It was awesome, loved it. I bet the 80 dollar game he forgot at home was... The Bard's tale!!! OMG I didn't have that game or a commodore 64, but my friend did and we played the shit out of that game! So good.
Oh, the memories. Learning Basic, making my own programs, playing games. The disk drive manual was so detailed the I leaned about blocks, sectors, the whole 8 bits being a byte and so on. I want to say you spent about what it cost new back in the day for everything you got in total. Great video!
This made me smile. I am 27 now and my first computer had NT 3.1 on it, then was upgraded to windows 98. To make me realize how easy I had it (because I would complain that it was too slow as a kid) my dad found his old commodore that my grandmother had boxed up in her attic and set it up and told me if I could get his copy of project firestart to run and actually play it, he would take me out to a restaurant of my choice. It took about 2 hours to figure it out but I got it running. That was a great memory I have of my dad and it definitely taught me to not complain about speed. Seeing you show your daughter where all the modern tech came from and what you grew up with brings back alot of good memories. Thank you for trip down memory lane.
Man, In Poland there was a boy scouts radio station that at specific time of the week was broadcasting over the FM radio a GAME for the C64 Tape drive, that you could record on the fly from the radio. Those were the times :)
Brings back major memories. My first experience was with a Vic 20, and graduated to the C-64 a few years later. Spent hours upon hours with books filled with BASIC code, programming games and programs. Even talked my parents into getting a 64 for my little sister, which they kind of took over after we showed them BASIC programs to code into it. Spent many an hour debugging line after line and laughing our butts off when we made mistakes. ;)
Hours upon hours typing BASIC programs into memory from magazines...so much fun! I had a friend in data-entry that would type in the Assembly code programs because nobody else could stand it. Always fun to find out whether or not it would run, and if not, how the heck to debug it!
My mate Tom was the first of us to get a computer. It was the Vic20. Played Scramble on that for hours. Then another friend got an Acorn Electron which was all Chuckie Egg and Twin Kingdom Valley plus Elite. I got a BBC model B for Christmas after that and a whole bunch of kids had the C64 and Spekky. Moved on to Atari ST and Amiga 500/1200's before the first Playstation destroyed everything and then PC's got Doom and started to become more affordable. Lots of great memories from growing up in the 80's :)
BBC Micro for me. I remember getting SO frustrated when the programs didn't work due to a missed ; in line 438 that you had to find by reading line by line.
This was a fantastic episode, Jay. My Dad has also been restoring the many Amiga computers we had back in the 80s. He's amazingly good at what he does and it's been a trip to experience it all again.
This man is a lucky dude, having his kid show interest in what he's interested in. Makes it all the more fun when you have people close to you sharing your passion.
@@hartmutdietz1228 in retro video games? No. Casually many children play video games, much like many adults watch sports on TV. Only some will know what the next basketball game is in the Phillipines local league or wake up early to watch Australian football. Being passionate about something is quite different than generally showing interest.
born '82 and grew up with a C64 me and my dad used to game on...beside him printing, in retrospect, pointless houshold lists on a needle printer of which the sound has permanently imprinted in my brain. Ah the good old childhood times. Highlights such as Giana Sisters, Bubble Bobble and all those Winter-, Summer and World Games give me instant nostalgia flashbacks from time to time.
This was so sweet. My computer memories actually predate the C64 but this machine holds a special place in my heart. Back in 86 my soon-to-be father-in-law had a small graphics shop where he would do magazine layups and design work for the local businesses. He had been sold this exact system (including the printer) because he wanted to do his job logging and billing on this 'wonder machine'. Well of course the fact there was no software tailored to his business was something of an impediment. I was engaged to his daughter and on our first trip over to the USA from the UK he told me of his problem. I've been a computer geek my entire life so this was the first time I got my hands on the C64. We were staying at the family home in LA for three weeks and in that time I wrote the system he needed. It was simple and stable and he used my C64 billing system for the next eight years. I've been married to his daughter for the past 35 years. I'm 67 and if you're the PC Grandpa then I'm the PC Methuselah. Love what you do Jay. I swear, I think I will pass away under a desk fixing someone's machine. I just finished my son's 13700 based audio production machine. It never leaves you, IT for life. BTW My first game was Zork transcribed out of Byte magazine onto a Wang 2200 I was a night op for. (yeah, those are some words)
Those early days when anyone who had a computer was viewed as a wizard (aka resource to be plundered). I remember teaching my schools headmaster how to use his computer in the early 80s (the student became the master at early age back then)
Jay this was a truly brilliant trip down memory lane. As a 49 year old gamer from the U.K my very first console was the Atari VCS 2600. I spent hours on Pac Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders and my favourite game Pitfall. As for my first computer it was the Sinclair ZX81. It was monochrome, plugged into the TV, had basic sound, the 16k ram expansion module has to be held on by blu tak. It was a tiny little thing and I spent hours playing a flight simulator game. The graphics were just dots on a black screen but to me I was really flying a 747. You guys playing Top Gun reminded me of playing it on my Sinclair Spectrum 48k. Not sure if you had them in the State's but in Europe they were huge. Colour clash graphics, naff sound, a rubber keyboard and games loaded by cassette tape. A true nightmare but the hours of fun I had were truly fantastic and made my childhood. I did eventually get a C64 and then moved onto the Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200. Countless consoles like the Sega Master System, Megadrive, Sega Saturn, SNES, Amiga CD32. The list goes on. Thank you for a brilliant video which really took me down memory lane. Brilliant.
Way before you Bro. Mine were a Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1 with Expansion interface (64K 48 useable And 4 Floppies. No2 was an Apple II w/ 2 floppies 3rd a Commodore 64 & a single floppy. Gave them away. I still have every PC type computer, 7 in alland even a Sanyo Luggable (41 Lbs) with 2 floppys 9" CGA color screen, a SIX Pack and a Western Digital 10 KB Hard Card. I also have Hundreds of 5&1/4" floppies and 3&1/2" floppies
🤣🤣🤣 I had a customer drop off an old TRS-1400 that a customer dropped off when I worked for RadioShack. Dropped it off at a repair shop I knew they owner of and never got it back lol
Ahhh that takes me back. 10 years old, typing in c64 basic programs from a paper book or magazine, inevitably getting something wrong and having to work out where I screwed up. 30 years later those diagnostic skills have been very, very useful.
After Basic I then got to experience Machine Language. I've got to say finding your error in Basic was a lot easier than finding a error made when typing in the numerous numbers that was Machine Language.
Me too. In my case, most of the programs were in the back of Compute! and Compute!'s Gazette magazines. At some point they started adding checksums to the ML data which improved the probability of success. I found out recently that the mags are mostly all available online now..
Honestly, I was shocked to see how GOOD LOOKING the main computer is! It would go great with original Noctua external fans. Very heartfelt video there Jay, your daughter, and friends. ❤
I love this video Jay. We all love our modern PC Gaming power at our fingertips but this flash to the past that shows us all where we came from is great!
The memories. I had a Commodore 64 growing up. My grandparents got one in 87. That where I learned to program in basic which led me to my degree in software engineering. You were able to use both sides of a floppy. All you had to do was cut a notch on the other side and then flip the disk over. It was so much fun. I also got the magazine "123 Contact" which would have games on the last few pages that you could write and save to a floppy to play.
i kept it, it was trash, 1984 ..... i did only tape, basic, needing a PC badly !!!!! You needed it as a cheap old gaming crap thing, low level games for free, damn cheap kids......
Jay you should do more videos like this, it's fun and interesting path that might wake up nostalgia and memories in some and in others who are younger like me, we get to enjoy and appreciate the tech advancements we got and just to see how such little power was still able to produce gaming in one way or another. Gotta always appreciate tech no matter the age!
I loved my c64. I have the newer styled one now with a disk drive. I did have a voice recognition cartridge/attachment for it back in the day. Some of my favorite games were Bruce Leer, Bards Tale, Wizardry and Microsoft Flight Sim to name a few. Going to C64 user groups was fantastic... it was just all about copying disks really. Oh the wonderful days.
Wow! I started with a Sinclair ZX-81 with 1K Ram back in 1983, moved on to ZX Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC 128 and finally to a IBM Pc. Thank you for all the good memories your video brought back!!!😊
Great video, really fun to watch Jay buzzing from his memories. My first machine was a Speccy (Sinclair Spectrum 48). My mum bought it second hand for me and I remember the first game I tried on it being Jet Pac and I was hooked. I'll never forget that signature screeching sound of Speccy tapes loading and waiting for ages watching all the coloured lines shifting up and down the screen. Great memories.
The C64 was also my first computer! My emotions were running high during this video, just like Jay's! Great stuff! Great time! My parents didn't buy me games, so I had to make my own, which is how I got into programming.
