The Hangout: I didn't need to see Harry Potter's wand.

[Cosmic]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=14ORMf6Sj...elated&search=

Uh...so let me get this straight, you had to load games from the computer, and you played them with a keyboard or a controller or something?

Yeah. You loaded them from either a 5.25" floppy disk or a cassette tape, which was essentially the same as a standard audio cassette. There were cartridges released towards the end of the C64's life but I never had any.

You could either play with the keyboard or a joystick, the latter of which used the same connector as a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis so the controllers are pretty much interchangeable. There was a mouse available too although mine never seemed to work.