Okay, so you can’t technically play Guitar Hero on your old Commodore 64. However, you can play Shredz64 on it. What is Shredz64? Well, basically it’s a stripped down version of Guitar Hero for a twenty-five year old computer.

Shredz64 won’t play the digital music tracks you’re used to, but programmer Toni Westbrook has assembled a track list of synthesized tunes for you to rock out to. Best of all, he even created a go-between to connect the Guitar Hero controller to the Commodore 64 system. How does it look and sound? Surprisingly, it looks like great fun and an excellent example of how pure computing power alone isn’t needed to make fun games.

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Since the announcement of Nintendo’s Virtual Console, gamers have been swamped in nostalgia replaying the classic games from their youth. From Castlevania to Operation Wolf we’re reminded of how much fun we used to have when games were much simpler.

While the games so far have only been console titles, it was recently announced that Commodore Gaming would begin releasing its titles onto the Virtual Console to the delight of retro gamers around the world. The premiere titles appearing on the Virtual Console are Uridium, a sci-fi horizontal shooter, and International Karate. This may satisfy fans of the system for the time being, but the true hope is to see titles like M.U.L.E., Little Computer People (which was a precursor for The Sims) and classics like Zork and its sequels.

No other titles have been announced to date but a sigh of relief has been released around the world with the possibility of more great games to come.

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