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Bread Bin & Cartridge
Daily on-this-day retrospective of 1980s and 1990s home computers and games. Hosts Lee and Mark Webb pick a real date, look at the UK charts and high-street computer counters, then review a game from that day across the machines that had it — graphics, music, honest scores.
Episodes
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Ep.39 — Another World — 4 November 1991
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.39 — Another World — 4 November 1991. Éric Chahi's Another World was arriving on the Amiga and Atari ST from France's Delphine…
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Ep.38 — Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins — 2 November 1992
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.38 — Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins — 2 November 1992. Nintendo's Game Boy sequel was out in America and the British magazines…
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Ep.37 — Daley Thompson's Decathlon — 30 October 1984
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.37 — Daley Thompson's Decathlon — 30 October 1984. Ocean's joystick killer was landing in the magazines, and they could not agree on…
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Ep.36 — Knight Rider — 28 October 1986
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.36 — Knight Rider — 28 October 1986. Ocean's long awaited Knight Rider game finally reached the shops, and the reviews were brutal…
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Ep.35 r1 — Manic Miner — 26 October 1983
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.35 r1 — Manic Miner — 26 October 1983. Matthew Smith's mad underground platformer was the talk of the letters pages, with Popular…
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Ep.34 r1 — Micro Machines — 24 October 1993
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.34 r1 — Micro Machines — 24 October 1993. Codemasters' tiny racer had just gone pocket sized, with Mean Machines Sega giving the Game…
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Ep.33 r1 — Turrican — 22 October 1990
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.33 r1 — Turrican — 22 October 1990. Manfred Trenz's huge German blaster was in Gallup's all formats top ten as autumn set in. The…
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Ep.32 r1 — Target Renegade — 20 October 1988
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.32 r1 — Target Renegade — 20 October 1988. Six months after it hit the shops, Ocean and Imagine's two-player street brawler was still…
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Ep.31 r1 — Rise of the Robots — 18 October 1994
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.31 r1 — Rise of the Robots — 18 October 1994. One month to the day before the most hyped Amiga game of 1994 finally reached the shops…
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Ep.30 r1 — Fairlight — 16 October 1985
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.30 r1 — Fairlight — 16 October 1985. On this Wednesday in 1985, The Edge's isometric castle quest Fairlight sat atop the Gallup…
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Ep.29 r1 — Last Ninja 2 — 12 October 1988
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.29 r1 — Last Ninja 2 — 12 October 1988. System 3's Last Ninja 2 brings the ninja to modern-day New York in the autumn of 1988. Whitney…
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Ep.28 r1 — Renegade — 14 October 1987
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.28 r1 — Wednesday 14 October 1987. Ocean/Imagine's Renegade is the beat-em-up of the autumn: number two on Gallup for the week to the…
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Ep.27 r2 — Zool — 10 October 1992
Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.27 r2 — Saturday 10 October 1992. Gremlin's Zool sits at number one on the Gallup all-formats full-price chart. Tasmin Archer's…
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Ep.26 r1 — Batman: The Movie — 9 October 1989
Monday 9 October 1989: Ocean's Batman: The Movie was the game every shop was shifting, sitting at the top of Gallup's charts as Batmania swept the high street…
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Ep.25 r2 — Urban Strike — 8 October 1994
Saturday 8 October 1994: Electronic Arts' Urban Strike, the third Strike helicopter game, had just gone to number one in Gallup's cartridge chart on the Mega…
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Ep.24 r1 — Shadow Warriors — 7 October 1990
Sunday 7 October 1990: Ocean's Shadow Warriors, the conversion of Tecmo's ninja coin-op, was number one in Gallup's full-price software chart across every…
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Ep.23 r1 — Mortal Kombat — 6 October 1993
Wednesday 6 October 1993: three weeks after Mortal Monday, Mortal Kombat had five versions in the Gallup cartridge top ten, with the Mega Drive cartridge at…
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Ep.22 r1 — Final Fight — 5 October 1991
Saturday 5 October 1991: US Gold's home computer conversions of Capcom's Final Fight hit the shops, and the magazines could not agree on a thing. Lee and Mark…
