BBC Documentaries

Commercial Breaks: The Battle for Santa's Software (1984x5)

Uitzenddatum: Dec 13, 1984

The Battle for Santa's Software. This Christmas every high street will witness a battle of fantasy giants. Kong, Kokotoni Wilf , Zaxxon and Kentilla are part of the high-reward but high-risk computer games industry, suddenly worth £30 million a year. Commercial Breaks follows two companies as they seek a Christmas top ten hit. The whiz-kids of Imagine believe in the all-new Megagame - for the programmers at Ocean, it has to be a new version of last year's hero, Hunchback. But there are many other invaders on the way....