Commodore 64 commercial (1982)

[PrinceJJB7]

if commedore was so great then why aren't they still selling computers

[gcastro44]

we had commodore 64, and apple II's when i was in elementary school... in the early 90s. ahhhh, back when discs were 8" and floppy...

[shesnailie]

Had one of these - with the 128 style casing - well into the '90s. Had a good port of Zaxxon. The Geos OS was OK if slow.

[cof61a]

the new iMac... its ... just amazing

[MagnificentWarrior]

C64 still looks good to me ... C64 must have its place in Computer Hall of Fame :)

i remember struggling between buying VIC-20 or the more expensive and more muscular C64 and i eventually fell for the latter ... which i never regretted :) oh those days!

[FOX11GUY]

Wow! So only the 1% could own a computer?

[ghostinvestigater]

lol the games on the old 64 were on cassette tapes... i played them!

[rpdigital17]

Wow, 64KB was enough to run operating system and programs. Soon they will say that 6 GB RAM is not enough to run Windows 8.

[Hotshotter3000]

@rpdigital17 You've got to be kidding me?

[rpdigital17]

@Hotshotter3000 I'm not kidding. This is a business!

[realityexplorations]

@rpdigital17 actually less, infact there was no os just a built in hard ware rom with which you could program or run a program from floppy or tape, it was 32 k ram and 32k rom

[realityexplorations]

@rpdigital17 only 16 clours and very low res and 8 bit sounds, but i was loads of fun and loads of games that were really cheap and many free games on mags

[floogulinc]

best song ever in this commercial.

[trollworkout]

only 30 years ago ! 

[MrRobotoToo]

Goddam, 16K for $900? We've come a long way!

[BlackieChan57]

16k memomry omg that is like a word document damn cant belive that best part of living ad growing up is looking at the pass

[TrollingAround]

the only thing that stopped the c64 selling more was the lack of people buying them - rediculous statement? you decide! (please like :-) )

[Gameboygenius]

@TrollingAround If you knew anything about the corporate politics of Commodore, you wouldn't say that.

[speewave]

i've never owned one, but i've seen stuff from the internet, but i'm not sure how this wasn't a huge success? The SID alone really beat out the beeper on the PC\Apple 2, and even the NES which came out later

@marcvie9 its actually a computer that plugs in to your TV, so all you needed was a TV with an RCA jack (your typical Yellow-Red-White plugs) for your screen

[marcvie9]

where the fuck is the screen?

[flyer244]

@marcvie9 how old are you?

[marcvie9]

@flyer244 does not matter, i am not from the time when computers did not have screens. but can you tell me where is that screen, invisible?

[elmasteryu]

AMD?

[HayLotion]

I want to go back in time and show them my computer. lol!

[3123Alpha]

64K for under 600 bucks!!! HA!! Eat that Steve Jobs!!!

[CaptainChirac]

"under 600 dollars"

[MattTheSaiyan]

To those who mock the 64KB of random access memory: RAM was very expensive in the early 1980s. Sure, prices were regularly decreasing, but it still took up a large amount of the manufacturing cost of the average gome computer (except, perhaps, things like the ZX81, but that is cheating as it only had 1KB of ram...actually as RAM prices decreased the ZX81 became bundled with a 16KB RAM add-on)

[RemoteMemory]

For anyone putting down the c64, if you lived in that time you would have drolled over this thing.

Ttry to put yourself in a time when if you wanted to play a video game, you had to go to a video arcade and pay 25 cents (eventually 50 cents or more).

The c64 games were as good as the arcade versions, and FREE to play in the comfort of your home.

It was a good word processor as well... much better than a typewriter or writing by hand.

[aziliks]

@RemoteMemory hey what os was in that old appple pc?

[z0mz0m]

@aziliks AppleSoft BASIC is probably the answer you're looking for. BASIC was in ROM, but if you don't count that, there was no OS "in" the Apple][.

[Hotshotter3000]

@RemoteMemory I had a C64 as a very young child. Too young to really use a computer, but I did get to play some games with it ,and I did learn something with it at school. Good times.

[dersachse95]

under 600 dollars lol

[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.

[Burnaby2008]

Vic 20 anyone?

[Burnaby2008]

The most fun I had with one of those, was cheating on Ultima 4.

I also cheated on an adventure game series that Epic used to sell. I can't remember what the series was called, but Hellfire Warrior was one of the chapters.

[ChickenBot]

I had one....HAHAHAHAH!

ok I feel pathetic now.

[danielmpr]

from '82 this commercial sounds like it's from the 50's!

[Webendowed]

I forgive those who trespass for they know not of which they speak. My first computer was a glorified calculator know as the "Timex Sinclair" with only 3.5k of mem. I've watched computers evolve for many moons. I hack my own as much now as I did back in the good ol' days. I've forgotten way more than their narrow minds will ever know. Remember, these will someday be your good ol' days children. Enjoy, so that someday, you can be mocked as well. Peace.

