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🎉🎮 5 TheC64 Giveaway Extravaganza!🎉🎮
Join us in celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the legendary
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, which was first announced at the 1982 CES Show in Las Vegas (Jan 7-10th 1982). In honour of this iconic moment in gaming history, we're thrilled to partner with
😲 The iconic photo of a Commodore 64 used for 25 years in an auto shop in Gdansk, Poland (2016)! 🇵🇱 This tough
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was still being used on a daily basis for balancing driveshafts and this is despite surviving a flood. 🌊🙌
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(photo courtesy of Piotr
LIMBO
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Originally released on the XBOX and PC is coming to the C64, here is a gameplay demo of what will be an epic game.
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Here's one for the under 40's. What is this mysterious item?
Last days:🎉We are giving away 5
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computers this week, thanks to Retrogames Ltd. 🎮 Check out the pinned comment for details! 📌
Photo by: OlivierBerger
🎸 JERI ELLSWORTH
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Bass Guitar using a real SID Chip 6581 for keytar and string sounds! 🎶 When I first saw Jeri's video a few years back, it blew my mind! 👀 Watch and be amazed, like I was. Epic build!!!
Last Days to Enter: 🎉We are giving away 5
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computers
40 YEARS AGO TODAY COMMODORE INTERNATIONAL DECLARED BANKRUPTCY 😔(29 March 1994)
What is your fondest memory of Commodore Computers?
Mine is getting my
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, when we were so poor. I never thought my parents would be able to afford one. They still don't know how they
Did you know? During the 80s, while playing Activision games, if you photographed your achievement score on certain games, like River Raid, and posted that photo into Activision with a self-addressed envelope, they would send you an iron-on patch for bragging rights at school and
PITSTOP II (1987)
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by EPYX games. At the time this was the best 2 player racing on the C64, would you agree?
Zzap!64 magazine rated it 95% saying "This is a superb racing game, graphics and sound being of extremely high quality. It's like playing two improved Pole
Did you use one of these?
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Games like Combat School were certain death of my QuickShot 2 Turbo joysticks. It was my favourite joystick for my
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Which
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joystick did you use?
So many good memories from back in 1986 while waiting for Commodore 64 games to load, making a sandwich, reading Zzap!64 magazine and watching awesome loading screens.
🕹️Today in Gaming History: Sid Meier the iconic game designer was born this day 1954 (24/02/1954).
What is you favourite Sid Meier game?
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Did you know
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first computer was a Commodore VIC-20? One of the world's most popular home computers (and brand), yet forgotten over time (The winners write the history) the Commodore VIC-20 changed the computing industry. Ref's made from Ashlee Vance book.
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Your favourite female video game creator?
CAROL SHAW is one of the first female game designers and programmers, and her greatest achievement is the iconic River Raid for Activision. Originally made for the Atari 2600, I played this game to death on my
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. How about you?
What was your favourite Microprose game?
In 2001, Infogrames purchased the brand Microprose, which at that stage was owned by Hasbro Interactive. The Microprose brand name on games was gradually phased out to be replaced with the Infogrames logo.
🌟📺 Ever wonder how they created the stunning graphics for iconic TV shows like Babylon 5, Sea Quest, and X-Files? 🤔
In Season 3 Episode 7 of the UK TV show 'Bad Influence', they revealed the secret behind these amazing visuals - the Commodore
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! 🎥💻
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37 Years Ago Today: The Arnold Schwarzenegger epic sci-fi movie, PREDATOR was released in theatres. (June 12, 1987)
In 1989 Activision released the Commodore 64 game based on the movie.
What did you think of the movie and the game?
Did you know? David and Richard Darling, started CODEMASTERS in 1986.
In 2005 the company was crowned the world's leading independently owned video games developer by Develop Magazine.
The Darling brothers, were both made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
According to the Software Publishers of America, in 1992 the 3 largest platforms for computer games was 1. IBM, 2. AMIGA, 3. COMMODORE 64
The awesome part about these results is the Commodore 64 was a 10 year old computer in 1992.
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