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From the «still pure awesomeness» department:
Feed: The Register
Title: 40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes
Author: Iain Thomson
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 04:30:06 -0500
Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/

The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what's under the
cobra's hood

Retro Tech Week In 1984 the launch of a computer game was reported on British
national news. The purported reason? The news editor apparently walked in after
lunch and found all the staff were playing it.…

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by: immibis - Sat, 20 Jan 2024 10:12 UTC

On 1/19/24 02:16, Retrograde wrote:
> From the «still pure awesomeness» department:
> Feed: The Register
> Title: 40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes
> Author: Iain Thomson
> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 04:30:06 -0500
> Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/elite_game_retro/
>
> The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what's under the
> cobra's hood
>
> Retro Tech Week In 1984 the launch of a computer game was reported on British
> national news. The purported reason? The news editor apparently walked in after
> lunch and found all the staff were playing it.…
>

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