There is no better thing than to take your C64 to the beach (together with monitor, joystick, tape player and bucket full of electricity) 🙃

I’ve had that one jingle stuck in my head for over 35 years... "Are you keeping up with the Commodore, cause the Commodore is keeping up with you."

Man that kid in the orange pants was really jazzed about the commodore. I wish I could be half has happy with my Nvidia GeForce 3080.

Very realistic games

3:38 Woke up, opened up the door To play games with my 64 But there was Mom with her mailing list Susie catching up on the math she'd missed I'd play music, a little rock But Dad was charting his favourite stock Commodore is great, to play and learn Especially when I finally get my turn! Commodore. Bringing computers down to earth.

I distinctly remember the Italian jingle song... “Commodore è un buon regalo!” (Commodore is a good gift). It changed my life when I was 12. It was definitely a good Christmas gift.

happy 40th anniversary Commodore 64 1982-2022

The C64 had such great commercials it's no wonder it sold so well.

I have no recollection of seeing a UK C64 commercial. No wonder I got a Spectrum +2

It's amazing all the things you could get done around the house while waiting for a program to load from tape... I think I still have a program loading from 1986.

These Commodore 64 TV commercials are retrospectively awesome 😺👍🕹️. In fact, i still own the original Commodore 64C and Amiga 500 computers + games 😺👍. I even have the Commodore 64 games on the tapes and disks 😺👍🕹️. Thanks for showing this awesome retrospective video 😺👍. Greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

I had the Vic-20, 64, and the Amiga 500. Skipped the 128 for the Amiga and glad I did.

VIC-20 all the way!!!! Because 64 is just too many bits!!! Who will every need that much memory anyway....

This was the first computer I learned on in middle school. I'm now a senior software engineer with a fortune 500 company.

Are you keeping up with the Commodore - the Commodore is keeping up with you!

I bought a Commodore 64 yesterday and I can guarantee its better then Modern day Microsoft Windows or Mac

beautiful advertisements, how much nostalgia! The C64 is the best!

5:11 I had a Commodore 64 in the 80's and this never happened. It was not cool to be a geek then. Great commercial though!

Vic 20 => C64 => Amiga => IBM Z0S Mainframe. Yes, Commodore introduce me to computers, made me fall in love with them, and gave me my entire career :)

Drean C64 was a reseller in south America that converted the US NTSC video machines to PAL-N standard and also the power supply from 110V 60Hz to 220V 50Hz

Love mine, well used to, still have every single piece and it works just fine, including joysticks and printer

It's Jan 2024 and I have just bought my first C64 . :) Having a blast !

enormous memory...

Was one of the best.

9:14 Argentinean made under license Drean Commodore 64, best seller. Great vid!

Despite I born after this miracle machine, but I still thank to C64 for became my childhood (via emulator).

Bought this yesterday having no clue what it was. Im happy with my purchase.

Australian here. "Are you keeping up with the Commodore" was always playing in my head as an impressionable kid. Then Australia's favourite car was the Holden Commodore for years too. I must say though, that America's Cup game would have to have been pretty boring. And then Test Cricket? No thanks. Just give me Impossible Mission and Donkey Kong and I'll be on my way.

2:26 Those effects were actually dope for the 80

"very realistic games"

I had the entire system. Keyboard Mouse Printer Modern. Cassette player. Everything.

the advertisement at 1:00 seemed quite surreal by showing a commodore powered on at a location where even the candles are considered to be a luxury. But it passed the message. . . It passed it . . .

my mom couldn't afford a VHS recorder , but she bought me a commodore 64 back then

Simpler times, better times!

Commodore's Australian marketing team were streets ahead of the rest

Commodore 64 is the king. So many great memories👍. Thx for posting

🎶Commodore!🎶 🎵Sesenta y cuatro!🎵

8:44 Finland!!! :D

En Argentina, a pesar de que la publicidad no fué muy informativa y la empresa "Drean" armaba las unidades con bajísima calidad (las C64C poseían el motherboard Rev A), el Commodore 64 fué un éxito demoledor.

