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And next, more retro goodness from The Centre for Computing History with an Acorn Atom, playing a bizarre sort-of pinball game which rings a distant bell in my brain, unless I’m confusing it with Video Pinball on the Atari 2600.
Then there’s the Acorn Electron playing Pacman clone, Snapper; a BBC Model B playing a flight simulator game; an Amstrad PC1512 showing text adventure, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, which I remember from the ZX Spectrum. The second picture on view was my attempt at playing it at Revival 2014, but I didn’t get the hang of it; an Atari 1040ST (I only had the 520ST) with wonderful shoot-em-up, Xenon; plus a machine I hadn’t come across before, a CGL Sord M5 Home Computer, showing Dragon Attack.
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