Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

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Hehe. If push came to shove, I'd say that's the best text adventure based on a long running rural farming soap opera I've ever played.

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I know the Imagine Software inspiration is very obvious, but there are some subtle things in there.

I'm fairly certain the ugly brutalist tower in Croydon was the real-life home of Probe Software for a while. My grandfather used to live in a nearby town and we'd pop through Croydon and see that.
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Do you remember if they were there in the 90s? I interviewed at Probe in 95-96 (when they were working on Die Hard Trilogy and a Fantastic Four game for the PlayStation), and your description sounds familiar.

I was very impressed that the setup Colin Ritman had looked identical to Matthew Smith's setup for Manic Miner - a TRS80 and a Speccy connected with a home made cable.
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PeteProdge wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:32 pm I know the Imagine Software inspiration is very obvious, but there are some subtle things in there.

I'm fairly certain the ugly brutalist tower in Croydon was the real-life home of Probe Software for a while. My grandfather used to live in a nearby town and we'd pop through Croydon and see that.
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Did anybody catch this little gem?
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PeteProdge wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:32 pm I know the Imagine Software inspiration is very obvious, but there are some subtle things in there.

I'm fairly certain the ugly brutalist tower in Croydon was the real-life home of Probe Software for a while. My grandfather used to live in a nearby town and we'd pop through Croydon and see that.
Disagree. The NLA Tower is not ugly.
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Spud wrote: Fri Jan 11, 2019 5:34 pm Disagree. The NLA Tower is not ugly.
It's quite nice, but Preston bus station spunks all over it.
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