This is a complete copy of a Radio Times from November 1983, with the localised listings for the region THE NORTH 1. It was published by BBC Publications.
The best thing about old magazines is almost always the advert. Especially old computer adverts.
I also quite like this advert for coal – the fuel of the future.
Good old futurstic coal.
The rest of the magazine can be seen by clicking on the images in the gallery below.
Many thanks to N Fishwick for sending me these scans.
This pack of Top Trumps were released in 1992 by Waddingtons. There are 30 cards in the set. It is the third pack in a loosely linked set along with Dragons and Magic Beasts and Aliens and Space Warriors.
If you really wanted to, you could combine all three packs into one really massive top trumps pack (as long as you didn’t mind equating Intelligence with Magical Power). I assume if you did this the game would never ever end at any point.
This audio documentary on how to choose a computer for your business was produced by Double Tee Productions in the early 80s.
It was distributed on cassette tape, possibly with a magazine, or maybe on its own, I don’t know. The box it came in had no sleeve, anyway, and the label on the tape is little help.
The section on side 2 that addresses concerns that the computer might take over your company (at about 8 minutes 50) is quite touching. It reminds me of the opening page from How it works… The Computer which starts “There is something about computers that is both fascinating and alarming.”
Thanks to Chriddof for these MP3s.
“Beat The Devil” appeared in the 1984 Judge Dredd annual, published by IPC Magazines and Fleetway in 1983. The strip was written by John Wagner (under his T.B. Grover pseudonym) and illustrated by Carlos Ezquerra.
This board game was printed in the back of The Thirteenth Blue Peter Book, published in 1976 by the BBC.
It’s not an especially good board game, I just really love the abominable snowman. It’s the best monster I’ve seen since that beardfaced monk creature in one of the articles in The Unexplained.
I wonder if they’re related.
