
Episode 44 - Interview with Michael Nurney
80s Playground gaming hierarchy - Definitely not Texas Instruments at the top!
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This week we welcome Michael Nurney, author of "8-bit Stories, Home Computing in 1980's Britain" to the podcast, bringing his love of hardware from the 80s, the stories behind the hardware, the playground fanboy-ism of the 80s and the woes of having the computer that doesn't hit the big time!
Find the book at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CRG938KJ or go to MVTComputers.com to see the A-PET cases talked about in the episode.
We then chat about this day in gaming, the OG Xbox and others!
This week we welcome Michael Nurney, author of "8-bit Stories, Home Computing in 1980's Britain" to the podcast, bringing his love of hardware from the 80s, the stories behind the hardware, the playground fanboy-ism of the 80s and the woes of having the computer that doesn't hit the big time!
Find the book at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CRG938KJ or go to MVTComputers.com to see the A-PET cases talked about in the episode.
We then chat about this day in gaming, the OG Xbox and others!
- retro gaming
- sinclair spectrum
- commodore
- atari
- 8-bit
- xbox
- og xbox
- dreamcast
- saturn
- sega
- nintendo
- amstrad
- vintage gaming

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