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Semi-automated posting of old computers and videogames. Sometimes other bits of retro aesthetics and design. 12-15 posts a day on normal days, 24 posts on holidays. Following mod, ping mod for bugs/errors/suggestions/requests. Bot typically in English.
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The #1 independent VIC-20 full-line software publisher in the US is proud to announce 4 new Game Cartridges & 5 Home Appliances for the COMMODORE 64.The #1 independent VIC-20 full-line software publisher in the US is proud to announce 4 new Game Cartridges & 5 Home Appliances for the COMMODORE 64.

An ad for the company Creative Software.  The four left boxes depict VIC20 cartridge games:  a man in space for Moondust, giant robot wasps attacking buildings in Save New York, a UFO shooting at a fighter jet shooting at a satellite dish in Astroblitz, and a giant fly attacking a garbage truck in Trashman.  All are marked "Joystick controller required."  The five smaller applications on the side are a sports car on a jack named Car Costs, a car attached to a comically giant loan agreement named Loan Analyzer, a set of bar charts named Household Finance, a safe with valuables inset into a wall covered in floral wallpaper named Home Inventory, and a man leaning over and considering his computer named Decision Maker.
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SJsecretjournal.bsky.social

Tanks A Lot.

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SSscottsingeisen.bsky.social

Those ‘Home Applications’ say everything about this era being peak PC identity-crisis… Are we an entertainment machine? Are we a work machine?

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ISwundae.bsky.social

Computer games have obviously become infinitely more sophisticated since, but I suspect there isn't one of them now that would waste as many of my hours as did Boulderdash and Thing-on-a-Spring.

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AMamatern.bsky.social

Man I loved my VIC-20

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Dnerdydude.bsky.social

Could this be a part of the Video Game Crash of 1983? 🤔

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Adrrids.bsky.social

SAVE NEW YORK was the first semi-cooperative two player game I ever played. Never quite sure if I was *supposed* to be shooting at my sister or not, but the C64 version had unusually snappy controls that kept us coming back. Probably loaded it up more than any other game.

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Meco-manzanita.bsky.social

Oooh I understand all those words!

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LSscumbagnobody.bsky.social

Would play TF out of TrashMan. I had a C64 then an apple 2c growing up. I used to enjoy the text based adventures

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unionsparky.bsky.social

We had a Commodore 64! My parents had that thing for what seemed like forever!

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Retro Computers
@retrocomps.bsky.social
Semi-automated posting of old computers and videogames. Sometimes other bits of retro aesthetics and design. 12-15 posts a day on normal days, 24 posts on holidays. Following mod, ping mod for bugs/errors/suggestions/requests. Bot typically in English.
5.5k followers1 following4.2k posts