Commodore’s Back!

I remember being rather young when I first got a Commodore 64 with its squealing cassette player that you left loading a game for 15mins or so while you went and did something more interesting.

I then moved onto the Amigas, firstly the A500 (it had a floppy drive and everything!), I remember losing many night’s sleep to Civilization - one of the best games of all time! Later came my more modern-looking (it seemed it at the time at least) A1200 with an internal hard disk - it certainly made playing Secret of Monkey Island 2 with its 12 or so floppy disks a bit easier going!

They were certainly good machines for the time though and were even used as the basis for rendering computer special effects in Babylon 5 which was the first TV show to utilise this new technology over special effects using models.

Oh the nostalgia of simpler days! It would now appear that the Commodore brand is returning in the form of gaming PCs and will be unveiled later this week at which point we’ll see if they live up to their fine heritage!

Check out Gizmodo (a UK gadget blog) to read further details and once the countdown has finished on the Commodore Gaming website, I’m sure they’ll be plenty of info there too!