Commodore 64 commercial (1983)

[babyrae1982]

A total value of $499.00........today it's probably worth 50 cents

[HardWarUK]

@babyrae1982 Actually,if it's all boxed up and in working condition, think around $150!

[Twirlyhead]

Seems odd they've got an English voice on a US advert - I didn't think they did that.

[doritostheking]

@Twirlyhead It's a really thick australian advert for the australian market. Nothing to do with England or the US.

[Twirlyhead]

@doritostheking - yes, you're right - I hear the Australian accent now.

[TheExeOneVIII]

Chuck Norris can run Crysis 2 in this pc

[Commodore64Dude]

pyrogyra72 The C64 doesn't have a Dorrito as a chip retard.

[BarbieBoy1997]

I GOTTA get me one of those!!!

[Commodore64Dude]

james64468 I know they made a modern version of the Commodore 64. It's called the Commodore 64X. I got an old one off eBay for a bid of $20 too! :)

[BarbieBoy1997]

@Commodore64Dude i just looked for Commodore 64X and didn't find any. Did i spell it wrong. sounds interesting.

[pyrogyra72]

You think that Commodore 64 is really neato,

what kind of chip you got in there? A Dorrito?

[Commodore64Dude]

Back in the 1980's it was like $500. But I looked on amazon.com for one and the price went down by a damn lot! it was only $75! but they were all sold out damn! I really wanted to get a C64 :( my mum had one when she was 10 her favorite game was manic miner. Long Live The C64!!!

[james64468]

@Commodore64Dude put in Commodore in google search. You find their site. I might buy one. They back in action. Long LIve Commodore pc.

[jodey1965]

I remember playing elite on this for days!

[semco72057]

That was the cheapest computer at the time too. I have 2 of them still although I have not used them in a long time. The tape drive was very slow and I got a floppy drive for mine. The modem was state of art for the 1980's when we had BBS' around the country with information stored on them instead of the internet.

[PAFAWAG1]

The Commodore has just begun keeping up with me. I saved a 1986 C64C :))

[scar1343]

the commodore isnt keeping up with me because i want to play black ops..

[slitor]

@scar1343 tsk tsk tsk...what a waste of human space you are....

[Skeletor4ever]

9 people aren't keeping up with the Commodore, but the Commodore is keeping up with them.

[weaselfierce]

quite a contrast to IBMs and Macs costing over 1500 dollars.

[Vox0707]

Ive still got my c64, with a working c64 monitor and 1541 disk drive and c64 printer with games on flobbys.

These are the days when you would stay up half the night playing around with this machine with no cell phone and

other stuff like this around etc. These are the old school days when games were all about adventures etc.

Not to mention I use the c64 monitor for my sega master system and the sega joypads would stick in the c64 aswell.

[MattTheSaiyan]

@Vox0707 I love, really really love, how SEGA Mega Drive and Master System control pads can be used on so many different things. Makes retro-gaming much easier!

[PimpinMainer]

Are you keeping up with the commodore, cus the commodore is keeping up with you. thats gonna be stuck in my head all week. i'm just gonna say that randomly to people now.

[hanrinch]

didnt realize adobe flash were already exist in 80s O_O

[Kyntteri1]

are you keeping up with the cameltoe 'cause the toe is keeping up with you

[Terikan2]

holy crap that would be like 1500 dollars today.

[maybachlover15]

@Terikan2 it would only be about 1000

[MisterShuckle]

80'S MUSIC

TITTIES

THUMBS UP

BRITISH VOICEOVER

COMMODORE STUFF IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAACE

MILF TEACHER

Lol, 80's. XD

[deepsquareleg]

@MisterShuckle that's an australian accent.

[whattheheck1000]

Commodore + Titties = SALES!

[3ytc]

@whattheheck1000 What titties little boy?

[whattheheck1000]

@3ytc At the beginning. 

[Ravintolavaunu]

Girls in bikinis!!!!

[jmoon219]

Was that computer compatible with the ipod?

[slurpos]

$500 bucks??? Pfft

[Leaklips]

@slurpos we paid almost 700 for ours

[kinmanyuen]

lol my wallet can't keep it up

[fiat850super]

Just I have it to day.

The package is from february 1984 and it in good condition. Many years stillstand but i try this little check in last summer:-)

[gamemaster905]

Notice how the people on the slide have very muscular ab muscles. THIS THING INCLUDES ELECTRONIC STEROIDS!!!!

