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Push to Talk is a weekly newsletter about the business of making and marketing video games, written by games industry veteran and marketing director Ryan Rigney. Subscribe here<\/a> for eclectic and spicy interviews and essays in your inbox every Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There is a mystery at the heart of Too Much Fun<\/em><\/a>, the new book about the history of the Commodore 64 by the Danish academic and game designer Jesper Juul:<\/p>\n

Why is the C64\u2014by far the best-selling home computer of the 80s\u2014so often forgotten in video game histories?<\/p>\n

Some might ask this question as an idle complaint. Why do no C64 games ever show up on \u201cBest games of all time\u201d lists?<\/em> But in his book, Jesper Juul takes the question more seriously by embracing the academic tradition of media archaeology<\/a> to dig through the history of video games and prove that\u2014no, actually, historians and writers are bizarrely blind to the impact that the C64 had on games.<\/p>\n

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In example after example, Juul shares examples of books that gloss over the C64 to rush forward with a shortened history of games. It begins with a concise, clean pre-history\u2014pinball machines leading to arcade machines leading to Magnavox and Atari\u2014which all came crashing down in 1983. Then, the story goes, Nintendo revived the industry with the NES and began the games console era.<\/p>\n

The problem with this version of games history, Juul argues, is that it overemphasizes the \u201cgames crash\u201d and erases important connecting links in the chain.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a researcher or journalist, it is always easier to repeat a well-known story when you want to set the background,\u201d Juul told me in an email. \u201cIn the US, that became the story of \u2018the crash\u2019 in 1983, which was almost US-only, and also ignored the home computer scene in North America. Remember that Electronic Arts and Activision were making Commodore 64 games during the 1980s!\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this, early video games history has often been reduced to a shorthand: \u201cThe crash, and then came Nintendo,\u201d Juul says. \u201cThat\u2019s just life for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

But dig into the reality of the C64, and what you\u2019ll find is an astonishing library of games, enjoyed by the over 12 million owners of the C64. <\/p>\n

Because of how rampant piracy was on the C64, it\u2019s not feasible to determine from sales charts alone what games were most popular among C64 owners. However, Juul offers us a workaround, thanks to the UK magazine ZZap!64<\/em> which surveyed its readers monthly about their top five games.<\/p>\n

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By digging through the Zzap!64 <\/em>archives, Juul was able to reconstruct a sort of Billboard Hot 100 style chart showing games that spent the most months on Zzap!64\u2019s <\/em>GAMES TOP 30 chart.<\/p>\n

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Many of the expected classics are here (Gauntlet<\/em>, Bubble Bobble<\/em>, Bionic Commando<\/em>, Ghouls \u2018N\u2019 Ghosts<\/em>, Golden Axe<\/em>, Smash TV<\/em>), but there are conspicuously missing ones as well. SimCity<\/em> originally appeared on the C64, after all, but is absent from the chart. And where\u2019s its predecessor, Raid on Bungeling Bay<\/em>, the first game Will Wright ever published?<\/p>\n

The answer to this is in part explained by the surprising revelation that the C64 had the most<\/em> published games of any platform prior to MS-DOS in the 90s. Over 5,000 games were released on the C64 over the course of its 12-year lifespan, a phenomenon that Juul has again painstakingly quantified in his book:<\/p>\n

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Juul reports having played hundreds of C64 games in his reporting for the book, so I asked him for his recommendations for anyone new to the platform:<\/p>\n

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PUSH TO TALK: If you had to pick 5 truly “must play” or “iconic” games from C64 library, what would they be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

JESPER JUUL: Very hard question! I would say:<\/p>\n

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  1. Boulder Dash<\/em>, a wonderful early physics-based puzzle game, “positively Newtonian” according to a review.<\/li>\n
  2. Paradroid<\/em>, a prolonged “take over the other robots” game, of unclear genre, as was often the case.<\/li>\n
  3. Impossible Mission<\/em>, a rogue-like (!) platformer with the famous “another visitor” sample.<\/li>\n
  4. Last Ninja<\/em>, an advanced action-adventure.<\/li>\n
  5. Turrican<\/em>, a later scrolling platform\/shooter with a great soundtrack.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I can also recommend trying some of the truly weird games like Hover Bovver (<\/em>mowing the lawn), Bozo’s Night Out<\/em> (getting drunk), or Little Computer People<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    Enter the Imaginaries<\/h2>\n

