Keeping up with the Commodore

I found this video via Digg, made me reminisce.



I remember this computer with complete fondness. It was this machine that put all thoughts of being a Doctor out of my head. I learned basic on this machine. Saved thousands of lines of code to audio cassette and perilously reloaded them.

My older brother once bought me a box of 50+ games on cassette, only about 10 of them reliably worked. You'd spend 20+ minutes playing one into the computer to find that, some error inside that 20 minutes manifests itself with "Run Stop Error 21" I remember Ghost busters game, that was the worse because it's load about 20% of the time, and you were constantly rewinding to try again, but boy when it did you got to drive around the Ghost busters car (Which you could buy add ons for in the game) and under no circumstances ever cross the proton beams.

I had Top Gun, that was an excellent game, all you got was two radar like displays with which to control your F-14 and shoot the opponent out of the sky. That had the most ridiculous sound effects ever, but I spent hours of my youth on that game.

Sound effects akin to this...



With memory than the apple II...



I wonder what would have happened if my parents had bought me an Apple II when I was kid... maybe I'd have been as insufferable for longer.