Australian Commodore 64 Commercial (1983)

[melkevegen]

thumb up if u wanna Commercial's like this to day

[Cla0016]

499 DOLLARYDOOS

[TrollingAround]

10 Print "C64 porn:  U U"

run

[hailherrosner]

Where the hell is the 1541 floppy drive, it's not included in the family pack? damn that sucks!:D

[Slowpode]

Way Before Ctrl-Alt-Del

you had  :

sys 64738

This would reboot the C64.

[jamesedwardtheobald]

a VALUE of 700$ only for $499!

[budgieBurglar]

introduction to basic...the days when the whole family knew how to program....now fucktards don't even know how to diagnose a computer

[o00Tigger00o]

POKE 53280,0:POKE 53281,0

[britsluver]

500 smackers

[kevkoala]

10 print" Commodore 64s rule!";

20 goto 10

run

or

Load"*",8,1

[kevkoala]

I still have a Commodre 64 as well as a lot of floppy disks and other programs for it.

[pyrofella]

Loved them.... I still have two.... and two Amigas....... legendary stuff....

[ThaFlava]

OMG!

LOAD"*",8,1



[KaitainCPS]

10 poke 53280, 0; poke 53281, 0; for a = 1 to 100; next; poke 53280, 1; poke 53281, 1; goto 10

[leevclarke]

@KaitainCPS It should be a colon (:) to separate commands, not a semicolon (;). I am 31 years old, and I STILL remember this from my early teens. :D

[KaitainCPS]

@leevclarke

Ha! You're right. Years of coding in C++ have altered my memories of writing C64 Basic!

[danilojrchacon]

8 bit of porno commercial!!!!

[Maverick2kk9]

10 For X = 1 to 10

20 Print "I miss my C64 machine"

30 Next X

40 End

Run

(Type that in your old BASIC machine)

[soupeh]

I was 4 when this ad aired and remember singing the song around the house. I didn't even know what a commodore was but my parents ended up buying one. It was this exact package. Rolf Harris paint, hell yeah.

[Jareth1981]

$400????? Are they kidding?

[eric550022]

i mean .04---so nice

[eric550022]

.44 ----------nice----bald----very nice

[johnnyjayramone]

I remember playing Grand Prix Circuit at all hours on my C64. I had that Hockenheim track down pat.

[milkshaker74]

.5 sec camel toe

[MattTheSaiyan]

...and people are still writing games for it (though on cassette, obviously. Unless somebody starts making 5 1/4 floppies again....)

[MmeDesgranges]

When FAST HACK'EM ruled the world!

[thecooldude9999]

@MmeDesgranges WRONG! when scorpion and ACID PHREAK ruled the world!

[Washu1973]

@MmeDesgranges

I remember having that.

[tdiharold5265]

i think they mean a value of $7

[LoLzZ85]

Check out the Commodore salute.

[DiamondEyeProduction]

So what did it have to do with the chicks on the water slide? Bloody Aussies - stick some tits in and it will sell!

[ComradeZX]

@DiamondEyeProduction that part of the ad is an extract from the US ad. do your research.

[NoGufff]

I can remember seeing that family pack on sale in K-mart

[tqsuited]

are you keeping up with the commodore? cause the commodore's keeping up with you!

[MACK100001]

was Commodore made in Australia..??

[MarcSola7]

@MACK100001 Nope, it's been made in USA and exported internationally.

[thedarkdragon735]

the commodore is keeping up with me, thats creepy

[MishimaMartialArts]

Des waren noch Zeiten XD

[MishimaMartialArts]

Des waren noch Zeiten XD

[TheGrunge619]

Hes trying to down load porn and no internet yet! nice babes coming down the slide though.

[SepAndLen]

499 dollars woow thats alot =p you can buy it now for like 10 dollars. ;o .

[douchebagandpie]

@SepAndLen actually $499 is still cheap for a computer. like getting a decent computer today are like a couple grand or so.

