Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher (originally under the name Program Power - they continued using 'Program Power' as a trading name and often both names would appear on their releases) but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software (both their own and third-party) through their Leeds 'showroom' or via mail order.
From 1980 to 1987 the company publis...
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Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher (originally under the name Program Power - they continued using 'Program Power' as a trading name and often both names would appear on their releases) but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software (both their own and third-party) through their Leeds 'showroom' or via mail order.
From 1980 to 1987 the company published a number of video games and other software for various home computers. The earliest programs were released for the Acorn Atom but they are best remembered for their games for that machine's successor, Acorn's BBC Micro (with all but two of their post-Atom games running on that machine). All games that could be (and weren't considered 'too old') were ported to the Acorn Electron after its release in 1983 and almost all new games were now released for these 2 machines. A few were also ported to other 8-bit platforms including Commodore 64,...
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