Commodore · 1990–? · About 2,000 (of roughly 20,000 produced)
Commodore removed the keyboard from the C64 and sold it as a £99 cartridge console in Europe in 1990. Most C64 cartridges needed a keyboard, so most of them did not work. It sold about 2,000 units.
The C64GS launched in Europe in December 1990 at £99. It was essentially a Commodore 64 with no keyboard, packaged as a cartridge-only games console — no tape or disk drive — in an attempt to sell the computer's vast games library into a market now dominated by Nintendo and Sega. It came with a four-game cartridge: Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun, International Soccer, Flimbo's Quest and Klax. The plan foundered on the computer's own software. Much of the C64's cartridge library was technically compatible, but most games required keyboard input at some point — to start a game, select options or enter commands — and were unusable on a machine without keys. Few publishers committed to the new format. Ocean Software was the most supportive, releasing several cartridges, but Commodore itself never published a single game for the system beyond the bundled pack. By 1990 the hardware was also eight years old, and it was competing with consoles built for the job. Of roughly 20,000 units produced, only about 2,000 were sold. Commodore eventually folded the leftover stock into a bundle with the Commodore 64C computer before discontinuing it.