The Story Of The Commodore 64 In Pixels ======================================= The Story Of The Commodore 64 In Pixels --------------------------------------- The Commodore 64, also known as the C64 or CBM 64 is an American-designed 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International. It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest selling single computer model of all time, with some estimates placing the number sold between 10 million and 17 million units worldwide. Taking its name from the 64 kilobytes of RAM it has internally, the C64 was technologically superior to most of its early competitors, featuring advanced custom sound and graphics chips as standard. Produced for over ten yearrs in various incarnations, the C64 boasts an estimated 10,000 pieces of commercial software written for it, and was the computer which launched the careers of many current games industry veterans.