[conflict1100]

0:44 is that year 2004 !?

[plasturion]

Strike Force Cobra - I admited this game - i bought it on tape, maybe graphic looks more Spectrum like (one color) but It was grate maze game.

[weaselfierce]

26 people used a mac

[napalm5]

except in Nebraska!

[runforitscooby]

Oh the days when i went to my friends place and literally went down to the corner shop and back and by the time we arrived the game had loaded on his C64. He was a nerd but his c64 git him all his friends. Respect to the beast that is the Commodore 64!

[tech9803]

I remember loading programs from tape -- took about 10 minutes. The I got the floppy drive and could load stuff in about 45-60 seconds. What a rocket ship.

[SimulacronX]

Are you keeping up with the Commodore?

[Commodorian]

@SimulacronX I am , its just not keeping up with me.

[figs1984]

hahaha $499? christ !bet its worth fuck all now in some landfill! lol

[spikeman14]

@figs1984 The price of commodores is on the rise, they are starting to get rarer, I have a complete system with commodore 64, tape drive, floppy drive, joysticks, printer, green screen monitor. Estimated around £500 and going up! (thats about $481 Australian)

[spikeman14]

@spikeman14 *£300

[ZXRulezzz]

lol, I'm about to get one soon :D

[MrChezaj]

I'm not sure playing on your Commodore will get you the fit blonde clad bikini girls at the beginning!

[williejenkins666]

@MrChezaj Maybe if you earned enough money to buy prostitutes, eh?

[spikeman14]

@MrChezaj I have one now, and although not blonde, I do have a rather good looking girlfriend :)

[plavins1]

cant wait till it comes out!

[heathirving]

hard to believe,but two kids broke into NASA using these.

[Klog7792]

what font is this.

[unikat73]

i really really miss the 80s, but the data-cassette or datasette was pure masochism! sometimes you load a game 15 minutes long and some seconds before it was done you have to load again because of errors. also writing codes from magazines for a game was terror, because of some printed errors in the magazine LOL

[Commodorian]

@unikat73 That was mass storage in those days.

[robbern54]

are you running away from the komodo, cuz the komodo is coming after you.

[xadam2dudex]

too bad a monitor and 1541 disk drive didn't come in that package

[Furetgarcon]

Interesting,Even after being 20 years old the C64 is still a better gaming platform then the mac and ontop of that people are still making games for em too. LMAO suck it apple even after 20 years your old rivial still kicks your ass.

[whiskers123]

@Furetgarcon

hahaha sarcasm awesome shit dude. 

[jjovereats]

@Furetgarcon Yeah. C64 is alive.

[Macbrand]

$499.00 was a lot of money back then.

[whoo689]

LOL.  That thing would be worth like only $50 nowadays.

[mindblowingyeah]

the best ever computer

[bobbygnosis]

Why do I not have one of those?

[WilliamWillWillson]

I want a commodore 64!

[isitu75]

i looked at wal-mart they were all out

[fiona36ful]

lol

[hillhack]

oh man, I wanted one so bad.

[alkhema17]

I still have one.

[Spacegoat92]

I gotta buy me one of those, time to upgrade i say

[draconpost]

Commodore I salute you.

[SushiSunshine2000]

Wow!! A boxed Commodore 64 floating in space!!

They just don't make Commercials like they used to. Why can't they make Nintendo Wii ads like this. Let's have a boxed Wii floating in space too!!

[jman19mwi]

wow that cost alot back then lol

[Martinofredwall100]

I got a C64 last year, but its hard to find games in the second hand stores.

[benebrius]

@Martinofredwall100 ive still got about 400 floppies fuoll of games

[Jeff98177]

10 INPUT "What is your name";A$

20 A=LEN(A$)

30 PRINT "Your name has ";A; "letters in it."

40 END

I used to put C64 tape cassettes into a regular tape player and play them. High pitched squeals and low buzzes. It was weird.

[LeightonW87]

@Jeff98177 I use to put music cassettes into the cassette player on the c64 (or was it the speccy.

