Amazing memories. I learnt to code on the BBC Micro at age 7. Taught myself from a book. I could code before I could even read lol. At the time I didn’t have any games so had to make my own. Great times.

I remember the hardest game I ever played on the Beeb back on the day was called "Frak!" - it was a platformer where you played as a caveman with random missiles appearing from the sides of the screen. I'm pretty sure it was my first rage-quit!

Who could forget, “Citatettal, Citatettal, Citatettal” lol. One of my favourites was a text adventure game called “Sphinx” which I played on my Electron. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!

I'm 45 ( nearly 46 ) and a BBC Micro owner, yet I don't think that I've ever come across your number 1 pick. Fascinating.

As a kid we had a Beeb at home. What made it even better was that my stepdad was a computer science lecturer at Coventry & Lancaster polytechnic. He was able to get the 6502 and Z80 second processors as a part of his equipment for his lectures! Elite is amazing when played with the second processor. Citadel is one of the few games on the Beeb that I actually finished. Palace of Magic is actually the sequel to Citadel, hence the similarity between the two games.

Thrust and Chuckie Egg for me - I'm still playing them on my BBC Micro at age 49. My kids who are all iPad and PS4 fans cant even get near my scores, even after a lot of practice !!! :)

I absolutely loved this, haven't seen these games since I was a kid in the 80s. Almost wept when I saw Citadel, Chuckie Egg and Repton, the screens are so familiar, even tho it's 30 years at least since I saw them. Thanks you.

Hey there, I loved every penny of my £399.99 BBC micro model B. Elite, holy guacamole batman, what a great game on a 32k computer, my all time favourite game, and Repton, played that to the death, along with spitfire and f1. Have to say you're right about collision detection, it was always perfect. All you're game picks are great, I can remember playing them all. Still have my beeb in the loft. 😀 👍 👍 👍

I was unwell for about a year so couldn't play outside in my school. I remember Chuckie Egg and Repton as a teacher was kind enough to set them up for me as something to do.

Absolutely love the bbc micro. Grew up with it in school and watched them on the bbc with the computer programme and micro live. Thanks for the video.

wicked video mate :) not heard of imogen before but looks quite interesting and unique. really enjoyed this video, keep em coming

Never had a Beeb back in the day but I do now. Love the system to bits. Just iconic! Great vid.

That was an emotional rollercoaster down memory lane there.

I’m still amazed by how much fun can be had with 32k when you know no better. It also shows how wasteful programmers are today with seemingly endless memory.

So great to hear your story, brings back all the fond memories

Excellent top 15, a couple there that I didn't know about that definitely look worthwhile to try out.

Fantastic video Pete I had a model B when I was a kid Loved the Superior Soft and Acornsoft games BTW Strykers Run was programmed by Chris Roberts who later made the Wing Commander games Lots of great memories there mate

Great vid mate and thanks for the memories , remember there was always a que at school to play chuckie egg, and arkanoid.

Ace video Pete. I had an acorn electron back in the day so a lot of these games I've played at some time or another. Awesome stuff :-)

I wanted either a Spectrum or C64, but my Dad said "Nope, you'll get what the schools are using", then we bought the Viglen PC Kit (made it look somewhat like a PC XT/AT, and installed 2 5.25 floppy drives). I also bought every copy of 'Input' magazine and thus the 4 binders to contain them, and lol, semi successfully programed and got working most of the 'input' programs. Games wise? MANY were played... - Thrust: HELL YEAH... excellent game. - Elite: Yeah I did ok, until a friend of mine managed to get the cheat disk that allowed FULL weapons/armour/credits and such, and then spent hundreds of hours exploring, 'Kickin ass' and such... Good times! - Chuckie egg: Hahaha you surely are bringing out the classics here! - Mission Impossible: I played this on a mates C64... I THINK there was creepy speech in it too, "You'll stay foreverrrrr" (or something like that) - Arkanoid: Oh God yeah, MANY hours on that one too! What about Galaga? I chewed through MANY levels on that brilliant game! 😏🤣🤣 🦇😎🦇 🇬🇧

Wow Imogen!!!! I'd comletely forgotten about hat game until this video, used to play that game at school in my lunch breaks all the time! What memories! I've just purchased a BBC Master so this game will ne a must when I get it. Thank you so much for thi vid.

