Id pay 200.
I paid 140 for my vcs second hand and that was a bargain for what it does. But that had really great controllers with it.
The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299
Submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
loomy@lemy.lol 2 months ago
the company still exists?
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yea, just sold to a prominent retro computer YouTuber (though I’m planning on the name atm) so I think it’s in good hands now (though too soon for this product, it was literally like a week or 2 ago they closed the deal)
chellomere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Perifractic is the name of the YouTuber
loomy@lemy.lol 2 months ago
neat
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Song name? I feel like it’s way too fucking good to be an ad jingle
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Feels a little pricey to be successful. A pity.
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 months ago
It’s an extremely niche product, to be fair. The general public was never going to buy it, and diehards will buy it at a premium price. When you consider the small manufacturing runs they’re probably planning, the price seems less ridiculous IMO.
I wouldn’t pay $300 for it, so I don’t claim it’s a “good value”, but I can understand from a mathematics of manufacturing standpoint why the price is something like that.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Better value than a cocaine or Warhammer habit, probably not as good value as a good chainsaw
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can still get perfectly working original ones for less. Why would anyone want to spend more on a knock off?
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They cost $2,000 (in 2025 $) when they released in 1982. Sounds like a deal to me!