From The Register: Christmas 1984

[Villan]

Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers​

Christmas 1984: A turning point for 8-bit home computing

Saturation point, and Nintendo and Sega, were just around the corner

www.theregister.com

 

[Ollie83]

A good read, thanks for posting

 

[Scott C]

Think I’m going to go watch From Bedrooms to Billions again now

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Ah the nostalgia. Sad too when you consider the way it went I couldn't quite believe it at the time

 

[Fluffybob]

That really takes me back......Thanks for posting

 

[Quartz]

I had the use of an Apple ][+ back then.

 

[Villan]

More from that year:

The BBC has re-released a 1984 documentary about the UK computer games industry | VGC

Commercial Breaks follows Ocean and Imagine Software, and captures the latter going bust…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[Scott C]

More from that year:

The BBC has re-released a 1984 documentary about the UK computer games industry | VGC

Commercial Breaks follows Ocean and Imagine Software, and captures the latter going bust…

www.videogameschronicle.com

Well that's my lunch break sorted

 

[Vinno]

"It arrived on its own in a box, with no instructions and no software, and when my dad called Watford to ask what I was supposed to do, he was told that if I couldn't write a mouse driver, I didn't deserve a mouse.

Haha - brilliant.