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Episode 44 - Interview with Michael Nurney

80s Playground gaming hierarchy - Definitely not Texas Instruments at the top!

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Season 1, episode 44
1 hr 15 min / Published

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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