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off-topic: nastalga alert - Commodore 64 in a joystick game

I read about a company building a commodore 64 in a joystick with ~30 games back in June. It turns out - according to slashdot - that QVC has bought up some 250,000 of these units to exclusively sell them. I think I just added an item to my Christmas wish list.

Published Nov 30 2004, 12:20 AM by shebert

Comments

David Neal said:

If it only had Questron, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

# November 30, 2004 4:44 AM

Steve Hebert said:

I wish they had Seven Cities of Gold - I always thought that game was a precursor to the Command & Conquer style games.

But the including of Summer Games, Winter Games, Jumpman Jr and the Impossible Mission games look good. Uridium was fun too. For arcade games, I wish they had Montezuma's revenge or Miner 2049'er.

# November 30, 2004 8:53 AM

Paul Czywczynski said:

Target (694 and Lexington for us Twin Cities folk) have this in stock.

http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_flashback/7800

# December 1, 2004 8:02 AM

Steve Hebert said:

Thanks Paul, I'll have to check that out. I remember well the Christmas eve my parents got us an Atari 2600. We opened it before Christmas eve mass and I spent the entire mass thinking about the Tank game we got.

# December 2, 2004 6:20 AM