[JohnnyBeatdown]

Commodore 64 equals girls in bikinis.

[TheDigitalslayer]

@TheIdentCritic IT's pronounced Dayta in Texas. :-[l

[xollst]

still cant get over the price lol.

[NakedCreep]

FOUR HUNDRED NINETY NINE DOLLARS?

omg I better sell my PS3

[gamesDAMNED]

The Commodore is keeping up with you? Did Yakov Smirnoff write this jingle?

[moronpaul]

Man, those two blondes on the waterslide...

[Gerardus1970]

Nah mate, it's pronounced "darta" here in Australia.

[mig189189189]

Awesome video. Keep on with that good work!

[RapierMedia]

i can't believe they don't have commercial like this in UK.

they would go down much better.

[braytyso07]

Greatest Ad ever =D

[quadturbo4]

"The Commodore is keeping up with you" - I'm not sure if that slogan is great or really, really terrible.

[1967norway]

@quadturbo4

This was good stuff back then. You have to remember that we didn't know what would come.

[vox2007]

omg, I'm sorry Wholedarnshow, I accidently marked your comment as negative lol sorry... :S

[Ferrorschini]

499 dollar, thats cheap, you get computer with data casette and joystick and software. I paid 499 dollar for my GTX295 in Mai of these year, without taperecorder and joystick. ;-)

[makkamccann]

Haha....love this. Brings back memories. 1983 was when Dad first bought ours. I also remember how excited I was when I saved up and went out and bought my 1541 disk drive. :)

[olsona]

$499? Suddenly the PS3 looks like a bargain!

[Sheepy007]

Not really, a commodore was back then, more like a Gaming pc of today.

[WholeDarnShow]

The Commodore is... keeping up with me?

**Looks over shoulder.

[HenshinMasta]

For only $499!

Wow.

I saw it last week at a yard sale for $10!

[Vpmatt]

Rip off!

My mum bought me one for Christmas in 1986 with only a tape drive (what a piece of shit) and paid 100 bucks.

[Ironlord2015]

What an absolute cheesefest :-D Classic!

[capnmorgan5150]

This commercial needs more titties floppin' around.

[Ironlord2015]

LOL couldn't agree with you more mate :-D

[WKRPinCINN]

@capnmorgan5150 --- HA HA HA! IS FUNNY CAUSE THE TITLES ARE FLOPPIN' AROUND ALREADY!!!

[xkraelx]

I remember opening one of those packages for my 6th birthday. That day was the singlemost lifechanging day of my life. Thumbs up for this video.

[llib90630]

wow... that was a lot of $ 4 a piece of crap

thx early adopters

[fjccommish]

The whole family can learn Basic together.

[Enysvar]

cartridges... yea sure...

[afroducks]

10 PRINT "C=64 FOR EVER "

20 GOTO 10

RUN

Just loved my C=64 back in the 80^... had about 20 cassettes packed with games and having all my friends over playing to late in the night. Then i got my Amiga, a sadly sold of my C=64. And in the end when i got my first PC sold of my Amiga. Dang i miss them. I somehow got a flashback when the modems came out in the early 90^, you know the screaming sound ;) Well im a webprogrammer today, and i owe it all to Commodore C=64 who got me started, THX guys!!!

[onlineboxingdotnet]

I got at Commodore 16 for my 14 years birthday. After some times I changed to the 64..I worked day and night with it.

Later changed to PC of course.

Today I'm a software developer and I owe it to the Commodore.

Thank you Commodore, for these great machines.

[natlinxz]

WOW that's a good price!

[nostalgiacreep]

if commodore is keeping up with you, then theres obviously no need to keep up with it, since it is already following your pace...?!

[Meggie1707]

holy shit $500, thats really expensive back then :X

[lagranputa666]

Actually is quite cheap if you compare with an IBM computer back then :)

[ivanha1]

Actually is $499

[cgn49]

that was almost as good as my At&t 086 PC

[atineiatte]

Commodore fuckin' RAWKS

[HalfEatenDimSim]

piece of shit computer, i had one it was shit, i pissed on it for a laugh, i smashed the tape player into a thousand bits and shoved the joystick up the disc drives ass, impossibe mission is a poof

[orangie84]

With it's 664 bites of internal memory, it's sid chip for unmatched computer sound and it's ability to create office style graphs.. (which I still want to see in person to this day).. It's no wonder the Commodore 64 has been placed number one on the consumer list for best home computer..

