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Promised long ago, Commodore 64 functionality to arrive on Virtual Console.

Submitted by on February 25, 2008 – 9:00 pm4 Comments

C64_startup_animiert.gifThe Commodore 64 was something of a phenomenon in the US, particularly in the early to mid-1980s. I did a lot of gaming on the Commodore myself in fact, and some of it was actually on legally purchased software.

As to those situations where it wasn’t, I will now have an opportunity to make myself feel better about all that free fun, 500 points at a time, as the people who now own the rights to the platform are shortly to bring those games to the Wii Virtual Console, beginning in Europe. Europe? Why Europe?

Well, Europe holds the distinction of being Commodore’s last bastion. Long after people in the US had moved on to more powerful home computers, Europeans were still spending lots of money on the platform. So to me, this makes sense, as long as this comes here eventually. I mean hey, we get everything else first.

My first picks for the platform are going to be MULE (assuming EA doesn’t bring over the superior NES version first) and simplistic classics like Jumpman and Jumpman Jr.

Source: Next Generation via Infendo. Image source: Wikimedia Commons.

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  • Andrew

    I see your “M.U.L.E.”, and raise you Archon, Archon II, and Wasteland (AKA Fallout .5).
    I have fond memories of playing these titles on my Commode 64, along with not so fond memories of trying to beat Ultima III on that platform (The friggin GRASSS is attacking me now?). Gotta be circa, what 1985? ’86?
    And, as I write this, I recall that the single best iteration EVER of Elite was on the C64.
    ME WANT ELITE NOW!
    (bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum….)

  • Andrew

    I see your “M.U.L.E.”, and raise you Archon, Archon II, and Wasteland (AKA Fallout .5).
    I have fond memories of playing these titles on my Commode 64, along with not so fond memories of trying to beat Ultima III on that platform (The friggin GRASSS is attacking me now?). Gotta be circa, what 1985? ’86?
    And, as I write this, I recall that the single best iteration EVER of Elite was on the C64.
    ME WANT ELITE NOW!
    (bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum….)

  • http://www.aeropause.com Stephen Munn

    I was going to mention Archon and Elite, but both had far superior versions on NES. Elite was completed but never released outside of Europe, if I’m remembering properly.

  • chackokhan

    Love M.U.L.E. it’s still one of my favorite games. I still play it via emulator on my Mac every so often. Even have the theme song on my cell phone. Same goes with the Archon Series. And honestly there were a lot of great games for the system, like Super Mario Brothers, Ultima 3-5, Bard’s Tale to name a few…