Commodore 77 Looks to be Straight from the World of Cyberpunk 2077

A weathered yellow breadbox just walked out of Gamescom looking like it survived a Watson shootout, and CD Projekt Red put its name on the badge. Commodore announced the Commodore 77 today, as the first special edition of its Commodore 64 Ultimate and the first franchise hardware partnership in the company’s 68-year history. Preorders opened at $377, and boxes are scheduled to ship in early 2027, a clean 50 years before the calendar on V’s phone.

This system does not run Cyberpunk 2077 because no one packed a full-fledged Nite City open world into the 8-bit innards of the Commodore 64. What Commodore and CD Projekt Red actually created is a modern, functional C64 dressed up to look like a strange little piece of inworld hardware, a scuffed, marked, glowing thing with a one-off demo that only this model receives. After some time with it, you can still see the silhouette of the original 1982 Commodore 64: the large slab, the brown-and-black keyboard, and the cartridge slot on the side. Almost everything else above the silhouette has been rewritten.

AK Studio hand painted the shell in a dirty yellow that resembles a street vendor’s booth rather than a living room PC. Graffiti markings crawl up one corner, and there are strange wear marks that suggest someone dragged this item across Pacifica and left it on a rooftop. The function key is made of real brushed metal, not a printed finish. Four yellow keys, each with the markings X9, REBOOTS, and a caution triangle. Other keys on the main deck have new legends: Daemon, Execute, Purge Origin, Inject Wipe, and Alter. The previous 64 mark was replaced with a Commodore 77 badge, SEOCHO is at the bottom left, and GEN 2 is hidden in the corner. There is a Cyberpunk word mark engraved into the metal plate itself.

The base of the machine is a smoked gray translucent plastic that displays the LEDs and lights up during the demo, sending colors flying through the plastic in turquoise and orange. A unique power lighting replaces the standard power light on top. Even when the demo is turned off, the gadget emits a gentle azure glow from the seams. Commodore 64 Ultimate machines already rebuild the C64 on an FPGA chip instead of simulating it with software. Standard units use an AMD Xilinx Artix-7 XC7A50T, but the Commodore 77 upgrades to an Artix-7 XC7A100T, which has about double the logic, double the block RAM, and loads more IO. The official line is that chip allows the computer to function at 77 Mhz, which is a significant increase over the original 1 Mhz.

77 megahertz would make a handwritten simple loop appear blurry, but you can disable the speed in the options if you want. It is as compatible as the rest of the Ultimate line, with 99.9 percent or higher across thousands of older Commodore 64 games and accessories, including all cartridges and disk drives. The current chassis still contains HDMI, USB, WiFi, and Ethernet. If you have an old CRT in the garage, you can still use it because analog video still outputs through the old din jack. Every Commodore 77 comes with a cartridge that looks like a Cyberpunk 2077 datashard and is labeled for Arasaka; inside is a 2MB chip with a demo created by Aris, a Polish outfit that develops C64 demos.
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