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ewx

Centre for Computing History

Jan 17, 2016 22:41

We visited the Centre for Computing History in October. Although a bit haphazard in places there's a lot to look at and much of it was familiar.

naath playing Atic Atac. You run around a castle collecting keys (to get through doors) and the fragments of a quest object. I spent a lot of time playing this; I remember one of my brother and I finishing ( Read more... )

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gerald_duck January 18 2016, 01:31:04 UTC

Uh… Chuckie Egg on a RiscPC? That'll be a Beeb emulator, then!

atreic January 18 2016, 06:50:13 UTC

That is a Big Trak. They are originally from the 70s, but they relaunched them in 2010 - my nephew got one for Christmas.

ewx January 18 2016, 08:57:29 UTC

That sounds familiar! I think I remember it mostly from pictures in the toy section of a catalog, but I'm not sure.

emperor January 18 2016, 08:08:19 UTC

Not remote control at all - you program it, and then let it go :)

jane_somebody January 30 2016, 23:00:47 UTC

Big Trak! My brother (stereotypically) had one :-) I remember Atic Atac too. Hmm, I foresee a trip to Cambridge to take my mini-geeks here coming on :-) We do get Skordh's old BBC Micro out on occasion for them to try old-skool gaming, but my memories are more Speccy (and TI 994A) so it would be nice to show them more variety.