I have a working C64 setup that was bought around 1990. At that time the Last Ninja series was still fairly new, and you could buy Commodore 64 games in the shop!
Later on after years of struggling with tape, I got hold of a 1541 disk drive. This was around 1993 when the C64 magazines were becoming embarrasingly thin...
From about 1997 onwards, I have been using C64 emulators to satisfy my C64 addiction, but I do dig my old C64 out from time to time...