Grid Runner – BBC Micro Juvenilia

My first computer was a BBC Micro Model A (early version with the linear PSU and bodge wires on the circuit board). Later we upgraded it to a Model B. I loved it, and even took it on holiday a few times (!) My parents must have been very understanding.

I was amazed today to discover that the BBC Micro community has saved two very obscure games I wrote in my teens and you can now play them in the browser:

Grid Runner

http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=636

Grid Runner II

http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=765

IIRC selling Grid Runner was the first money I ever earned. The BBC Micro magazine Beebug (which was based close to where we live) included it in a demo disk (image via a kind user of the StarDot forums).

In case you are wondering, I am not colour-blind. The clashing colours were inspired by the BBC classic game Frak.

JS Beeb is fantastic BTW.