C=64 Joystick for your TV
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If you just enjoyed a blast from the past, then have I got a new old toy for you. A joystick loaded with 30 Commodore 64 games, ranging from Impossible Mission to Summer Games, that can be played on your TV. A hot seller on QVC, it was designed by Jeri Ellsworth, a high school dropout and self-taught chip designer. She created the device for Mammoth Toys from her Yamhill, Oregon home. There’s an interesting writeup about her in a local paper.
Tom’s hardware did a review of the C-64 DTV that goes even further to detail some fun easter eggs. The article calls it an emulator, which is how most of the all-in-one device are done, but some web writeups claim Jeri’s device is running the software natively. People have figured out how to add a keyboard and 1541 disk drive to the joystick.