    From the description I\u2019ve given of Too Much Fun<\/em> thus far, you might get the impression that it\u2019s a simple revisiting of the C64 in the time of its heyday\u2014but it\u2019s actually a much stranger book than that.<\/p>\n

    The animating idea that structures the book is the concept of imaginaries<\/em>, an idea taken from media archaeology which basically argues that real technologies are constantly influenced by fictional conceptions of how technology might work.<\/p>\n

    From Juul\u2019s book:<\/p>\n

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    Wearing a VR headset today, we may imagine ourselves part of a future where we spend most of our time in virtual spaces, but we then often remove the headset after ten minutes. Imaginaries often set up expectations that exceed what a machine can do, but the actual and the imaginary work closely together, and \u201cthe transition between imaginary and actual media machines . . . can be almost seamless.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n

    In this book, I take imaginary to mean any imagined concept of a technology\u2019s function, role, or meaning. Imaginaries also shape our interaction with a computer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I\u2019m very enamored with this idea, and the VR example Juul uses is perfect. So much of the VR\/AR industry has been chasing that imaginary vision put forth in Ready Player One<\/em> for the past decade.<\/p>\n

    \u201cImaginaries are obviously extremely present in games,\u201d Juul told me. \u201cYou can see this in hardware, like with the Xbox One and the Kinect, which imagined the Xbox to be the home entertainment centerpiece for watching television and switching channels with voice and gestures, perhaps in turn inspired by Minority Report<\/em>? It made business sense, but nobody seemed to want it, so that imagined future did not come to pass.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The meat of Too Much Fun <\/em>takes this idea and runs with it, examining the imaginaries that have influenced the world\u2019s view of the Commodore 64 over its history.<\/p>\n

    Using the framework of evolving imaginaries impacting the public\u2019s conception of the C64, Juul breaks down the C64\u2019s history into five eras:<\/p>\n

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    1. As an early BASIC computer to be used for mundane family activities and tasks<\/li>\n
    2. Then as an in-home arcade machine<\/li>\n
    3. Then as a tool to be broken apart and hacked<\/li>\n
    4. Then as an aging, outdated piece of hardware that could nonetheless be pushed to compete with newer machines<\/li>\n
    5. And finally as \u201ca historical machine, whose quirks and limitations no longer represent cutting-edge technology,\u201d but which nonetheless has \u201ca historical style we can use or emulate at will.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Each chapter is interesting in its own right, though chapter three, about the ways hackers found ways to do unintended things with the C64, is the most entertaining. Juul\u2019s own involvement in the Danish \u201cdemoparty\u201d scene is catalogued, including with some hilarious on-the-scene photography:<\/p>\n

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      Though Too Much Fun <\/em>is technical and reverent in parts, Juul is also doing original historical reporting, playing and discussing a bunch of games, and sharing photos of wild Danish hacker parties. And in between all that, he keeps surprising you with original bits of data journalism.<\/p>\n

      To sum up this \u201creview\u201d in a phrase: I highly recommend Too Much Fun<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s both a needed corrective to other history books, and a book in a category all its own.<\/p>\n

      But before I go, there\u2019s one other thing I have to share about it, because I went down a rabbit hole following up on very weird story that Juul mentions in the book.<\/p>\n

      Nintendo, Commodore, and\u2026 the Mob?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

      One of the more shocking passages in Too Much Fun<\/em> comes early on in the book, when Juul casually references a number of business deals that almost<\/em> came to fruition during the Commodore era.<\/p>\n

      I\u2019ll just quote the book here:<\/p>\n

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      The history of Commodore also includes momentous decision points that could have made history wholly different. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak tried to sell their Apple II computer to Commodore for \u201ca few hundred thousand dollars\u201d only to be turned down. Commodore also rejected the offer to distribute VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet. It seemed logical that Commodore would license Nintendo\u2019s games, given Commodore\u2019s Japanese connections, and given that many early VIC- 20 games had been developed by Japanese HAL Laboratory, including by later Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata. However, in 1982 product manager Michael Tomczyk negotiated such a deal with Nintendo, only to have Tramiel renege on the agreement at the last minute with no explanation. Tomczyk has explained his frustration with Tramiel\u2019s decision, and attributes it to Tramiel not wanting to \u201cinsult or offend Bally,\u201d the then-criminal reputation of which Tomczyk confirms, \u201cSome people claim that there were some tough characters running Bally\/Midway, and I can verify that.\u201d Nintendo made deals with Atari and Coleco instead. It is easy to second-guess such decisions, of course, but we cannot know how the alternative histories would have played out.<\/p>\n