[jjovereats]

@Jeff98177 La-laa-loo-loo.

[er10b]

@Jeff98177 like dialup? nice.

[Jeff98177]

@er10b Come to think of it, it did sound like dialup! LOL

[heatflash888]

That was so disappointingly unstereotypical. I thought Id at least get a man in a cork hat saying - Buy the Commodore 64 ya drongos or skippy gets it, playing the C64 is the perfect past time for the younguns when they've run out of tinnies.

[goingonlyroad]

Will never forget the fun I had playing Giana Sisters and pacman .. and how much 8bit music rocked at the time :)

[910364]

oh I thought this ad was for a holden Commodore

[chaiTV]

You can plug the Commodore into any TV you like, unlike the iPad which doesn't plug into anything because it doesn't have video out. Try plugging a joystick or controller into your iPad... not gonna happen. C64 beats iPad.

[LeightonW87]

@chaiTV

Thats the one thing I hate about touch screen devices, there are either not enough buttons or no buttons at all.

[weaselfierce]

@chaiTV Nobody can tell you what you can run on your 64 either :)

[douchebagandpie]

@chaiTV also the C64 plays better games :DDD

[coolaidkiller101]

now only for a cent

[0xXMRSXx0]

Now for ONLY $20!!!

[aaronm222]

Lolz.

Shift> Runstop.... press play on tape...

syntax error...

[Bananas1973]

@aaronm222

Best short cut ever. lol

[jimmygun79]

LOAD"*",8,1 if i remember.lol

[9sunskungfu]

@jimmygun79 hmm ..there might be more than 1 game on the disc

LOAD"$",8

SEARCHING FOR $

LOADING

READY.

LIST

00 ][tyrtgh][ 00

01 LAST NINJA

02 LAST NINJA 2

03 IMPOSSIBLE MISSION

[Bananas1973]

@jimmygun79

Was that load first game on disk? lol good times

[cyrixproductions]

I am keeping up with the commodore :D

Ach, good old times :D

[eltendota]

que genial esta PC.. y con joistick y todo.. wow..

[mig189189189]

Awesome video. Keep on with that good work!

[hdmccart]

they probably cost a small fortune now...who knows? maybe some clever coders could extract every bit of power from them to produce some half-arsed 2d graphics...

[0121ryanh117]

$499 seems a rip off now but i bet they thought they saw commodor coming.

[amadeusyaoi]

FYI: The Commodore 64 sold over 25 million units.

[Vdawg1337]

hmmmm....the PS3 of 1983

[Demoist]

I dont think the commodore is keeping up with me... and i think i am ahead of it

[TheDoomsaier]

in 1983 that was actualy some realy heavy shit of a computer at a

REALY LOW PRICE

[robdotcom71]

Ohhhhhhhh the tape drive.... wonderful idea...but horrible in reality... slow and took ages to load anything.....

This takes me back....

How many countless hours of fun typing in

10 print "hello":::::::

20 goto 10

Run

hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello

[nycisraelite]

remember this one...

10 print "What is your name"

20 input A$

30 print "Hi"; A$

And the shorter less memory version

10 input "What is your name"; A$

20 print "Hi";A$

LOL!!!

I loved that era!!! I got my c64 in 1985 - it was my first yr. in H.S.

[hdmccart]

remember the multi-coloured lines when loading....ahhh....

[Malasawas]

Yeeeaaah! I miss the sense of psycho-fun

[colinluzio]

Where can I buy one of these? They don't seem to sell them in the shops round here.

[mattsprinter]

I'm sure the commercial companies didn't use commodore 64s. They don't have the pixeling capabilities that windows 1x had for ibm and tandy.

[mattsprinter]

I found one at my school with no power adapter. How many volts does a commodore take?

