What is this blog all about?

I used to play games on a Commodore 64. It was the only computer I had until the late 90's, and for the most part the only gaming I ever did. We had an Atari 2600, but the Commodore was a lot better. Later we had a Sega Genesis, but I still kept coming back to the Commodore games. Even now, I install an emulator every now and then (I like Vice) and play the games I used to play.

It hit me that a lot of you might have played these games, or might be interested in seeing what gaming was like then. It didn't take me long to set up xvidcap to record Commodore games from the emulator and avidemux to do some minor editing. The result is this blog.

Here's a short test video of Space Taxi.



So what is this blog? Put short, reviews of 25 year old video games with nice long gameplay videos. Some things like load times have been removed by the emulator (thank god), so the videos should be about 90% real gameplay with short loading screens and menus. I'll try not to judge the games from a modern standpoint as expectations when it comes to games have changed quite a bit. I'll also be giving links to the disk images on various sites so you can give these games a try yourself!