8 Bit Generation: Commodore Wars

 

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8-Bit Generation is a project called “a labor of love” by those behind it, documenting the rise of consumer computers and video games of the 70s and 80s. “The Commodore Wars” is their first documentary release, focusing on the Commodore computer company. I’m in a bit of a strange place on this subject as during that time I was a video game nut and we also had (and still do) an Apple II computer, but by 1985 I had pretty much lost interest in computers and never did much with them until the internet came along. The big video game crash lessened my interest in those as well, and even though I was one of the first in my area to get a Nintendo Entertainment System (which I didn’t even expect to be successful) I never got back into them as hugely as I was before and by now current games don’t even appeal to me enough to buy any of the latest game consoles. I remember Commodore’s home computers being simp…Read the entire review


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By Max Schindler

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