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BACK TO THE 80s

veryone has their favourite period for gaming, whether it’s the embryonic stages of the Seventies, or the three-generation span of the Nineties that saw 8-bit systems For many of our readers, we’re guessing the Eighties was their favourite period for gaming, and in all honesty it’s not hard to understand why.

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