(From another long lost Commodore 64 commercial.) I remember this commercial very well.. I was around 14 at that time!

[NeverMind785]

Holy crap, I freaking love that song.

Could someone make an MP3 of this?

[Bajzer]

Hehe me too =D That song is stuck in my head

[V3rbat1m]

not only in yours^^ its such a catchy tune^^

there's another commercial of 1985 wich includes this song, without talking of this guy, but its in bad quality.....

[rbnumberx3]

look at that beast ONLY 499!!!

[adj789]

man i used one of these when i was 3 years old

[FEEDER87]

Wow this console is gonna kick PS3 and Xbox 360 ass! When is it comming out? Can't wait!

[snake2006]

ARE YOU KEEPING UP WITH THE COMMODORE?

BECAUSE THE COMMODORE IS KEEPING UP WITH YOU.

Priceless.

[JScottCapps]

Long live the Commodore memories!

[herdeckerrules]

great :-)

a funny time ;-)

[NYz3R0dAY]

the best computer of it's day!!

i'm keeping up with the commodore. Are you?

[kermit30au]

Im 37yo now and it was great to see these old adds. I used to repair them and play the games to death unlike these new games we have other than Locoroco on PSP. I was lucky enought to sore a original verson C64 in its origianal box with contents. Yes I agree it was one of the best PCs. Remember back in 1983-84 having mates around playing Wizzard of War, Frogger, Pharaho's Curse and a few years later Outrun. Had a 128D but it stayed in C64 mode always.

[RapierCorporation]

if only they were still on sale today, i don't think the software would be sold thrugh, that's the main problem.

[ShinyMcshine]

Whenever I watch anything nostalgic like this I always get this stupefied grin on my face, and slightly afterwards I am filled with sorrow that I cannot return to the yesteryear.

[CamiloSanchez1979]

how old are you? because i am 28 and i feel fucking old!

[lockingdave]

I feel the same too! There is an adage that goes something like: don`t cry because it's over but smile because it happened. Hope this helps..

[crazynintendoguy]

what does the waterslide had to do with C64?

[scootergrisen]

Waterslide = Fun

C64 = Fun ?

[pawel1818]

The best PC in world XD said my sister

[Consolcwby]

Fast fact: Did you know that the Commodore 64 could also use Atari 2600 joysticks? It's true, and in 1984-86 it was also much cheaper thanks to the U.S. console crash!

=)

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sys64738

[cpire1]

Chr*st, I *remember* that ad - especially the dinky little salutes.

[anppilot]

Ok I have to add my $.02. I was 5 y/o when we got the atari 2600 in 1979, 8 when we got the C-64 in '82 and to this day I still use the C-64. I'm 33 y/0 right now, and I couldnt get past the Nintendo 64/Playstation. I HATE these 1st play perspecive-games these days. Sorry guess I'm old, but I still ike 2d games. I even got into programming B.A.S.I.C. back then. Wait was I a nerd? LOL Cant believe I was into programming sprites !

[Dayofthedead1976]

Remember Logo Writer? I went to computer camp instead of the wilderness version. My pens and pencils were the idea of roughing it. We had a C64, we also had the tape drive, and worst printers who was the master of time suckage. It took forever for a document to print...damn continous feed paper. I loved Frogger and the rest of the games...bit fuzzy on what we had. Also the cartridges you stuck in the back of the keyboard with games on them were cool.

[anppilot]

yeah, i still have some of the cartridges in my attic LOL. I turned my c=64 on the other day and i have a blue screen? WTF Oh well, it will make a lovely door stop. I still have my c=64 monitor. Awesome composite monitor. I still have my games/disks. I want to buy that interface so i can use on my current laptop. WOO HOO !

[Commodorian]

Sounds like a bad PLA chip. You might want to try pushing it back down into its socket and see if that works. Does the machine work with cartridges plugged in ?

[ThaDoctor72]

Now I feel old. I ran a BBS on a commie.

[RauzaInnovator]

LOL! $199. Veeeeeeery inexpensive!!!

[jtothekay]

whaaaaa that's so 80's

[jman19mwi]

now it cost maybe $10 now lol

[funnysamuel]

Not really, original working beige units with the early SID chip ( MOS-6581 ) are going for $50+ on ebay. Expect them to increase over the years as working ones become more difficult to find.

