But wait, there's more! On their website, Tulip promise more to come. They have big plans for the Commodore 64 brand, with new products, both based on old C64 technologies and "new, innovative products fitting perfectly with the C64 image". (Does this mean Commodore 64-brand Windows XP notebooks or something? Maybe they'll even ship it with a dark-and-light-blue Windows XP colour theme, giving the user more of the Commodore 64 experience.) On the way is a joystick-shaped device that plugs into a TV and contains 30 C64 games built in.
Elsewhere, they promise "all sorts of merchandising available like t-shirts, caps, sweaters and lots of gadgets". I imagine rooms full of 8-year-olds somewhere in South-East Asia, busily sewing Commodore 64 trucker caps as we speak.
Also, according to the copyright notice, the official name for the Commodore logo is the "chicken head logo".
Posted by: toby | http:// | Fri Jul 2 08:27:25 2004
I want to know if they'll be big and beige, and have buttons that go 'clack' and a harddrive that goes 'tick...tick...tick', and whether you'll have to list your music by typing 'load "$",8'...
Posted by: burgatron | http:// | Fri Jul 2 11:55:24 2004
they should just print C64 t-shirts and make a mint of all the kids
Posted by: burgatron | http:// | Fri Jul 2 11:56:03 2004
oh wait. they are. That'll teach me to not read all the post. tsk tsk
Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com/ | Fri Jul 2 17:07:54 2004
FEh. I'm not buying until they come out with a Plus 4 branded dildo.
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Fri Jul 2 19:53:46 2004
When I went to London in 2002, there was some bloke at Camden Market selling Commodore 64 T-shirts. I bought one from him (I believe it was 12 quid).
But yes, that's one of the things that irks me; that it's not so much Commodore fan geeks resurrecting their old platform, but marketing weasels latching onto a "retro" brand and slapping it on generic shiny crap. I mean, come on; Commodore-brand MP3 flash players are about as much effort to make as Commodore-brand ballpoint pens.
Posted by: Richard | http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/ | Sat Jul 3 01:03:53 2004
"Next thing you know some French gaming giant will acquire the rights to the Atari brand and smear it all over a bunch of middling quality videogame titles."
-- gizmodo
Posted by: mark | http://donotuselifts.net/ | Sat Jul 3 18:06:19 2004
Now, now, Richard, CivIII was awesome.
Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com/ | Sun Jul 4 16:27:46 2004
I've been having trouble keeping track of that, too, what with Microprose and Hasbro getting folded in at some point.
Though in that case, Atari titles for the 2600 tended to lack the spark that Activision cartridges for that system had.
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Posted by: Alex | http:// | Fri Jul 2 08:21:51 2004
As discussed on /. ... will they play SID files? MOD files? small music files ideal for portable devices ...