From there we got Prince of Persia and a few other titles which then made it obvious we needs a joystick – but ultimately the Apple II library was not as vast as what was available on the C64. My parents would say “it’s not a games machine”, but I eventually was able to convince my father to try an SSI game – Wasteland. We had no joystick for that computer until almost 12 months after my first experience with the C64. We spent most of the time typing in Compute! magazine and Usborne books code or writing word processing documents for my school projects. Never had I played such a fun and challenging game on a home system like this before.Īt this time my father owned an Apple II computer. He also was keen to bring over his joystick to play two player International Soccer. The game he bought over was the brilliant Lode Runner by Br0derbund. There may have been more cartridges like Magic Desk or Solar System, but I don’t recall using those.Īnother friend also had a Commodore 64 and he wanted to bring over this game on tape. Avenger (a very good Space Invade clone) was one cartridge. Attached is a cream tape drive and a joystick with a single red fire button on the top. It was a new Commodore 64 computer with a few cartridges. This computer was a beige “breadbox” looking machine with dark brown keys. I remember it well because it was January holidays before my first year in high school (shows roughly my age). I was at a school friends house seeing this computer his family had recently purchased. It was a few days after New Years Day in 1985.
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