[MrBetonmixer]

The best game was Street Road :)

[Webendowed]

I have to disagree...I loved telengard..was my first D&D type game, although I didn't like how if you went from stairs on level 2 it took you like level 27 where you would get you but kicked!! but I hacked it so I had 10^27 hit points and did comparable damage..Also, Castle wolfenstein was first released on c-64...plus there was that game where aliens blow up the whitehouse...made graphics sissle back then

[Consolcwby]

Every game you mentioned was great! My faves were Starflight, the Phantasie series, and Maniac Mansion! (although I had a really bad thing for disk parties back then... I'm a bad man, really...) =D

sys64738

[Mishownsyou]

the commadoores not keeping up now lol :0

[imaqtpiefromcf]

I'll never forget mine. I was thrilled when I got a data cassette, and then later a 1541 floppy drive. Before that I had to leave it on when I'd write programs in basic. And later yet I got a Westridge 300 baud modem. I'd call BBSs in the Milwaukee area - only one user on at a time, so you'd usually get a busy signal. That was only twenty some years ago...not all that long in the scope of things.

[supaloui]

are YOU keeping up with the Commodore?

[whattheheck1000]

Yes

[tsieber2003]

$500, wow that was a lot back then, let alone now.

[JimPrice]

it's still cheaper than a ps3.

[ChristianWithNES]

I have an old commodore 64, It's amazing what they could do with the 64KB of RAM.

[vox2007]

Which by the way if you want to emulate Commodore64 on your PC go to w w w.VICE.c o m the vice emulator, also check out w w w.romguy.c o m his has not only C64 games and emulators, he has Sega, NES, SuperNES, Genesis, Gameboy, GameGear, Atari 2600, 7800 emulators and games. Yeal I remember the fun days when I was about 13, it was'nt until 1998 when I decided to store my c64 away. Now im 33. :) I still play some on the emulator. :)

[vox2007]

I still have my commodore64, and many games on flobbys. I still have a working 1541 disk drive and C=64 monitor, and Printer. Just a year ago I put it all back together and run a diskdrive test disc,that checks the disk drive for errors. It was so alsome. Im on a Dell 8200 now.

[ozzyscruggs1]

Taught myself the Cyrillic alphabet on that machine.  Process involved painstakingly drawing each character onto a grid, converting into bytes, and poking the new code into the existing ASCII set. Little did I realize I was programming my own brain at the same time. Thems was the days...

[chuckfinn]

Yeah, definately think I have heard that jingle before too. I definately remember the box. I remember there were six or so games that came with it: Cosmic Cruiser, BC Bill, Space Invaders, Pedro, a cartridge with International Soccer, the rest I cant remember! I also loved the music software and the playstick keyboard thing that you would attach to the top of the commodore keyboard - anyone else remember that?

[tetranoob]

somewhere deep in the recesses of my brain i acyually remember this jingle.

[elpresley]

You even could kill HiFi`s when accidently you took a data-casette instead of a music-casette in the tape-deck and had the volume turned on to full :-)

[Greg08101995]

Only $500 ???? Where can I get one , sounds like a hot deal !!!!

[knapik88]

In Poland Commodore 64 came into the market past 1990 because before 1989 in Poland was communism.

[gdashred]

data was stored in cassetes instead of flash drives back then?

[MikeyS9607]

Yeah but it was kinda slow! Believe me I actually have one (But it broke down

[elpresley]

Yeas, but there had been Floppy-drives. I had two of them connected to my C64. Loading a gemae from the Casettes could take up to ten minutes and longer.The Floppy was much faster.

[normfromga]

And they also had a lot of cartridges which were faster yet, except they were download only (I think...), and may not have had as much memory...

[thermonuclearwarfare]

when you see the waving index finger you know you are buying the right thing!

[rollicker]

Greatest computer there ever was. I still have my complete system.

[memole76]

c64 gave joy to half of the kids all over the world...I'm one of those...

[TimChuma]

That was a lot of money in the 80s in Australia, only a few lucky friends managed to get one.

[cucho69]

Ahhh! Mi amor por las computadoras viene de Commodore!!

[kll510]

We had these at school. They look so vintage now. LOL

[normfromga]

That is sort of surprising...

Apple seemed to have the classroom business sewed up back then.

[BuckWilliams17]

I had one of these growing up. Scary.

[f1br30p7ix]

Awsome

[98770]

that slogan is perfect

[satchguy]

technologyyyyyy

[flyhalf2006]

Brings back so many memories of a carefree childhood in front of this great machine.