[nrdesign1991]

12V, 5V and 9V~, i think

[stormsirens2]

5 volts @ 10 amps 9 volts AC @ 10 amps

[HungryKFC]

I remember this ad. LOL

[anSealgair]

So do I. I can't believe it. It used to be on a lot. I think I was put off by the music and the people on the waterslide so didn't take much notice. It didn't click that it was about a computer. Data cassettes. Funny.

[MrYoshiDan]

How come in old commercials and such the voiceover bloke sounds so manly but these days they don't?

[sirgarence]

Agreed. Nowadays they get in these high-talkers who all sound like jockeys.

[pwnedeful]

there is this apple computer simular to the commodore 64 do anyone know what it is

[TheAZMac]

The Apple IIs sorta looked like the Commodore and they were out around the same time (early 80s).

[ballrags]

the commodore 64 unfortunately stopped keeping up with me several years ago :(

[zetareticuli4]

camel toe at 0:05

wow!

[reverendcutterx]

lol, well spotted hawk-eye!

You have a good eye for the 'toe'.

[DefconComputers]

Introduction to basic is why I am posting here today!

[shadowkon69]

its sooo !!ADVANCED!!

[iMacLover65]

i know! 64k processor! that's way better than my 2.16 ghz core duo!

[sundhaug92]

It wasn't a 64k processor, but 64k memory

[RealSJ2571]

But only 39k of that memory was available for BASIC programs.

[jawbraeka]

@sundhaug92 i would love a 64kGhz processor

[jjovereats]

@jawbraeka Well you get:

0.9 MHz CSG 6502

64 KB RAM, of which 38911 bytes is for you to use

Excellent music

Not-really-that-rubbishy (I've now experienced real C64) SID graphics.

[xadam2dudex]

@jjovereats actually it was a 6510 not a 6502 the 6510 was a special chip that allowed for the ram under the rom to be switched so u could access it to run ur own mod OS in the ram

[BamzookiMan130]

@sundhaug92 It had 64k of RAM, and 20k of ROM.

[scott93257]

64k of ram... If I remember right the processor speed of the commodore 64 was like 1 mhz

[ChrisMcKayOz]

And in 25 years time people will be making fun ofyou and your iMac and it's paltry 2.16Ghz core duo. The C64 was/is far more influential and revolutionary than any PC released in the last 15 years. Learn some respect.

[ev1ill33t]

@ChrisMcKayOz : aren't we already making fun of apple products? ^_^

[damovskiJr]

@ChrisMcKayOz

Who has to wait 25 years? There's plenty of reasons to make fun of Apple fanbois and their iMacs now!

[jessicana77]

God this commercial brings back memories!

[Gardena380]

love the Commodore-designed joystick :)

[Fenncer24]

Still have my 64 and just played it this last week. First Choplifter love the stars in the night sky and the flag waving in the wind. Then played TEST DRIVE for a little bit and then Space Staion. Had other game systems too which were Atari 2600, Intellivison, Magnvox Odessy 2, and Nitendo 64 and a Atari Lynx. Sold all but my Commodore & (Odyssey which broke and threw away) and will never part with it and now miss the other game systems but needed money. Will have to shop Ebay to get them back.

[spikeman14]

I am really looking for a copy of TEST DRIVE on the commodore!

[typicalaussiebloke]

Whilst the old Commodore 64 is a zillionth as powerful todays standard PCs, it was revolutionary in the 80s n lasted throughout the 80s n even early 90s. Whilst my first computer was an IBM XT 8086 I got in 1992 when I was 11, I have used these Commodore 64s at a youth centre in the mid 90s n the games were fun to play. Funny that within the last 15 years the processing power n memory of computers has increased exponentially 100 fold, now we have fluid motion 3D action/adventure/sports games.

[elpornero53]

are u keeping with the commodore!!!!cause ....so catchy

[superr]

Commodore Amiga 64

[killertrip10]

0:05 do you see what i see?

[Brockie777]

If you mean a chicks bikini nearly falling off, well if you look closely, it's the reflection with the shadow

[killertrip10]

a real bad camel-toe

[Craptron2000]

I still hate my parents for not buying me one of these. If we had owned a C64 our lives would be so different today.

