While Commodore blazed a computing trail in the seventies and eighties, its star waned as PCs took over and the rest, they say, is history. But in the last year, the brand has made a comeback, and unlike Rocky, it looks fighting fit.

The new Commodore G PC sports an Intel Quad Core chip, 2GB of Ram and an NVidia GeForce 8800 graphics card as standard.

"Play.com is a leading light in the PC gaming market and we believe they have the right audience focus to match the product positioning," merrily chirped Bala Keilman, chief executive of Commodore Gaming. "The Commodore G is a fantastic rig and offers unbeatable gaming capabilities at a sub £1000 price. In its basic specification it will happily play the latest games as well as eat any other PC application for breakfast."

The box comes with over 100 unique designs to cover the case and gets bundles with 50 classic Commodore games and a five PC games; Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Heroes 5 Might of Man, Heroes 5 Expansion Pack (Hammers of Faith), Rayman Raving Rabbids and Supreme Commander. The box will set you back a bit at £999 (but you can always tell yourself it is a thing of beauty!)

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