https://geekyschmidt.com/tags/commodore64/Recent content in Commodore64 onhttps://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-07-12-marioc64/Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-07-12-marioc64/<p>When I was a kid in Sicily, my mom and I would bike across the flight line at Comiso AB so I could play Frogger on a Commodore 64 at the BX.</p> <figure> <img loading="lazy" src="https://geekyschmidt.com/assets/images/mario1.jpg" alt="Comiso flight line" width="60%"/> </figure> <p>That C64 became the genesis of everything for me: games, programming, running a school newspaper, and eventually discovering BBSes.</p> <figure> <img loading="lazy" src="https://geekyschmidt.com/assets/images/mario2.jpg" alt="C64 unboxing" width="60%"/> </figure> <p>But there was one thing I wanted desperately and could never have.</p> <p>Mario.</p> <p>Yes, the original Mario Bros. (the one with the pipes and turtles) did exist on the C64. I knew that. But that wasn&rsquo;t what I wanted. I wanted Super Mario Bros. The NES version. The one scrolling across the TV in every commercial, every magazine, and every other kid&rsquo;s living room.</p>