for a long time as a kid my father would run a Christmas music program every Christmas morning, the John Henry Christmas carols, he died when I was 17 and didn't have a working c64 to carry on tradition, the audio quality in this plug and play is flawless, emulators crackled and pop and sounded terrible, but this is perfect, can't wait to restart the old tradition again

We need the Amiga mini 😬

I just got one of these too, but haven't taken it out of the box yet because I've been too busy. I hope to try it out soon and give my opinion on the new USA version.

Enjoyed seeing some of those old C64 games :D

Excellent review dude, it was great to see you in the mini FB group...

It's great to hear you talk about this MJR. I feel that people who used the C64 originally have a much better perspective on what improvements this new product offers and what users should expect. Another great video as always! :)

Jason do you know that you have a lot of fans here in Portugal?Lots of love and continue the good work!

Fantastic video! :) Very cool you are on the FB group as well! There is just one thing I hope this thing gets updated about, left. And that would be that you can flip through disks without it resetting/autorunning, so that BASIC can be used as is, an you're practically using a real C64.

I love you Metal Jesus! You brought the little me back out :) My dad and 9 year older brother brought this home to me at the age of 3 and I never put this down.

Awesome, thank you for this vid! I’m considering this console and it looks like I’m going to get it! I too enjoy the fact that you can upgrade with a firmware to play any other c64 title!

Thanks for C64 memories.. Ghostbusters (who you gonna call :-) ) .. The Great Escape.. Pirates (many hours sailing.. fencing).. Pool of Radiance.. Secret of Silver Blades.. Spy vs Spy..

Thanks for the great review of this, it's the only "Mini Classic" system I'm considering, loved your take & details on it man!

MJR thank you for providing such a great review. I love my mini and the games you featured.

Want to see me some Bard's Tale on the Commodore again. My all time favorite game across ANY platform even up to today.

Stay a while, MJR! Stay forever! This was my first gaming system when I was a kid. So many great games. Pool of Radiance, Uridium, Montezumas Revenge, Henry´s House, Great Giana Sisters, Wonder Boy, Zorro, Monty on the Run, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Fist 2, The Last Ninja etc. Love this system! In the end of Who Dares Wins 2 there is a phone number to the creator. We called him several times. I bet he changed his number eventually... :-)

Got one of these last week and I'm in LOVE! While not compatible with every rom out there, it's been a wonderful way to enter the world of C64 gaming!

Jason: I'm sure you're aware by now that the same company "Retro Games" has finally released their full-size C64 with a perfect full-size keyboard! It gives you the option to boot into either the games Carousel, or straight into C64 Basic, or even Vic 20!! Some of the built-in games have changed, and a couple of Vic 20 games are now included... I was very happy to see that they've now got the license for Llamasoft games, so we now have "Attack Of The Mutant Camels", "Gridrunner" (Vic 20), and "Pyschedelia" (Vic 20); Llamasoft were such a strange, chilled out developer!! :-D The new "The C64", as it's officialy called, has 4 USB ports, and a much-improved controller; the new one has micro-switches for the stick and fire buttons.....it feels great! The firmware supplied plays external USB-Stick games, although there is new firmware update too..... This system looks virtually identical in size, shape, colour and design to the original - no cartridge/tape/disk drive slots in the back, but there are now 4 USB ports instead. It just behaves like it's a Commodore 64..... even if you try typing in game programmes from the manuals/magazines! Not sure when the USA release date is, but make sure you're ready for it!! This will really hit you in the 'feels'... ;-)

Awesome I really have to get me one of these. Also I think one of the games that impressed me the most back in the day was Driller with it's 3D graphics, and the intro/loading screen with the 9 min long SID is just awesome.

I really love the setting in your game room.

You’re the reason my taste in retro videos games has expanded outside of my old Nintendo-only preferences. Love your videos!

The commodore reminds of my childhood so much. Max nostalgia of a time that was so good

Keep up the awesome vids MJ

Great to see some Buggy Boy love, MJR! Awesome vid as always

Really cool! I have been seeing these on the shelves here in Canada lately and was avoiding them thinking that you couldn't add more games! Especially at the $100 price point. I still have a real Commodore 64, so it didn't matter to me much. But now I might think about picking one up. :)

I love seeing these retro gaming systems. great video

Thank you man! I used to play exact the same you did! Know them all. What I can remember I also loved some other titles like 'Thing on a spring' (best platform game I know) and I had lot's of fun with 'Rock 'n wrestle', IK+, Kickstart 2, etc.

Just order one! Can’t wait to get it :). I been watching your videos since I was in the military and they are some of the best in KZfaq! :)

I've picked up one of these but haven't had the time to take it out of the box yet. I had one of the Commodote Vic-20s back in the day. Loved playing games and writing programs on it. Good review.

