Question: What type of multi-layered skirt became popular in 1982?
Question: What company produced the Vic-20 and C64 home computer?
Answer: Commodore
Tag Archives: Commodore 64
Return to the ’80s Trivia – 10/26/20
Question: What links these 3 clues together?
Littlefoot
Ducky
Petrie
Last Question: Put these items in order from least to most expensive when they were released.
A. Sony Walkman (TPS-L2)
B. Commodore 64
C. Nintendo Game Boy
D. Speak & Spell
Answer:
D. Speak & Spell ($50)
C. Nintendo Game Boy ($89.95)
A. Sony Walkman ($200 Astonished face)
B. Commodore 64 ($595)
Episode 9: Foreigner
So far, 2017 has started off much better than 2016. For me, the year began with a tweet from Lou Gramm, former lead singer of Foreigner. Therefore, we could not resist cover one of the best rock bands of the ’70s and ’80s.
In addition, our ’80s crossover event – ’80s Innovations – is discussed. We also have a new Play This, Not That, Remember That Song, and ’80s Trivia.
Now, let’s take a look back at Lou Gramm and Foreigner.
Opening
– Return to the ’80s gets Tweeted at by Lou Gramm
– New One Day At a Time show on Netflix, based on the original series
Listen to This, Not That – Quarterflash
– Instead of this:
Harden Your Heart
– Play This:
Find Another Fool
80’s Blog and Podcast Extravaganza (Episode 3) – #80sInnovations
Paul
- Personal Computing – Commodore 64
- Break Dancing
- Over-the-top action stars
Robert
- Hair Bands
- VCR
- Cable
– Listener email – James requests that we discuss Miami Vice innovations
Also check out the following sites/podcasts participating:
80s Reboot Overdrive (Podcast and Blog)
Shall We Play a Game?
Remember That Song
Name the artist and song:
You play tricks on my mind, you’re everywhere, but you’re so hard to find
You’re not warm, you’re sentimental
You’re so extreme, you can be so temperamental
If you know the answer, please email us at Returnto80s@gmail.com
80s Trivia
Last Question: What colors were on the original Rubik’s cube?
Answer: Red,white, blue, green,orange, yellow
Winner: Scott Compton
New Question [From Totally 80s Trivial Pursuit]: What screen siren appeared in Stripes, Blade Runner, No Way Out and Wall Street?
Once again, if you know the answer, please email us at Returnto80s@gmail.com
Main Topic: Foreigner
– Woman in Black (Robert)
– In Pieces (Paul)
– Tooth and Nail (Robert)
– Jukebox Hero (Paul)
– Cold as Ice (Robert)
– Heart Turns to Stone (Paul)
– Say You Will (Robert)
– With Heaven On Our Side (Paul)
– Blue Morning Blue Day (Robert)
– Long Long Way From Home (Paul)
Honorable mention – I Want to Know What Love is
We hope you enjoyed this episode. Please email us at returnto80s@gmail.com if you want to discuss Foreigner or anything ’80s.
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Follow @returntothe80sMy First Computer: Commodore 64
If you grew up in the ’80s, you saw some major advances in technology at home. You could play video games on your TV with Pong, which was followed by Atari and Intellivision. Microwave ovens were becoming more affordable and popular, so you could get hot food a lot faster. VCR’s came into existence. Now you could watch movies at home, commercial free, instead of having to go to the theater. Cable TV became available. You could watch movies on HBO commercial free, and you could tape them on your VCR. Not to mention, that you could watch your MTV.
One of the best advances was the home computers. You could play games on the computer, and could even create your own games. After graduating Junior High School, my parents bought me one of the most popular PC’s of the mid-80s – the Commodore 64.
I had my Commodore 64 hooked up to the TV. There were games that were in a cartridge format, just like Atari or Intellivision. The computer had a joystick that was similar to the Atari joystick.
But, you could also write code on the computer, using the BASIC 2.0 programming language. It was OK if you didn’t know how to program. There was a monthly Commodore 64 magazine called COMPUTE!’s Gazette which contained code for some games that you would type in line by line.
Today, you can download a game right to your phone, and are ready to play within minutes, if not seconds. But, with the Commodore, if you weren’t lucky enough to have the 5¼ inch floppy drive, you had to save and load the games from a cassette tape. You would type LOAD, then the game you wanted to play. The player would go through the whole tape until it got to the game/program you wanted. Luckily, there was a counter on the tape player. So after you saved a game/program, you had to make sure you wrote down the number where it started. So you could fast forward the tape until it got close to that number. Then you could load the game/program. It was still a cassette player, so it could take a long time to load.
Later on, we did get a floppy disk drive. But, it still took a while to load. So, if you didn’t want to wait too long for the cassette or disk, you could just plug in a game that you had on a cartridge. A couple of my favorites were Boulder Dash and Soccer. Here is a clip of several games from the Commodore 64:
Technology, has obviously come a long way. But, I still miss my Commodore 64.
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