The C64 I played my first games on #TBT

This Thursday I will not share with you a picture from some old times, I will share a new picture, something that is from the old times.

I believe that there are a lot of you here who are my generation, so you probably had or know someone who had a device like this, and all the younger Hives, maybe they just heard that you could buy a computer in toy stores, the famous Commodore 64.

This computer with a RAM memory of 64KB found itself in the Guinness Book as the best-selling computer of all time (22 million were sold) for its 11-year lifespan, until 1993.

I got that computer when I was 11 years old, in 1987.
There was no end to my joy, I became the best friend of many boys and girls from the neighborhood 🙂

It cost a lot by our standards, even though it was a worldwide hit that many families afforded their children... That $600 was a lot for us and I had to beg my parents a lot and promise that I would be good and study in order to get it .
And when I got it, I studied very little on it, just some basics of the Basic language 😁
It was mostly used for playing games.
The games then came on tape, which was played in this cassette player. And there were also some cartridges, which we didn't have, after all, the development of technology was delayed in our country, and certainly the cartridges were expensive....
The only thing that mattered was that we had somewhere to copy the games to tape and that the recording was good enough to load the game.

Along with the "fat" computer, a small tape recorder, there were also joysticks, which differ in many ways from today's.

Today, there are joysticks with many more buttons, anatonically shaped, you can use a steering wheel, VR glasses and wireless controls...

Before, everything was connected by wire, with cables all over the house, slow and uncomfortable, but it was much more interesting to me than today, when everything has advanced so much that even an ordinary smartphone has as much memory as a million Commodore C64s.

The progress of technology has brought us acceleration in games, better graphics, better sound, more comfortable joysticks, but even today, when I think of some of the games I played day and night on my Commodore 64 (Bubble Bobble), I'm gettin nostalgic.

How everything was simple, slow, and brought us a lot of happiness and joy... Maybe I'm just old boy, so I get emotional when I remember my young days, and maybe I'm tired of this speed and the constant progress of technology, so I'd like to go back in time a little bit, to count on the first ones in my life and the games I played , if not differently, only in thoughts and memories, which I now share with you...