Commodore to return with new Commodore PCs
Give us a moment here: it’s been two decades since the “bread box”, and this announcement that a company loyal to the Commodore in name and spirit will bring the magic back just caught us by surprise. Wait, that was an understatement. We swear time stopped for five minutes. Really.
Commodore 64: was that a classic or what? Avid gamers should remember this platform as the first gaming computer ever – the big daddy-O device that spurred the game industry. We know only some of us are classic gamers at heart (okay so maybe only the older ones).
But even well established game publishers honor the C64. Just ask Rockstar Games about the opening sequence for their game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Commodore Gaming will be bringing back the “Commodore” name and brand to the computer market, with gaming PCs that may rival those of Dell’s AlienWare line and VoodooPC’s luxury gaming sets. This move is tied to honoring the single best-selling PC in the history of the computer industry, even while Commodore Business Machines, the original company, is no longer around to witness this moment.
While details haven’t been revealed as to what the new Commodore will be sporting, Bala Keilmann, CEO of Commodore Gaming, did promise “very exciting aspects” of the new systems to be unveiled at the next CeBIT coming this March 15.
The Commodore 64 sold 22 million units since it was released in 1982, putting it as the only computer model to reach that level of sales in history. But shortly after the modern Amiga 4000 and 1200 in 1992, the joint companies of Amiga and Commodore went belly up in 1994.
If they pull this the way we think they are going to, the term classic gaming is going to need a whole new definition.
Via Ars Technica
Give us a moment here: it’s been two decades since the “bread box”, and this announcement that a company loyal to the Commodore in name and spirit will bring the magic back just caught us by surprise. Wait, that was an understatement. We swear time stopped for five minutes. Really.
Commodore 64: was that a classic or what? Avid gamers should remember this platform as the first gaming computer ever – the big daddy-O device that spurred the game industry. We know only some of us are classic gamers at heart (okay so maybe only the older ones).
But even well established game publishers honor the C64. Just ask Rockstar Games about the opening sequence for their game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Commodore Gaming will be bringing back the “Commodore” name and brand to the computer market, with gaming PCs that may rival those of Dell’s AlienWare line and VoodooPC’s luxury gaming sets. This move is tied to honoring the single best-selling PC in the history of the computer industry, even while Commodore Business Machines, the original company, is no longer around to witness this moment.
While details haven’t been revealed as to what the new Commodore will be sporting, Bala Keilmann, CEO of Commodore Gaming, did promise “very exciting aspects” of the new systems to be unveiled at the next CeBIT coming this March 15.
The Commodore 64 sold 22 million units since it was released in 1982, putting it as the only computer model to reach that level of sales in history. But shortly after the modern Amiga 4000 and 1200 in 1992, the joint companies of Amiga and Commodore went belly up in 1994.
If they pull this the way we think they are going to, the term classic gaming is going to need a whole new definition.
Via Ars Technica
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