My first ever computer. I was 6 years old when I got a Vic20. I don't exactly use it a lot today. It sits in the closet most of the time. I literally rescued this unit from the trash. I was working at a grocery store as a bag-boy when I was 16 and somebody had this in their trunk and they said they were about to chunk it. It isn't exactly in the best of conditions. The case is beaten up and the plastic is melted on top. That was my fault, I was trying desperatly to get some sticky stuff off the top but nothing worked. I tried gasoline. It worked, but took the plastic off too. Guess that good old Commodore plastic wasn't strong enough. The VIC chip flickers sometimes too, especially the screen border. You wouldn't normally expect to see a 1571 drive hooked up to a Vic20, but as I didn't have a vic-1541 I guess it didn't matter. I stuck in an original PacMan cartridge for authenticity. The 1084 monitor is also overkill. The Vic-20 doesn't have a very crisp video display on any monitor, not even a 1084. One of the things I also remember about the Vic-20 is that the cartridge port was so huge. I only ever had 2 commercial products for my Vic-20. I had Omega Race, which was probably one of the best games for the Vic-20 and Sea Hunt or SeaWolf or something like that. Mostly because around the same time we got the Vic-20 we also got an Atari 2600. Everybody seemed to think we should buy games for the 2600 instead. In retrospect I think some of the games were better on the Vic. But lack of an extra joystick port made playing 2-player impossible for most games. Some of my favorite games to play were PacMan, Omega Race, and Q-Bert.
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