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BBC games have a striking chunky aesthetic – expect a lot of red, yellow, green, and blue on black backgrounds.

The list of commercial BBC Micro games isn’t enormous, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of games. The Micro’s real scene was in DIY coding, as was the BBC’s intention, so the real gold is in program listings. Archive.org has magazines such as BBCMicroUser and The

MicroUser, with listings to be typed out verbatim, enabling you to try out games and learn BASIC as you go.

As for commercial releases, fan archives exist aplenty, and are easily searched, but we can’t advocate these for legal reasons. BBCMicro.

co.uk is the most thorough and convenient (everything is on a simple disk image), but we doubt it has legal rights to do so. Something we can recommend, however, are the websites www.rucksackgames.co.uk and

www.retrosoftware.co.uk, where you can get newly released software for the Micro, both commercial and freeware. Modern gaming highlights include WhiteLight (2017), Repton:TheLostRealms (2010), and

MountainPanic (2013).