"It's 64 it's very powerful" :)

I REALLY LOVE C64 👍🥂🎩

This is my new favorite video

Aussie ad has the best jingle and girls

The song at 05:10 is really catchiing.

Just to put this perspective Steve Jobs had barely moved his company out of his garage 😂

I miss the clunky big retro keyboard keys, they were hard to miss with your fingertips.

how powerful the machine i hold in my palm compared with those computers at that time.

0:53 The best place to be, when loading something on th C-64

these ads will forever be iconic I wonder what the people in these ads are doing 41 years later.

got my c64 and 1541 in 1982.

Fantastic. Subscribed.

3:37 Is definitely where the fnaf security breach music came from

Back when the hippie subculture was alive in the computer community

@0:34 I can't wait for her to turn the stove on... That monitor will soon know what it's like to be cream cheese/tnt :) I loved my c64, it was my childhood's only true friend.... It pathed the way for the IT and graphic design work I do now...

At my school, whoever finished their work first got to play Bruce Lee while waiting for everyone else... you've never seen kids more keen to do assignments ever!

When I was a kid growing up in the 80s, my family had no desire to get a computer until the Atari 400. Even when the Atari 2600 released, we stuck with the 400. When the NES came out, my family couldn't afford it, but I remember this one wealthy kid from school had the NES with three games and the robot, and he would invite kids over (like the earliest form of the LAN gaming). From that moment on, I had been fascinated by video games. Around that same time, I remember visiting a friend down the street, and his dad had a computer. The screen was amber color, but I remember being interested in it. He put on a flight simulator game and a spreadsheet program, and I thought those were amazing. 🙂

Where did the Swiss Family Robinson get the electricity to run that swanky new C-64!

At first, I thought that was Rupert from Survivor on the commercial on the beach.

I sold the Vic20 and 64 for a living on commission. I wasn't sold on either but I liked the Vic 20 more.

My FART also has more than 64k memory.😊😊😊😊

Vic-20...C64...Amiga... now in AMG 😜

I am writing this on my Commodore 64.

Pity I never got to use one back then in the 80s. Though i’m not sure if it was ever sold in Singapore back then.

I'm wondering what all of the musical synthesizers that were used to create all of the versions of Bach's Invention 13 in A minor that were heard on some of those commercials. I know that all of the versions of the invention heard on those commercials were not performed on the Commodore 64's SID chip, but on different synthesizers. This was the jingle that was used in the early 1980s until the mid 80s, when the Are You Keeping Up With The Commodore? jingle replaced the older Invention 13 jingles. There were at least 4 versions of Invention 13, with 3 out of the 4 versions being played at a slower tempo than the original piano version. In edition, all 4 versions of the invention were shorter compared to the original. One half of the versions finishes on an A minor chord, while the other half of the versions finishes on a C major chord. On the fourth and final version, heard on the A Day In The Life Of A Commodore 64 commercial, as soon as the music progresses to the C major section, one of the synths that was playing the left hand part of the tune immediately changes to a marimba like sound, but than crossfades to the ending, featuring the first left hand patch resuming to play, and the voiceover saying: "The Commodore 64. Once you get it, you'll wonder how you've got alone without it." I believe that those were earlier synths featuring pre-loaded patches that tries to imitate a musical instrument, before sample based electric keyboards became popular in the late 80s to the present time. My guess is that those synths used to create the versions of the invention heard on those commercials were either Yamaha or Roland Synthesizers. I'm not too sure if all 4 versions of the invention in high quality audio still survives to this day, As all of these versions were recorded in the early 80s on tape, before digital recording started to become popular. I may even consider trying to find all of those synths and create full length versions of the original uncut invention, played in the stile of the versions heard on those old commercials. Commodore would later create SID chip versions of the Invention, with the most famous SID chip version, in my opinion, created for an advertisement section for the 1982 Commodore 64 Christmas demo, which was a rendition of the original full length version. Invention 13 was, as we described it, Commodores official sonic branding / audio logo / signature song for a few years. The entire invention, including the original piano version, has been stuck in my head for a few weeks now.