[virgoffxi19802]

funny 16K for $1565 & now you can get a pc for half that price and have 1000 times more power lol.

[duraseya]

I used the Commodore-64 at the University in 1984.

[Kanuckistan]

My cell phone has more power than that piece of shit.

[trovey02]

The industry had to start somewhere (you mobile phone didn't start like you have it now, It was big as a trunk when it was introduced).

[TheDoomsaier]

trunck, or a brick... i mean it, i remember my grampa had one of those

[whattheheck1000]

@trovey02 I <3 MY DROID

[Vox0707]

@Kanuckistan That computer is the reason we have what we have today, thanks to early technology we wouldn't have advance if it weren't for the yesteryears.

[charlie1990scarface]

ES UNA PUTA MIERDA, SI SEÑOR

[JapanDidi]

16K for 1565 OMG

[bjjlyates]

Jan 1982? It wasn't available in the US until later. I remember my choices were TI-99, Sinclair ZX81 and Commodore VIC-20 back in July '82.

The C64 was available around Christmas, IIRC.

[felinoid]

It always depends on what the stores will carry. I didn't even know about the TI-99 until after I got a C64.

[bjjlyates]

According to Wikipedia, it came out in August 1982, not January. And my recollection is that it was some months (around December, IIRC) before it started reaching the magazines and stores in the US. Not quite as hard to get as a Wii...

I bought my computer in June or July '82.

[eminboztepe]

I find it amusing that people quote the wikipedia as if it is some reliable source, since anyone with access to the internet can change any of the information on it.

[doubleohagent]

Which is precisely why it's reliable. It's constantly modified so it isn't just the slanted views of one party. Wikipedia is well-rounded and unbiased information.

[eminboztepe]

Wrong! I posted some nonsense about supercolliders (which I don't know a thing about) and it stayed up there for over a year. Reliable my arse. LOL

[doubleohagent]

Obvisouly supercolliders aren't the most popular search items, which is why it took that long to update. Why you'd search for that just to type up nonsense is odd. Not to mention the fact that you kept checking up on it to make sure it got changed. Do you get out much? Anyhow, for those of us who actually want to get some useful information wikipedia is great. For pompous trolls who feel important correcting people on YouTube it sucks. Make up your own minds folks. And now, back to this video...

[eminboztepe]

Can you spell hypocrite? And where did I say that I kept checking back to see if it was corrected? I never said that, now did I? So maybe it is YOU that needs to get out more. The Wikipedia is a joke. Any kiddie like yourself with access to the internet can change it. Now back to this video...

[inugravinumberonefan]

we still have a C64 in the basement (it was messed up but I fixed it) Anyone played Raid on Bunglay Bay?

[Kajayacht]

.... i was an Atari 800XL user

[cbreaker]

The Commodore 64 might have been the computer of the 80's, and I wanted one in '88 but I didn't get one until '91. And I loved it. I used it exclusively for three years. It had really great sound, too.

[JWmson]

The Commodore C64 was my 2nd computer, the result of trading in my Commodore VIC-20 which had an optional cassette data drive for storage. Kept the (extraordinarily slow) cassette data drive until the 180Kb single-sided 5 1/4" floppy disk drives became available, and got a pair of them.

Having 64Kb RAM, dual 180Kb floppy disk drives, a 300 baud modem, and armed with GW-BASIC and Microsoft Multiplan (early spreadsheet) made me a real power user at the time.

[AMG93]

I remember the old Commodore that my dad had, I found it the other day anlong with pong.

[wisteela]

Superb.

[Lumotaku]

We didnt get a c64 until 88 or 89 we had like 3 vic 20s though and a plus 4. The plus 4 was a useless pos but solving the scott adams adventure series on the vic kept us busy literally for years.

[dusteater]

If people from the 80's can spend that much on a Commodore 64, people can spend the same on a Playstation 3.

[badfex]

The Wii is gonna kick that piece of crap sideways! who cares about graphics anymore?

[beckigreen]

Then go somewhere else and play your Wii.

[RobTheBuilder]

Having had a BBC Micro (32k) then buying a C64, there really was no comparison. At the time it was like owning an Xbox 360 compared to the PS2.

[Champion2k]

I had a VIC-20, moving on next to a Sega Master System.  I always felt a bit disappointed that I didn't have a C64 or Spectrum though.

[bugstrut]

I made the mistake of getting a Spectrum 48k,instead of a Commodore, because it had a bigger selection of games. It didn't have any colour or proper music,and was complete shit. I was stuck with it for about 6 years, until I got a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console, for Christmas, in 1991.

[jpowell180]

This was no joke - the C64 really was downright teriffic for it's time, and would hold a lot more value down the road than, say, it's predecessor, the VIC-20, which had, what, only 2k of RAM?

The C64 really did rock!

I wish *I* would have had one back then.

[TomMinderson]

It still holds the record for the best selling model of computer ever, beating even the Apple II (in terms of quantity). I also remember drooling over one in the early 80's.