I remember wanting an Atari 400/800 back then (probably for Pac-Man) but my family got a C64 instead. At school they had Apple II's and some TI99-4a's, both of which I did some BASIC programming on. I got a lot of use out of the Commodore. Besides games I did word processing, graphics with OCP art studio (and the Bill Budge pinball construction set oddly enough), animation with Movie Maker, and some game programming in BASIC and Gary Kitchen's Gamemaker. Tried out GEOS for a brief period too. When I got my first Amiga 500 around the end of 1988, the C64 stopped working soon afterward, which I attributed to jealousy.
