To celebrate this year being the 40th anniversary of the BBC Micro, the Bletchley based National Museum of Computing is hosting a week-long retro gaming competition.
The BBC Micro was originally conceived to help increase computer literacy within schools but eventually found fame among many gamers and is remembered for its library of amazing titles such as Elite, Chuckie Egg and Revs.
On their official website, the National Museum of Computing gave more details about the event saying: “The National Museum of Computing is celebrating the BBC Micro’s 40th with a year of events. These will kick off during the February half-term holidays with Microlympics: a week-long, gaming competition played via an online emulator.
“The online games Heptathlon will take place during February half term with 5 games over 5 days.
“On each event day, you will be emailed a link at midnight to the game. You have until 11.59pm on the event day to tell us your highest score via a Google form as well as post a screenshot to confirm it on social media (with the hashtag: #microlympics) or email the screenshot to us.
“You can play the games at any time and as often as you like but all scores must be submitted by 11:59 that day to count.”
The Games are:
Monday, 15th February 2021 - Chuckie Egg (highest score)
Tuesday, 16th February 2021 - Revs (fastest over 10 standard laps)
Wednesday, 17th February 2021 - Citadel (score)
Thursday, 18th February 2021 - Repton (highest score)
Friday, 19th February 2021 - Elite (credits collected)
The competition is open to all gamers of every level, from veteran to beginner. There are three different categories: under 12s, 12-17 and over 18s.
The winners each day will get some custom merchandise from the museum's online shop and the overall winner of the event will receive an as yet undisclosed special prize.
If you are interested in the event and would like to sign up, please click here.