What a great reverie! Loved Repton and Arkanoid, so many other cool games too like Cylon Attack, Star Striker, Jet Pac, Maze, Kix, Pengo, Eagle Empire and Block Blitz were some of my favourites.

I'm happy to see Imogen take top spot, looking back it is definitely for me one of the most well-rounded and unique games on the system, and still a lot of fun to play today with its many simple puzzles and charming puns. Citadel would have taken next spot for me at #2 (though if I ranked them at the time it would likely have taken first place!), that was an amazing adventure; it's a shame the late-game solution was so obtuse, requiring travelling through fake walls with no hints of their existence. A bizarre design choice there among an otherwise excellently put together challenge. Number #3 for me would probably have been Castle Quest. Similar to Citadel, but smaller in scope and with more interesting interactions with enemies. But again, a ridiculously difficult, nay impossible, final puzzle to solve as you had to shoot a random brick with a wand to get the treasure. Another bizarre design choice, it's like these developers never wanted people to finish their games!

Thanks for the video. Brought back some good memories!

Happy memories of a lot of these, and almost feel sad for my younger self for missing out on the ones here that I never got to play. Loved Repton and Commando. Frak was also good fun. Thx for the vid 🙂

My memory of bbc micro games were mostly type in adventures and really was what got me into gaming. Once i got a speccy i was straight after the level 9 stuff as reminded me of the bbc games library at school

Ahhh mate!!! The memories!! I would do anything to avoid written work at primary to get a ride on the BBC computer in class!! Really enjoyed the vid bud..if I'm honest I hadn't realise how many great games there were on the system!! Well done boss!!!

Great video mate. So many memories especially school ones. Used to spend school lunch hours playing many of these games.

What a great video!! I think you should definitely do another one for sure but a lot longer! ;) Love the citadel bit with the cheat (get to see more screens that way) I used to love programming graphics routines using vdu commands, got them to play alongside all the 80s music! Them were the days! Please, keep up the good work! Subscribing! 😊😊😊♥️

I had just 2 games for my BBC Micro....Elite and Swoop. Loved them both.

Wow that takes me back to my childhood

Interesting video. I got here having seen a snake (Nokia '97 style) game on the Android store, before googling the origins of the original where this machine was mentioned. Funny where you end up. Great video. Old new things ;)

Starship Command (Acornsoft). Just about the right amount of predictability before the aliens attack, and that genius 'escape capsule' feature to add to the suspense.

Nice trip down memory lane. BBC Micro was the first computer I had. Out of the games in the video Exile was one of my favourites.

My dad bought a bbc micro model b 32k when I was 3. I loved it, so many happy memories. Football manager by Kevin Toms was my favourite game... even all these years later it sits behind Red Dead Redemption and The Last of us in my top 3 favourite games of all time. Code name Droid. Barbarian 1 and 2. The last ninja, the Bbc gave us some incredible games. Many of which have influenced todays titles. I had many in the list. I got rid of the computer when i was 18. In 1999. 15 long years later.... i had a nes, Mega Drive and PS1 growing up... the beeb took them all on and beat 2 of them! I should really get an emulator, i miss the computer sometimes even now.

Great list. Loved Imogen and was pleased to see it was in top spot, I spent ages on my BBC as a kid. Personal favourites for me were Ravenskull which was so frustrating and the Repton games. Thanks for bringing back some good old memories. As cool as my PS4 is, it'll never be as cool as my old BBC. Thanks

Way back in the day I spent many an hour programming until 0400 in the morning on games we put out there at the time. Sad to say mine were text adventures, no graphical, when that happened I started to get left behind, and decided to follow another route. I still have a BBC32 and Master in the loft somewhere with the 5.5 floppy drive (dual, I was posh lol) along with some of the productions, Horror Castle, Shrinking Professor, were two, sold them through a company in Manchester at the time, might have been A&F software, not to sure. Great days long gone.

absolutely love Daredevil Dennis, spent many a hour playing this back in the late 80s early 90s

Very interesting list of games. Cool video bro 👍

I've never even heard about this console before. The games look amazing for their age and I am planning on checking them out on an emulator. Thanks!

talk about a trip down memory lane. I'd completely forgotten about DareDevil Denis and Imogen, but as soon as I saw them I instantly remembered how much fun I used to have playing those games. I guess the brain really does store everything in there somewhere. Thanks for a great vid.