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Ep.21 r1 — Sonic Adventure — 14 October 1999
Thursday 14 October 1999: Sega's Dreamcast goes on sale in Britain at £199.99, with Sonic Adventure leading the launch. Lee and Mark take in Christina…
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Ep.20 r1 — Half-Life — 19 November 1998
Thursday 19 November 1998: Valve's Half-Life goes on sale in America, with UK shops getting it on the 27th. Lee and Mark take in Cher's Believe at number one…
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Ep.19 r1 — WipEout — 29 September 1995
Friday 29 September 1995: Sony's PlayStation goes on sale across Europe at £299, and Psygnosis launch WipEout alongside it. Lee and Mark take in Simply Red's…
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Ep.18 r2 — Street Fighter II — 10 June 1992
Wednesday 10 June 1992. Capcom ships Street Fighter II on the Super Famicom in Japan while Britain is already SNES-hungry after the April launch. Erasure's…
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Ep.17 r1 — Sonic the Hedgehog — 23 June 1991
Sunday 23 June 1991. Sonic the Hedgehog hits UK Mega Drive shops, Jason Donovan holds Official Chart number one with Any Dream Will Do, and Hyacinth Bucket is…
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Ep.16 r2 — Paperboy — 4 October 1986
Saturday 4 October 1986: Elite's conversion of Atari's Paperboy sits at the top of the Gallup all-formats chart. Lee and Mark take a bike round the day…
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Ep.15 r2 — Doom — 10 December 1993
Friday 10 December 1993 — id Software release the shareware episode of Doom, and crash a university network doing it. Lee and Mark dig into the day: Mr Blobby…
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Ep.14 r2 — Lemmings — 14 February 1991
Thursday 14 February 1991 — Valentine's Day, and Psygnosis release DMA Design's Lemmings on the Amiga. Lee and Mark dig into the day: The Simpsons' Do The…
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Ep.13 r2 — Altered Beast — 14 August 1989
On this day in 1989, Monday the fourteenth of August, Sega put the Genesis on sale in New York and Los Angeles with Altered Beast in the box. Jive Bunny are at…
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Ep.12 r1 — Tetris — 6 June 1984
On this day in 1984, Wednesday the sixth of June, Alexey Pajitnov finished the first playable version of Tetris on a text-only Electronika 60 in Moscow. Wham…
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Ep.11 r1 — Starquake — 3 October 1985
On this day in 1985, Thursday the third of October, Bubble Bus put Starquake on UK Spectrum shelves. Midge Ure holds number one with If I Was, Top of the Pops…
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Ep.10 r1 — Operation Wolf — 2 October 1988
On this day in 1988, Sunday the second of October, Ocean's Operation Wolf is shipping onto UK Spectrum shelves this week. U2 hold number one with Desire, Bread…
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Ep.9 r1 — Thanatos — 1 October 1986
On this day in 1986, Wednesday the first of October, Durell's Thanatos is landing on the Spectrum shelves. The Communards hold number one with Don't Leave Me…
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Ep.8 r2 — Jack the Nipper II — 30 September 1987
On this day in 1987 — Wednesday the thirtieth of September — Gremlin's Jack the Nipper II: In Coconut Capers is on the full-price shelves. M/A/R/R/S are at…
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Ep.7 r1 — The Living Daylights — 25 September 1987
Ois day in 91,78riday the twenty-ifth,Domark' Living Daylights Bond game is still on the full-rice wall after slipping from the summer film window. Rick Astley…
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Ep.6 r1 — Sky High Stuntman — 24 September 1991
On this day in 9911—Thursday the twenty-fourth —Code Masters' Sky High Stuntman lands on Spectrum Computing at £3..99Bryan Adams still stuck at number…
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Ep.5 r3 — Bounty Bob Strikes Back — 23 September 1985
On this day in 1985 — Monday the twenty-third — U.S. Gold's Bounty Bob Strikes Back lands on Spectrum Computing at £7.95. Bowie and Jagger on the chart, Crash…
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Ep.4 r2 — Shinobi — 22 September 1989
On this day in 1989 — Friday the twenty-second — Virgin's Shinobi is fighting for shelf space after the Spectrum Computing drop on the eighteenth. Black Box on…
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Ep.3 r3 — Joe Blade II — 21 September 1988
On this day, 21 September 1988: UK charts and the high street, Crash Smash versus Zzap’s shrug, and Joe Blade II across Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad. Plus Sid…
Bread Bin & CartridgeOut Run — 20 September 1986
On this day in 1986, we look back at the UK charts and high street, with the magazines and TV flavour of the era, then take Out Run across the arcade, Master…
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Elite — 20 September 1984 (BBC Micro launch day)
Pilot episode. On this day in 1984 Acornsoft put Elite on the BBC Micro. Lee and Mark look back at the UK charts, the high-street computer counters, and how…