[Darvon]

hahaha so good, what does the short clip at the beginning with the water slide got to do with anything? haha :)

[Commodorian]

A computer should be as fun to use as sliding down a water slide ???

[Foebane72]

Sorry, but the Atari 800XL had a better spec. But trust Atari to market it incorrectly. And the Atari is the direct ancestor of the Commodore Amiga, never forget that.

[Commodorian]

C64 had a color palette of only 16 colors and slower CPU but everything else was better. C64 had better screen modes, multi-coloured objects at once and had a much better sprite system. That's why games like Uridium were not possible on the A8.

[blitterchip]

Atari screen mode and color capabilities were not as powerful. Atari 800XL 320×192 - 2 colors. C64 320*200 - 16 colors. The C64 was a specialized gaming machine incorporating a much more powerful sprite system.. The hardware could handle 8 sprites at once and even more were possible using a sprite multiplexer. As for the Amiga, Commodore made the machine what it was,remember that the Amiga hardware had no operating system when it was sold to Commodore which they had to come up with from scratch

[Foebane72]

Blitterchip, I mean Jay Miner designed both the Atari 800XL AND the Amiga - that's what I mean by ancestor, not what company they were sold under eventually. I made that mistake once, assuming the shitty Atari ST was made by the XL designers. I now know better.

But what gets my beef about the C64 is not the limited colours, but THOSE particular colours - THEY'RE FUCKING AWFUL! Who thought of using those, eh? Mind you, Atari is still more colourful, even if beaten in everything else.

[Foebane72]

Actually, I take that back about the better spec. The Atari 800 did come out in the '70s, and the C64 in 1982, so it's bound to be better. Mind you, the ZX Spectrum came out also in 1982 and that turned out to be utter shite, spec-wise.

[blitterchip]

I think they could have done a lot more with the 800XL seeing that they had years to improve upon the previous product. The C64 had a fixed palette like the Apple and like you said.. you can't please everyone but I really admire the way the Atari did it. The Spectrum was great at games that implemented 3d vector graphics with its faster Z80 processor but those monochrome colors were really painful to look at..

[LoveCameras]

Not! Commodore Amiga.

Yes Commodore CBM64

[maxiCanal5]

both computers are great. I'm works with an Amiga 1200 on a local TV channel, here in Argentina. Also I have two Commodore 64. One is American, and other is manufactured here in Argentina.

Greetings

[PinkSilverWolf]

Ok i think that Jingle is addicting

[skoro1975]

The best (i think) commodore 64 emulator on pc: VICE

The best commodore plus/4 emulator on pc: YAPE

Skoro/Assassins

[gmodesike]

the c64 is what iran is using to help them come up the atom bomb.

[buzzjunked]

hope everyone is keeping up with there commodore :P.....but yeah after all these years have to say that the c64 tape deck was by far more advanced to the speccy one was nice to see games actually loading :D

[buzzjunked]

as a kid i was like sitting there waiting for the game to load there be music and flashy lights then the game just came on it confused me as it usally took an hour adjusting the head and doing an electronics engineering degree to try again but with the c64 it just worked took ages to get use to that lol

[andyistic]

OMG! That's so fucking funny! LOL

This thing is like ... 25 years old - damn!

My current Core2 machine has ... 262144 times as much memory as the C=64.

Good times, good times.

[Keijz74]

And still it´s great fun playing the games.

[yellowscooter]

Sounds like the 64 is 'watching over us'!

Big brother is always watching!

Now he has a commodore64!

Wooo!!!

[simxplane]

i used to love "california games"......oh my how far we have come eh?

[tnralliart2600]

Me too! The crappy PC version just wasn't the same...

[lukealpha]

Damn those chicks are hot

[j24utube]

lovely girls on the waterslide - very c64 related

[iSjonnie]

Catchy tune... pumpadidum padidadidum...