When Did You Get Your First VIC-20 (Part II)

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:40 pm

I'm curious about when people got their first VIC-20s. I realize we already have this thread but I'm starting a new one because I'd like to attach a poll. The threads can be merged if need be. I included the last option for completeness but if you fall into that category, shame on you!

I'm also curious what peripherals you got with your VIC-20, if any, so please post details if possible.

shem · Post by **shem** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:46 pm

Well I got my vic in late 1986 In the Uk the 64 ruled the commodore market by this time so there wasn' much software available by the time i got the vic
so I had to learn basic then assembly and write my own games

I remember going to the library on a regular basis to see what vic20 listings I could find

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:14 pm

Christmas Day 1982 - and BOY WAS I EXCITED! First computer/video game I ever owned. A Christmas gift from my parents.

darkatx · Post by **darkatx** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:43 pm

ral-clan wrote:Christmas Day 1982 - and BOY WAS I EXCITED! First computer/video game I ever owned. A Christmas gift from my parents.

Pretty much the same story here

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:45 pm

Any peripherals? Datasette? Disk drive?

amramsey · Post by **amramsey** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:04 pm

Xmas day, 1982. The Vic, a datasette, Omega Race and Cosmic Cruncher. My third game would have been the shooting game in the back of the basic manual within a few days of that. I learned soon after that not to wiggle the power bar with my foot while typing in games.

I added Gorf to my collection about a month later (my birthday) and after that a bunch of Scott Adams games, and a handful of forgotten titles as the prices dropped over the next two years. I do remember paying an absolute fortune for a Super Expander.

I didn't get a disk drive until I upgraded to a C64 in around 1985.

Zeela · Post by **Zeela** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:36 am

I got my first VIC in 2003

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:37 am

Zeela wrote:I got my first VIC in 2003

Really? That's awesome. Did you already have a 64 and decided to check out its older brother? I'm interested in hearing what you favourite games are since you came to the VIC when games were more readily available.

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:36 am

darkatx wrote:
ral-clan wrote:Christmas Day 1982 - and BOY WAS I EXCITED! First computer/video game I ever owned. A Christmas gift from my parents.
Pretty much the same story here

Me too, although in Sweden we get our presents in the evening on Christmas Eve. It was a present for me and my two brothers.

I think we had a Datassette from the beginning, and probably two white Commodore joysticks (could have come later, I'm not sure). Later on we bought a switchable (16K?) RAM expansion.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:42 am

darkatx wrote:
ral-clan wrote:Christmas Day 1982 - and BOY WAS I EXCITED! First computer/video game I ever owned. A Christmas gift from my parents.
Pretty much the same story here

Idem, but in 1983

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Post by **Jeff-20** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:50 am

I got mine really late when the 64s were hot and the VICs were on discount.

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:04 am

Christmas 1985. A local shop, called What Every Woman Wants, must've bought a job lot at the end of the Vic's life. It cost £40 with a Datasette and (I think!) a six pack of CBM games. The only other hardware I had was a 16k RAM pack and the Programmer's Aid cart.

If you count joysticks et cetera, the first joystick I got was a Crack Shot which lasted about a week before it started playing up. Eventually, I convinced my dad to invest in a Quickshot II Turbo. It cost £12.99 which was a fortune for us back then but, boy, did it last!

Oh, I also made a dust cover in Home Economice class at school. It was flourescent yellow and I thought it was cool but it probably doesn't count in this poll...

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:10 am

orion70 wrote:
darkatx wrote:
ral-clan wrote:Christmas Day 1982 - and BOY WAS I EXCITED! First computer/video game I ever owned. A Christmas gift from my parents.
Pretty much the same story here
Idem, but in 1983 .

Also in 1983.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:28 am

Pedro Lambrini wrote:A local shop, called What Every Woman Wants, must've bought a job lot at the end of the Vic's life.

So actually a somewhat outdated home computer was not what Every Woman wanted? At least not at that time in history. Just the other day we speculated where all the female VIC users are, and as you seem to have bought your first VIC in a "ladies store"

, there should have been plenty of women owning one.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:38 am

gklinger wrote:
Zeela wrote:I got my first VIC in 2003
Really? That's awesome. Did you already have a 64 and decided to check out its older brother? I'm interested in hearing what you favourite games are since you came to the VIC when games were more readily available.

Not until 2002 here, my brother's gf finds hers in the loft and asks me if I'd like it. As a lot of people know I'd been part of the C64 scene since 1984, so it was time to check out its predecessor...

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