This was a great video! Please do continue with this series! As for my earliest and fondest PC memory, well it was back in 1992., and my friend and me decided to play "Dune". We got so hooked, writing down locations, names of NPCs, the hours flew by...but we never saved the game. So, when we inevitably died, the utter sadness and disbelief that we lost all our progression is still resonating with me, even after 31 years.
One of the best things to come out of modern computer tech is a better save system. Apart from all that, I have very mixed feelings about modern "advances" in games.
One of your greatest videos EVER!!!! I started off on a C-128 and this brought back such great memories. At 18:33 Jay hits the realization that our memories of the "good old days/games/experiences" aren't really as awesome as we remember they were. I recently bought Maniac Mansion off of Steam because I loved playing that game when I was a kid. I only played for a few minutes before I realized just how bad graphics were back then. Lmao
Wonderful video Jay, such a nostalgia trip thank you! I started out with a Commodore Vic 20 then upgraded to the 64 and it was a wonderful time. Being from the UK we didn't really have the floppy drive, we had to deal with a cassette tape drive and some games could take over 30 minutes just to load, such great memories lol
Yep same here, I had a C64 with a tape deck. Remember some games were even double sided, you had to flip the tape. Waiting 20-30 mins to load a game was crazy and today we complain if its more than 10 seconds lol
Think it was Ghostbusters that took so long to load off tape that there was a game IN the loading screen. There were probably others but that's the one I remember.
Aces Over Pacific AND Aces Over Europe! I'm 63 and had an 8088, a Comm64 and printer then got an Apple IIe rig. I played most of the Infocom games, Zork, Planetfall, etc. The first PC I built was a 486 DX2 (with math co-processor at a whopping 66Mhz!) My fave retro game was Descent. Duke Nukem was a hoot. I can just hear the dot-matrix!
Gosh I really hope this video does well for Jay and the team. Would love to see a continuation of this type of content. I'm unfortunately just young enough "early 30's" to have lived through all this amazing computing/gaming tech.
Adrian's Digital Basement might be able to help you with the sound issue. My first computer was as C64 and like Jay my second was a C128. My favorite game was called "Silent Service" a submarine game. Good memories and thanks for doing this video.
Adrian, Jan Beta, RMC, Mark fixes stuff, CRG are a few channels that come to mind. Nice part about Adrian is he is up in Oregon so he's not toooo far haha.
I love retro 80-90s era PCs! I look forwards to seeing your retro videos, keep up the good work and continue with what you do because you are inspiration to people and will be for generations to come.
Hi JTC! It was a great little video! My first PC, the one that I owned that was all mine (and not family system) was a P2 350 Mhz. I still have it, and it still works. It does both DOS games and has Win98 installed. It has a 3 1/2 and a 5 1/4 inch floppy drives, which also work. It has nothing to do with the 8088 10 mhz EGA my dad got in 1987 that then got replaced by a 386 SX in 1992 (had a VGA card and all that, got an AdLib installed for a while then a soundblaster pro, which I also STILL have around) Those systems are nothing compared to my current... aging.. system, but I have amazing memories from all of them :)
I love this video. I have a lot of the same childhood memories with this computer, especially with The Bard's Tale. I played so many games with it and got my first taste of "online" when I got a modem for it and found BBS sites. The C-64 is the reason I work in IT now.
As someone who is in retrogaming and follows channels dedicated to this, this video is so cute in how Jay doesn't really know how to properly proceed and is stepping on every stone on the way. Adrian Black would watch this like his son starts to walk.
Hello everyone and welcome to Adrians Digital Basement, on today's episode we will be looking at JayzTwoCents Commodore 64 and and check to see if it has a broken SID chip...
Yeah, next retrospective video should be a collaboration with David Murray or Adrian Black (also they'd probably lend a working set of hardware so it wouldn't break the bank to try an old game).
@@opticburn I'm pretty sure the buzzing wasn't a SID problem. I'm guessing Jay is using an incorrect video hookup and was connecting the 64's chroma out to the TV's audio input.
Jay, the C64 (and Atari 8-bits; both were ahead of their time in that regard) has what is now called S-video output, i.e. separate luminance and chromiance signals. You can get a cable with the C64 DIN plug on one end and an S-video connector on the other, so any TV (including LCD ones) with an S-video input will work. I recently fired up my Atari 130XE and C64C, hooked up to a 15" LCD TV, and they work great!
@@Aeduo Makes sense, as I think with the C64, the yellow RCA connecter is not the composite video line; it's the red one on the cable I originally got for use with the Commodore 1802 monitor. Cables can vary of course, but that might be how the C64 (and Atari 800/XE) is set up.
@@cardigansrule Yes it did, but it was called separate luminance and chrominance. The Commodore 1702 and 1802 monitors had the RCA jacks for the cable you needed (2 for the video signals,1 for the audio., as well as having the single composite video input). I had the 1802, and my C64C and Atari 130XE (which also had separate chrominance and luminance output) looked great with it. Even the Atari magazines admitted that the best thing to make your Atari look great was to use the Commodore monitor. LOL
Gorf was a great arcade game. The pizzeria in my hometown had that, and I probably dumped $200 into that game over a 2-year period. Each level had 5 games... Astro Battle, Laser Attack, Galaxians, Space Warp, and then Flagship, after which you went back to Astro Battle, but everything was just a bit faster, and you would go up in rank from Space Cannabis dependence through to Space Avenger, and a robot voice teases you when you die.
I played so much Gorf at the local bowling alley as a kid. Nothing else for me to do there. The place closed down ages ago, but apparently the arcade machines were never pulled. We didn't find out until last year when the roof collapsed on the building. The world lost a Gorf, Track & Field, a Neo Geo, several pinball tables, and a Street fighter II that day. Had I known, I'd have broken in and stolen the damn thing to save it from its fate.
@@FormulaFox good thing it closed down ages ago, would be horrible if it would keep operate for various purposes & then the roof would collapse on a bunch of peeps
@@cskillers1 If it had been able to stay open I'm sure there would have been repairs done to prevent it before the collapse happened. The place had been closed and abandoned for over 15 years when the roof went.
About the tablet, I had the Koala Pad and right there, these two pieces of hardware together (C64c and Koala Pad) made me what I'm today, a motion graphic designer with almost 30 years in the field. Video editing. computer graphics, video games and even computer hardware knowledge I got them for starting with the C64 and later jumping to the Amiga wagon. Nice video Jay!
Hello Jay, Thanks for the laughs and memories. My first home computer was an Atari 400 with 16k and a membrane keyboard. At one point frustrated by the lack of games I saw an commodore 64 for sale plus 100 games for something like $200.00 well with in my budget ( I was 18 working full time). I bailed on the 64 as every one of the games was copied or pirated which ever you prefer. I did spend the $200.00 plus another $100.00 to get a used 64k Atari XE plus a Floppy disc drive. I borrowed Mind Shadow from a friend and thought it was the coolest game ever made. From there I nuked my credit card to buy an Atari ST 512 FM (around $1500.00) which included something like 10 games on 3.5 discs. After a semi successful update to allow it to run IBM computer software I jumped to an IBM compatible with a Cd-rom reader and a 40 meg H.d ( yes Meg not gig). Also about $1500.00. After finding a book on computers I decide to build a 386 and got it working that afternoon. I then proceeded to build a bunch for my coworkers at a little over cost which was still half what anything else cost. I still build my own since 1991 when people ask why they would ever want a home computer. What a journey its been. Glad to see your inner child still lives on. I was one who gladly gave you a thumbs up.
The indie/commerical software scene is alive and well, so many new games that are simply amazing, Pig Quest and the port of Eye of the Beholder are so damn great.
@@RaumZeitPresse The game that made the Atari ST *the* gaming computer to have for about a year, until it was ported to the Amiga. One of my favs, as well.
One of my favourite gaming memories was back in grade 1 playing the summer and Winter Olympics in the C64 during lunch with friends at the school. Years later my friend picked up a C64 at a yard sale and reignited my love of retro gaming.
My first was the VIC-20 with a cassette drive. I still have some of the cassette games like Scare City Motel. I never had a 64 but got a 128 instead which I still have all my old games still. Played some classics like Sid Meier's Pirates, which I still recommend to this very day, all the old Interplay RPGs, and DnD goldbox games. There were so many great games on the commodore and their legacy still lives on today.
I also had a super awesome VIC-20 with 8k of ram and a fancy cassette drive. We played the Avenger game off the cartridge and really trashed the joystick, LOL.
Love this. I was a Spectrum kid with the 48k until we got the zx Spectrum 128k. And yes. I can still do a spot on impression of the cassette loading games. You all remember!
I had a VIC 20 before the 64. My favorite game was Lunar Lander. It was on the 64 that I actually started learning how to program the machine. Very cool video Jay. Thank you for the trip back to my childhood!!!!
same here wow I completely forgot about lunar lander that was the best. I skipped the C128 and got the Amiga 1000 which oddly enough came out before the A500
VIC20 here too, but it had 3.5kb memory, you needed a cartridge to reach the max potential of 20k ! following that was a BBC model B and still have that.