Excellent and unexpected choice with Imogen. It's such a unique idea for a game. You can complete it, wait a few years to forget the gameplay and solutions, and then enjoy it all over again!

We had one at secondary school, crazy to think they were still around in the late 90s.

Elite and Exile were my favourites. Amazing games at the time. Imogen was incredibly charming with some very amusing elements. I remember squashing the rabbits!

Great list. I got out of the BBC scene early so a lot of these are new to me. Personal favourites were Frak!, Caste of Riddles, Aviator, Lords of Time and the early Acornsoft arcade clones (Snapper, Planetoid!, Monsters! etc.)

Granny’s garden theme tune is burnt in my brain. Loved chuckle egg and repton

Really interesting watch. My primary school had one of these in each class room. They were really strict with us playing games though annoyingly. Some of these titles look great

Wow! Thanks for some great memories. My favourite was the flight simulator (not mentioned in this video). As a kid, you could use your imagination to 'paint' the scenery in.

I was fortunate enough to have one of these at home when I was a kid, with both a tape deck and a 5 1/4" disk drive. I remember most of these games as well as a good couple dozen that didn't make your list like Frak!, Way of the Exploding Fist, Vortex, Cylon Attack, etc etc. Good times.

The first ever home computer games I played were Frak and Daredevil Denis on the BBC Micro and have been hooked ever since haha.

Wow, Commando looks slightly different from the arcade version we played in the THSC! Great vid dude, have little knowledge of the BBC Mirco! Now, I have a little bit more :)

The BBC is 40 years old this year. I have a NEW really good BBC competition pro style Joysticks on eBay that are only £50! (not like £100 like old BBC competition pros go for) - celebrate in style. Works great - I just completed Airwolf with it after 40 years! Really responsive. My BBC Master is even more cherished now I can really get good with games!!:)))

YES, IMOGEN!! I didn't think that would be in the list, since it's pretty rather than smashy smashy, but so enjoyable... More about the experience than the winning. :-) Thank you for this joyous list!

I remember that I had two different versions of Killer Gorilla on my BBC Master. One version is that you cannot go up ladders with the hammer in your hand but the other version (which is the on I played on almost all the time) is the version where you can go up ladders with the hammer

Ah this takes me back. Incredible that these were made with just a handful of k's . I'd also have Sentinel, Castle Quest, Revs, and Cholo.

What a great video Pete, yes Exile is the very same game I loved so much on my Amiga, tho the graphics and scrolling were somewhat better obviously. Also Impossible Mission and I think the sequel I had on my Amstrad and loved. The only experience I had of the BBC Micro was in school I think playing an adventure game called Grannies Garden?

I persuaded my mum to mail order a copy of Exile from a gaming magazine when I was maybe 7, after seeing my cousin playing it. I remember it came with an accompanying novella. I couldn't figure out how to equip a weapon and didn't get very far but it still blew my tiny mind.

05:43 - I had 2 different versions of Killer Gorilla. One version was that you couldn't go up ladders with the mallet in your hand and the other version is that you could. The version where you could go up the ladder with the mallet in your hand also gave you an extra life after the completion of each level.

On Blagger level 1, if you ran left against the pink moving platform and quickly ran right you could walk through the wall ! Lol ! loved that game

The best thing about this video is the various music you play ;)

Imogen was definitely 1 of my favourites but would have to say Repton as you could create your own levels and characters so that was probably my favourite but bringing back nostalgia just watching these. I forgot about that stunt man game.

