Superb. Seeing the rows of cassettes is very nostalgic I had some of the games shown there for my rubber keyed Spectrum which my family must have got around the time of this report in 1983. The early Ultimate games were the best especially Jetpac, Cookie, Atic Atac

I'd love to know what's happened to these lad's. I hope they made it 👍

Yoooooo, the blonde curly haired kid is my dad! He just showed me this and he was absolutely stoked he got a speaking part lol. He said he was surprised Jeff, the glasses kid, didn't get a part because he was the poshest out of all of them. As an update, dad's turning 60 this year and he's not making games anymore, but he's still in the industry. I think Jeff moved to Australia a while back, but I'm not totally sure, I might be confusing him with one of my dad's brothers. I'm not sure what happened to the other guy, so I assume they lost touch. Dad always gets so excited when he sees stuff he did in the 70s and 80s online, especially videos, so I'm hoping the algorithm will dig up more of this stuff.

The game Froggy, seen in this video, is available to play at the Complete BBC Micro Games Archive.

I've still got my rubber key ZX Spectrum 48k from Easter 1984. Choices of different incompatible home computers on display in Boots and WH Smith's. The games. Your Computer magazine. Great times growing up in that boom.

Wow.... beautiful & nostalgic video .!🍀🤗🍀

I remember having an amstrad in 80's was really noisy as it loaded and had a few floppy disked games. Pac man and a few others and the screen was blocky green and black lol

Hahahahaha , hitting those keys on a BBC Micro sounded more like someone was knocking on the door! What memories, thanks for this!!

It's amazing how many modern UK developers got their start in similar fashion.

Will never catch on

Isn't it a Nigel Searle from Sinclair at 2:05?? Anyway I had grown up during 80's and have today a great career in Software development and IT. Mostly developing Windows applications in C/C++ and C# today. Had done and lot of assembly, java, php, pascal... Had my start with lovely ZX Spectrum 48K, then C64, ST, Amiga and finally PC. Great memories!

Love the Northumberland accent. Much smarter than some of the kids today who are just users.

Remember the Pokes? Where you had to type lines and lines of code just to get one extra life on a game 🤣

0.51 Kid on the left, just about to steal as many games as he can, so he can go home and play them on his previously pilfered Sinclair spectrum.

C64 is 40 years old.

I bet the buying of computers went up when some of these young guys saw weird science.

This is like looking exactly into my own past! Fab 👍

2:02 "Computer software is for intellectually talented people" Today those people would be called "nerds"

If they were waiting until after university then they missed the boat.

The reporter is Brian Gould NZr, and former MP for Dagenham

Great stuff. The origins of the massive games and software industry that still harness the imaginations of many kids in the UK were sowed here..... Would love to see where they are now. Can't help thinking that Black Mirror Bandersnatch researchers might have seen this excerpt?

I had an Amstrad back then.

Where is Shelton et al now ?

I'd love to know how they got on!

These nerds would cream themselves if I could teleport back in time and show them the latest PC I've just built.

Plus ca change... Still, I'd like to go back and hang out there a while.

The Oric still never had any programs and it died a death...

Wow and gamers today complain about load times... Much has changed in 39 years...

Imagine going back in time and just showing them a Game Boy colour, let alone an iPhone 📱

A young Harry Potter and David Gower in this clip

They should do a Where are they now story on those 3 boys in 2022

I used to skip school a lot only to hit the local Dixon's, quick basic program to say "F OFF DIXONS" soon as a key is pressed, then off down to the local computer games shop which happened to be attached to a fledging games company called MicroGen... I'd often see a bearded sweaty individual emerge flustered and in panic as he swept through the shop clutching a tape recorder and a new game or whatever, pushing gormless dweebs aside and there was I amused by it all... I used to write all the demos for the shop window... I was boffin first class sir... but soon as 18 dropped.. so did my b o double L o c k s... and I was swept away by wine woman & song... sorry to blather

Wouldn’t strain themselves to rush out software for the Oric

Nobody calls their kid Shelton anymore either lol

I was the same age as these kids back in the 80s and also a "computing enthusiast". The fact these kids wrote a computer program isn't honestly anything special...all of us wrote programs back then. Still, it's nice to think these boys ended up with careers in IT like I did, but they could have just as easily done something else with their lives

If Harry Potter wasn't based on magic and just computing ;)

the interviewer is incredibly crass, constantly harping on about money. the most common reason anyone looks to write a book is passion, interest, wanting to spread the word. money comes after, if at all. Programming is the same

Worst thing that ever happened to the human race