The Nerd
Commodore, once the most popular name in the home computer industry. Throughout the '80s, it held its own against industry giants and etched its place in video game history, with the VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Amiga line of computers. Though, sadly, as time went on, it went from competing with the likes of Apple and IBM... to just becoming... BM. After the video game crash of the '80s, companies emerged, like Nintendo and Sega, to pick up the pieces and resurrect the dying industry. Commodore would try to hang in there, but it ended up crumbling like week-old cat barf on a carpet. So, what went wrong? How could a company that once ruled the home computer industry be reduced to a small footnote in video game history? You wanna know the answer? [picks up the Amiga CD32] The Amiga CD32. Yeah. This thing was the straw that broke the camel's back, the shit-caked baby wipe that ruptured the septic tank. After declining sales in the late '80s and early '90s, Commodore decided to take a stab at console production. The CD32 was released in Europe and Canada in September of '93 and slated to release in the US, early the next year. But, guess what? It never happened. Commodore wasn't allowed to release it in the US, until they paid 10 million dollars in back-owed patent royalties. On top of that, the system was discontinued only eight months after being released, bankrupting the company. This console is such a joke that it ruined one of the biggest computer companies of all time in less than a year! Even if it did come out in the US, the original retail price for this monstrosity was 400 dollars, and that's in '93! Nowadays, with inflation, ballpark estimate, that equals almost 700 dollars! You could buy two PlayStation 4s for that price! What were they thinking?! Who in their right mind would buy this, when you could get a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis for less than half the price? And, because I'm the Nerd, I'm gonna have to check out a stack of these games.