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Author : emabolo
8 March 2026, 10:47 am
It's time to start talking about real games in this third chapter of the series.
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8 March 2026, 10:47 am
In this second chapter of the story, we'll see what happened in the two years following the release of the home computers.
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8 March 2026, 10:47 am
Let's start this long journey from the year of the Trinity: 1977, when the first home computers were released.
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8 March 2026, 10:47 am
If you own a computer today, it's either a PC or a Mac. Instead, not too many years ago, the world was full of crazy, tiny - and marvelous - machines called home computers. They had fancy names such as Apple II, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari 800, BBC Micro, Amiga, Atari ST, and more. It was the golden age of 8-bit and 16-bit technology.
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8 March 2026, 10:47 am
Ask any expert of the 16-bit era about Thalion, and you will always hear the same statement: it was one of the most talented studios of the 90’s. This relatively small company left us some of the best titles ever created for the Atari ST and Amiga, a legacy of games that we will play for a long time.
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8 March 2026, 10:47 am
Did you know there is an old game with a strange Italian title, Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio, set during the Italian Renaissance (1400)? I didn't, but I discovered that it's an intriguing title, with a captivating story worth telling.
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