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"Remembering the BBC Micro"

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Not sure why I'm posting this because I dont think any of you remember it. :( Over 30? I'm only 27 and my dad got us one of these, though it was probably for himself. I remember this one disk with a naked lady on it :O

Lots of great games, my first computer, good times.

pete_21 wrote:
> My mate had a game where you were a caveman armed with a yoyo
> !.Can't remember what it was called,It was ground breaking at the
> time.

That was Frak. There was a sample every time you died that said "oh, Frak!"

We used to have them at secondary School in the library. Being a self confessed geek I got a job at lunchtimes in the library so that I could get on the machines. A bunch of us ended up looking after them for the school.

I guess I'm showing my age now!

My mate had a game where you were a caveman armed with a yoyo !.Can't remember what it was called,It was ground breaking at the time.I had a Spectrum with a brick lodged in the back of it to give me an extra 32K (That amount of power was just plain crazy back in 1983 !!!)!.If it moved about .0000000000001mm the games used to crash and come up with an out of memory message.At least it worked occasionally,Unlike my Xbox 360 which is only now only useful as a mobile disco with its pulsating red lights flashing away in the corner of my front room !!.

Chuckie Egg was a great game. I 'upgraded' from a BBC to an Amstrad PCW8256...killer machine!




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I have a vague memory of their being a horse racing game/simulator on it. It caused a riot because you had 10 people crowding round the same machine shouting at it.

Remembered the word processor chip - the program was called EdWord - or at least something like that.

I can remember a few of these from being at my primary school as late as the mid-90s... to be quite honest, I didn't think much of them, compared to the P120 I had at home (Despite the fact it had games my dad acquired some years before installed on it!)

I bought a BBC Micro model B (with my own money!) way back in time and it was bloody brilliant. We had a room full of them at school so I was well up on BBC Basic and even wrote my own game, just a simple pontoon game.

I had a few games and two of my all time favourites were on the BBC: Citadel and Imogen. Other greats I remember were the Repton series, Zalaga, Galactica, Elite (of course), Exile and the frustratingly brilliant Thrust

I've collected a few links to related sites over the years and you can find them on my del.icio.us account.

Heh, Dare Devil Denis was great. :)

Dragonlance wrote:
> Here is a site that may help your request, I can remember very
> little at the moment, except that we all had a great time trying
> to program and play 'these' games:
>
> bbcmicrogames
>
> Some of the games you mention aren't listed but I do vaguely
> remember the one's you mention and I'll try to remember

Not related to above but when we updated to RM Windowbox, we worked hard to install and play 'Captain Keen', one hell of a game then and another 'Tank...something' - can't remember!

Here is a site that may help your request, I can remember very little at the moment, except that we all had a great time trying to program and play 'these' games:

bbcmicrogames

Some of the games you mention aren't listed but I do vaguely remember the one's you mention and I'll try to remember