While you could buy software for the VIC-20 (like the racecar game), a major way that people acquired software in those days was through computer code published in the pages of magazines. My most vivid memories are of the games whose code I typed in myself. Instead of a yellow pie with a mouth, it used racing cars. One of the cassettes we bought was a Pac-Man clone that my brother and I would play. I used to play games on it, with cassette tapes that served as primitive storage devices. Billed by its pitchman, Star Trek’s William Shatner, as the ‘wonder computer of the 1980s’, I have many fond memories of this antiquated machine. My family’s first computer was the Commodore VIC-20.
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