Commodore's Factory's Back! Then v Now! #retro #retrogaming #commodore

You won't believe where I am. Recognize this? What about now? Yes, I'm here in sunny and exotic Corby in England. And the footage I'm about to show you took place the other side of this wall 40 years ago. It was built back in the 80s by Commodore UK as our UK assembly plant. And would you believe it's still standing today and being used by logistics company Advanced Supply Chain. Now, as president and CEO and chief joystick waggler of Commodore, it's been important to me to inject as much of the original Commodore DNA into everything we're doing today as possible. And that means that I get to choose them to help us distribute our brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate this Christmas. Let's go inside, shall we? See if anything's changed. And after entering the lobby where that gentleman stood, the first thing I wanted to find was the scene of this incredible footage of expansive racks of Commodore computers all stacked up with that distinctive logo there on the left. But of course, there's no chance it would still be here. Only it was uh blown away. Blown just blown away. And the next thing to blow me away was this guy who came around the corner who had this to say. — I was at school when it opened. It was a school outing. — A school outing. Amazing. That's so cool. — And all the benches were all set up and they were doing that. — Yeah. So, where exactly were those benches set up? Can we find that cream colored wall that we see in the background with that distinctive horizontal post running along it? Well, yes. Yes, we can. We can find that, too. Happy Christmas. Which means I think this is going to be the perfect place to store our Commodore 64 Ultimate pallets ready to go out to you from this Commodore warehouse. Once again, amazing. And I've done some sneaking around and found some signs of the original Commodore still here today. And unlike the Commodore 64 power supply, which was notorious for failing, unlike our new one, this power supply in here, Commodore is still powering the building today. Merry Christmas, everyone. If you want to know whether your package came from Corby's warehouse, it has a ship date of 16th of December and goes by FedEx. Yes, it is. Lyn Gallagher in Manchester. Welcome to your digital oasis. I'll have to do a street view. See if that looks like his house or not. Enrique Olaf, you are the last label. — And with the last package labeled, it's a wrap. No, literally, they got to wrap them for transport to FedEx. But I couldn't resist taking a handful to hand deliver myself. Come with me as we shock the hell out of some people. It is Christmas after all. — Are you John? — I am. — Hi. I'm Perry. — Wow. — Now is the moment. — Oh, wow. — There you go. your very own Commodore 64 Ultimate. I've got a thousand more to do today. So, — are you okay if we use this footage? — That's absolutely fine. — All right, mate. Enjoy. — Now, I couldn't tell for sure if he was happy or not, but returning back to the depot, there was one more surprise. I realized you could see the repair holes from where they'd removed the logo. Maybe it's the sign. Maybe we should put the sign back up. But even have seen all