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Thrust is a 1986 video game programmed by Jeremy C. Smith (who later co-authored Exile) for the BBC Micro and published by Superior Software. [1] [2] The player's aim is to manoeuvre a spaceship by rotating and thrusting, as it flies over a two-dimensional landscape and through caverns. The gameplay of Thrust was heavily inspired by Atari's ...
This category contains computer games made for, or ported to, the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and BBC Master 1980s-vintage 8-bit home computers which have articles on Wikipedia. See List of Acorn Electron games for a more comprehensive list (although BBC only games are not included).
The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit or stylized as micro:bit) is an open source hardware ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the United Kingdom.
Labyrinth is an action-adventure game published in 1984 by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro.Its author, Michael Mathison, describes it as: an amalgam of what I'd seen and liked visually and I wanted to make something like an 'arcade' version of an adventure game - with lots of creatures and lots of running around shooting at things but also with some simple puzzle elements.
3D Bomb Alley is a video game developed by Simon Vout and published in 1984 by Software Invasion for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. [1] It is based on the 1982 Battle of San Carlos in the Falklands War when San Carlos Water became known as "Bomb Alley".
Cholo is a video game released in 1986 for the BBC Micro. It was ported to the ZX Spectrum , Amstrad CPC , and Commodore 64 . Cholo uses wireframe 3D visuals and has nonlinear gameplay .
Beebdroid is a free software [1] [2] emulator for the BBC Micro, based on B-Em for Linux by Tom Walker. [3] It runs under Android and was developed by Reuben Scratton and Kenton Price and released [4] by Little Fluffy Toys in 2011. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Podd is an educational game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron published by Acornsoft in 1984. The main character, Podd, teaches verbs , performing an appropriate animation when a recognised word is typed.