Commodore 64 Commercials

[@ettit6283]

There is no better thing than to take your C64 to the beach (together with monitor, joystick, tape player and bucket full of electricity) 🙃

[@raccoon681]

that's unrealistic you need a generator

[@targas1008]

Solar panel will suffice, just a handful of watts compared to a modern PC

[@jsmythib]

@@targas1008 about 30 watts. But the monitor took well over 100watts.

[@dralberthofmann]

🎵The girls on the beach... 🎵Are all within reach... 🎶With the Commodore 64!

[@targas1008]

@@jsmythib Ok, you‘d need to put a Ultimate64 Elite Board into the breadbin box, and connect a hdmi led TV. Then you would just need some watts to run it, like I do it nowadays. 😁

[@markoer]

I distinctly remember the Italian jingle song... “Commodore è un buon regalo!” (Commodore is a good gift). It changed my life when I was 12. It was definitely a good Christmas gift.

[@souljastation5463]

IIRC there also was "Commodore è un buon amico" (Commodore is a good friend), or did I made it up?

[@emresarhan5370]

Yes , it changed my life too , I can say.. The most exciting moment in my life might be my mum asking to the sales person : " Is it something we could take with us if we buy it now " in the computer store ... :)

[@diracflux]

I’ve had that one jingle stuck in my head for over 35 years... "Are you keeping up with the Commodore, cause the Commodore is keeping up with you."

[@fordprefect80]

My mum used to walk around the house and sing that song.

[@souljastation5463]

I got the Italian ones "Commodore Sessantaquattrooooo", "Commodore è un buon amicooooo". (they mean, respectively: "Commodore 64" and "Commodore is a good friend").

[@smayds]

After having it burned into my brain as a kid in NZ in the 80's, it's now my wake-up alarm tone. This is probably a mistake, 'cos it won't leave my head now.

[@Ama-hi5kn]

Commodore Australia knew how to market it.

[@matthewjahnke6956]

i've forgotten about it until just then. The ad I mean. Not the computer.

[@theartoftimelapsemore424]

3:38 Woke up, opened up the door To play games with my 64 But there was Mom with her mailing list Susie catching up on the math she'd missed I'd play music, a little rock But Dad was charting his favourite stock Commodore is great, to play and learn Especially when I finally get my turn! Commodore. Bringing computers down to earth.

[@jamessm4401]

Man that kid in the orange pants was really jazzed about the commodore. I wish I could be half has happy with my Nvidia GeForce 3080.

[@delshandheldgames]

Very realistic games

[@mattjahnke239]

I had one when I was a teen. I loved it. I used it for everything and anything, from printing schoolwork, to playing games on it.

[@mattjahnke239]

At the time, yes.

[@kontrarien5721]

I had trouble distinguishing those games from reality. To this day, I'm still lost in a hazy dream world.

[@MD_the_microchannel]

beautiful advertisements, how much nostalgia! The C64 is the best!

[@longtendorangers2810]

happy 40th anniversary Commodore 64 1982-2022

[@robjeanbras1130]

It's amazing all the things you could get done around the house while waiting for a program to load from tape... I think I still have a program loading from 1986.

[@ConnerBurns]

I'm still waiting on Turrican to load from my 1541...

[@a4000t]

people used tape?? :) havent u guys heard about jiffydos!

[@SenyorCapitàCollons]

About what xD

[@NuntiusLegis]

Tape isn't great for large files, but with fastloader it's absolutely ok for small and medium-sized files, and used like that, it prolongs the life of the less robust disk drive.

[@ImTheKingOfHyrule]

The C64 had such great commercials it's no wonder it sold so well.

[@NuntiusLegis]

In my German village everyone had a C64 before I had ever seen a commercial for it. You experienced one, you wanted one.

[@Kukako55547]

Great video, lots of childhood memories ❤👍🎶🕹️

[@ArttuTheCat]

These Commodore 64 TV commercials are retrospectively awesome 😺👍🕹️. In fact, i still own the original Commodore 64C and Amiga 500 computers + games 😺👍. I even have the Commodore 64 games on the tapes and disks 😺👍🕹️. Thanks for showing this awesome retrospective video 😺👍. Greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

[@kontrarien5721]

NIce. I burned through a Vic 20, then an old bread-bin C64. We got a 64C, then it was the 1541 that gave out. The last installment was a 128D, which I still have. Had it up and running just last week until I needed to make some space for a project. Don't remember whatever happened to the 64C, as it was just the 1541 that died. I was a kid and didn't think much of it since I had that 128D. I'll have to ask my dad. Maybe he traded it in or something.

