The Commodore 64 remains the World’s biggest selling Games console - with 22 million units produced from 1983. Simplicity and the ingenious ( well, for the time ) use of cassette technology for gaming applications was a real innovation.

Indeed the creativity of games developers of the time - within such tight memory constraints - was a marvel in itself. That many of these games were so good is testament to the talent of the programmers of that era.

The jewel of my Commodore collection is certainly the GS - or Games System. Commodore launched this unit in 1990, and made 100,000 of them. Of that figure, it is reported that 80,000 were withdrawn and broken up for parts ( the mainboard was rather generic 64 ) and so only 20,000 actually hit the market ... of which I have one!

This console was truly hammered, commercially, at the time. It could use nothing but Cartridges and had no keyboard - yet the cheaper Commodore 64 could do a lot more! In terms of rarity, sure, the GS is where it’s at. For fun, look elsewhere! It didn’t flop for no reason!

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