My dad recently surprised me with my old 64 and disk drive. Even has some of my old games and in original box. I couldn't believe he kept it all these years. I remember renting the games from a local video store and figuring out that I could just copy them. Good times.
I remember a friend and I used to rent games to copy, one had a three level spin wheel that you have to line up and then enter the code. My friend made a photo copy of every combination at work, Was close to 900 pages, haha.
As with everyone else , my first experience with computers was the Commodore 64. I do still have it and still works, in fact I fired it up every now and then and still play games on it. The family would, on weekends, get together and have gaming sessions. The game that was most popular with us was Epix Summer and Winter Olympics, two seperate programs. If you can find copies of them, get them as they are very competitive sessions with a group. Look forward to some of the future "Retro" videos.
I loved a lot of the EPYX games. Summer Games I and II, Winter Games, World Games, Impossible Mission I and II, The Movie Monster Game, Jumpman, California Games I and II, etc.
The tablet was called the Kohala Pad and it was awesome. I had the 64C, with two 1541's, the monitor, the tape drive, the Curah Voice and everything. Still have it all - and it all still works. Complete with a showbox full of Bonus Disks of games and programs.
I loved my C64 back in the day. The sound chip was amazing for the time. I'm still remixing some of the old tunes and love doing so. Thanks for sharing this one Jay
Summer and winter games on the C-64, then I graduated to the ColecoVision and spent so many hours playing Jumpman...Jay, thanks for the memories! Great vid and I'm looking forward to your next retro instalment.
That was fun to watch. I got a C64 when it first came out and paid premium price for it. Later, when the price came down, I could have purchased 6 of them for what I had paid. The original version had orange function keys. Later, I moved up to a C129, then a C128D and then to an Amiga before finally selling out an going PC. Great memories... I actually still have all of this stuff, and now have the urge to dig it out and see if it still works. Great video!
I'm 61 and my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, it came with 1k memory which you could expanded to 16k! I later got myself an Amiga 500 v1.4 and I took it toa shop near Tower Bridge (London) and they installed v2 with a switch so I could flip between both versions, I still have it with plenty of floppies and a dot matrix printer in my attic!!
Had a C64 with the floppy drive. Thanks for doing this Jay, this brought back so many memories if me and my brother playing Gunship sitting side by side on a small screen. Very cool to remember these times.
@@anthonyjones5350 ZX48, I think you are from EU if I recall Spectrum was not too popular - or even available - in the US. I had the C64, learned programming there.
@@gyorgybano2329 From South Africa, the Vic20 and then the C64 were more popular than the Spectrum over here; if I remember, the spectrum came with a thermal printer.
Jay, you are taking me right back to my Spectrum 48k and games like Jet Set Willy, Chuckie Egg, Sabre Wulf and Skool Daze. Loading games involved spending 5 minutes with the game cassette and tape deck, hoping it wouldn't crash. The loading noise is something I remember to this day.
5 minutes? I used to have a game on C64 called The Last Ninja, that would take 30mins to load. Came in a twin cassette format.....lolz, those were the days.
Great game titles all those you listed good call 😎not played in decades (!) >> also there was Kokotoni Wilf, Match Point, Hyper Sports and the Thundercats cartoon on Saturday mornings >> good times 🥰
29 yrs old and i remember my dad showing me this neon green, geometrical shaped tank game on the Commodore 64 that was so cool. I don't remember what it was called but your tanks and the terrain was made of square and triangle boxes. When you would go behind a triangle terrain piece, it would block your shots and visibility to other tanks trying to kill you. It was the coolest thing i remember from back then and always my fondest memory of gaming.
Hello Jay, my first one was as well a Commodore 64, it has a tape recorder, not a floppy disk one. It was awesome. I was 10 years old, back in 1986. Then i had a Commodore Amiga 500. And after that began the Pc Era with a Euro AT from IBM. Great stuff, grand memories! Thanks
My very first was a Texas Instruments Ti-99/4a - similar to the Commodore 64. I learned Basic programming - couldn't afford the floppy drive so I used a portable cassette player to read/write programs. I did have several ROM game cartridges, and two joysticks - so much fun playing games in the living room.
Nice to see your daughter make an appearance. It's cool to see young people interested in our old stuff, brings me back to those days of wonder as a kid
This brought back memories of my first computer I purchased in 1982. The Commodore VIC 20. My favourite game to play was Richthofen's Revenge. I had to type in the BASIC code by hand from a book of games all written in BASIC that was included . Then save it to the data cassette drive that was a separate peripheral made by Commodore. It was quite the challenge but a lot of fun. Great video Jay thanks
I had a VIC-20 too! With a data cassette (later replaced by a C64 and a 5.25" floppy drive) Favourite game? Hmm.. I remember liking Gorf (there were 4 different levels, basically different games after the space invaders level only the 1st), Radar Rat Race, and Omega Race are the ones I remember most..
Love to see it Jay! Still have my old C64 somewhere, which I bought used. Never had a disc drive, it was tape for me. Then progressed to Amiga A500 and A1200 (still have those, along with CDTV and a CD32 in pieces somewhere). Skipped PC gaming (mostly) and went from original PlayStation through to the current gen. Thumbs up!
My childhood was also graced with a C64 setup, connected to a big TV, this brings back so many good memories. I remember playing HOURS of Pirates, Boulder Dash, Outrun, Test Drive, Summer and Winter Games. Track and field, Ghosts and Goblins and SOOOOOO many more. Awesome to see the legacy still lives.
This video brings memories back. I got my C64 at X-mas 1983. My first action was to go in the basement, opened it, drilled a hole in the case and installed a reset switch. ;-) My dad nearly got a hart attack. My best gaming memory is the "Last Ninja" and "The Bard's Tale". Nice to see you bringing us some (real) retro videos. BTW: my C64 still lives and is now part of my brothers collection.
oh my gosh I had the biggest nostalgia trip thanks to this. We had a vic 20 and commodore 64 in the house when I was growing up so its so nice to see tech that old still running let alone seeing how much fun you guys all had. Stay amazing Jay and crew. ^_^
A Vic-20 was my first computer. Since my TV didn't have video composite input, I had to purchase an external RF modulator and then it connected to a TV tuned to channel 3; just like the old cable boxes. I remember having to constantly tweak the potentiometers in the RF modulator circuit in order to get a decent picture on the TV.
I love how such old hardware and dated graphics is still SO FUN. I find this whole video wholesome. Jay reliving past memories with a system he grew up with, and teaching the younger lads that THIS is where video gaming started. Ahh, the good old days when games weren't corrupted with greed and predatory tactics.
The difference then was that the games were actually good and didn't rely on graphics to sell them. And, because internet wasn't as popular, games were actually FINISHED when released!
Great video. My 1st console was an Atari 2600. My 1st computer was a ZX Spectrum 48k, I would play adventures for hours and map them out on graph paper. I then went with a C64 with a 1541 drive and a 1084S monitor. There was only one place I could get disks and that was the Kings Road in Chelsea, it cost me a fortune to get the Infocom adventures. Then it was a C128D after that was an Amiga A500 with the ram pack and then a 386 and the pleasures of trying to get a game to run in DOS, remember HiMem. Then 486, Pentium, Pentium Duo all the way through to a Ryzen I run today. There were some great games back in the day and I have been playing a lot of them again as I have just bought a Steam Deck which is great for Retro gaming. There are really too many games I enjoyed to name them all. I still have the Speccy, Amiga and the C64, C128, 1541 and the 1084S along with all the accessories (I think) plus games for all the systems sitting in my shed, can't bring myself to get rid of them. Gaming and arcades were a massive part of my youth. Please do more retro themed videos, it shows the gamers of today what we had back then to game on and how much the industry has developed over the many years.
This is my first PC I ever owned as well, was a hand me down C64. I loved playing games on it. My favorite Commodore 64 game was Last Ninja 2, simply amazing you could have such an amazing control scheme with that little buttons as the C64 joystick had :)
My first ever system was the Atari 2600 (woodgrain) but my first PC was the Commodore 64. My memories of this machine know no bounds. Nothing but happy, happy memories. I sold my original to help pay for an Atari Lynx at the time, but have since bought another about 20 years ago and I’m not letting that one go. Best game memories on my C64 are The Sacred Armour of Antiriad, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Robin of the Wood, Pitstop 2, Ace 2, MASK, among a whole host of others. Best days.
This one was interesting. It's great that you had your daughter involved. My first computer was also a C64, but my second (which bought with my own money) was an Amiga 500.
This was great to watch not only the reminiscing but the father showing his cherished memories with his kid. Just shows the jayz2cents family bonding in the office. Now you will be dubbed the grandpa tech guy haha
I was super excited when ya whipped out the GORF cartridge! I played the heck outta that one! 😀 We had a C64, and also a VIC20 before that. My siblings and I used to fight over Radar Rat Race. Good times. Thanks for the awesome episode, Jay & crew. ❤️
I went to school for computer repair we had to build a TRS 80 Heath kit as our final project to graduate the class. We had to solder all circuit resistor power supply. Good video!
