My new Vic 20

[chipwaver]

Hey Dude! Thank's for sharing that great piece of personal history...

Whis I had a video of unpacking my very first computer which also was the VIC20!!!

You're on my Playlist now!

[peocaveo]

I had a very good feeling watching your video. I remember my Christmas mornings, the presents my parents gave me... I feel SOOOOO fine... I also remember when I had my very first PC. I had just finish the elementary school with the highest marks in all school and my father bought me a MSX (nobody remembers what I'm talking about, I know)

[TheOpenSourceGamer]

Lucky, oldest I have is a Commodore A600, which I only got 2 months ago.

[vk4akp]

Spoilt Brat!. Where's my Vic-20. for X-mas!! . :(

[Fibr3Optix]

Aw man I got a C64 1541 Disk drive. for Xmas in 85, but no games.... me and my friend had to pirated them, by physically trading discs so we could copy them. I still have all that stuff in my basement. Awww the memories.

[JakeTheGnake]

So cute

[MrStegbauer]

Genial



[blahdelablah]

This is a really cool vid. : )

[kyel1967]

ahhh the good ol Vic 20 3.5k of mean lean machine my first computer also for Christmas 1982, man those were the days and the that tape recorder (ndsn 2 I think) thanks for the vid brought back some good memories for me too..cheers

[applejax2006]

kind of wish i kept mine, i had the cassette & a dot matrix printer. could not afford the $800 floppy disk drive back then!! but i do remember it would heat up and crash so not reliable from what i remember. i have fun with the emulator to bring me back at times.

[IntrinsicPalomides]

Awesome, loved our Vic20...wish we still had it.

[DreadStorm]

That's what I got on my 11th Christmas. Still have one now, too. Works.

I'm 40 now, but I still tinker a bit once in a while.

[raulrrojas]

very good! I wish I had one video like this showing me how I was!!

[atarileaf]

Very cool that you have these old videos from when you were a kid. :)

[OldSchoolNYCGamer]

Cool old video there, never had that except my first Atari 2600 4 switch when I was 6 years old.

[unclebernie]

brilliant

[kf6hqc]

Still have mine! hehehe

[snoeg]

Great moment to capture on film. (And so much more ..um.. discrete than that clip of the Nintendo sixty-foooooour kid :)

[vsavoldi]

Very cool, thanks for sharing

[razielish]

-I had a Sinclair ZX-81 before the C64, the connoisseurs know that model. I got the Amiga 500 with added 512 KB and a HDD after the C64m and suffered a lot because I had to betray Commodore for the PC... the C64 was 300 DM (Deutsche Mark - a dead currency now) and it served me very well for many years.

[ultrasyd]

I bought my first C64 a few months ago. Great moment. I guess i know how you felt like :)

[luker25]

The Vic 20 was awesome... Powered up in mere seconds. (loading games off the tape took a lot longer) and I killed all 3000 something bytes of RAM writing instructions for a game I wanted to create.

[hanhi]

My dad bought me and my brother VIC-20 too and it was just terrible.

[Tiwaking]

Luckiest kid....EVER!

[Icemangqx]

They should bring the Vic 20 back and use this for the ad right around the christmas season.

[Borin81]

nice, gotta love these kind of old home movies, all i have on VHS tape from these years are from 1979, a year before im born, so no video of me holding a C64 sadly :P

[DeMoNicslipknot]

pirates cove and adventure land were the shit!!!

[sfcub69]

this was my first computer, too.

[Lumotaku]

me too

[ericaesop]

lol i remember getting my first c64 1 year ago lol second hand shop. i own 2 c64's and 3 128's. and 4 diskdrives

[PebbleBreeze]

I remember getting a C64 game for Xmas in 1985 or so. Then I would go to my friend's house later and we would pirate our games. Damn things cost $45 even back then.

[adric22]

Wow.. Wish I had a video like this of me getting my Vic-20. By the way, you have the aspect ratio set wrong. The video seems to think it is 16x9 when it is actually 4x3. Strains the eyes looking at everyone squished up.

[syrupneko]

I've noticed youtube doing that too alot of videos lately, ever since they upped the upload limit.

[randomunavailable]

This video belongs in the Smithsonian.

[trap0001]

If you were UK I might have sold you that! My first job was apprentice engineer, working on Commodore PETS, VICS, 64s etc. I sold 16 of them VICS on 1 saturday. I was beat by somebody who did about 30.

[Iltanen92]

This is a really nice video, and I bet this kind of videos are rare. It would have been nice to live in the 80's I'm sure : D

[popalazarou]

golden memories, let me put on my rose timted glasses.....happy days :)

[BCBaily]

omg that was so great thank you for that , i rem getting one at christmas and i loved it lol i would love to see one now !! loL I LOVEDD space invaders on there LOL

[TureTorped]

Thanks for bringing back memories, I think I speak for all of us that share your memory in this case - even though we may be in different countries.

[noelio1974]

Hey you also got a Cymbal Software "Games 20"!!!!!!!!!! Those are ULTRA rare. You must be in Canada.

I got the Games 20 for Atari 8 bit... Good ole cheezy basic games but LOTS of fun.

Quite incredible that you were videoed too. Nice memory for sure.

[roborunner]

Yeah i had a c64 but it brought back happy xmas memories.

[GordonFr33man]

Thanks for sharing. THis brings back memories. Vic 20 was my first computer ever.

[dougduck800]

Thanks for posting that... it's just so classic for those of us that experienced similar times.

[Lumotaku]

We got our vic 20 for christmas along with cosmic cruncher!

[jetcola]

My 1st computer was a Vic 20 too. It was one of my best Christmas's ever, typing in everything from the manual to playing Mole Attack. Thank you for the happy memories.

[vk4akp]

That was wonderful. Thankyou for sharing that with us.

I wish I still had such memories recorded.

My first computer was also a VIC-20. it was what ended up getting my first job of 10 years which was working for a CBM dealership.

I still have my very first VIC-20 here Boxed!.

Even if it no longer works it will never leave me as long as I live.

.-.-.

[misswhip667]

Makes me think the moment I got my first c64. Good times :)

[pitcalco]

It that you, Digi? The film is remarkably good, though the sound is a bit off. Was that on a Super8?

[DigitalQuirk]

That was Super8 film. The audio track was a thin strip of magnetic tape alongside the filmstrip; the sound has definitely degraded over the years.