After resurrecting an iconic PC brand, Commodore is getting into flip phones

June 16, 2026 David Pierce

An overhead photo of a flip phone on a desk.
It won’t be for everyone, but there’s something delightful about the retro look. | Photo: Commodore

When Christian Simpson, a retro gaming YouTuber also known as Peri Fractic, bought the remains of an early PC company called Commodore in 2025, he decided to pick up right where the original Commodore left off. Which meant starting product development in the mid-1990s. Simpson and his team first set to work reviving the company's most iconic product, and you can now buy a Commodore 64 that is the spitting image of the 1982 original (other than the Wi-Fi connectivity, the USB ports, and a few other slightly modern niceties). It's a pure nostalgia play, and by most accounts, a very good one. Commodore says it has sold 30,000 of them since last …

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