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Fair comment; I was regularly hacking games, programming, and playing on the Spectrum as were most of my friends. Nobody I knew had a BBC - they were a "school
by stevekemp 6y ago
Fair comment; I was regularly hacking games, programming, and playing on the Spectrum as were most of my friends.
Nobody I knew had a BBC - they were a "school computer", not a "fun computer". Though the games still stuck in my memory, "Granny's Garden" and some kind of economy game (where you raised taxes, and did similar things. You had to get elected again and keep your population happy. I wish I knew what that was called.)
- crumbshot 6y ago> some kind of economy game (where you raised taxes, and did similar things. You had to get elected again and keep your population happy. I wish I knew what that was called.) Yellow River Kingdom?
- stevekemp 6y agoThanks for the suggestion, from the video it doesn't match my memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE1NVaUs8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE1NVaUs8s I remember text-only, and being shown unemployment-rates, and similar. I think it was based on UK political parties, but my memory is so vague I can't remember any significant details.
- crumbshot 6y agoCould it be Great Britain Ltd? https://youtu.be/vnojOGjz578 https://youtu.be/vnojOGjz578
- stevekemp 6y agoDefinitely! Thank you so much, that game has been lurking at the back of my mind for the better part of 30 years!
- UncleSlacky 6y agoYou can play it here: http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=1537 http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=1537
- someperson 6y agoAlmost certainly SimCity: https://www.mobygames.com/game/bbc-micro_/simcity https://www.mobygames.com/game/bbc-micro_/simcity
- stevekemp 6y agoI hadn't realized that was available for the BBC! One of the later replies successfully identified it as "Great Britain Ltd".