OMG I love Jay freaking out as his daughter reaches for the keyboard after saying "I love how the keyboard sounds". I know exactly why but it's funny AF
I remember a friend of mine telling (in his early teens) me that one older relative thought his IBM model M PC keyboard was the computer and the 386DX PC tower case was a VERY large floppy drive hahaha. This happened round '93.
@@bodevp I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's because the Commodore64 is a command line-based system, so if she were to just start touching/typing random keys it could really mess with or brick the computer. Just a guess from an early 90s kid that knows nothing about these, lmao.
the first thing i that came to my mind was indeed that particular sound of the keyboard. i remember those keys like having mechanical switches or something like it, that combined with the resonance of the plastic casing of the pc. If i close my eyes I can even still smell it i swear
My most memorable Commodore 64 games are Spy Hunter and Rolands Rat Race, this video instantly reminded me of those treasures. Please include Commodore Amiga in the wall of retro, those have had such a impact on gaming and music scene. Also, more of this please!!
Makes me wonder if my old Atari 130XE or my C64 are still at my parents house or if they have thrown it away. And yes, this was a great episode. Fantastic trip down memory lane.
I have my Atari 130XE right here. I recently got a floppy/HD emulator that reads from a SD card. I wrote a cross assembler in C# so that I can write programs for it on my PC.
Ive got all my old computer out of the loft 2 years ago. Atari 400/800/800XL with 2 1050 disk drives 2 cassette player/ Atari 520STFM/ and a commodore AMIGA A1200 which has an 8mb ram upgrade and cf card for hard drive. Both of them run great. Ive had the A1200 recapped aswell. STs PSU been recapped to but havent fired that up yet.
Fun video… brought back memories. Okay a couple things. I also had all this Commodore stuff. That Commodore 64 you have out of the box was the correct colour and has not faded or discoloured. Your version of the 1541 disk drive was actually a Commodore Vic 20 drive, which was Commodore 64s predecessor. That’s why it’s alot lighter in colour. Later on they sold the exact same drive but in the matching C64 colour. So you have the Vic20 version of the drive. Your drive says VIC right on the front of it.
Finally real retro. I was torn back so many years... such a great video. Playing Oiltycoon with friends on i think it was a comodore but allready had 3.5 Floppy external drive is one of my first memories.
I remember these days, the C64 ruled the roost when it came to games and games library. They did have better graphical games than the few shown here but it mostly shows how far we have come. Great video!
I may not be old enough to remember the Commodore 64, but I do remember playing an atari and NES, and my first console was an SNES. But maaaan does this video remind me of how much fun it was to sit with someone and play a game with them. You can just feel the joy coming out of the video. Halo LAN parties need to make a comeback too!
We also had an NES when we were little. The device actually still exists and my sisters play on it occasionally. Not bad for a piece of electronics that is more than 30 years old.
@@adoksym It's amazing how some of those old electronics hold up. My mom recently brought me a couple of bins of my old junk. Diablo 1, Battlefield 1942, Xbox Magazine demo discs, etc. I feel like a cartoon character that gets hit in the head and starts remembering things. lol
Silent Service and f15 Strike Eagle on Atari 8 bit were among my favorite. For some reason, the plane animation on Top Gun on your C64 was much smoother. I would have guessed they would perform the same. Archon and 7 Cities of Gold were also among my fav tittles. Very original and fun.
Best video ever! I had a ZX Spectrum and loaded games with a cassette player. This was such a great trip down memory lane. I just finished building my latest gaming rig, with a 13900k and it was such as laugh to sit and remember the struggles with these old bits of kit. LMAO. Thank you.
I think the disk drive you have there was designed (the color) for the VIC-20 which was a lighter color, almost white. Hence the designation "VIC-1541". The 1541 I had with my C64 was the same darker color as the C64 itself and had a rainbow CBM logo and simply "1541" on the case.
I had a Vic-20, cost me $300(Australian) after a few months of using the tape drive I saved up and bought the 1541, that cost me $500. Every time I switched the drive on I had to send a command to slow it down, it was designed for the C64, the Vic-20 couldn't handle the it's normal data transfer rate. Scary to think I can now transfer stuff from the internet faster than I used to from disk.
So interesting to see where it all begins. My first gaming memory was on a Win95 PC with Thandor The Invasion, would be great to see this on your channel too.
I had one too !!!! Before the Commondore 64k we had a Texas instrument PC that had like a landing strip for it game cartridges . This video brought back my childhood THANKS JAY !!!!! I need this !!!!
This was a really fun video - great editing, too. I also had a C64 as my first only mine computer - we had an IBM 386 as well, but the c64 was mine alone.
Great video. All the emotions you expressed - is it working? Wait, don’t touch it! Loading or not? - are so genuine and true childhood memories for me as well. We had the first PC in our street, so naturally the house was full with friends, wanting to share in that experience. As mentioned earlier, we played Winter Olympics a lot, as well as Soccer/Football, but we were like 6 or 7 kids, all around the computer. Fighting like hell to execute the best ski jump, or figure skating toe loop, it was crazy. My granny brought snacks and drinks and these sessions ran all night. Its funny how “social” gaming was back then.
This was such a fun video to watch Jay get so excited about reliving his childhood.
I bet you wish your computer made you more alive then ever before because you have a commodore 64🤣
It was awesome, loved it.
I bet the 80 dollar game he forgot at home was... The Bard's tale!!! OMG I didn't have that game or a commodore 64, but my friend did and we played the shit out of that game! So good.
We don't stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
Got a bit nostalgic still have my commodore Amiga a500 couldn't get it running last attempt should sell it
You know, when we'll get older, we'll be the same. Heck, I am 28 and I already miss some Playstation 1 games :P
Oh, the memories. Learning Basic, making my own programs, playing games. The disk drive manual was so detailed the I leaned about blocks, sectors, the whole 8 bits being a byte and so on. I want to say you spent about what it cost new back in the day for everything you got in total. Great video!
This made me smile. I am 27 now and my first computer had NT 3.1 on it, then was upgraded to windows 98. To make me realize how easy I had it (because I would complain that it was too slow as a kid) my dad found his old commodore that my grandmother had boxed up in her attic and set it up and told me if I could get his copy of project firestart to run and actually play it, he would take me out to a restaurant of my choice. It took about 2 hours to figure it out but I got it running. That was a great memory I have of my dad and it definitely taught me to not complain about speed. Seeing you show your daughter where all the modern tech came from and what you grew up with brings back alot of good memories. Thank you for trip down memory lane.
You were two years old in 1998.
Man, In Poland there was a boy scouts radio station that at specific time of the week was broadcasting over the FM radio a GAME for the C64 Tape drive, that you could record on the fly from the radio.
Those were the times :)
Brings back major memories. My first experience was with a Vic 20, and graduated to the C-64 a few years later. Spent hours upon hours with books filled with BASIC code, programming games and programs. Even talked my parents into getting a 64 for my little sister, which they kind of took over after we showed them BASIC programs to code into it. Spent many an hour debugging line after line and laughing our butts off when we made mistakes. ;)
Hours upon hours typing BASIC programs into memory from magazines...so much fun! I had a friend in data-entry that would type in the Assembly code programs because nobody else could stand it. Always fun to find out whether or not it would run, and if not, how the heck to debug it!
My mate Tom was the first of us to get a computer. It was the Vic20. Played Scramble on that for hours. Then another friend got an Acorn Electron which was all Chuckie Egg and Twin Kingdom Valley plus Elite. I got a BBC model B for Christmas after that and a whole bunch of kids had the C64 and Spekky. Moved on to Atari ST and Amiga 500/1200's before the first Playstation destroyed everything and then PC's got Doom and started to become more affordable.
Lots of great memories from growing up in the 80's :)
oh my...
echo "hello world"
BBC Micro for me. I remember getting SO frustrated when the programs didn't work due to a missed ; in line 438 that you had to find by reading line by line.
@@billgaudette5524 Did the same thing for days on end
This was a fantastic episode, Jay. My Dad has also been restoring the many Amiga computers we had back in the 80s. He's amazingly good at what he does and it's been a trip to experience it all again.
This man is a lucky dude, having his kid show interest in what he's interested in. Makes it all the more fun when you have people close to you sharing your passion.
It´s normal for children to be interested in video games and food, she seems to be very interested in both.
God daaaaaaaaaanm
@@hartmutdietz1228 How miserable of a person do you have to see such a wholesome video and comment on a teenage girls weight. Go fuck yourself buddy
@@hartmutdietz1228 in retro video games? No. Casually many children play video games, much like many adults watch sports on TV. Only some will know what the next basketball game is in the Phillipines local league or wake up early to watch Australian football. Being passionate about something is quite different than generally showing interest.