[@alerey4363]

Drean C64 was a reseller in south America that converted the US NTSC video machines to PAL-N standard and also the power supply from 110V 60Hz to 220V 50Hz

[@SenyorCapitàCollons]

Argento 👏

[@UUUUUUUMAR]

I bought a Commodore 64 yesterday and I can guarantee its better then Modern day Microsoft Windows or Mac

[@brianjohnston2168]

Love mine, well used to, still have every single piece and it works just fine, including joysticks and printer

[@Altoseb]

I have no recollection of seeing a UK C64 commercial. No wonder I got a Spectrum +2

[@ComdrStew]

I had the Vic-20, 64, and the Amiga 500. Skipped the 128 for the Amiga and glad I did.

[@gsavogin]

9:14 Argentinean made under license Drean Commodore 64, best seller. Great vid!

[@chaadlosan]

This was the first computer I learned on in middle school. I'm now a senior software engineer with a fortune 500 company.

[@souljastation5463]

Did you end up marrying Lum?

[@GizmoMaltese]

You must be my age. We had some in school. My family couldn't afford one. I wanted one so bad. My first computer was a Tandy. I convinced my mom to make monthly payments.

[@kontrarien5721]

We had a room full of them at my elementary school. Only went in there to use them a handful of times. Wish I were there when they finally decided to clear them out.

[@futuristica1710]

Are you keeping up with the Commodore - the Commodore is keeping up with you!

[@MrBendybruce]

Vic 20 => C64 => Amiga => IBM Z0S Mainframe. Yes, Commodore introduce me to computers, made me fall in love with them, and gave me my entire career :)

[@dralberthofmann]

Are you keeping up with the Commodore? (Edit: seriously though, do you work on mainframes?)

[@MrBendybruce]

@@dralberthofmann Yes, For over 30 years now. CICS COBOL DB2, about as old school as it gets. And in this modern era of distributed client server Java, Python, and a small army of proprietary, highly targeted development solutions, I can honestly say, hand on heart, it is still the best way to go

[@markoer]

You are not alone

[@matiasm.3124]

Well the mainframes are dead.. like c64.. supercomputers with linux are for now the real shit. And i say for now because quantum computers are near.

[@unsealedabsurdfiles]

Yet you know nothing about modern technology.... Mainframes 😂

[@kakhak]

Was one of the best.

[@bruzey7786]

Commodore 64 is the king. So many great memories👍. Thx for posting

[@TheRetroByte]

No worries Jimmi, its amazing how many people enjoy these classic commercials 👍

[@bruzey7786]

its nice with a trip down memory lane🍻

[@nickj8906]

enormous memory...

[@tantumDicoQuodCogito]

graphics realistic

[@nhumph1375]

Bought this yesterday having no clue what it was. Im happy with my purchase.

[@Raptor50aus]

It's Jan 2024 and I have just bought my first C64 . :) Having a blast !

[@Tickonsociety]

This is my new favorite video

[@OldAussieAds]

Australian here. "Are you keeping up with the Commodore" was always playing in my head as an impressionable kid. Then Australia's favourite car was the Holden Commodore for years too. I must say though, that America's Cup game would have to have been pretty boring. And then Test Cricket? No thanks. Just give me Impossible Mission and Donkey Kong and I'll be on my way.

[@paulrankin8578]

Impossible Mission complete with electronic voice. Yep. Cormorant.

[@Dazlidorne]

5:11 I had a Commodore 64 in the 80's and this never happened. It was not cool to be a geek then. Great commercial though!

[@NuntiusLegis]

It happened here if you subtract the girls.

[@Cybernaut76]

@@NuntiusLegis Pretty much the same. Everyone in my gaming circle was a boy. However, one of the girls in my class, the one who was not prejudiced or afraid to interact with boys, came to my home with her sister and I let her play. She told her sister "Rebecca! Come here and try this. It is really wonderful and enjoyable!"

