★ SPECIAL · HISTORY OF THE C64
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COMMODORE 64
THE BEST-SELLING HOME
COMPUTER OF ALL TIME
THE BEST-SELLING HOME
COMPUTER OF ALL TIME
August 1982. $595. 64 KB of RAM, the SID chip that sounded like a synthesizer, the VIC-II with hardware sprites. Rivals like Apple II or Atari couldn't compete. 17 million units later, nobody has taken away the Guinness record.
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CPUMOS 6510 · 1 MHz
RAM64 KB
GRAPHICSVIC-II · 16 col.
SOUNDSID · 3 voices
PRODUCTION1982 – 1994
UNITS~17 million
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1984 · ACTION · LICENSED
GHOSTBUSTERS
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1986 · ACTION · PLATFORMER
GHOSTS 'N GOBLINS
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1988 · SPORTS
ASPAR GP MASTER
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1987 · SPORTS
EMILIO BUTRAGUEÑO ¡FÚTBOL!
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1984 · ACTION · PUZZLE
IMPOSSIBLE MISSION
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1987 · FIGHTING
IK+
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1987 · ACTION
COBRA
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EL TEMPLO DEL ARCADE: A VIDEO GAME MUSEUM WHERE THE C64 LIVES
123 machines in working order, our C64 on display alongside a Soviet Pentagon clone and the rare golden Spectrum Vega. The museum we always wanted, now accessible by metro.
INFINITE LIVES LOADERS: WHEN CHEATING WAS A FULL-TIME JOB
Endless columns of numbers in the magazine. Machine code disguised as BASIC. And the feeling that it wasn't cheating — it was a negotiation with the machine.
PACO MENÉNDEZ: THE MAN WHO PROGRAMMED A MONASTERY IN 8 BITS
The genius who built La Abadía del Crimen and found no place in the world that came after. A tribute to Francisco Menéndez. He was 34 years old.
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