when everyone was getting zx spectrums and C64's