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Here’s why the Commodore SX-64 was a $1,000 FAILURE…& why GAMERS still want it!

MetalJesusRocks

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Here are the features and quirks of the Commodore SX-64 - the worlds first color portable computer. And it just happens to be a GREAT gaming machine too!
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20 Comments

@MrBoop4345 7 years ago

My dad had one of these for work when I was a kid. I remember he use to complain how heavy it was for being "portable". Great video MJR. Rock on!

@rhysperegrine5100 7 years ago

In the UK in the 1980s, video game magazines would always have half-a-dozen or so pages at the back containing the code for an entire video game

@Helloduby12345 7 years ago

To be honest, this is a nice piece of industrial design.

@drew8235 7 years ago

A new MetalJesus video always brightens the day.

@TheFleaX 7 years ago

I picked up one of these at a garage sale earlier this year. It works great and came with Hero. :)

@jakescukobyte 7 years ago

Actually, I just LOVE when someone films an old monitor/TV while playing a retro game. All those wavy lines, unclear picture, imagination of how much better it looks in person. I don't know why, but it looks so amateurishly brilliant. I even follow couple Instagram accounts, who post stuff like that.

@thenostalgiafactor5023 7 years ago

Pfft...inflation...the PS5 can be preordered for $1000!

@gaupau 7 years ago

Holy shit. I never thought that you'd reference doug demuro in your channel. You guys are both some of my fave youtubers. Keep it up mjr.

@huldu 7 years ago

I didn't even know about that thing. That's just amazing to be honest. It would have blown my mind back then with a color display and "portable".

@ModernVintageGamer 7 years ago

i paid $50 for mine !

@primeribz6039 7 years ago

"can you imagin" is MJR"s "back in my day." lol keep on rockiin \m/

@DiAL033 7 years ago

Regarding the cartridge slot (6:40) it wasn't only used for games. There were special graphics printer interfaces, rs232, eprom programmers or RAM extensions available (well, and final cartridge of course ;) ) So it did make sense to have that slot even for business reasons.

@AdamChristensen 7 years ago

Time to remind my dad that our Executive 64 better still be in his basement. If it goes missing... 🤯

@fordxbgtfalcon 5 years ago

Omg, we cleaned out an old office building back in 2001 and there was around 5 of these that we tossed away. Back then I had no idea of the history of this particular computer.... what a shame...

@LegendaryK4 7 years ago (edited)

Would love to see you do a C64 buying guide with the 8 bit guy!

@milkdribbly 6 years ago (edited)

I love the SX-64! My dad bought one when it first came out with GeOS. It was too complicated for him to understand so after that it became my gaming machine. Spent tons of hours laying in front of this tiny screen with my binder full of shared (read: pirated) games. It still functions perfectly after all these years. One of my fave games is Mission Impossible.

@topdog72 7 years ago

I love this series and you showing and talking about vintage computers and games. Please do more of this, if you don't mind, versus mostly console oriented videos. Thank you, and great job!!

@kmetze 7 years ago

Didn't the standard C=64 in the US come with the spiral-bound reference manual? In Europe it shipped with a manual very similar to what you showed.

Also, the cartridge slot on the SX-64 wasn't for games; it was for business software. There are cartridges with spreadsheet or word processing software and several extension to BASIC for programmers. Not to mention the custom solutions some companies created.

@cacomeat7385 7 years ago

A couple years ago a veteran computer programmer visited my computer science class and showed one of these. It didn't boot but it was still fascinating as hell to look at