My top 5 BBC Micro Computer Games. My personal top 5 games on the BBC Micro, the ultimate retro computer. |--| Come with me on a journey to the early 1980s and let me introduce you to the BBC Micro, more affectionately known as the beeb. The Legendary BBC Micro was "The Acorn Computer Company's" bid for the then "BBC Computer Literacy Project" operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The then governments attempt to get the country using and learning about computers through a series of TV programmes and literature. Acorn won the bid and despite its high cost it became a popular home computer and the great granddaddy of the Processor architecture in virtually every embedded device you own today, indeed the ARM Chip-set was designed and simulated using a BBC and featured in Acorns later machines. Although not as widely know as a gaming system versus its Commodore and Sinclair competitors it did receive many a good port and several system exclusives..