![]() The sound chip is still being used by chiptune artists today, and the computer supported S-Video output in 1982, five years before S-Video was ostensibly invented. The original design was for an Arcade Game board, and the C64 therefore had unusually good color graphics, sprite support, and sound compared to its competitors (though its 16-color palette was a bit drab). ![]() The system was remarkably powerful for the price. It was as cheap as the Atari 2600 and is, paradoxically, considered one of the finest personal computing devices ever built while also being partially to blame for The Great Video Game Crash of 1983. It was released in 1982 as a low-end computer comparable to the Apple ][ and the Atari 8-Bit Computers, following on Commodore's earlier VIC-20 system. note There are, obviously, millions more IBM-style Intel-centric PCs made, but they featured a dizzying array of varieties and even self-built systems the C64 was a single, packaged unit like an NES. ![]() The Commodore 64 was, at one point, the best-selling single ( non- Japanese) computer system of all time, with 17 million sold.
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