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A fan has ported Portal to the Commodore 64 in an interesting demake. Yes, you read that right. Portal for the C64. The Sega Master System really had no chance in North America, even though Sega had much better success elsewhere. This could easily be written off as a byproduct, or the direct result, of Nintendo’s business practices during this period. It could also be written off as Back in the day Atari had quite the plethora of platforms under their belt. They hold the honor of being one of the few hardware manufacturers that supported both a computer and dedicated consoles at the same time. The line of Atari 8-bit computers are well thought of The Commodore 64 is the gaming computer that just won’t die. It was recently resurrected with the C64 Mini and other than that, fans simply keep making new games for it. I am fine with that though. I grew up with the C64 being one of my earliest computer experiences, I cover a lot of unofficial, okay they are illegal at their core, ports of popular games to other platforms the owners never supported. Sometimes though, I get a chance to cover an official port, as is the case with Fa*ming Simulator for the Commodore 64. For those that do December 9th, 2018 Carl Williams Before you get too excited, this is not an official, nor endorsed, that demake for the original Atari console, this port to the Commodore 64 has had some major changes made in order for it to work on the lower powered hardware. The core components are here though and that is what matters. The Sega Master System really had no chance in North America, even though Sega had much better success elsewhere. This could easily be written off as a byproduct, or the direct result, of Nintendo’s business practices during this period. It could also be written off as part of Sega not really understanding the home console market, and selling to consumers in general. No matter how you look at it, the Sega Master System was not as big a success as Sega hoped in the USA. Fans are fans and often they are life long ones. As the system has