VIC-20

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VIC-20
Designer Commodore Business Machines
Manufacturer Commodore Business Machines
CPU NTSC: 1.02 MHz MOS 6502
PAL: 1.108404 MHz MOS 6502
Graphics VIC, 176 × 184, 16 colors
Memory 5 KB RAM (expandable to 32 KB)
20 KB ROM
Media Commodore Datasette
5¼ floppy disk
Released JP: 1980
EU/NA: 1981
Added to Museum Not yet

VIC-20, known in Japan as the VIC-1001, and in Germany as the VC-20, was a computer by Commodore Business Machines.

History

The VIC-20 was the second computer by Commodore Business Machines. It was known as the VC-20 in Germany, because VIC pronounced with a German accent sounded like the German expletives "fick" or "wichsen". It was marketed in that region with the backronym VolksComputer (people's computer).

Legacy of the VIC-20

The legacy of the Commodore 64 remains, even after its heyday. Independent games continue to be produced for the system to this day.

A plug and play video game console based on the Commodore VIC-20, THEVIC20 was produced by Retro Games.

Video games for VIC-20 owned by WEC Museum

Title Developer Notes
Abductor Llamasoft
Andes Attack Llamasoft
Arcadia Imagine Software
Bewitched Imagine Software
Blitzkrieg Llamasoft
Brainstorm Pixel Productions
Catcha Snatcha Imagine Software
Connect Four Keith Pomakis
Encounter John Gibbons
Firelord John Cumming
Frantic Imagine Software
Frog Chase Arctic Computing
Gridrunner Llamasoft
Harvester Pixel Productions
Headbangers Heaven Llamasoft
Hell Gate Llamasoft
Impossible Mission Dan Caswell
Laser Zone Llamasoft
Martians Artic Computing
Matrix Llamasoft
Mega Vault Imagine Software
Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time Llamasoft
Planet of Death Richard Turner, Chris Thornton
Psychedelia Llamasoft
Snake Chuck Sommerville
Starquest Pixel Productions
Subspace Striker Pixel Productions
Tank Battle Arctic Computing
Wacky Waiters Imagine Software
Winter Games Action Graphics
World Games K-Byte
Tank Battle Arctic Computing
Zor Pixel Productions
Zynaps John Cumming