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Mini Commodore 64 is Coming to North America on October 9

posted by chromas on Wednesday July 25 2018, @10:22PM   
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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

In case you missed it, last September Retro Games announced it was going to put out a mini version of 1982's Commodore 64 called the THEC64 Mini. The system actually shipped in Europe earlier this year, and is finally coming to North America on October 9, just in time for the holiday season. It's available for preorder now for $70.

Half the size of the original version, it comes with 64 preinstalled licensed games including Impossible Mission II, Boulder Dash, Jumpman, Pitstop II and Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe that may bring back some fond memories if you were born in the '60s or early '70s. Perhaps because it's too retro, it doesn't have quite the same kind of appeal as Nintendo's NES Classic or SNES Classic mini consoles, which sold out quickly at launch.

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• Re:floppy speed Re:floppy speed (Score: 3, Funny) by krishnoid on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:09AM (1 child)

  by krishnoid (1156) on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:09AM (#712870)

  You kids, with your new-fangled floppy drives -- a datasette worked just fine in my day. Now get off my lawn! No rush, I can wait.

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• Re:floppy speed (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:46PM

  by martyb (76) on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:46PM (#713215) Journal

  Umm, did you mean to reply to the GP comment? I not only mentioned the Datasette, I even provided a link to the Wikipedia page.

  /me wanders off to water his lawn  ;)

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