Sorry, the BBC in the big 3? I'm now in hysterics!Wil wrote:Frak! and Acornsoft's great range like Planetoids, Freefall etc. (sorry, just noticed you'd already put in Frak).
TBH I always saw the Beeb as one of the big 3 rather than Amstrad.
Perhaps it was lying in bed all Sunday morning watching a Mirco Live special with Fred Harris, Chris Searle and Ian McNaught-Davies!
Don't let the biased BBC TV coverage fool you. I remember those dire programmes and they ignored every machine apart from the BBC. They were very dismissive of the Amiga when it came out as well.
And I mean, most of the games were ported or sucked. The mode 7 "Ceefax" style graphics really topped off the entire experience!
I refuse to get misty eyed about the BBC. As a small child I was tortured on one at school. Even in 1987/88 when my school got them they felt so old and creaky to me (an experienced CPC owner of three years). I just found them laughable.