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A Blast from the Past: The Commodore 64 DTV

Thursday 24th February, 2005 1 Comment

Toms Hardware Guide does a review of this awesome retro toy … A Blast from the Past: The Commodore 64 DTV

Thought the days of typing in Load “*”,8,1 were in the past, did you? Well they were, until Mammoth Toys brought the Commodore 64 back to life after being in the grave for over 20 years.

It’s basically a joystick with a built in Commodore 64 !!! You just plug it into your TV and start playing – and it is a real C64, so you can even put in your old favourite POKE commands (although with only a virtual screen keyboard, it can be a little slow to type it all out).

The list of games on the box include some old favourites of mine:

  • Impossible Mission (this was the very first computer game I ever played on the C64 once we got one at home) … remember Elvin: “Another visitor. Stay a while … stay forever ! Mwahahahaha”
  • Impossible Mission 2
  • Jumpman Junior
  • Cyberdyne Warrior
  • Cybernoid
  • Cybernoid II
  • Paradroid (this was cool)
  • Pitstop (the first computer game I ever bought – I spent hours and hours mastering this game – remember watching the colours of the tyres to see when you had to pit before they blew ?)
  • Pitstop 2
  • Gateway to Apshai
  • Tower Toppler
  • Uridium (I thought this was an awesome game)
  • Eliminator
  • Summer Games (I think this was the second computer game I ever bought – joystick breaker !!)
  • Surfing (apparently this is the event from California Games, there are a couple of these, but I’m disappointed they didn’t include the whole game)
  • Exolon
  • Firelord
  • Flying Disk (this is another event from California Games, I would have liked to see the hackey-sack and BMX events in there too)
  • Super Cycle
  • Silicon Warrior
  • Ranarama
  • Winter Games (I also played this one)
  • Speedball
  • Zynaps
  • World Karate Champion A
  • World Karate Champion B
  • Bull Riding (this is one of the events from World Games, again, there were other fun events in the full game such as Caber Tossing and Log Rolling)
  • Sumo Wrestling (another World Games event)
  • Championship Wrestling
  • Sword of Fargoal

I’m also disappointed to see other games like Wizball not on the list – that was my all-time favourite game, and I even thought the original C64 version was better than the Amiga version.

Apparently there’s an entire website devoted to hacking this thing – C64 DTV Hacking

I’m still trying to find where these can be bought in Australia – it may be that they are only available from the US. Perhaps Ziggy can start importing them from the manufacturer in China ? :D

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  1. Ziggy's Warehouse says

    Saturday 26th February, 2005 at 02:38 PM

    Well we’ll see what we can find. We’ve been offered an number of video games embedded in joysticks. I never had a C64 (I was an Apple //e zealot) so I didn’t recognise any of them as C64.

    You are aware that there are a couple of C64 emulators that run under Intel processors and will run all your original games?

    ;)

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