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Richard Speed Mon 1 Mar 2021 // 10:28 UTC Share
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The UK s cathedrals of geekdom are set to reopen in May as The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) celebrated the successful conclusion of its retro-themed Microlympics.
By all accounts, the Microlympics event (which had various age groups play a variety of retro games on a BBC emulator) was a great success for TNMOC as scores were notched up in classic games like
Elite and
Revs (both of which demonstrated this hack is as awful now as he was then at anything that didn t involve solving Scott Adams or Infocom s puzzles).
TNMOC director Jacqui Garrad was delighted with the response, which spanned multiple age groups and genders. She reckoned that most players were UK-based, which was understandable since the BBC computer did not set the US alight back in the day.