A nice article but obviously written by an American over in Britain and to a lesser extent Europe the C64 found its self locked in a battle for the 8 bit market that would lead to the most hotly contested playground debate of the nineteen eighties, which was better the C64 or the
ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum was a phenomenon it kick started the home coding scene and many people credit it with establishing the British computer game industry.
The Debate over which was better may have been hotly contested but it was in reality irrelevant because both were inferior to a late challenger the
Amstrad CPC 464, which was able to produce the vibrant colour of the C64 and the finer resolution of the spectrum as well as good sound.