THEC64 | Replica Commodore 64 computer | Return of the King

The Commodore 64 is back!



Based on the world's best-selling home micro computer, THEC64 launches in December 2019. This full-sized system with working keyboard can be connected to your TV via HDMI. 64 games are pre-loaded and you can play your own games via a USB connection. THEC64 has C64, VIC-20 and Carousel modes, and you can also programme in C64 and VIC BASIC. A newly-designed, micro-switch joystick is supplied.



What's included?

The C64 Home Computer with Full-Size Working Keyboard
Micro Switch USB Joystick; 1.5m lead & 8 buttons
1.2m HDMI cable
1.2m USB Power cable
2amp USB AC Adapter
Quick Guide
64 Games (pre-installed)

Games pre-loaded

Alleykat, Anarchy, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Avenger, Battle Valley, Bear Bovver, Boulder Dash, Bounder, California Games, Chips Challenge, Confuzion, Cosmic Causeway, Cyberdyne Warrior, Cybernoid II, Deflektor, Destroyer, Everyone's a Wally, Firelord, Galencia, Gateway to Apshai, Gribbly's Day Out, Gridrunner (VIC 20), Heartland, Herobotix, Highway Encounter, Hover Bovver, Impossible Mission, Impossible Mission II, IO, Iridis Alpha, Jumpman, Mega Apocalypse, Mission AD, Monty Mole, Monty on the Run, Nebulus, Netherworld, Nodes of Yesod, Paradroid, Pitstop II, Planet of Death, Psychedelia (VIC 20), Ranarama, Robin of the Wood, Silicon Warrior, Skate Crazy, Speedball 2, Spindizzy, Steel, Street Sports Baseball, Street Sports Basketball, Summer Games II (includes Summer Games events), Super Cycle, Sword of Fargoal, Temple of Apshai Trilogy, The Arc of Yesod, Thing Bounces Back, Thing on a Spring, Trailblazer, Uridium, Who Dares Wins II, Winter Games, World Games, Zynaps

Do we know how much it'll be going for? I'm definitely interested but I don't have the nostalgia to persuade me.

OrangeRKN wrote:Do we know how much it'll be going for? I'm definitely interested but I don't have the nostalgia to persuade me.

I think it's £109.99, Orange. It's up for pre-order at GAME but I'm awaiting the Amazon listing.

I know that the C64 is too old for most GRcadians to be familiar with but, for me, it was the ultimate game system when I was a young teenager. The scene is still alive, too, with new games arriving and a regular fanzine - Freeze64 - published.

There is no doubt that nostalgia plays a part and I suspect that many games would be too archaic for younger gamers but it's still amazing that people continue to program stuff for the system today. Even Minit - the recent popular indie game - is getting a C64 release!

...it's weird how human memory works, too. I can forget names of people within seconds of meeting them, but I can still recall the BASIC commands Poke 53280,0 and Poke 53281,6 to change the screen and border colours of the C64 .

jawafour wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:Do we know how much it'll be going for? I'm definitely interested but I don't have the nostalgia to persuade me.

I think it's £109.99, Orange. It's up for pre-order at GAME but I'm awaiting the Amazon listing.

I know that the C64 is too old for most GRcadians to be familiar with but, for me, it was the ultimate game system when I was a young teenager. The scene is still alive, too, with new games arriving and a regular fanzine - Freeze64 - published.

There is no doubt that nostalgia plays a part and I suspect that many games would be too archaic for younger gamers but it's still amazing that people continue to program stuff for the system today. Even Minit - the recent popular indie game - is getting a C64 release!

My man. I was about 5 when I first played on the family one (1985), and my love affair with gaming was cemented when I got the Dec 90 issue of commodore format (issue 3). The music from the SID chip still sounds amazing and individual, and that combined with the unique colour pallett pulls me back to my childhood more than any other vintage system I may have played at the time.
Amiga games hold up better today, but you never forget your first love.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:...I was about 5 when I first played on the family one (1985), and my love affair with gaming was cemented when I got the Dec 90 issue of commodore format (issue 3)...

Great memories! I got my 64 in 1985 as well, kaz. My family had the VIC-20 and, by selling that and working a paper round, I was able to get the 64 in December. Zzap! 64 was my magazine but, a few years after it closed and Commodore Format arrived, I got that.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:...The music from the SID chip still sounds amazing and individual, and that combined with the unique colour pallett pulls me back to my childhood more than any other vintage system I may have played at the time...

Oh yes! The SID sound was amazing and I still play those tunes via SIDplay on my Mac.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:...Amiga games hold up better today, but you never forget your first love.

True, man. The C64 is so low-tech today but the charm still shines through. The scene has come alive in past years with new games being published (digitally, cassette, disk and cart!) and Freeze64 becoming more popular. Zzap!64 has returned for 2019 and (soon) 2020 annuals, too. Hopefully this new THEC64 will add to the success of THEC64 Mini and help build up the scene further .

I loved my C64 back in the day, but I am not paying £109.99 for one now.

Surely the board needed for this must cost almost nothing.

THEC64 Mini was priced around £49 and I had kinda hoped that this full-sized, working keyboard version would be under £100. Build quality will be critical; if it replicates the original feel then I'll be happy to pay the price.

I like commadore stuff I have a boxed complete vic20 , and a batters old Amiga but the price is just too much for me in terms of what I'd get out of it.

Does it come with a Datasette?

jawafour wrote:...it's weird how human memory works, too. I can forget names of people within seconds of meeting them, but I can still recall the BASIC commands Poke 53280,0 and Poke 53281,6 to change the screen and border colours of the C64 .

812372 was the phone number of my (adult) next-door-neighbours when I was a child. Ask me to send an email and it's basically left my head 30 seconds later.

Poser wrote:

jawafour wrote:...it's weird how human memory works, too. I can forget names of people within seconds of meeting them, but I can still recall the BASIC commands Poke 53280,0 and Poke 53281,6 to change the screen and border colours of the C64 .

812372 was the phone number of my (adult) next-door-neighbours when I was a child. Ask me to send an email and it's basically left my head 30 seconds later.

07989997581 was my first ever mobile number back when I was around 14 years old (I'm 35 now) yet I regularly struggle to remember names.

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:

Poser wrote:

jawafour wrote:...it's weird how human memory works, too. I can forget names of people within seconds of meeting them, but I can still recall the BASIC commands Poke 53280,0 and Poke 53281,6 to change the screen and border colours of the C64 .

812372 was the phone number of my (adult) next-door-neighbours when I was a child. Ask me to send an email and it's basically left my head 30 seconds later.

07989997581 was my first ever mobile number back when I was around 14 years old (I'm 35 now) yet I regularly struggle to remember names.

I have had the same mobile phone number for around 15 years and I have no idea what it is.

But I can still remember the landline number we had when I was a kid and my grandmother’s old phone number. Neither of those numbers have been in use for the last 20 years.