@@hartmutdietz1228 I think she's showing respect for her father firstly and discovering it's actually quite interesting.
What a great time to be a middle aged gamer! Old enough to appreciate all the retro systems as well as see the progression to modern gaming systems😁
born '82 and grew up with a C64 me and my dad used to game on...beside him printing, in retrospect, pointless houshold lists on a needle printer of which the sound has permanently imprinted in my brain. Ah the good old childhood times. Highlights such as Giana Sisters, Bubble Bobble and all those Winter-, Summer and World Games give me instant nostalgia flashbacks from time to time.
California Games was the best.
Me too, me too
oh shit yes... winter and sommer games collections, those were gold
Broke a few joysticks playing Summer and world Game!!!! need to save my pocket money for a month(Ish) to my a new cheetah joystick
@@TheeGrandpoobah same here! I learned how to repair them after destroying 5 and parents said, that they are not going to pay for any more... 🙂
This was so sweet. My computer memories actually predate the C64 but this machine holds a special place in my heart. Back in 86 my soon-to-be father-in-law had a small graphics shop where he would do magazine layups and design work for the local businesses. He had been sold this exact system (including the printer) because he wanted to do his job logging and billing on this 'wonder machine'. Well of course the fact there was no software tailored to his business was something of an impediment. I was engaged to his daughter and on our first trip over to the USA from the UK he told me of his problem. I've been a computer geek my entire life so this was the first time I got my hands on the C64. We were staying at the family home in LA for three weeks and in that time I wrote the system he needed. It was simple and stable and he used my C64 billing system for the next eight years. I've been married to his daughter for the past 35 years. I'm 67 and if you're the PC Grandpa then I'm the PC Methuselah. Love what you do Jay.
I swear, I think I will pass away under a desk fixing someone's machine. I just finished my son's 13700 based audio production machine. It never leaves you, IT for life.
BTW My first game was Zork transcribed out of Byte magazine onto a Wang 2200 I was a night op for. (yeah, those are some words)
Those early days when anyone who had a computer was viewed as a wizard (aka resource to be plundered). I remember teaching my schools headmaster how to use his computer in the early 80s (the student became the master at early age back then)
Jay this was a truly brilliant trip down memory lane. As a 49 year old gamer from the U.K my very first console was the Atari VCS 2600. I spent hours on Pac Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders and my favourite game Pitfall. As for my first computer it was the Sinclair ZX81. It was monochrome, plugged into the TV, had basic sound, the 16k ram expansion module has to be held on by blu tak. It was a tiny little thing and I spent hours playing a flight simulator game. The graphics were just dots on a black screen but to me I was really flying a 747. You guys playing Top Gun reminded me of playing it on my Sinclair Spectrum 48k. Not sure if you had them in the State's but in Europe they were huge. Colour clash graphics, naff sound, a rubber keyboard and games loaded by cassette tape. A true nightmare but the hours of fun I had were truly fantastic and made my childhood. I did eventually get a C64 and then moved onto the Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200. Countless consoles like the Sega Master System, Megadrive, Sega Saturn, SNES, Amiga CD32. The list goes on. Thank you for a brilliant video which really took me down memory lane. Brilliant.
I STILL HAVE MY ATARI 1200 & COMMODORE 64. Both still work great. Can still play games with my WICO Joysticks on both. They were made to last.
Way before you Bro. Mine were a Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1 with Expansion interface (64K 48 useable And 4 Floppies. No2 was an Apple II w/ 2 floppies 3rd a Commodore 64 & a single floppy. Gave them away. I still have every PC type computer, 7 in alland even a Sanyo Luggable (41 Lbs) with 2 floppys 9" CGA color screen, a SIX Pack and a Western Digital 10 KB Hard Card. I also have Hundreds of 5&1/4" floppies and 3&1/2" floppies
🤣🤣🤣 I had a customer drop off an old TRS-1400 that a customer dropped off when I worked for RadioShack. Dropped it off at a repair shop I knew they owner of and never got it back lol
Ahhh that takes me back. 10 years old, typing in c64 basic programs from a paper book or magazine, inevitably getting something wrong and having to work out where I screwed up. 30 years later those diagnostic skills have been very, very useful.
After Basic I then got to experience Machine Language.
I've got to say finding your error in Basic was a lot easier than finding a error made when typing in the numerous numbers that was Machine Language.
@@triplebackspace3623 I were sadly in the wrong gang back then, so i never learned machine code.
Peeks and Pokes!
@@thefinerthingsinlife4557 Most pokes.
Me too. In my case, most of the programs were in the back of Compute! and Compute!'s Gazette magazines. At some point they started adding checksums to the ML data which improved the probability of success. I found out recently that the mags are mostly all available online now..
Honestly, I was shocked to see how GOOD LOOKING the main computer is! It would go great with original Noctua external fans. Very heartfelt video there Jay, your daughter, and friends. ❤
I love this video Jay. We all love our modern PC Gaming power at our fingertips but this flash to the past that shows us all where we came from is great!
The memories. I had a Commodore 64 growing up. My grandparents got one in 87. That where I learned to program in basic which led me to my degree in software engineering. You were able to use both sides of a floppy. All you had to do was cut a notch on the other side and then flip the disk over. It was so much fun. I also got the magazine "123 Contact" which would have games on the last few pages that you could write and save to a floppy to play.
i kept it, it was trash, 1984 .....
i did only tape, basic, needing a PC badly !!!!!
You needed it as a cheap old gaming crap thing, low level games for free, damn cheap kids......
Your excitement and joy is contagious. Excellent video!
Jay you should do more videos like this, it's fun and interesting path that might wake up nostalgia and memories in some and in others who are younger like me, we get to enjoy and appreciate the tech advancements we got and just to see how such little power was still able to produce gaming in one way or another. Gotta always appreciate tech no matter the age!
Love it!!! The Trs 80 from Radio Shack. This video so took me back to my childhood from my 50 years now on this planet. Thank you!!!
This was so incredibly wholesome and nostalgic. Loved this episode yall
I loved my c64. I have the newer styled one now with a disk drive. I did have a voice recognition cartridge/attachment for it back in the day. Some of my favorite games were Bruce Leer, Bards Tale, Wizardry and Microsoft Flight Sim to name a few. Going to C64 user groups was fantastic... it was just all about copying disks really. Oh the wonderful days.
This is awesome, I was smiling through the whole video. You have to make more retro videos man. Comparing how memory has progressed throughout time.
Wow! I started with a Sinclair ZX-81 with 1K Ram back in 1983, moved on to ZX Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC 128 and finally to a IBM Pc. Thank you for all the good memories your video brought back!!!😊
Great video, really fun to watch Jay buzzing from his memories. My first machine was a Speccy (Sinclair Spectrum 48). My mum bought it second hand for me and I remember the first game I tried on it being Jet Pac and I was hooked. I'll never forget that signature screeching sound of Speccy tapes loading and waiting for ages watching all the coloured lines shifting up and down the screen.
Great memories.
The C64 was also my first computer! My emotions were running high during this video, just like Jay's! Great stuff! Great time! My parents didn't buy me games, so I had to make my own, which is how I got into programming.
Ti 82 gaming
Same with me. Hours of typing Hex-Code from paper into it and then seaching a week for the two or three wrong A or F or .. 🤣
This was a great video! Please do continue with this series!
As for my earliest and fondest PC memory, well it was back in 1992., and my friend and me decided to play "Dune". We got so hooked, writing down locations, names of NPCs, the hours flew by...but we never saved the game.
So, when we inevitably died, the utter sadness and disbelief that we lost all our progression is still resonating with me, even after 31 years.
One of the best things to come out of modern computer tech is a better save system. Apart from all that, I have very mixed feelings about modern "advances" in games.
You need to do a video of you trying that new Os some guy built for it
I grew up playing Summer Games, Summer Games II, and Winter Games. The Bards Tale was also so great. Smiled a lot watching this. Much appreciated.
One of your greatest videos EVER!!!! I started off on a C-128 and this brought back such great memories. At 18:33 Jay hits the realization that our memories of the "good old days/games/experiences" aren't really as awesome as we remember they were. I recently bought Maniac Mansion off of Steam because I loved playing that game when I was a kid. I only played for a few minutes before I realized just how bad graphics were back then. Lmao
Mini Jay is growing up so quickly man!
Must be awesome for Jay to have these memories on his channel to come back to.
I remember when he built her first computer. She was so much smaller back then. Can't believe how much she's grown since.
Wonderful video Jay, such a nostalgia trip thank you! I started out with a Commodore Vic 20 then upgraded to the 64 and it was a wonderful time. Being from the UK we didn't really have the floppy drive, we had to deal with a cassette tape drive and some games could take over 30 minutes just to load, such great memories lol
Yep same here, I had a C64 with a tape deck. Remember some games were even double sided, you had to flip the tape. Waiting 20-30 mins to load a game was crazy and today we complain if its more than 10 seconds lol
Think it was Ghostbusters that took so long to load off tape that there was a game IN the loading screen. There were probably others but that's the one I remember.
