Complete BBC Micro Games Archive

Computer Games
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All of my childhood computer games, playable in a web browser:

https://bbcmicro.co.uk/about.php

I ‘lost’ hours to this last night. I did some space trading and defeated some pirates in Elite. I played a few levels of the ever-delightful Imogen. I made it to level 11 of Thrust. I repeatedly disappointed Star Fleet in Starship Command (2022 edition(!!)), and tried out the 2019 (once again, “!!”) port of Stunt Car Racer; along with firing up loads of other classics for a quick nostalgic look, and being generally gobsmacked that there are a lot of new things. 180+ titles dated 2000 of later. You can play Wordle on a BBC Micro, for goodness sakes.

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Is Chucky Egg on there?

And Sphinx Adventure (possibly the worst thing that has ever existed)?

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Play Chuckie Egg.

“There are more than 3000 games on the website” according to the site’s description, so I think it’s a fair bet that anything you remember is there.

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There are two edu-tainment games I remember from my early school days which were probably played on Acorn Archimedes.

One you played as a badger and was a bit Oregon Trail-esque, it normally ended with your badger dieing.

The other was a bit more science focussed and had you making circuits, etc. to solve your way out of problems but it had a story behind it. There was a space station at one point and I have a vague recollection of prominent figures from history. This was all 25+ years ago so there’s a chance a few have blurred together.

I’ve never come across the latter despite a couple of trawls. It’s good that resources like this exist though.

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There was a game called Professor Moriarty on the Archimedes which was a problem solver/ early platformer

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Now I think about it, I’m fairly certain it involved Aztecs, in space.

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Why are they still enforcing copyright on Granny’s Garden?

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Copyright is 90% the cold dead hand of the rentier.

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You mean Inca?

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No, I don’t think so. The graphics were a bit more cartoony and you were collecting things like wire and magnets to solve puzzles.