New release: “500 Things You Didn’t Know About Commodore” — $10 USD. commodoremuseum.gumroad.com/… 133 full-colour pages of surprising facts about Commodore’s computers, people, machines, and games. PDF ebook. Buy a copy and support the Commodore Computer Museum. 👊 About the title, I address this on page 1, but thought I'd address it here too. I used the format as I loved the 100 facts you didn't know about animals, knights🐑, space etc as a kid, and decided to go in that direction. Ultimate Commodore fans will know 80% of these facts, the average Commodore fan 40% etc but I hope everyone will enjoy the content, including the 500 facts, datasheets for each Commodore model, and infographics throughout. 📊 You could use it as a challenge, did you know all the facts, 300/500 etc. 🤔 Bundle available commodoremuseum.gumroad.com/… USD15 for The Vault & 500 Things You Didn't Know About Commodore.

UK Amiga 500 TV Commercial Did you own one?

Which one of these Commodore 64 games did you finish?

1983 Commodore 64 production line footage There’s something deeply satisfying about watching these machines being assembled by hand. This is the C64 at the very start of its life — the best-selling home computer of all time being put together in real time. What year did you get your Commodore 64 (or the year you first used one)?

Eagle-eyed Amiga fans — challenge time! The classic 80s sitcom ALF quietly snuck Commodore computers into multiple episodes. In Season 2, Episode 18 (“Someone to Watch Over Me: Part 2”), there’s a full Amiga 500 sitting in the Tanners’ living room. Watch the clip closely… did you spot it? Tag a fellow retro computer nerd who needs this👇

34 years ago today, Commodore launched the Amiga 1200. 🎉 (21 October 1992) This video shows the A1200 rolling off the Escom production line in France (Solectron factory near Bordeaux, circa 1995). After Commodore collapsed, Escom picked up the pieces and kept the machines coming for a while longer — same AGA era, just a different badge. Did you own an original Commodore Amiga 1200 or Escom A1200?

TRUST NO ONE! 32 years ago today (October 21, 1994), The Puppet Masters hit theaters. Donald Sutherland is the head of a secret agency investigating a UFO landing in rural Iowa. Turns out it’s an invasion of alien parasites, slug-like creatures that latch onto people’s backs and take control of them, turning humans into puppets. Based on Robert A. Heinlein’s 1951 novel. This is 90s sci-fi/horror with body-snatcher paranoia and practical creature effects. It's B-Movie and it is awesome. I loved this one — watched it about five times. Still holds up for me. Any fans of this movie?

34 years ago today, Commodore released the Amiga 1200.🎉 21 October 1992. A slimline machine with a 32-bit 68EC020, AGA graphics that finally brought 256 colours, 2 MB of RAM, and a price of £399. It was the last great Commodore home computer — powerful, expandable, and still the one a lot of us wish we’d never sold. Now the legend is coming back in a new form. THEA1200 (from Retro Games Ltd) is a full-size recreation with a real working keyboard, HDMI output, USB ports, Workbench included, and 25 classic games pre-loaded. Load your own titles via WHDLoad, switch between A500/A600/A1200/CD32 modes, and plug it straight into a modern TV. It’s shipping 4 December 2026 — just in time for an Amiga Christmas. The original A1200 launched the AGA era. THEA1200 is bringing that era back for a new generation (and for everyone who still hears the boot sound in their sleep). Were you an Amiga 1200 owner, or are you jumping in for the first time with THEA1200?

Peak joystick?

1987 Australian ad for Commodore’s PC range (PC5, PC10, PC20 and PC40) featuring John Laws, their spokesman in Australia at the time. His voice carried real weight — when Laws recommended something, a lot of people bought it. Here he’s selling the IBM-compatible machines as the practical option for taking your work home, with monitor + software + training deals. Who remembers seeing John's Commodore ads?

What was the first racing game you ever played? 🏁 Mine was Pole Position on the Commodore 64. Zzap!64 rated it 70% and dropped this classic line: “according to the game there are now four Mt Fujis!” I never spotted that, but I loved it anyway — it felt insanely fast for the time. What was yours?

