It also appears on the "Lost in Service" and "Heroes in Victory" screens.

Jon Hare - Narcissus (Cannon Fodder theme music) [with eng lyrics!] YouTube video by Maverral

If you've ever played Cannon Fodder, you'll be familiar with the "recruits" screen where new recruits come over the hill and get accepted.

Did you know the music that plays there is a love song? It's called "Narcissus" and was written by Jon Hare in 1984.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMqO...

NGL, that is disappointing. 😔

This would look stunning on our CBM8032.

If this runs on a Commodore PET it'll be RCM within a month ....

The 8-bit games were also not made by Sega themselves. Sonic 1 was outsourced to Ancient Software with the brief to make it as close as possible to the Genesis version.

Sega decided this didn't meet the potential of the machine, and subsequent Sonic 8-bit games were made by Aspect Software.

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A couple of fun facts here.

Sonic 2 came out on the Sega Master System slightly before it come out on the Genesis/MegaDrive. The Game Gear out almost immediately after, still beating the 16-bit version by a week.

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We're just saying... that June 20th feels very retro this year.

To borrow a line from Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams ....

A NEW PLEASURE!

(we'll get this on our BBC Micro soon)

A rage comic image of a crestfallen man subtitled "Okay"

CHUCKULUS - for the Acorn Electron
Version 1.0 now available ! 🥳

github.com/Snuggsy187/C...

Download and play on an Emulator or real hardware !
....or play online in Electroniq - an emulator by @0xc0de.bsky.social

Get a BBC Micro version before 21st March, and we'll run it at the museum :)

Curious ....

Another legendary event has been and gone. We hope you all had a wonderful day. 😊

We are of course still open on most weekend days from 10am to 3:30pm. Please check our website www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk to confirm and to book in advance.

DMs open for enquiries.

No internet Oracle service m'fraid 😔

A photo of four racing arcade cabinets all running Outrun 2SP. Each display has a repeater monitor above it.

At last! All four Outrun cabs have fully functioning sound!

We've replaced no less than 3 amplifiers in 24 hours. Just in time for our legendary event 😁

A photo of an old analogue CRT television, showing a 1990s BBC 2 ident. Alongside are 4 TV channel generators, one for each of BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV Central, and Channel 4.

We may have the only analogue CRT television still receiving four channels 😅

Each channel has Teletext of course...

BBC 1 ➡️ Ceefax East Midlands
BBC 2 ➡️ Ceefax World Service
Central ➡️ Spark
C4 ➡️ Chunkytext

Yes.

And give us connection details so we can "dial" in.

Have you got your tickets yet?

It's gonna be a good one 😊

We would love this.

Unfortunately, funds are lacking 😭

This is a heinous (though justified) attack on our volunteers and visitors.

It was great to see you both 😀

We hope you enjoyed the VR experience 😁

And of course you can browse Ceefax (or Chunkytext) on our actual Teletext TV at RCM 😁

You have our attention.

We have a couple of BBS-contacting capable machines that we'd like to get talking. We're considering using some serial-to-TCP/IP adapters (WiFi) for the task.

EVERYBODY wants to shoot the dog though.

That snarky laugh when you miss ...

We have checked the specs, and we're pretty certain it won't run Crysis.

It's probably capable of running Doom though. Everything else seems to be. 😆

😁

If only we had more Japanese computers 😔

A close-up of the Sharp MZ-80K computer, shown running running Asteroids.

Doing a little exhibition refreshing. We've put the Videopac G7000 away for a while, and brought back an old favourite, the Sharp MZ-80K:

Never been before? Want to know how this differs from a regular open day?

* Open longer: Stay until 8pm
* Hot food for late breakfast, lunch and dinner
* Raffle
* Live Music
* Bar from 12pm to 7pm

Visit the website to book your tickets!

See you there?

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Guess what's back for the new year?

AWESOME WORLD FAMOUS* LEGENDARY** GATHERING SPRING 2026!

retrocomputermuseum.co.uk/events/legen...

* May not actually be world famous
** May not actually be legendary

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