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Doom - The Greatest Arcade Game? This Week in Retro 60

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11th December 2021 53 min

Was 80s Britain the Silicon Valley of Europe? We dial up some modem memories, talk about a man with way too many copies of a Burger King game, and dish the dirt on mince pies. All this, plus our community question of the week, on This Week in Retro!

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0:00 Show Open

0:36 Snowed Under - New Charity ZX Spectrum Release

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2:13 Mince Pies - Asking the tough questions

5:19 What are the best arcade games ever?

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17:08 Relive the BBC Computer Literacy Programme

https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk

27:23 Dialling up Modem memories

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38:57 You’ve got 2,706 copies of WHAT?

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BBC takes a look at the Amiga - https://www.youtube.com

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