In the mid 80's.I traded my C64 for a ride home from Broadway in Seattle.

Got one as a Christmas gift. Just put all the Ultima games (the ones that were on the C64) on there, as well as Montezuma's Revenge (one of my favorite early platform games) and a few others.

The C64 was my 2nd console after the Atari 2600. I got it for my 9th birthday back in 88. The C64 games I remember playing the most are Montezuma's revenge (Best) Cave Fighter (2nd Best) The Human Race (Great 1st level music, not a great game but played it a lot) Chiller Dizzy Treasure Island Dizzy Gothik Kik-Start Boulder Dash Miner 2049er

It's amazing to know that the C64 demoscene never stopped en kept improving for 30+ years. I think it tells something about what kind of fun machine it is.....

damn, I wish the keyboard would work, it would really give the people that nostalgic moment

I just got one for $10. It’s super cool takes me back. The only reason why I bought it was for the look , but then I found out it was really easy to put in games and it’s so much fun. Feeling like a kid again thanks for another great video. Keep it up.🤘😎

I know its been out some time now but I just wanted to say that i still enjoy playing my c64 mini today. Still looks cool and pleasing to look at. Long live the c64...

Awesome review! Brought back some great memories 👍🏻

Awesome bg music at the end!

It's not the same if you don't have to wait a age in the hope the game would load.

OH MAN! I remember playing BC Quest for Tires... what a throwback. :)

Looks neat! Never played the C64 but might check this out :) thanks for the review.

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders was hands down my best C64 experience!

This looks really great. Lots of fun.

The clicky thumbsticks text from the NeoGeo guy is in the intro, including your reaction to it. YOU ABSOLUTE MAD MAN.

Brilliant summery of the system. I played a lot of Hero back in the day. Mainly because I couldn't afford many games back then so it was good to see you mention that. My mate still has my original machine as I gave it to him a few years back. He was beast when it comes to the machine. Even built hardware mods for the thing with another mate of mine. I used to go round and they'd have the disk drive in bits. Apparently my original drive no longer works but the C64 itself is still fully functional. It'd be great to see a slightly bigger version of the mini with a keyboard. I'd buy one of those in a heartbeat (especially if they put a few more usb ports on the thing. Two isn't enough).

Oh man , Defender of the crown !! Loved that game as a kid . Still find myself whistling the music from it now , I'm 47 !!!

Love the old bread bin, also got the mini as well and now you can upgrade the firmware so I can play many more games is spot on 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Great vid as always

Great video!!, I still have probably 3000 games magazines with all the demo disks back to the early 90's, used to be a great part of PC Gaming in the 90's a way of checking out games before you bought them.

Bruce Lee was one of the best game EVER!!! Great vid bro!

Thanks very much for this revisit of the C64 mini. I really like the sound of the larger version with fully functional keyboard. My biggest dilemma is whether to buy that or the upcoming ColectorVision (ColecoVision) kickstarter console. Hmmm. Maybe I'll have to get both!

Update: I found the game its called Questron and I found it for the C-64. I need to know the name of a game I played a LOT. You were on an island and was to protect the towns where you can buy and sell item. You fought to protect the towns and went in to buy supplies or upgrades and sell what you got from fighting. In another town you buy items to get around the island better. But if you wanted to you can rob the towns fight your way out and then come back into the town to sell what you stole. But if you did that too many times the store was empty. It was a great game that I want to play again. Great review and I am getting the mini US version. Thanks.

3:26 - v.nice transition effect right there!! I live for the moment they 'll bring an Amiga mini-me. Then i'll die happy :)

Excellent review! The selection of games might have been driven by licensing, but I suspect it had more to do with the fact that these games required minimal keyboard input and were limited to a single disk. To include games that are keyboard-heavy or multiple disks would mean adding complexity that would not be as enjoyable. I hope that this version of the C64 Mini is a commercial success for the makers so that they have incentive to produce a "full size" version with working keyboard. At the very least, I hope that they release a fullsized USB Commodore keyboard attachment for the Mini.

Hi MetalJesus, thankgod we have a decent review on this product. Thankyou so much mate.

Thanks. You just sold me on Barbarian. Great presentation.

Around 8:00 I had NO idea Giana Sisters was a C64 game, I play the newest Giana sisters on my switch almost every week ! My dad brought a C64 home from work sometimes and I got to play it. I was born in 81 though so all I really remember is the winter games game and the wrestling game!!

No waiting for tapes to load, im sold!

Awesome, I remember almost every game you mentioned - including BC's Quest For Tires! I gotta have one of these things.

I remember playing a lot of these games back in the 80's as well, even B.C Quest for tires lol. Great memories!

