Museum featured in "Brits Who Made The Modern World" Elite Game
 How Elite became a gaming classic. Peter Snow looks at the untold stories of British scientific innovations. In the final episode of the series, Snow traces the development of Britain's £1.4 billion computer-game industry, which owes its success to the pioneering work of Cambridge undergrads David Braben and Ian Bell. Against all odds, their computer game Elite became a hit in the mid-1980s.Many of the scenes in this episode were filmed at the Centre For Computing History and features the Centre's Curator Jason Fitzpatrick. Watch it online at :
Broadcast on Channel 5 at 7.30pm Friday 22nd August 2008
Date : 19-08-2008 |