[@matthewjahnke6956]

I had the entire system. Keyboard Mouse Printer Modern. Cassette player. Everything.

[@backinthegame34]

The Aussie ads were the best ...that jingle !

[@chamezard]

Despite I born after this miracle machine, but I still thank to C64 for became my childhood (via emulator).

[@CenterpointConnect]

VIC-20 all the way!!!! Because 64 is just too many bits!!! Who will every need that much memory anyway....

[@TheRetroByte]

Cheers. Actually The Vic20 was my first ever computer when I graduated from my Atari 2600

[@CenterpointConnect]

@@TheRetroByte Funny how things went back then. I went from the 2600 to the TRS 80 micro, Vic-20 with the tape drive! Didnt get a floppy until 1989, that was a rich mans accessory. Didnt get a hard drive until 1991.

[@thebadgamer1967]

The Vic 20 was my first computer, the amstrad cpc464 the amiga 500 all awesome machines, hours of memories

[@a4000t]

OK bill gates, we know its you,give it up!

[@Beenbarian]

2:26 Those effects were actually dope for the 80

[@MegaasAlexandros]

i like the ad that said "play games with realistic graphics"

[@UpTown209]

I'm wondering what all of the musical synthesizers that were used to create all of the versions of Bach's Invention 13 in A minor that were heard on some of those commercials. I know that all of the versions of the invention heard on those commercials were not performed on the Commodore 64's SID chip, but on different synthesizers. This was the jingle that was used in the early 1980s until the mid 80s, when the Are You Keeping Up With The Commodore? jingle replaced the older Invention 13 jingles. There were at least 4 versions of Invention 13, with 3 out of the 4 versions being played at a slower tempo than the original piano version. In edition, all 4 versions of the invention were shorter compared to the original. One half of the versions finishes on an A minor chord, while the other half of the versions finishes on a C major chord. On the fourth and final version, heard on the A Day In The Life Of A Commodore 64 commercial, as soon as the music progresses to the C major section, one of the synths that was playing the left hand part of the tune immediately changes to a marimba like sound, but than crossfades to the ending, featuring the first left hand patch resuming to play, and the voiceover saying: "The Commodore 64. Once you get it, you'll wonder how you've got alone without it." I believe that those were earlier synths featuring pre-loaded patches that tries to imitate a musical instrument, before sample based electric keyboards became popular in the late 80s to the present time. My guess is that those synths used to create the versions of the invention heard on those commercials were either Yamaha or Roland Synthesizers. I'm not too sure if all 4 versions of the invention in high quality audio still survives to this day, As all of these versions were recorded in the early 80s on tape, before digital recording started to become popular. I may even consider trying to find all of those synths and create full length versions of the original uncut invention, played in the stile of the versions heard on those old commercials. Commodore would later create SID chip versions of the Invention, with the most famous SID chip version, in my opinion, created for an advertisement section for the 1982 Commodore 64 Christmas demo, which was a rendition of the original full length version. Invention 13 was, as we described it, Commodores official sonic branding / audio logo / signature song for a few years. The entire invention, including the original piano version, has been stuck in my head for a few weeks now.

[@dr.ignacioglez.9677]

I REALLY LOVE C64 👍🥂🎩

[@Kerveros1904]

the advertisement at 1:00 seemed quite surreal by showing a commodore powered on at a location where even the candles are considered to be a luxury. But it passed the message. . . It passed it . . .

[@its_4life]

"very realistic games"

[@naturalnashuan]

Check out the Commodore use featured (I think Season 3) in the TV series Mr. Robot. If you stream the show there is an interactive simulation of using a Commodore. I don't remember enough of the commands to use the simulator.

[@dralberthofmann]

🎶Commodore!🎶 🎵Sesenta y cuatro!🎵

[@UTUBMRBUZZ]

Sorry can't find it in the stores here. Must been sold out everywhere ?!

[@Sorcining]

these ads will forever be iconic I wonder what the people in these ads are doing 41 years later.

[@cucho69]

En Argentina, a pesar de que la publicidad no fué muy informativa y la empresa "Drean" armaba las unidades con bajísima calidad (las C64C poseían el motherboard Rev A), el Commodore 64 fué un éxito demoledor.

