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May not have been that was the strategy they wanted to take initially but they were undercut severely on price my commodore's vic-20 and may have been seen as t
by 83457 8y ago
May not have been that was the strategy they wanted to take initially but they were undercut severely on price my commodore's vic-20 and may have been seen as the only option.
- russfink 8y agoI had a Timex Sinclair 1000, and then bought a Commodore 64. I used a vic-20, and for the life of me, I cannot see how a vic-20 compares to a Texas Instruments 99 / 4A. I honestly would have preferred my Timex over a vic-20 just because the 20 character screen with was super annoying. How did you live with it?
- reaperducer 8y agoI used to feel the same way. But it’s importamt to remember that the VIC 20 wasn’t so much a contemporary of the 99/4A as it was its predecessor. The VIC was somewhat out of phase with the rest of the computer industry at the time. It was more akin to being a step between CP/M machines and the full-on 1980’s home computer scene. Amazingly, people are still producing new VIC 20 carts today. And the quality of the games is quite impressive.