This looks so cool,glad to see the C64 still kicking.

We recently bought one of these as a present for someone. Nice to know that there is a firmware update!

Think I will be getting this. Thanks 😎

As the C64 is my favourite home computer, I really enjoyed this video, I have over 1200 original C64 cassette games, now I can play them on the Mini C64 :)

Great video i just bought one my self it’s great fun keep up the good work I’m in the uk 🇬🇧

I'm totally surprised at how fun some of those games look. I had no idea!

I never had a C64 myself but I did play it at some friend's houses in the 80s. My favorite C64 games: Turrican 1 & 2, Giana Sisters, Rally Speedway, Pitstop 2, International Soccer, Bubble Bobble, Zack McKracken, Maniac Mansion, Summer Games, Winter Games, Space Taxi, R-Type, ...

Rick Dangerous...now I know where Derek Yu got the idea for Spelunky. LOL

Excellent shows as usual.

Well this just got a whole lot more interesting. Neat!

Okay, I'm tempted to get this. Never grew up with the Commodore, but the updates make me interested.

I'm happy to hear of the improvements. I might want to hold out for a version with a working keyboard only because the key layout on a C64 is... sliiiightly different than a modern keyboard you'd hook into the USB port. Still, I imagine the working keyboard would cause a serious jump in the price point what with having moving mechanical parts...

It's a fun little box. Just for giggles, I hooked up a USB keyboard, opened Commodore Basic, did a 'load "$", 8' and found out that there is an emulated disk available to store programs that you type in while playing around with basic programming.

I finally got my hands on this console, so far i love it!

I loved Quest for Tires!!! Just got my mini today and I cannot wait to relive my childhood.

The thing is, the games on the device where hugely popular in Europe. A lot of them were never released outside of the EU The new firmware even includes a free version of Galencia which was only made last year. It won the Reset64 Magazine game of the year. A really good Galaga clone

Skate or Die, Test Drive, One on One, International Karate, Project Stealth fighter, F15 Strike Eagle, Airborne Ranger, Green Beret, The last Ninja.

i love these classic mini game consoles. i may have to pick one up now that they updated the firmware

F YEAH!!!!!!!! KISS!!!!! You seeing them on the end of the road tour?

I have both the mini and the maxi. Awesome devices!

Thanks for the review.

wow i remember my school in grade 3 having that B.C Caveman game thats a blast from the past i used to love it.

The music of Commando. OH, the music! It is still in my head! SO good!

I grew up with C64. I owe a lot to this system, I learned how to program computers with it at age 12. I ended up going on to being a software engineer, but I learned the foundation of writing code on the C64 early 1980s I love this system. Thanks for the video, it brought back a lot of memories.

The games you mentioned are all my favourites

The new C64 is coming out in December 2019!

Love the shirt man

loved raid over Moscow, beachead,beachead 2,outrun,will hopefully be having a c64 mini off santa this year..☺

Awesome! Looks like they were trying to keep the spirit of the system with this. I wonder, would a powered USB hub work with this so you could have the keyboard, joystick, and flash drive plugged in at one time?

Bard's Tale and those decoder disks...oh the memories. I also remember playing contract with two joystick with one on the floor (with micro-switches) so I could press the button with my toe to jump.

I got one as I was too young or not even born yet when the C64 came out..looks awesome

Love the intro

Metal Jesus awesome KISS alive T-shirt the record was rocking lol

Seeing all the old hackers names is one of the best part of booting your own roms.

Knight Games is an awesome game with some really cool music. Murder on the Mississippi was a really cool game too where you had to find clues, trying to solve a murder that took place on a river boat. I never beat the game and would love to play it again. Caveman ughlympics, Montezumas Revenge, Racing Construction and so many other games I'd love to play again. Oh and Aliens. That game was awesome as well. Flying through those rings was tough but there was some killer music playing on that part.

Oh man! I LOVE The Commodore 64! I had Epyx everything! World Games, Summer Games, Epyx Wrestling, Winter Games, etc! We didn't have reviews and such back then, but you knew if it had the name "Epyx" on it, you were getting something EPIC! This was also back when Electronic Arts actually cared! I spent a bazillion hours on Racing Destruction Set! I'll be getting one of these ASAP!

If you think that is small, check out the ODROID-GO handheld console. It emulates the C64 very well with its recent update and addon keyboard. I have several videos about it. 🙂

As someone in the UK, all of those games look very familiar and a lot are very very awesome.

Great choices for your personal faves! Missed Law of the West and Mini-Putt , both Accolade classics.......

thanks for the review. Really sensed your love mate. Also CREATURES - what a game! thought that might of made your list.

Love it.... thanks Jason