How many of you remember Bug-Byte games?

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Before they made their iconic MTX computer, Memotech dealt in add-ons for Sinclair machines, such as the Memopak memory extension!

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Out of Tonbridge, Kent, comes Bubble Bus Software - the fourth company in our series!

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Automata UK is best known for their exquisite 1984 cult classic Deus Ex Machina!

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Remember "HotShot," released by Addictive Games? There was a poster of the game in the July 1988 issue of Sinclair User! 🙂

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Coming in at No. 2 on this list - but No.1 in my heart! - is Addictive Games.

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Did you play any of Acornsoft's games back in the 80s? Which one was your favourite?

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I'm starting a new series of posts, centered about some of the most notable UK-based game companies of the 1980's 🇬🇧

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Four superb games from Ocean! Did you play all of them?

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Another one of Football Manager's early ads - this one promoting the game's colour graphics and 3D match action in the ZX Spectrum!

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Yet another icon of the eighties - the "50 games in one cassette" 🙂

How many of you ordered one of these back then?

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The crafty Einstein was designed and assembled in the UK, and is fondly remembered as a system favoured by 1980's software developers!

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The Oric Atmos was released in 1984 and came with an enhanced keyboard and a sleek black-and-red design.

📷 _Dbug_
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Football Manager was still a Top 10 game for the VIC 20 - even as late as July 1985!

How many of you enjoyed playing my game on this machine?

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Sinclair gave us the "rubber-keyed wonder."
Tangerine Computers gave us the "chiclet-keyed wonder" 😁

📷 Retromobe
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Do you remember "Eureka" and its £25,000 reward? 🤯

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Another favourable review from the March 1984 issue of CRASH magazine 🙂

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The QL is best remembered as a technologically robust machine that nevertheless did not appeal to the market it was expected to tap into.

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An iconic adventure writing system: THE QUILL!

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The "Rubber-Keyed Wonder" changed the British computer industry - and its consumer market - forever!

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