I'm very impressed that you can interface modern technology with an almost 20 year old piece of hardware. For the non techies out there it's a bit like putting a NOS Kit in a Model T Ford.
All this nostalgia for the Amiga then got me thinking about my first ever computer. Sadly it wasn't a Spectrum or a Commodore. Oh no! In my family we had an Acorn Electron! A quick search on eBay informs me that I can pick up this massive pile of shit for £16!
I was tempted to buy it but then I realised that maybe some things are best left as memories. Just looking at this photo makes me angry. That 'Start Programming with the Electron' book was my first ever introduction to coding. I spent weeks copying out code from that book, saving it onto a casette, getting all excited to see how my hard work would finally pay off, and then Boom!
'Syntax Error'.
Oh well, never mind all that. I bet the graphics were good...
What the fuck?!... And this was my favourite game! Actually the only annoying thing about Positron was that the programmer 'Gary Partis', added his own name to the high score table. Fair enough, but he gave himself the ridiculously unbeatable score of 999,999,999! Meaning that despite hours of playing this stupid game I always came second.
Perhaps Mr Partis was trying to teach the 10 year old me a life lesson. Something along the lines of 'Don't bother kid, there's always someone better than you... and in this instance it's me'.
Another fun game my 10 year old brain could never understand.
Actually, more confusing than Business Games was the trippy 'Escape from Moonbase Alpha'.
The aim of the game was to wander from room to room stealing bags of Gold whilst avoiding a series of blatant copyright infringing monsters. There was Marvin the Robot who would bore you to death. The wicked witch of the west who could turn you into a Frog... and a fucking Dalek!
And if it all got a bit too much you could take a Hulk Pill.
I wish Hulk Pills were real. I would so smash Gary Partis.
