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Daily on-this-day retrospective of 1980s and 1990s home computers and games. Hosts Lee and Mark Webb pick a real date, look at the UK charts and high-street computer counters, then review a game from that day across the machines that had it — graphics, music, honest scores.

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    Ep.34 r1 — Micro Machines — 24 October 1993

    Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.34 r1 — Micro Machines — 24 October 1993. Codemasters' tiny racer had just gone pocket sized, with Mean Machines Sega giving the Game Gear version 94% that month. Meat Loaf was in week four of seven at number one with I'd Do Anything for Love, Lovejoy was charming his way round the antiques trade on BBC One, Bad Influence and GamesMaster had the gamers glued to the telly, and Tracy Island was finally Toy of the Year. Lee and Mark set the scene with the chart, telly, toys and shop prices, then get into the 93% reviews, the breakfast table and bath tub tracks, the eight lights of head to head, the reverse engineered NES original, the one bit bug, Galoob's Game Genie court win over Nintendo, the Mega Drive delay, and a sound desk and overall verdict across the NES, Mega Drive and Game Gear. Hosts: Lee & Mark Webb.

  2. 2d ago

    Ep.33 r1 — Turrican — 22 October 1990

    Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.33 r1 — Turrican — 22 October 1990. Manfred Trenz's huge German blaster was in Gallup's all formats top ten as autumn set in. The Beautiful South went to number one with A Little Time, Unchained Melody came roaring back, Noel Edmonds had Telly Addicts on BBC One, Bob Holness was lighting up hexagons on Blockbusters, and the Game Boy and Mega Drive had both just landed in British shops. Lee and Mark set the scene with the chart, telly, toys and shop prices, then get into Zzap's 97% Gold Medal, Sinclair User's 79% dissent, Amstrad Action's double Mastergame issue, the lightning whip and gyroscope, the Giana Sisters and R-Type backstory, a title tune borrowed from The Transformers Movie, a Manowar album cover, and a sound desk and overall verdict across the C64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and Amiga. Hosts: Lee & Mark Webb.

  3. 5d ago

    Ep.32 r1 — Target Renegade — 20 October 1988

    Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.32 r1 — Target Renegade — 20 October 1988. Six months after it hit the shops, Ocean and Imagine's two-player street brawler was still in Gallup's full-price top twenty. Whitney Houston was at number one, D Mob's We Call It Acieed caused a stir on Top of the Pops, David Essex launched The River on BBC One, Count Duckula was new on ITV, and Sega was nine days from launching the Mega Drive in Japan. Lee and Mark set the scene with the chart, telly, toys and shop prices, then get into a big Amstrad split (86% and a Mastergame in Amstrad Action, 6 out of 20 in Amstrad Computer User), Scumville's five levels, the Bob Wakelin box art, the Beastie Boys baddies, and a sound desk across the C64, Spectrum 128K and Amstrad CPC. Hosts: Lee & Mark Webb.

  4. Oct 18

    Ep.31 r1 — Rise of the Robots — 18 October 1994

    Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.31 r1 — Rise of the Robots — 18 October 1994. One month to the day before the most hyped Amiga game of 1994 finally reached the shops. Take That were at number one with Sure, The Fast Show was four episodes old on BBC Two, GamesMaster was on Channel 4, Power Rangers were Toy of the Year, and Netscape had just announced its free web browser while the Amiga carried on without Commodore. Lee and Mark set the scene with the chart, telly, toys and shop prices, then dig into the biggest magazine split the show has covered (92% in Amiga Action, 5% in Amiga Power), the rendered robots, Brian May's missing soundtrack, the hype machine, and a sound desk across Amiga, PC and Super Nintendo. Hosts: Lee & Mark Webb.

  5. Oct 16

    Ep.30 r1 — Fairlight — 16 October 1985

    Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.30 r1 — Fairlight — 16 October 1985. On this Wednesday in 1985, The Edge's isometric castle quest Fairlight sat atop the Gallup Spectrum chart. Jennifer Rush held the UK singles number one with The Power of Love, BBC One was repeating Tenko, Transformers were Toy of the Year, and Amstrad's new PCW word processor had just hit the high street. Lee and Mark open the era with chart, telly, toys and shop prices, then dig into Crash Smash scores, Bo Jangeborg's Worldmaker system, Clever Music on the Sid chip, and the Fairlight II royalty row that ended in court. Hosts: Lee & Mark Webb.

  6. Oct 16

    Ep.29 r1 — Last Ninja 2 — 12 October 1988

    Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.29 r1 — Last Ninja 2 — 12 October 1988. System 3's Last Ninja 2 brings the ninja to modern-day New York in the autumn of 1988. Whitney Houston's One Moment In Time tops the singles chart, Wogan is on BBC One, Sylvanian Families take Toy of the Year again, and the Atari ST and Amiga 500 fight it out in the shops. Lee and Mark go through the prices, the magazine scores (including Amstrad Action's 31 percent against Cent Pour Cent's 90 on the CPC), the limited-edition box with its ninja mask and plastic throwing star, and Matt Gray's music on the Sixty-Four. Hosts: Lee and Mark Webb.

  7. Oct 14

    Ep.28 r1 — Renegade — 14 October 1987

    Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.28 r1 — Wednesday 14 October 1987. Ocean/Imagine's Renegade is the beat-em-up of the autumn: number two on Gallup for the week to the tenth, back at number one the week after. Bee Gees You Win Again tops the singles chart, Only Fools and Horses is repeated on BBC One, Sylvanian Families take Toy of the Year, and the Amiga 500 has just landed in Britain. Lee and Mark walk through the shop prices, the magazine scores (including ACE's fifty percent on the Sixty-Four versus Zzap's ninety), the Kunio-kun licence story, and the music on the Sixty-Four, Spectrum and Amstrad. Hosts: Lee and Mark Webb.

  8. Oct 10

    Ep.27 r2 — Zool — 10 October 1992

    Bread Bin & Cartridge Ep.27 r2 — Saturday 10 October 1992. Gremlin's Zool sits at number one on the Gallup all-formats full-price chart. Tasmin Archer's Sleeping Satellite is the UK number one single, Blind Date is on the Saturday telly, WWF Wrestlers take Toy of the Year, and the Amiga 1200 has just launched. Lee and Mark walk through the shop prices, the Amiga magazine raves, the later Mega Drive split, the Chupa Chups sponsorship story, and the music on Amiga, Atari ST and Mega Drive. Hosts: Lee and Mark Webb.

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Daily on-this-day retrospective of 1980s and 1990s home computers and games. Hosts Lee and Mark Webb pick a real date, look at the UK charts and high-street computer counters, then review a game from that day across the machines that had it — graphics, music, honest scores.

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  • Creator
    Unsupervised Overnight
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    34
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Unsupervised Overnight
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