@@grahamross6397 Too long ago, I barely remember what I did last week, let alone 35 years ago lol
Aces Over Pacific AND Aces Over Europe! I'm 63 and had an 8088, a Comm64 and printer then got an Apple IIe rig. I played most of the Infocom games, Zork, Planetfall, etc. The first PC I built was a 486 DX2 (with math co-processor at a whopping 66Mhz!) My fave retro game was Descent. Duke Nukem was a hoot. I can just hear the dot-matrix!
Gosh I really hope this video does well for Jay and the team. Would love to see a continuation of this type of content. I'm unfortunately just young enough "early 30's" to have lived through all this amazing computing/gaming tech.
I morse coded your moma🤣
Adrian's Digital Basement might be able to help you with the sound issue. My first computer was as C64 and like Jay my second was a C128. My favorite game was called "Silent Service" a submarine game. Good memories and thanks for doing this video.
most likely needs a sid replacement. These tend to fail pretty badly.
Adrian, Jan Beta, RMC, Mark fixes stuff, CRG are a few channels that come to mind. Nice part about Adrian is he is up in Oregon so he's not toooo far haha.
retro recipes, although that's more of a Hollywood style retro channel but he's also in Southern California
Yeah Adrian fixes this stuff all the time, I'm sure he would love to get this one running properly.
Did you turn the lights off in your room and have this feeling like you were actually in a submarine like I did?
I love retro 80-90s era PCs! I look forwards to seeing your retro videos, keep up the good work and continue with what you do because you are inspiration to people and will be for generations to come.
Hi JTC! It was a great little video!
My first PC, the one that I owned that was all mine (and not family system) was a P2 350 Mhz. I still have it, and it still works. It does both DOS games and has Win98 installed. It has a 3 1/2 and a 5 1/4 inch floppy drives, which also work.
It has nothing to do with the 8088 10 mhz EGA my dad got in 1987 that then got replaced by a 386 SX in 1992 (had a VGA card and all that, got an AdLib installed for a while then a soundblaster pro, which I also STILL have around)
Those systems are nothing compared to my current... aging.. system, but I have amazing memories from all of them :)
I love this video. I have a lot of the same childhood memories with this computer, especially with The Bard's Tale. I played so many games with it and got my first taste of "online" when I got a modem for it and found BBS sites. The C-64 is the reason I work in IT now.
I had to smile at the memory of BBS's and modems. The perpetual "DON'T USE THE PHONE" warnings lol
As someone who is in retrogaming and follows channels dedicated to this, this video is so cute in how Jay doesn't really know how to properly proceed and is stepping on every stone on the way. Adrian Black would watch this like his son starts to walk.
Hello everyone and welcome to Adrians Digital Basement, on today's episode we will be looking at JayzTwoCents Commodore 64 and and check to see if it has a broken SID chip...
Adrian would approve this message! 😉
Yeah, next retrospective video should be a collaboration with David Murray or Adrian Black (also they'd probably lend a working set of hardware so it wouldn't break the bank to try an old game).
@@opticburn I'm pretty sure the buzzing wasn't a SID problem. I'm guessing Jay is using an incorrect video hookup and was connecting the 64's chroma out to the TV's audio input.
40 more years from now, the next generation will be looking the same way at our Ipads
Jay, the C64 (and Atari 8-bits; both were ahead of their time in that regard) has what is now called S-video output, i.e. separate luminance and chromiance signals. You can get a cable with the C64 DIN plug on one end and an S-video connector on the other, so any TV (including LCD ones) with an S-video input will work. I recently fired up my Atari 130XE and C64C, hooked up to a 15" LCD TV, and they work great!
I'm guessing he was hearing the chroma signal. :p Which would just sound like 60hz hum like the frame rate.
@@Aeduo Makes sense, as I think with the C64, the yellow RCA connecter is not the composite video line; it's the red one on the cable I originally got for use with the Commodore 1802 monitor. Cables can vary of course, but that might be how the C64 (and Atari 800/XE) is set up.
@@AlphaMensae1 yeah and we don't know what cable he got anyway.
it definitely did not have S-video, which wasn't invented until 1987. it had RF and composite video.
@@cardigansrule Yes it did, but it was called separate luminance and chrominance. The Commodore 1702 and 1802 monitors had the RCA jacks for the cable you needed (2 for the video signals,1 for the audio., as well as having the single composite video input). I had the 1802, and my C64C and Atari 130XE (which also had separate chrominance and luminance output) looked great with it. Even the Atari magazines admitted that the best thing to make your Atari look great was to use the Commodore monitor. LOL
Such an excellent video!! Loved to see Jay so excited to relive his childhood gaming memories ♥
Gorf was a great arcade game. The pizzeria in my hometown had that, and I probably dumped $200 into that game over a 2-year period. Each level had 5 games... Astro Battle, Laser Attack, Galaxians, Space Warp, and then Flagship, after which you went back to Astro Battle, but everything was just a bit faster, and you would go up in rank from Space Cannabis dependence through to Space Avenger, and a robot voice teases you when you die.
I played so much Gorf at the local bowling alley as a kid. Nothing else for me to do there. The place closed down ages ago, but apparently the arcade machines were never pulled. We didn't find out until last year when the roof collapsed on the building. The world lost a Gorf, Track & Field, a Neo Geo, several pinball tables, and a Street fighter II that day.
Had I known, I'd have broken in and stolen the damn thing to save it from its fate.
"Bad News, Space Cadet"
@@Tigerhawk30 "ha ha ha"
@@FormulaFox good thing it closed down ages ago, would be horrible if it would keep operate for various purposes & then the roof would collapse on a bunch of peeps
@@cskillers1 If it had been able to stay open I'm sure there would have been repairs done to prevent it before the collapse happened. The place had been closed and abandoned for over 15 years when the roof went.
About the tablet, I had the Koala Pad and right there, these two pieces of hardware together (C64c and Koala Pad) made me what I'm today, a motion graphic designer with almost 30 years in the field. Video editing. computer graphics, video games and even computer hardware knowledge I got them for starting with the C64 and later jumping to the Amiga wagon. Nice video Jay!
Bard's Tale on Commodore 64 was the first game I ever played and I loved it so much I haven't stopped since 😁
Hello Jay, Thanks for the laughs and memories. My first home computer was an Atari 400 with 16k and a membrane keyboard. At one point frustrated by the lack of games I saw an commodore 64 for sale plus 100 games for something like $200.00 well with in my budget ( I was 18 working full time). I bailed on the 64 as every one of the games was copied or pirated which ever you prefer. I did spend the $200.00 plus another $100.00 to get a used 64k Atari XE plus a Floppy disc drive. I borrowed Mind Shadow from a friend and thought it was the coolest game ever made. From there I nuked my credit card to buy an Atari ST 512 FM (around $1500.00) which included something like 10 games on 3.5 discs. After a semi successful update
to allow it to run IBM computer software I jumped to an IBM compatible with a Cd-rom reader and a 40 meg H.d ( yes Meg not gig). Also about $1500.00. After finding a book on computers
I decide to build a 386 and got it working that afternoon. I then proceeded to build a bunch for my coworkers at a little over cost which was still half what anything else cost. I still build my
own since 1991 when people ask why they would ever want a home computer. What a journey its been. Glad to see your inner child still lives on. I was one who gladly gave you a thumbs up.
The indie/commerical software scene is alive and well, so many new games that are simply amazing, Pig Quest and the port of Eye of the Beholder are so damn great.
I like the Original: Dungeon Master. EOB was to infantile.
@@RaumZeitPresse The game that made the Atari ST *the* gaming computer to have for about a year, until it was ported to the Amiga. One of my favs, as well.
One of my favourite gaming memories was back in grade 1 playing the summer and Winter Olympics in the C64 during lunch with friends at the school. Years later my friend picked up a C64 at a yard sale and reignited my love of retro gaming.
My first was the VIC-20 with a cassette drive. I still have some of the cassette games like Scare City Motel. I never had a 64 but got a 128 instead which I still have all my old games still. Played some classics like Sid Meier's Pirates, which I still recommend to this very day, all the old Interplay RPGs, and DnD goldbox games. There were so many great games on the commodore and their legacy still lives on today.
I also had a super awesome VIC-20 with 8k of ram and a fancy cassette drive. We played the Avenger game off the cartridge and really trashed the joystick, LOL.
Pirates was amazing!
Love this. I was a Spectrum kid with the 48k until we got the zx Spectrum 128k. And yes. I can still do a spot on impression of the cassette loading games. You all remember!
