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The Micro Kids: An 80s Adventure with ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and more

By: Gary Plowman
Narrated by: Jas Walker
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About this listen

It is November 1983 and young Billy Twist and his friends are about to discover the exciting new world of microcomputers.

Billy and his friends start on their journey but run into some obstacles as they try to setup a computer gaming club.

Take a trip into the 80s world of micros, 80s pop culture, and classic video games in a story for 8-bit micro fans and geeks.

Billy is a typical kid growing up in the 80s - the age of the microcomputer. An age of wonder for teens and adults alike.

A nostalgic story of ZX Spectrums, Commodore 64, Amstrad and Ataris.

If I didn’t grow up in the 80s I would be jealous of everyone that did - because the 80s rocked!

©2018 Gary Plowman (P)2019 Gary Plowman Programming Programming & Software Development Software Development Technology Software Video Game

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read by a creap-sounding guy ruins it abit.
if your not in your late 30s you won't get this book

nostalgia for 80s kids

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I really wanted to enjoy the book but the narration is terrible, Soulless and without feeling and sounds like it's recorded in a bathroom. the story itself would probably be okay but the narration is so poor i cant get further in to it. Sorry

I really wanted to enjoy the book but...

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I come from the same era as the character in the book, so the references are all apt, but really it is just a collection of these references. Not one to ever go back to.

I'm sure it's a very easy read but narration of this makes it very hard to get through indeed.

A very slight book with dreadful narration.

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The story is as basic as it gets. The nostalgia is there for sure, but it feels a little like it’s a story that a 10’year old has written in school. This might be purposeful on behalf of the the author, but add the appalling narration by someone who clearly has zero experience or affinity with the source material “an Apple i i E” and it feels like a bedtime story for a 5 year old.

This was something I was looking forward to, being in my late 40s and having grown up with very similar memories, but I almost switched it off 6 or 7 times because I just couldn’t deal with the tone.

I persevered but was left feeling like I should have stopped after all.

Overall probably something to read, not listen to.

Like it’s being read to a 5 year old

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Narration not great and the quality of the writing is poor. Timeline for the content questionable. For example in the early chapters he talks about going to a gaming shop in Christmas 1983 that had an amstrad cpc 464 colour on one of the desks. A little difficult considering the amstrad wasn't released until April 1984. The story doesn't get much better as you navigate the year of 1984 and much of the script just doesn't feel believable as someone who grew up during the same period. Can't recommend

Not great. Some dubious recollections

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