Fun fact: early C64 commercial using song name "invention 13 by bach"

Check out the Commodore use featured (I think Season 3) in the TV series Mr. Robot. If you stream the show there is an interactive simulation of using a Commodore. I don't remember enough of the commands to use the simulator.

I was mad until I got one. My family thougt I was a weirdo for thinking computers will change the world. Boy, were they wrong....

Now I learned to say 64 i three different languages. BTW I love the dash for the Commodore 64 in the end :o)

just woah

Oh man what the heck were they thinking when they made these commercials.

wow old is gold, most of guys and kids now become older at the age of 80 or 90 or some one are died. i had this one in 1992 import from UK. which is made for especially for Pakistan gift and they have printed a small flag of Pakistan on the big box. 1st data set then move to 1571-2 hard disk. what a day and what technology.

Same adverts sane quality since last decade

2:39 music similar to mist in forest

Sorry can't find it in the stores here. Must been sold out everywhere ?!

rrrrrrrrrrrright....

RIP They're ☠

7:16 .... look at the prices.....

Only Amiga makes it .... :)

According to these adverts it was common to look at graphs. Who Knew.

ha. real elephant.

You know...even though many of Commodores commercials are goofy I can see why they were considered the best of their time. They actually had a finger on the pulse of what the consumer wanted. When you compare Atari's commercials of the same era the Commodore looks like a better product. I wouldn't really know as I got my start playing the Nes and Master System in 1986. I had a Commodore 128 as my first computer and I never really used it as I was too young. Addendum- I didn't know the Commodore 64 was so far ahead of their competitors when it dropped. I knew it had 64K of memory but damn...that's league's better than the alternatives of the time and the $600 price tag isn't so bad. Hell, dedicated consoles didn't start pushing that much memory until the late, late 1980's. That's pretty neat...

200 pounds in that time was a lot of money...I have the spectrum but whit time I get the amiga 500 expanded to 1 Mega,,,,..I think that commodore maybe was better computer but spectrum was more popular and worth it.

Retrospective marketing bs at its best. I did have one though, so it must have worked. D'oh!!

5:12 are they really friends or just interested in the computer? Let’s see how many want to still be around the kid once the new factor is over and something else is popular. Typical “get this and everyone will like you” ad

2:05 personal link

What I never understood is how commercials back then were about the actual fucking product they were advertising. Same with documentaries back then, they really tried to teach you something, these days its all entertainment, even the adverts try to entertain you in the most obnoxious way possible.

Are you keeping up with the Commodore?

I wasn't even alive then, as I was born in 1991. But, as a Programmer, the C64 really fascinates me.... It illustrated how cheap a Computer could be, and still be more than average. And it was pretty awesome, from the looks of it! :)

Would be interested seeing an add of whatever Commodore computer of Eastern Europe. I know they had them in Poland.

I love how the ad at 4:38 just calls out apple ibm and atari, i wonder how those companies took that xD edit: AND SO MANY MORE ADS SO IT TOO LMAO

Taimless memories sdig the recycle bin

I loved my Commodore machines, but sadly, I never owned the C64. Vic20, BBC B, Atari STfm, Amiga 500, then a 1500. Since the 1500, PC every time. Shame home computer's stopped at 16bit, I miss the my machine is better than yours :)

Why does it say: '"smart" peripherals' (08:06), do the guys at the commodore marketing department want to express those peripherals are not really smart or what?

Whats the best advert?

Ah I remember when I brought my C64 C pain $600 for it and strange thing is 35 years later it would be worth nearly as much now, My favourite game was called Hounded a greyhound racing game made in Australia kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5N5hryjnpirfn0.html

Leater it says 499 dollars..

I know the original song. but i can't tell the name. Plz help me 3:38 and 3:11

Hmm how do we sell this thing?

I feel like I need to go to ebay! There is a project going on now for a new 8bit BASIC2.0 cbm/petsci machine- CommanderX16 on youtube by the 8bit guy... Should be nostalgic

Is that Jack Black? In the thumbnail?