C64 Mini Review - Rerez

Does the Commodore 64 Mini live up to the original?
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[FormulaFanboy]

They made a full sized version of this recently with a functional keyboard. You should really check it out.

[Cyberbrickmaster]

I had fond memories of playing my cousin Gavin's C64 back in the early 90s at his house when we were kids. And may he rest in piece.

[MrChadd]

"Probably have kids themselves ..."
Probably actually have grandkids by now

[ClexYoshi]

I grew up with a commodore 64 before my household got a NES, and I played a TON of Jumpman and Space Taxi.

[ihatewonderwall]

That tower toppler sprite is adorable.

[traviscleary]

I know I'm late to the game but your reviews are helping me through tough times right now. I truly appreciate your honesty and humor. Thank you so much

[amerigocosta]

I think it's interesting that a bunch of the earliest cartridge Commodore 64 games were developed by HAL Labs in Japan, like the very first release Jupiter Lander, Pinball Spectacular, Billiards (I played this a ton) and others. Satoru Iwata had worked as an intern at Commodore of Japan. There are a few similarities between the 1982 Commodore 64 and the 1983 Famicom. They are based on different variations of the MOS Technology (Commodore in house chip maker) 6502 CPU and pretty much introduced hardware scrolling to home computer and console gaming respectively. There is a interview of the UK developers Oliver Twins (they worked with Codemasters) and at one point they are talk about how they started thinking about developing on the NES and say something like "It was effectively a Commodore 64 in a box!". I found this funny, even though I believe the NES is fairly more advanced.

[tkelly]

Actually the people that played on an original c64 don't just have kids, their kids likely have had kids too. We're old now. Lol

[vguyver]

I'm always impressed when I see this consoles titles. To this day it has the most accurate port of Donkey Kong of any console.

[chilly]

Anybody remember putting about 20 games on a blank cassette and and writing out the numbers for the counter so, you'd know where each game loaded from?
Oh those memories of epileptic fits!...

[battmann]

Nice video, I would take exception that the C64 was not designed for games, admittedly it was initially sold as a catch all home computer but it came loaded with game orientated hardware, hardware sprites and scrolling, decent colour palette, superb sound. The C64 was nearly as equipped for games as a dedicated arcade unit at the time it came out (1982). Also as a successor to the Vic 20- that was essentially a games console in home computer clothing- it couldn't be seen as anything else. Otherwise I agree with more or less what you say in your review.

[theodorerelic]

The C64 was my second computer, which I first got in 1985 (when I was 23). Probably my favorite games on that system was Gateway to Apshai, Davids Midnight Magic, Forbidden Forest and Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Kit (he later made Virtual Pinball for the Sega Genesis). Later in 1995 I used one to get on the internet for the first time (1200 baud modem and Telix on a floppy disk to get on The Greater Columbus Freenet). Wasn't much, but it did get me e-mail and newsgroups and I could use WAIS and Webcrawler to "surf" the Web.

I still have a C64C in my collection but this thing does look interesting. Find some old Compute! magazines on Archive.org and start typing those programs (if you can with a standard keyboard, which is doubtful).

[CaptainRufus]

I grew up with a C64 in the US. So multi disk RPG and Flight Sims were a big thing I played a lot of. Well most of those had PC or Amiga ports that were generally superior. And the ones that don't I can play on my Atari 800 and 130xe computers. I want to want this Plug and Play thing but its too limited and based on the Breadbox model instead of the cooler C model I had or one of the 128 models which were even more capable machines even if few games utilized it..

[justanotheryoutubechannel]

Considering this computer came from an era where a UK (one of the main markets for the Commodore) software house could be as simple as a teenager with a cassette drive and a TV, there are probably more than 10 thousand games for it.

[imstarryeyed]

Excellent review! I own a C64 Mini and really enjoy it. I am happy to see a review that takes the whole system into account.

[basicforge]

...Really can't do anything in BASIC? What?! You can do a lot of really interesting things in BASIC, or at least some of us can. Programming is a lot of fun, and for the motivated person, the C64 mini offers a chance to have a lot of coding fun.

[DoomRater]

Oh man the memories playing Breakdance.... I never knew there was more than one soundtrack until I got the SID dump of it.

[texasfan]

This thing looks pretty sweet. Great video!

[Chris-okzo]

When I saw Chip's Challenge, I vaguely remember playing it when I was around kindergarten. My dad introduced me to the computer and showed me of to that game as well. Only 8 years later do I know the name of that game.

[SuperHns]

Man I was a master at Aardvark when being a kid< the C64/128 was my first PC console back in mid 80s