Hello from Wisconsin

[URS_Retro]

Was not much into computers or games that much in the late 70s and early 80s. My family did have a 2600, and I liked playing Adventure and Raiders of the Lost Ark. It wasn't until 1985 when I went to a cousin's house and saw his C64 that I started to get interested. I think the first game I played was Beachhead or Bruce Lee. A few months later a next door neighbor kid showed him his C64, and a bootleg of Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown, and that hooked me, big time.

At the time my family had a TRS-80 Color II or III, I don't recall which, as I never took an interest in it. But I knew I wanted the TRS-80 gone and a C64 in its place. . . so the scheming began in earnest to convince my parent's the family needed a Commodore. It took a year, but by Christmas 1986 there were some large boxes under the tree and I was certain In knew what they were.

I was worried when Christmas morning I opened up a C128 and 1571 disk drive... I wasn't sure I would be able to run all the games that my cousin and friend had on their C64s! And I had actually purchased Gunship and was worried I wouldn't be able to play it! I quickly learned I would be able to, of course (go 64).

Anyway, over the next few years, my cousin and a few other friends formed a small Commodore gamer group called Upstairs Room Software; because we all had our Commodores in our bedrooms, and all our bedrooms were on the second floor of our homes. Eventually we all got Amiga 500s, and eventually we messed up and sold them all for PCs.

Long story short I am still friends with all those guys (except one)... though I am the only one who is a hard into nostalgia of my Commodore years. The one buddy I am not currently friends with is due to the fact that I lost contact with him in the mid 90s, and have not been able to get in touch. He was called "The Rook" in our little group, and was in many ways the backbone of things back in the day.

No school like the old school... retro Rules.

Tim

[coolDude]

Welcome!

I like the story and your group name "Upstairs Room Software". Sounds like you all had a lot of fun.

I'm from Wisconsin too. There used to be a Commodore Users Group in the Milwaukee area back in the late 80s and early 90s. I only went to an open house in the late 80s.

Retro Rules!