Awesome. I used to play on the Acorn back in school between 1996-1999. I remember a game which was a cross between a text adventure and a Zelda clone. The intro had you choose from two paths either in the West or East, in the 'Zelda style'. The input from the keyboard was cumulative too. So every time you pressed left the character would move one step left, and if you hammered it too quickly you'd be walking into the wall for ages. I'd love to know what the game was :)

Massively underrated piece of kit, the BBC. We also had these at my high school but they were very much end of life at that point.

Interesting the song that is playing in the introduction (Rydeen by Yellow Magic Orchestra) is from a BBC Master as the Enhanced Version of Stryker's Run didn't work on a normal 32K BBC Model B (or maybe it was just my BBC even though it had sideways RAM).

Fantastic list, Imogen number 1 definitely I loved that game. I would add Cholo, Labyrinth and Ravenskull :)

Excellent piece of nostalgia. I thought I knew most of the games on the bbc, but a few surprises here! Shame banjax wasn't on the list tho! :)

Excellent vídeo mate. really enjoyed this. :)

Very interesting list, nice selection - I'd probably put quite a few of them on my on such list. In fact, If I ever do get some spare time I might have to knock my own list up. Magic Mushrooms, Castle Quest, Frak!, ....quite a few other titles that might make my Top 15. By the way, I'm guessing the screen-shots of Citadel are from a cheat version, as the character is walking through many enemies and dangerous without losing any enemies :)

We had one at home and there was one at school. Brilliant games :D

I used to write games in BASIC on the BBC Micro, and on the Commodore PET before that!

Dug out my old BBC Micro and all the text adventures I had, great fun even though they took ages to load from Cassette. You would be surprised how collectable they are now

Don’t forget classics like Defender, Rocket Raid and my favourite Monsters 💪

Just found this video. We were lucky enough to get a hand me down BBC micro from my Dad's friend but tonnes of games on disc and tape. My favourites were Repton, Citadel, Dare Devis Dennis and Chuckie egg amongst this list. We also played Mr EE, Revs, Hostages and many others to death. Loved our BBC and even took it to University in the 90's to play on. Sadly, I think parents threw it out a number of years ago.

I remember a lot of these games. There was a pensioner who lived across the street from me when I was a kid. He used to invite kids around to play games on his BBC Micro. In retrospect, it sounds a bit creepy, but it was all totally innocent. We also had a computer lab full of BBC Micros at school. But most of the games at school were "educational", but at least they had Sim City 😀

Fantastic collection. I never came across Imogen but wish I had.

Chaos and Lazer squad on spectrum pure class

Great video, brought back some fond memories! We were lucky enough to have a BBC back in the early/mid 80s. Do you remember Frak and Escape from Moonbase Alpha? Played those two a lot.

Some of the more recent homebrew titles have blown my mind, especially the arcade conversions by Richard Broadhurst, and of course, White Light, Prince of Persia, and Stunt Car Racer (the latter two require a BBC Master though...or running an emulator in BBC Master mode)

some of my favourites were Plan B, Meteors, Starship Command, Quest, Frak, & Defender

Oh! I'd forgotten about Palace of Magic. Oh, the nostalgia... my Mom and I are both gamers- she'd have been about my age now back when she played through Palace of Magic and various Repton games and I was allowed to stay up late to watch her play! My favourite game was Cuthbert had a Cold, I think, or the other very similar one I forget the name of. I used to adventure for hours!

I remember playing elite on the Amstrad CpC, and you can still play it today, all be it a much upgraded version called "Elite Dangerous "

I used to have a Model-B, with Logo and Wordsworth interchangeable chips. Also had a copy of MikeFax, the teletext program, and my two fave games were Sensible Soccer (the text footy manager) cos you could access the basic and change the names, and a very little known game called Traveller II...

Very well presented great video thank you

A great list, and some fantastic memories right there BUT have a word!! Elite is without doubt number one and the reason I didn’t pass all my exams! Defender, missile command, frak! (And the rude version!) should also be on the list. Still have my bbc in the loft-needs repairing though. Will get it done one day!