[@kxmode]

When I was a kid growing up in the 80s, my family had no desire to get a computer until the Atari 400. Even when the Atari 2600 released, we stuck with the 400. When the NES came out, my family couldn't afford it, but I remember this one wealthy kid from school had the NES with three games and the robot, and he would invite kids over (like the earliest form of the LAN gaming). From that moment on, I had been fascinated by video games. Around that same time, I remember visiting a friend down the street, and his dad had a computer. The screen was amber color, but I remember being interested in it. He put on a flight simulator game and a spreadsheet program, and I thought those were amazing. 🙂

[@TheRetroByte]

Sounds like you have some great memories. Thanks for sharing. Comments like this are what make the channel special 👍

[@OldAussieAds]

The Atari 400 came out after the Atari 2600.

[@kxmode]

@@OldAussieAds It's a memory from a long time ago, so it's not going to be one-hundred percent accurate. Regarding "even when the Atari 2600 released," it would be more accurate to say "when our family first noticed the Atari 2600." 🙂

[@OldAussieAds]

@@kxmode No worries, that's understandable. I guess in my head, I'd consider the Atari 400 to be considerably better than the 2600. But to be honest, I owned a later Atari 8-bit (XEGS) so I'm not sure how the Atari 400 would have compared vs the 2600. I know the A400 would have had Star Raiders which was amazing for the the time. But the Atari 2600 was the more popular system - More titles on shelves and more friends at school to swap games with. Also, what a fantastic description of this memory. I felt the exact same way. Before I got my Atari XEGS, I was given a bunch of old (even at the time) Compute! magazines. And I used to read every page, even the ads (in fact especially the ads). I just loved learning about all the systems available at the time. Look up Compute! if you haven't already. They're all available free online.

[@kxmode]

​@@OldAussieAds Graphically, the 400 was like a NEO-GEO, and 2600 was like an NES. Pac-Man, Centipede, and other arcade games on the 400 looked like the arcade, down to the tiny details. When I saw Pac-Man on 2600 at a relative's house, my reaction was something like, "Why would I ever play that? It looks terrible." Since the 400 was a computer, it came with BASIC. I tried to use it but could never figure it out (ironically, I am a professional programmer today). The most I ever did was use it as an electronic typewriter to write concise stories, but as I couldn't save them, I ended up losing them all. I think this is probably the reason why my parents never bought a Colecovision, Intellivision, or a Vectrex. My mom was into Pac-Man, and my dad loved Centipede, and neither cared for other consoles. 🙂

[@MarcoPolo82]

The song at 05:10 is really catchiing.

[@matthewjahnke6956]

I had one when I was a kid.

[@wisteela]

Fantastic. Subscribed.

[@d.escudero4899]

Simpler times, better times!

[@OPTIOMILJONAARI]

8:44 Finland!!! :D

[@spagbowlsparmacheese629]

Aussie ad has the best jingle and girls

[@Sonictrainkid]

I know the original song. but i can't tell the name. Plz help me 3:38 and 3:11

[@nnndoh]

my mom couldn't afford a VHS recorder , but she bought me a commodore 64 back then

[@repentandknowjesus8674]

got my c64 and 1541 in 1982.

[@natewhyte8820]

At my school, whoever finished their work first got to play Bruce Lee while waiting for everyone else... you've never seen kids more keen to do assignments ever!

[@matthewjahnke6956]

Forget Bruce Lee. He doesn't have a thing to do with this.

[@naturalnashuan]

I miss the clunky big retro keyboard keys, they were hard to miss with your fingertips.

[@souljastation5463]

Today's mechanical keyboards are pretty similar.

[@Bertie_Ahern]

Commodore's Australian marketing team were streets ahead of the rest

[@jameslongstreet9259]

Now I learned to say 64 i three different languages. BTW I love the dash for the Commodore 64 in the end :o)

[@Bintzak]

0:53 The best place to be, when loading something on th C-64

[@Desmk2312]

Fun fact: early C64 commercial using song name "invention 13 by bach"

[@anwerabdallah569]

how powerful the machine i hold in my palm compared with those computers at that time.

[@raymondyee2008]

Pity I never got to use one back then in the 80s. Though i’m not sure if it was ever sold in Singapore back then.

