The frenzy of Christmas 1981 has passed, but there is still plenty going on in the budding UK micro computing scene. This month sees the debut of arcade classics such as Scramble and Galaga. A reader gets inside an Atari BattleZone machine, and gives us the low-down on its cutting edge hardware. And of course… Basic listing are a major draw and readers would spend hours, even days typing in “the next blockbuster game” into their shiny new micros.

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