[LeoPanthera]

I believe I have played for at least a few minutes every single game ever commercially released for the BBC Micro, a British 8-bit home computer.

I got slightly obsessed with playing all of them, a few years ago.

About 10-20% of them are pretty good. A small percentage are genuinely shockingly good, for such an old system.

The vast majority are pretty awful, with many of them being horrible BBC BASIC “conversions” of at the time current popular arcade games, with names and icons changed to avoid copyright problems.

I don’t feel particularly enlightened by my short-lived obsession.

[LaundroMat]

Did you publish your findings somewhere?

[LeoPanthera]

I started making YouTube videos of them, but gave up pretty fast after realizing the enormity of the project!

[danielrpa]

Would you be able to share your Top 10?

[LeoPanthera]

Difficult question, I think. The "famous" ones are indeed very good - Elite, Exile. SimCity works amazingly well considering it's running on a 6502 with less than 32K of RAM.

Chuckie Egg is famous in the UK but I found it to be overrated.

Plan B and Starship Command take good advantage of the high-res 1-bit screen modes and look great.

Thrust has amazingly realistic feeling physics, very satisfying to play.

Revs is a very dry simulation of car racing, but well produced if that's your thing.

Firetrack has probably the smoothest vertical scolling on the system, which until that game came out was thought to be impossible.

Those are the ones I can think of right now!