[@kenkobra]

At first, I thought that was Rupert from Survivor on the commercial on the beach.

[@SxSxG666]

"It's 64 it's very powerful" :)

[@Valitzu777]

@0:34 I can't wait for her to turn the stove on... That monitor will soon know what it's like to be cream cheese/tnt :) I loved my c64, it was my childhood's only true friend.... It pathed the way for the IT and graphic design work I do now...

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

Back when the hippie subculture was alive in the computer community

[@rosamaltonimussolini9715]

just woah

[@หวังว่าจะไม่ซ้ําใคร]

My FART also has more than 64k memory.😊😊😊😊

[@marcobalbo2959]

Vic-20...C64...Amiga... now in AMG 😜

[@noscrubbubblez6515]

I sold the Vic20 and 64 for a living on commission. I wasn't sold on either but I liked the Vic 20 more.

[@dellawrence4323]

I am writing this on my Commodore 64.

[@naturalnashuan]

I'm impressed!

[@io4439]

Hmm how do we sell this thing?

[@mtalhakhalid1679]

2:39 music similar to mist in forest

[@daniel-marcinkowski]

Why does it say: '"smart" peripherals' (08:06), do the guys at the commodore marketing department want to express those peripherals are not really smart or what?

[@Jay-g2u2y]

Just to put this perspective Steve Jobs had barely moved his company out of his garage 😂

[@CrazyYog]

Where did the Swiss Family Robinson get the electricity to run that swanky new C-64!

[@assai74]

I was mad until I got one. My family thougt I was a weirdo for thinking computers will change the world. Boy, were they wrong....

[@travismoore7849]

Oh man what the heck were they thinking when they made these commercials.

[@huntabadday2663]

3:37 Is definitely where the fnaf security breach music came from

[@coolvideos8864]

Whats the best advert?

[@madcommodore]

Same adverts sane quality since last decade

[@SenyorCapitàCollons]

Would be interested seeing an add of whatever Commodore computer of Eastern Europe. I know they had them in Poland.

[@teatimee]

According to these adverts it was common to look at graphs. Who Knew.

[@naturalnashuan]

I NEVER used mine to look at graphs!

[@blackneos940]

I wasn't even alive then, as I was born in 1991. But, as a Programmer, the C64 really fascinates me.... It illustrated how cheap a Computer could be, and still be more than average. And it was pretty awesome, from the looks of it! :)

[@naturalnashuan]

As a teenager I used C64s and C128s for playing video games and as word processors for school reports. Apparently, it could do more than that. It wasn't as packed with excitement as the ads portray it!

[@souljastation5463]

The cheapness was all due to Jack Tramiel.

[@a4000t]

@@naturalnashuan Oh yes it was if u had imagination and ingenuity.. i built burglar alarms that spoke "Intruder Alert" using joystick ports and magnetic switches,scared my mom to death.. Burned eproms to make my own cartridges and games,used I/O boards off the user port to control and automate stuff,X-10 stuff for home control(lights,tv,etc). A friend and i even streamed music from his c64 to mine in realtime over 300 baud modems(we didnt know what streaming was then!). Called many bbs's in germany and usa to get new warez and used QuantumLink,a national online service here in the USA. dialed all the telephones in school at lunchtime with the modem and laughed like idiots watching people answer them.

[@TheRetroByte]

Brilliant, I tell my kids about these sorts of shenanigans but they just look at me like i was mental

[@blackneos940]

@@TheRetroByte Heh. :D Their kid(s), and/or their generation will look at the Technology we have today in the same way, I bet.

[@johnhenrymills4517]

2:05 personal link

[@a4000t]

Are you keeping up with the Commodore?

[@Sinn0100]

You know...even though many of Commodores commercials are goofy I can see why they were considered the best of their time. They actually had a finger on the pulse of what the consumer wanted. When you compare Atari's commercials of the same era the Commodore looks like a better product. I wouldn't really know as I got my start playing the Nes and Master System in 1986. I had a Commodore 128 as my first computer and I never really used it as I was too young. Addendum- I didn't know the Commodore 64 was so far ahead of their competitors when it dropped. I knew it had 64K of memory but damn...that's league's better than the alternatives of the time and the $600 price tag isn't so bad. Hell, dedicated consoles didn't start pushing that much memory until the late, late 1980's. That's pretty neat...

