Before Pokémon, We Had Mail Order Monsters!

By Floppy Deep Dive | Jun 19, 2026
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Real Commodore 64. Real 1541 disk drive. Real 1702 CRT. Real 5.25" floppy.


This is Mail Order Monsters from Electronic Arts, running on original C64 hardware. Long before Pokémon, this game let you build a monster, buy upgrades, add weapons, and send it into battle.


Turn the volume up for the disk drive clicks, CRT hum, SID music, and joystick chaos.


What monster build would you pick?


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👇 ABOUT FLOPPY DEEP DIVE 👇


Hey, it’s Tom from Texas. I run the machines we grew up with.


No emulators. No shortcuts. Just real hardware powered on the way it was meant to be. The click of keyboards, the whir of floppy drives, and the glow of a CRT hitting you right in the nostalgia.


If you remember swapping disks, waiting for games to load, or hearing a startup sound that instantly took you somewhere else… you’re in the right place.


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Real hardware. Real memories.


BOOM. 💥