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RE: International Soccer (Commodore 64)
This, like a lot of C64 games, were a lot better than the console alternatives at the time. Although I never played this one, if i had access to it back in the day i'm quite certain i would have enjoyed it.
Yeah, when the Commodore 64 first came out, there was no console that even compared. A couple years later, the NES was available but I found that I always seemed to enjoy the games on the C64 more, including the ones available on both systems in most cases. Ultimately, the NES was technically superior but only because they were later able to upgrade the hardware via the games themselves.
I like the RPG aspects of the C64 and at the time we didn't have anything like those games. I don't remember how much it cost at the time but i am sure it wasn't cheap. Do you remember?
I liked RPGs like Dragon Quest on the NES but I agree that what the Commodore 64 had was so much better. I was a huge fan of the Gold Box D&D games but there were tons of others including the Ultima and Wizardry series.
The Commodore 64 was pretty expensive when it first came out (but cheap as computers went at the time). Something like $600 in 1982. But the price dropped quickly and by the time the NES came around I think it was around $200 plus another $200 for a disk drive give or take. I got mine pretty late, around 1987 I think, and by then it was down to something like $150 each.