I had a VIC 20 before the 64. My favorite game was Lunar Lander. It was on the 64 that I actually started learning how to program the machine. Very cool video Jay. Thank you for the trip back to my childhood!!!!
same here wow I completely forgot about lunar lander that was the best. I skipped the C128 and got the Amiga 1000 which oddly enough came out before the A500
VIC20 here too, but it had 3.5kb memory, you needed a cartridge to reach the max potential of 20k ! following that was a BBC model B and still have that.
i still have my big white(now yelloish) Lunar lander cartridge hehehe
Damn this crowd is old. Hahah all love.
My dad recently surprised me with my old 64 and disk drive. Even has some of my old games and in original box. I couldn't believe he kept it all these years. I remember renting the games from a local video store and figuring out that I could just copy them. Good times.
I remember a friend and I used to rent games to copy, one had a three level spin wheel that you have to line up and then enter the code. My friend made a photo copy of every combination at work, Was close to 900 pages, haha.
As with everyone else , my first experience with computers was the Commodore 64. I do still have it and still works, in fact I fired it up every now and then and still play games on it. The family would, on weekends, get together and have gaming sessions. The game that was most popular with us was Epix Summer and Winter Olympics, two seperate programs. If you can find copies of them, get them as they are very competitive sessions with a group. Look forward to some of the future "Retro" videos.
Summer and winterolypics (and Ughlimpics) where joystick killers, my favorite and i stil play it sometimes was Kennedy Approach.
Mine was the TI 99/4A ... fun times.
I loved a lot of the EPYX games. Summer Games I and II, Winter Games, World Games, Impossible Mission I and II, The Movie Monster Game, Jumpman, California Games I and II, etc.
California Games was more fun in my opinion. Many fond memories of breaking my neck trying to do front flips in the BMX race lol
All my friends had Commodore and Nintendo systems. Me? I had a crappy Coleco my father bought at a discount when the company went out of business.....
The tablet was called the Kohala Pad and it was awesome. I had the 64C, with two 1541's, the monitor, the tape drive, the Curah Voice and everything. Still have it all - and it all still works. Complete with a showbox full of Bonus Disks of games and programs.
I loved my C64 back in the day. The sound chip was amazing for the time. I'm still remixing some of the old tunes and love doing so. Thanks for sharing this one Jay
I love how computers have devolved back to solid state memory like the commodore 64 has my that shows how ahead of it's time it was back then
Summer and winter games on the C-64, then I graduated to the ColecoVision and spent so many hours playing Jumpman...Jay, thanks for the memories! Great vid and I'm looking forward to your next retro instalment.
Those were crazy fun! :)
That was fun to watch. I got a C64 when it first came out and paid premium price for it. Later, when the price came down, I could have purchased 6 of them for what I had paid. The original version had orange function keys. Later, I moved up to a C129, then a C128D and then to an Amiga before finally selling out an going PC. Great memories... I actually still have all of this stuff, and now have the urge to dig it out and see if it still works. Great video!
I'm 61 and my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, it came with 1k memory which you could expanded to 16k! I later got myself an Amiga 500 v1.4 and I took it toa shop near Tower Bridge (London) and they installed v2 with a switch so I could flip between both versions, I still have it with plenty of floppies and a dot matrix printer in my attic!!
Had a C64 with the floppy drive. Thanks for doing this Jay, this brought back so many memories if me and my brother playing Gunship sitting side by side on a small screen. Very cool to remember these times.
Man this brings back memories! It was an 80's Christmas and my parents got us a commodore 64! Before that we had a VIC20.
My first pc was a vic 20 , lots of my friends went for the Sinclair ZX64 if I remember
@@anthonyjones5350 ZX48, I think you are from EU if I recall Spectrum was not too popular - or even available - in the US. I had the C64, learned programming there.
@@gyorgybano2329 From South Africa, the Vic20 and then the C64 were more popular than the Spectrum over here; if I remember, the spectrum came with a thermal printer.
Jay, you are taking me right back to my Spectrum 48k and games like Jet Set Willy, Chuckie Egg, Sabre Wulf and Skool Daze. Loading games involved spending 5 minutes with the game cassette and tape deck, hoping it wouldn't crash. The loading noise is something I remember to this day.
5 minutes? I used to have a game on C64 called The Last Ninja, that would take 30mins to load. Came in a twin cassette format.....lolz, those were the days.
@@JayTeeStealth The Last Ninja was awesome.
Great game titles all those you listed good call 😎not played in decades (!) >> also there was Kokotoni Wilf, Match Point, Hyper Sports and the Thundercats cartoon on Saturday mornings >> good times 🥰
29 yrs old and i remember my dad showing me this neon green, geometrical shaped tank game on the Commodore 64 that was so cool. I don't remember what it was called but your tanks and the terrain was made of square and triangle boxes. When you would go behind a triangle terrain piece, it would block your shots and visibility to other tanks trying to kill you. It was the coolest thing i remember from back then and always my fondest memory of gaming.
Memories. I loved this episode. You brought me back to being a kid.
This video is pure gold. I was so happy for Jay when the C64 finally worked!
Hello Jay, my first one was as well a Commodore 64, it has a tape recorder, not a floppy disk one. It was awesome. I was 10 years old, back in 1986. Then i had a Commodore Amiga 500. And after that began the Pc Era with a Euro AT from IBM. Great stuff, grand memories! Thanks
Omg my first pc in the early 90s was a amiga 500, I still regret not keeping it
My very first was a Texas Instruments Ti-99/4a - similar to the Commodore 64. I learned Basic programming - couldn't afford the floppy drive so I used a portable cassette player to read/write programs. I did have several ROM game cartridges, and two joysticks - so much fun playing games in the living room.
Nice to see your daughter make an appearance. It's cool to see young people interested in our old stuff, brings me back to those days of wonder as a kid
This brought back memories of my first computer I purchased in 1982. The Commodore VIC 20. My favourite game to play was Richthofen's Revenge. I had to type in the BASIC code by hand from a book of games all written in BASIC that was included . Then save it to the data cassette drive that was a separate peripheral made by Commodore. It was quite the challenge but a lot of fun.
Great video Jay thanks
I had a vic20. my favorite games was Poker and The Count.
Same here... Had stacks of the books.
Best thing ever though was whenever you would accidentally drop a data cassette into your stereo/boombox!
@@TheFrankd70 new meaning for "Electronic music"
I had a VIC-20 too! With a data cassette (later replaced by a C64 and a 5.25" floppy drive) Favourite game? Hmm.. I remember liking Gorf (there were 4 different levels, basically different games after the space invaders level only the 1st), Radar Rat Race, and Omega Race are the ones I remember most..
Love to see it Jay! Still have my old C64 somewhere, which I bought used. Never had a disc drive, it was tape for me. Then progressed to Amiga A500 and A1200 (still have those, along with CDTV and a CD32 in pieces somewhere). Skipped PC gaming (mostly) and went from original PlayStation through to the current gen. Thumbs up!
My childhood was also graced with a C64 setup, connected to a big TV, this brings back so many good memories. I remember playing HOURS of Pirates, Boulder Dash, Outrun, Test Drive, Summer and Winter Games. Track and field, Ghosts and Goblins and SOOOOOO many more. Awesome to see the legacy still lives.
This video brings memories back. I got my C64 at X-mas 1983. My first action was to go in the basement, opened it, drilled a hole in the case and installed a reset switch. ;-) My dad nearly got a hart attack. My best gaming memory is the "Last Ninja" and "The Bard's Tale". Nice to see you bringing us some (real) retro videos. BTW: my C64 still lives and is now part of my brothers collection.
oh my gosh I had the biggest nostalgia trip thanks to this. We had a vic 20 and commodore 64 in the house when I was growing up so its so nice to see tech that old still running let alone seeing how much fun you guys all had. Stay amazing Jay and crew. ^_^
I remember the Vic-20 fondly.
I remember constantly running out of memory on the Vic20. I think it had 3k of memory.
It did have around 3kb or so. Lol what gem for its time though.
A Vic-20 was my first computer. Since my TV didn't have video composite input, I had to purchase an external RF modulator and then it connected to a TV tuned to channel 3; just like the old cable boxes. I remember having to constantly tweak the potentiometers in the RF modulator circuit in order to get a decent picture on the TV.
I love how such old hardware and dated graphics is still SO FUN. I find this whole video wholesome. Jay reliving past memories with a system he grew up with, and teaching the younger lads that THIS is where video gaming started.
Ahh, the good old days when games weren't corrupted with greed and predatory tactics.
The difference then was that the games were actually good and didn't rely on graphics to sell them. And, because internet wasn't as popular, games were actually FINISHED when released!
