Commodore Comeback

The Commodore is Onboard

It’s not always obvious but the videogame medium is a young one. When you compare it to film, television, music or literature videogames are the younger brother, belied by the tremendous success and prominence in popular culture that the medium enjoys. It is that relatively young age that is responsible for what we see in games today, specifically the rise and rise of retro games. The truth is that we’re at a point where many people have been playing games for decades, and those people are the first generation of geriatric gamers. In their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond, long-time videogamers are looking to their hobby at it’s most fun: when you were young and had less problems. Fond memories and some of the nicest things, and there are plenty of them in the cloud of Commodore nostalgia; and there’s some interesting news on that front.

Commodore might be making a comeback after Youtuber and fan Perfractic has bought Commodore; yes, bought Commodore. The face of Retro Recipes (now Retro Recipes X Commodore) has announced that he has purchased the Commodore brand and is putting together a board made up of Commodore faces.

Perifractic has already confirmed plans for Commodore products in the future and a mission statement to ‘preserve and promote retro computing’.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Taking the Nintendo Switch 2 for a spin.