      \u2014Jesper Juul, Too Much Fun, page 16 (MIT Press review copy)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      I read this and was like\u2026 hold on. Did this guy Tomczyk just strongly imply that Commodore backed out of a deal with Nintendo (probably forever changing video game industry history) because Commodore CEO Jack Tramiel was afraid of the mob?<\/em> This is the kind of thing an entire book could be written about.<\/p>\n

      For decades, journalists have reported on connections between the Genovese crime family and Bally\/Midway<\/a> (which owned the US distribution rights to Space Invaders <\/em>and Pac-Man<\/em>). This would have been known to Tramiel, who had struck a deal with Bally\/Midway to distribute their games. So it\u2019s not outrageous to think that Tramiel would have been hesitant to do anything that would earn the ire of Bally\/Midway and its backers.<\/p>\n

      Tramiel\u2014a holocaust survivor who became a business legend\u2014passed away in 2012, but Michael Tomczyk (now age 76) is still active in tech. I reached out to Tomczyk and we connected over the phone.<\/p>\n

      Tomczyk told me that he was present when the Commodore team originally struck a deal with Bally\/Midway. He says that the deal was for licensing rights to all Bally\/Midway games except Pac-Man<\/em> (which was licensed to Atari).<\/p>\n

      \u201cMy role was to present the VIC-2022<\/sup> and show how it would run the games, and then I sat in on the negotiations,\u201d Tomczyk says. He describes what followed as a very quick meeting. \u201cIn fact, there was never a contract. It was a letter agreement. Jack told me as we walked out of the meeting, \u2018That\u2019s the fastest, biggest business deal I\u2019ve ever done.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

      Tomczyk says that the lack of a formal contract wasn\u2019t considered to be an issue. \u201cSome people say that Bally\/Midway was linked to organized crime in some way, but I have no comment on that,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the people there were\u2026 they didn\u2019t worry about contracts. They knew they could enforce it.\u201d<\/p>\n

      Shortly after, Tomczyk says he tried to negotiate a similar deal with Nintendo. His story, as he told it to me:<\/p>\n

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      “What happened is, I negotiated this deal to buy Donkey Kong<\/em> and all the Nintendo games and put them on Commodore computers. I cleared it with Jack in advance, and I actually did the contract. I invited the Nintendo VP [NOTE: unfortunately, he doesn\u2019t recall the name of the VP] to come to Commodore in California to sign the contract.<\/p>\n

      “He came, he reviewed the contract, and he signed the contract. I then took it into Jack\u2019s office to sign, and Jack looked at me with a straight face and said \u2018I\u2019m sorry Michael, I changed my mind.\u2019 I said \u2018excuse me?\u2019 and he said \u2018I changed my mind. I don\u2019t want to do the deal with Nintendo.\u2019”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      Tomczyk says he believes that Tramiel backed out of the deal because he didn\u2019t want to insult Bally. Jack was definitely not afraid of the mob, he says. \u201cHe was absolutely fearless. Bally was the first arcade game company to license games to Commodore and it would have been bad form to do a deal with their competitor (Nintendo). That was the basis of Jack’s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

      But at the time, the decision was tough to accept:<\/p>\n

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      \u201cI said \u2018You know how much face I\u2019m gonna lose in Japan? I negotiated this in good faith and he\u2019s sitting in the next room!\u2019 Jack said \u2018I\u2019m sorry, you\u2019re gonna have to go tell him the deal is off.\u2019 So I had to go back with my tail between my legs to the Nintendo Vice President and tell him that Jack had decided to back out of the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      How did the VP react? I asked.<\/p>\n

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      \u201cI told him what had happened and I apologized. He was very cool. He\u2019s Japanese! He was cool, calm, collected, and very mature about it. He accepted it. We didn\u2019t talk very much after, and he left.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      The Nintendo Famicom launched a year later. Its CPU was a modified version of the same MOS Technology 6502 chip<\/a> used in Commodore\u2019s VIC-20.Sometimes history seems predetermined. And sometimes you can see<\/em> where it forked. <\/p>\n

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      1. Here Juul is quoting Eric Kluitenberg\u2019s book \u201cOn the Archaeology of Imaginary Media.\u201d<\/li>\n
      2. The VIC-20<\/a> was the predecessor machine to the Commodore 64, and a forgotten icon of video game history in its own right. It was the first home computer to sell over a million units worldwide. Michael Tomczyk, quoted above in this story, led marketing for it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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