By Leif Johnson
You’ve heard of the SNES Classic Edition; now get ready for the C64 Mini.
The diminutive game console from Retro Games follows in Nintendo’s footsteps by offering an oh-so-appropriate 64 games from the Commodore 64 home computer that thrived in the 1980s.
As someone who actually owned a Commodore 64 (and still has it stashed around here somewhere), I admit I’m more fascinated by this than Nintendo’s offerings.
That’s partly because the C64 Mini isn’t just about the games, although there are some good fully-licensed ones tucked in here like Chip’s Challenge, California Games, and Impossible Mission. You can view some of the games here.
Honestly, speaking as an ‘80s kid, I see a few glaring omissions. The NES and SNES Classics do a good job of including iconic games for their era, but here I find no Lode Runner, Archon, Karateka, or Ghostbusters.
For me, at least, the console’s chief appeal is that it comes with the games along with the ability to run BASIC so you can create and save your own programs. You see, kids, back in the dark ages games were so scarce that we often had to program our own.
Memory trip
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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