I was born well after the C64 and Amiga but I still respect the huge amount of influence the company has had. R.I.P.

Oh, man.;/

/me looks at his C64's.
What am i supposed to tell them now?

He certainly did more for the computer industry and their users than a certain overhyped fruit vendor...

The C64 was the first device I played games on and it was the machine that got many many people into this whole "computer thingy" in the first place.

I know that. But you know how this community is.

I guess I should consider Jack Tramiel as my nemesis. After all, during the Commodore VIC=20 and C=64 era I owned competing computers (Texas Instruments TI-99/4A and Spectravideo SVI-328) which were trounced by the Commodore computers, and when I finally got my first Commodore computer (Amiga A500), Jack Tramiel had jumped ship to Atari, making the rivalling Atari ST.

But I think I have forgiven him all that already. RIP.

RIP Tramiel

C64 was my first machine. I had a 1541 floppy drive, 1530 Datasette, and a 1670 modem (1200 baud Hayes based) for peripherals. I'm sure there are a few others here whose first "online" experience (BBS) was with this machine.

Here's a good mashup of 100 C64 games in 10 minutes for nostalgia's sake.

While I can see what your message was intended to be, I must tell you that you got it completely backwards. We want good, complex, varied, deep and meaningful, but certainly not expensive games. We don't want games to be all that, plus the $199 price tag. You're painting a very different community than it actually is.

Thanks for your clarification. But some people may take this quote out of context.

We will bury them.

I just dusted my ol breadbox, the ugly thing still works! I forgot how hard the key action on this thing is. My elderly fingers are getting a workout. Gonna try and load Turrican next.

Edit: i forgot how HARD games were back then.

I was gonna post this. RIP father of Commodore. :(