I first played Elite on the BBC. Now I'm playing Elite Dangerous on my PC.

awesome! I loved Imogen. Still remember the level where you have to get the dog to salivate by ringing the bell

Daredevil Dennis! I had totally forgotten that one, having not played it since I was about 8. I was never great at Thrust, but I did love the spiritual sequel Oids, on the Atari ST. Worth a go if you've never played it

Great video. Interesting pick for #2 - I would never have put Arkanoid up there! It was a great conversion & looked wonderful, but there were dozens of clones of it out there. Impact, Hyperball & Krakout were a few of the better ones that I spent time with. In fact I may just have to do so again right now! :>

Excellent video. Cheers.

I remember waiting for my copy of Acorn User coming out, amazing magazine I think you can download them all on pdf free. Must read if into beebs

Thrust had upside down levels and we used to turn the monitors at school upside down to complete them. Once we forgot to it back.

I watched this in 2022: I did use a BBC Micro in a training scheme and played a football management game with my friend, whereby you could put your own words(mostly rude) in. When you you got to the top division and you scored 5 a game, random senetences would be created, very purile but funny.

Castle Quest and Beach Head are 2 games I would currently have in my top 15 but this is a solid list.

I loved playing Contraption. A very good high res game for 1984. Icon Software also produced Drain Mania and Flip!. I only wish Drain Mania had a proper ending. In the game description it says that no one has ever made it out alive. Will you be the first? Sadly the last level just repeats in an endless cycle. It would have been nice to see a congratulatory screen.

Every one a gem 💎, not a bad game in the mix. 👍👍👍👀

Thanks for this! However, and while I recognize it's a list of personal faves, I'd say Elite just HAS to be #1. Goes on forever and with the lights out, you are a million light years from home! Others missed out (that I loved) were "MR. E" (a diggy--apple-pushy game where each screen is a letter, and thon Ultima(te?) 3D-thingy called, er, Knight Lore (?).

Most played: Elite (by a country parsec), then Cylon Attack, Repton, Mr Ee, Castle Quest, Hunchback (that scream when he falls!), Chuckie Egg, Spyhunter, Starship Command and Jet Pac. Probably forgotten a bunch. Dunjunz was good for multi players. EDIT: Oh, Sinistar!

Exile was incredible - I got stuck relatively early, partly due to being about six at the time, but it remained endlessly playable even just to mess around on. The mechanics of it (*nothing* moved lineally, not even bullets) and the cliche-free puzzle-solving were amazing. Not sure who programmed it but if you gave them a modern-day computer they could probably create time travel before lunch. Other shouts - Qwak was excellent. Manic, totally unforgiving, and levels/enemies that changed around you simply because you'd moved into a specific but seemingly empty space. And Repton Infinity was remarkable - it built on Repton 3 (also excellent, though incredibly difficult) but included a simplified programming system so you could effectively create your own games. Pipeline was good too, although too big and complicated for me at the time!

Which came first, the dragon or the egg? ...My number one BBC Micro game, Dragon World. It was an educational game, basically a string of mini puzzle games. It would start by printing on screen the words DRAGON EGG DRAGON EGG... many dozens of times, followed by the question I started my comment with. Your answer would determine your start point, then you went on some quest collecting... erm, teeth, I think. It's been some 30 years, my memory's a bit sketchy on it. There were games such as hang-man, a stepping stones game, a memory test game... all word and spelling based. It was actually pretty hard for an 8/9 year old, we never got any further than a certain point where you were stood outside a castle. It was a great game, the fantasy aspect was really electric. I suspect if you played it now, it would be laughably easy and not very entertaining. But we damned well loved that game at our old school. Despite owning a complete BBC Micro romset and emulator, the game has remained elusive. The file for Dragon World, no matter where you download it from, is always frozen at the first screen. It was developed by a company called 4mation, who also produced another apparently legendary schools game called Granny's Garden. I'd love to find a working copy of Dragon World, I so need to relive it and get closure by finally beating it.

Very cool sir! I dont know if I've played any of these