Game Tech: Commodore 64 gets a mini-reboot

The Beatles were singing about turning 64, but they might well have been singing about Ireland’s original console obsession. The lights went out on the Commodore 64 decades ago – but tomorrow they will flicker back into life.

Wed, 28 Mar, 2018 - 01:00

By Ronan Jennings

“I could be handy, mending a fuse / When your lights have gone”.

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