[@TheRetroByte]

Yeah the Commodore 64 really had the advantage, especially with its SID sound chip, The C64 games sounded and looked so good.

[@Erikslust]

C64 was so popular in Sweden. In 1986, 3 kids (one of them me) on the same village street each had a C64.

[@rbrtck]

Success depends so much on timing, and the C64 came around just in time for the price of DRAM to drop sufficiently to make it the best value and most compelling "home computer" in the mass consumer market.

[@rbrtck]

@KZbin WantsToSilenceMe Actually, the C64 has a full 64 kilobytes of DRAM plus another 0.5 kilobytes of SRAM for the main color/attribute memory map. And all of it can be accessed by machine (or assembly) language programs or even from within the BASIC environment with simple machine language subroutines. This is accomplished through a bank-switching scheme that costs only the first 2 bytes of memory. So the total amount of memory (not counting chip registers and buffers) in the C64 is 64.5 kB - 2 bytes, which is more than the advertised 64 kB.

[@หวังว่าจะไม่ซ้ําใคร]

RIP They're ☠

[@ChicagoMel23]

5:12 are they really friends or just interested in the computer? Let’s see how many want to still be around the kid once the new factor is over and something else is popular. Typical “get this and everyone will like you” ad

[@RapidGaMinG-b8p]

wow old is gold, most of guys and kids now become older at the age of 80 or 90 or some one are died. i had this one in 1992 import from UK. which is made for especially for Pakistan gift and they have printed a small flag of Pakistan on the big box. 1st data set then move to 1571-2 hard disk. what a day and what technology.

[@somekindofstranger9612]

are you keeping up with the commodore?

[@justin.campbell]

I love how the ad at 4:38 just calls out apple ibm and atari, i wonder how those companies took that xD edit: AND SO MANY MORE ADS SO IT TOO LMAO

[@Sinn0100]

You know companies still do this and it's perfectly legal. That's what we call fair use my friend. I don't know if you're a gamer but... E3 2013 Microsoft and Sony announced their new consoles (the 8th generation). Microsoft wanted to force all Xbox One's to utilize an always on DRM and people were pissed off about it (including me). Sony wisely saw this and quickly made a skit dubbed "How to lend games on the PS4." In one fail swoop Sony took the 8th generation before it even officially started and you better believe they used Microsoft's name in the skit. If you have the time you should look it up. Addendum- I love all gaming from every generation and platform. That skit was the only time the console wars were alive during the 8th generation. Thankfully, the 9th gen is here and we ars now seeing both companies go at each other's throats. I may not like fanboyism but I love seeing two juggernauts fighting for our dollars.

[@justin.campbell]

@@Sinn0100 wow, thats odd but makes sense. It does fall under fair use, but im sure their competitors hate it!

[@Sinn0100]

@@justin.campbell Oh yes they do but it's just so damn funny. Seriously the how to lend a game skit had me on the floor laughing. You should look it up...;)

[@robintst]

Our American ads were more than a little dull, if this were a competition for best C64 advertisement, Australia's infectious jingle would win hands down.

[@SMGJohn]

What I never understood is how commercials back then were about the actual fucking product they were advertising. Same with documentaries back then, they really tried to teach you something, these days its all entertainment, even the adverts try to entertain you in the most obnoxious way possible.

[@ChicagoMel23]

No need to swear

[@SMGJohn]

@@ChicagoMel23 This aint the bloody church.

[@jacobbaranowski]

Is that Jack Black? In the thumbnail?

[@TheRetroByte]

No just some random actor

[@ASPEED-zo8tt]

7:16 .... look at the prices.....

[@curtisnewton895]

rrrrrrrrrrrright....

[@yeraysantanaaday6827]

Leater it says 499 dollars..

[@NathanChisholm041]

Are you keeping up with the commodore?

[@naturalnashuan]

It's not keeping up with me. It moved to my brother's garage after MANY years in my parents' basement. Don't know what is doing now.

[@mrLumen2]

Only Amiga makes it .... :)

[@comacuma2869]

Taimless memories sdig the recycle bin

[@n33to]

ha. real elephant.