34 years ago today, 21 October 1992, Commodore launched the Amiga 1200. 32-bit 68EC020, AGA graphics, 2 MB RAM, £399. Still the one a lot of us wish we’d kept. You can relive the good times by pre-ordering TheA1200 link in profile. Are you a fan of the Amiga 1200?

Did you read Amiga Format magazine?

Did you know Commodore sponsored Chelsea Football Club? Announced on 3 September 1987, the deal was worth £1.25 million over three years — the largest shirt sponsorship in English football at the time. The partnership was later extended, and for the 1993/94 season the branding switched to Commodore’s Amiga range. The player on the right in the photo is Vinnie Jones. He played for Chelsea in the 1991–92 season (and briefly into the start of 1992–93) during the Commodore era, wearing the Umbro kits with the Commodore logo shown here. After retiring from football, Jones became a well-known actor, especially for tough-guy roles. His notable films include my favourite role in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000, as The Sphinx) but is probably more known for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and Snatch. Any Chelsea fans out there on X?

What was the first game that made you feel like a fighter pilot? For a lot of people on the Commodore 64, it was Falcon Patrol.

Aliens probably fly past Earth and lock their doors 😁

Did you know there was a TV movie before the series? The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War Today is the 53rd Anniversary 📺 — October 20, 1973 (ABC) This was a TV movie pilot, not part of the weekly series. On this night in 1973, ABC aired the second of three pilot films that helped convince the network to order The Six Million Dollar Man as a regular series. The weekly show didn’t premiere until January 1974. Lee Majors returned as Col. Steve Austin in a more Bond-style adventure that introduced Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman and helped lock in the tone fans would love for the next five seasons. From the Egypt mission to the nuclear-missile plot, this pilot proved the concept worked — and the series followed a few months later. The music made a big difference! Who else was a fan of the series that followed?

Ever play the Jurassic Park (1993) on an Amiga? Ocean’s version drops you in as Alan Grant right after the T-Rex wrecks the tour car. You’re hunting for Tim and Lex across huge top-down paddocks, then the game flips into first-person when you step inside buildings—and suddenly you’re creeping through dark corridors with raptors darting past. Gorgeous and ambitious, but those outdoor levels can still feel like a long walk through a very dangerous theme park. Amiga Action magazine rated it a serious 88%. Did you ever boot this one up, or is this the first you’re hearing of it?

Most obscure Ocean Commodore 64 game: Moonshadow Ocean were the kings of the C64 in the late ’80s—big licences, polished platformers, the works. Then there’s Moonshadow. Coded and designed by George Wright (with Vega Graphics on the art and Wally Beben on the sound), it was built for Ocean in 1988 and got as far as a striking title screen (that skull-and-rings image has a bit of Rodney Matthews about it) and a playable multi-screen platformer/shooter. You crash-land on a hostile planet after waking too late from cryo-sleep, then hop around in a spacepod hunting for Plasma Pods while keeping an eye on Air, Energy and Power. Ocean never released it. An early prototype slipped out through the cracking scene instead—complete with different panels, an unused loading screen, and a leftover testing mode where hitting space instantly tops up your stats. The project was later reworked and put out on the cheap by Cascade/Gamebusters as Zone Trooper, with enough changes that the two feel related but not identical. It’s the kind of near-miss that makes the C64 archive interesting: close enough to feel finished, obscure enough that most people have never seen the Ocean version. The prototype is still floating around (Games That Weren’t has it), title screen and all. What is the most obscure OCEAN game that comes to mind?

Did you know Mario’s full name is literally Mario Mario? 🍄 They’re called the Mario Bros. because Mario is the family name. So it’s Mario Mario and Luigi Mario. It started as a joke in the 1993 movie. For years Nintendo said they didn’t have last names (like Mickey Mouse). Then in 2015, Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed it at Mario’s 30th anniversary: “Mario Mario is his real name.” Mario was named after Nintendo’s landlord at the time (Mario Segale). Luigi came from a pizza place near their office called “Mario and Luigi’s.”