Great video. My 1st console was an Atari 2600. My 1st computer was a ZX Spectrum 48k, I would play adventures for hours and map them out on graph paper. I then went with a C64 with a 1541 drive and a 1084S monitor. There was only one place I could get disks and that was the Kings Road in Chelsea, it cost me a fortune to get the Infocom adventures. Then it was a C128D after that was an Amiga A500 with the ram pack and then a 386 and the pleasures of trying to get a game to run in DOS, remember HiMem. Then 486, Pentium, Pentium Duo all the way through to a Ryzen I run today. There were some great games back in the day and I have been playing a lot of them again as I have just bought a Steam Deck which is great for Retro gaming. There are really too many games I enjoyed to name them all. I still have the Speccy, Amiga and the C64, C128, 1541 and the 1084S along with all the accessories (I think) plus games for all the systems sitting in my shed, can't bring myself to get rid of them. Gaming and arcades were a massive part of my youth. Please do more retro themed videos, it shows the gamers of today what we had back then to game on and how much the industry has developed over the many years.
Loved this video. Great to see you got the family involved. Your excitement when the video shows up on the crt was priceless.
Dude!!! This is amazing! Great video. I think you using retro tech could be its own series. I’d love to see someone showcase PC history like this.
I 100% agree.
This is my first PC I ever owned as well, was a hand me down C64. I loved playing games on it.
My favorite Commodore 64 game was Last Ninja 2, simply amazing you could have such an amazing control scheme with that little buttons as the C64 joystick had :)
My first ever system was the Atari 2600 (woodgrain) but my first PC was the Commodore 64. My memories of this machine know no bounds. Nothing but happy, happy memories. I sold my original to help pay for an Atari Lynx at the time, but have since bought another about 20 years ago and I’m not letting that one go. Best game memories on my C64 are The Sacred Armour of Antiriad, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Robin of the Wood, Pitstop 2, Ace 2, MASK, among a whole host of others. Best days.
This one was interesting. It's great that you had your daughter involved. My first computer was also a C64, but my second (which bought with my own money) was an Amiga 500.
This was great to watch not only the reminiscing but the father showing his cherished memories with his kid. Just shows the jayz2cents family bonding in the office. Now you will be dubbed the grandpa tech guy haha
I was super excited when ya whipped out the GORF cartridge! I played the heck outta that one! 😀 We had a C64, and also a VIC20 before that. My siblings and I used to fight over Radar Rat Race. Good times. Thanks for the awesome episode, Jay & crew. ❤️
My cousin had the VIC20 and I had the C64. Great times.
I went to school for computer repair we had to build a TRS 80 Heath kit as our final project to graduate the class. We had to solder all circuit resistor power supply. Good video!
OMG I love Jay freaking out as his daughter reaches for the keyboard after saying "I love how the keyboard sounds". I know exactly why but it's funny AF
I remember a friend of mine telling (in his early teens) me that one older relative thought his IBM model M PC keyboard was the computer and the 386DX PC tower case was a VERY large floppy drive hahaha. This happened round '93.
since u know enlighten me please because i didn't get it
My favorite game was Wizardry on an Apple II+. In 1983.
@@bodevp I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's because the Commodore64 is a command line-based system, so if she were to just start touching/typing random keys it could really mess with or brick the computer. Just a guess from an early 90s kid that knows nothing about these, lmao.
the first thing i that came to my mind was indeed that particular sound of the keyboard. i remember those keys like having mechanical switches or something like it, that combined with the resonance of the plastic casing of the pc. If i close my eyes I can even still smell it i swear
My most memorable Commodore 64 games are Spy Hunter and Rolands Rat Race, this video instantly reminded me of those treasures. Please include Commodore Amiga in the wall of retro, those have had such a impact on gaming and music scene. Also, more of this please!!
Spy hunter and Ghost Busters were some of my favs
NES Super Mario for console, and Commander Keen for PC were my first games I played that I remember.
Nothing beat Impossible Mission. I still can hear "Another Visitor! Stay a while, staaaayyy foooorrreeevvveerr!"
Do you mean Radar Rat Race? I remember that!
Loved the Amiga, used to have a 3D graphics business in the early 90's using Amiga 2000's and Video Toasters.
That was so fun, Thanks for taking us on a trip down memory lane with you Jay and Crew!
Yes!!! I just started collecting all my childhood games/equipment etc. great vid! Loved it
Makes me wonder if my old Atari 130XE or my C64 are still at my parents house or if they have thrown it away. And yes, this was a great episode. Fantastic trip down memory lane.
Its a great feeling of nostalgia when you know they still work. Ive listed mine on the above comment.
I have an atari 800xl on top of my wardrobe, with some cartridges,it should still work
I have my Atari 130XE right here. I recently got a floppy/HD emulator that reads from a SD card. I wrote a cross assembler in C# so that I can write programs for it on my PC.
Ive got all my old computer out of the loft 2 years ago. Atari 400/800/800XL with 2 1050 disk drives 2 cassette player/ Atari 520STFM/ and a commodore AMIGA A1200 which has an 8mb ram upgrade and cf card for hard drive. Both of them run great. Ive had the A1200 recapped aswell. STs PSU been recapped to but havent fired that up yet.
The joy radiating off of you in this video is so wonderful
Fun video… brought back memories. Okay a couple things. I also had all this Commodore stuff. That Commodore 64 you have out of the box was the correct colour and has not faded or discoloured. Your version of the 1541 disk drive was actually a Commodore Vic 20 drive, which was Commodore 64s predecessor. That’s why it’s alot lighter in colour. Later on they sold the exact same drive but in the matching C64 colour. So you have the Vic20 version of the drive. Your drive says VIC right on the front of it.
Came here to say the same!
Finally real retro. I was torn back so many years... such a great video.
Playing Oiltycoon with friends on i think it was a comodore but allready had 3.5 Floppy external drive is one of my first memories.
I remember these days, the C64 ruled the roost when it came to games and games library. They did have better graphical games than the few shown here but it mostly shows how far we have come. Great video!
I may not be old enough to remember the Commodore 64, but I do remember playing an atari and NES, and my first console was an SNES. But maaaan does this video remind me of how much fun it was to sit with someone and play a game with them. You can just feel the joy coming out of the video. Halo LAN parties need to make a comeback too!
We also had an NES when we were little. The device actually still exists and my sisters play on it occasionally. Not bad for a piece of electronics that is more than 30 years old.
@@adoksym It's amazing how some of those old electronics hold up. My mom recently brought me a couple of bins of my old junk. Diablo 1, Battlefield 1942, Xbox Magazine demo discs, etc. I feel like a cartoon character that gets hit in the head and starts remembering things. lol
Silent Service and f15 Strike Eagle on Atari 8 bit were among my favorite. For some reason, the plane animation on Top Gun on your C64 was much smoother. I would have guessed they would perform the same. Archon and 7 Cities of Gold were also among my fav tittles. Very original and fun.
Silent Service and Archon...I remember playing them. Not sure on what. Either C64 or Amiga, probably C64 :)
Best video ever! I had a ZX Spectrum and loaded games with a cassette player. This was such a great trip down memory lane. I just finished building my latest gaming rig, with a 13900k and it was such as laugh to sit and remember the struggles with these old bits of kit. LMAO. Thank you.
This is my favorite video to date!! Being of your vintage and starting with these old machines makes me relate to this immensely! ❤
"of your vintage" is a great euphemism for 'old af' haha. Like me. Cheers.
I think the disk drive you have there was designed (the color) for the VIC-20 which was a lighter color, almost white. Hence the designation "VIC-1541". The 1541 I had with my C64 was the same darker color as the C64 itself and had a rainbow CBM logo and simply "1541" on the case.
It means that Jay has floppy drive that is more expensive than usual 1541 in free market. ;)
I had a Vic-20, cost me $300(Australian) after a few months of using the tape drive I saved up and bought the 1541, that cost me $500. Every time I switched the drive on I had to send a command to slow it down, it was designed for the C64, the Vic-20 couldn't handle the it's normal data transfer rate. Scary to think I can now transfer stuff from the internet faster than I used to from disk.
So interesting to see where it all begins. My first gaming memory was on a Win95 PC with Thandor The Invasion, would be great to see this on your channel too.
I had one too !!!! Before the Commondore 64k we had a Texas instrument PC that had like a landing strip for it game cartridges . This video brought back my childhood THANKS JAY !!!!! I need this !!!!
Can't wait for other retro videos. Total joy watching this. Atari 800xl was my first computer but I also remember my cousins zx81 .😁
Welcome to the warm fuzzy world of nostalgia 😄 The C64 was my first computer too, it was an awesome machine.
This was a really fun video - great editing, too. I also had a C64 as my first only mine computer - we had an IBM 386 as well, but the c64 was mine alone.
Great video. All the emotions you expressed - is it working? Wait, don’t touch it! Loading or not? - are so genuine and true childhood memories for me as well. We had the first PC in our street, so naturally the house was full with friends, wanting to share in that experience. As mentioned earlier, we played Winter Olympics a lot, as well as Soccer/Football, but we were like 6 or 7 kids, all around the computer. Fighting like hell to execute the best ski jump, or figure skating toe loop, it was crazy. My granny brought snacks and drinks and these sessions ran all night. Its funny how “social” gaming was back then.