Commodore +4
I too wanted a Commodore 64 and ended up with one of these dog turds of computers. They have 64k of memory the salesman eagerly gushed to my Dad who had the same amount of computer savvy as Genghis Khan had of whale juggling in the outer Hebrides so that obviously meant they were the same computer. They were certainly around the same price.
I remember some of the games fondly such as icicle works and treasure Island and it DID play C16 games which were... well crap (mission mars was a particular none highlight).
Being vaguely aware as a little pieman that my computer was really not all that awesome compared to its better brother or even a ZX Spectrum i committed the cardinal sin of persuading a couple of friends to purchase one to share games along with the misery. This as you can imagine went down particularly badly when they discovered the awful truth.
Mine ended up gathering dust when the dedicated Commodore cassette player packed up
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 16:06, 3 replies)

My very first computer
was a Commodore 16. Christmas 1985. I fucking LOVED it! Punchy, Big Mac, Trailblazer, Mr Puniverse, Kickstart. These games and others set me on the path to geek-dom and I loved them for it.

That is til I got a Commodore 64 which was the happiest day of MY LIFE (sorry, Wife) and the C-16 got unceremoniously dumped. Ah, the fickleness of youth.
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 22:30, closed)

oh dear
You have reminded me of more good games. Trailblazer was good if insanely difficult. The Wipeout of its time (no not the one with the floppy haired crash dummy presenting) with music that i can still remember. I did have Mr Puniverse and wasn't overly enamoured. Ace wasnt bad if a little hard and kikstart was fun if annoying
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Tue 4 Oct 2011, 10:17, closed)

But didn't you get it for the in-built software?
I had a range of Commodore products (the VIC 20 when i first came out, then C64 and +4, along with the floppy drive, plotter and dot-matrix printer).
The +4 was was, as you say, a turd. Theoretically better than a C64, but somehow managed to be so much worse.
Even having dedicated cursor keys seemed like a pain at the time.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Tue 4 Oct 2011, 7:52, closed)