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Take yourself back to Denmark, 1983.
Your grandmother hands you 30 krone.
You walk into BR Toys, full of hope, and you buy a brand‑new cassette game for your shiny Lambda 8300.
It’s called Big Race. The cover looks exciting. The title sounds exciting. Everything about it suggests you’re about to experience the thrill of high‑speed action on your humble ZX81‑clone.

Then you get home.
You load the tape.
The screen flickers.
You press fire.
And the computer immediately resets.

Welcome to Big Race — a game that crashes more than it plays.

In this video, I take a look at this obscure Lambda 8300 title, try to get it running on the EightyOne emulator, and discover that the most challenging part of the game isn’t the racing… it’s convincing the computer to stay alive for more than five seconds. Between ROM quirks, clone‑machine chaos, and a game that seems fundamentally allergic to stability, it’s a perfect snapshot of early‑80s home computing in all its unpredictable glory.

If you’ve ever wondered what gaming was like on a Danish ZX81 clone, or you just enjoy watching software fall apart under the slightest pressure, this one’s for you.

Featuring:
• The Lambda 8300 (the ZX81 clone nobody asked for)
• Big Race (a racing game in theory, not in practice)
• Emulator resets, ROM mysteries, and general retro chaos
• A healthy dose of disappointment, nostalgia, and dry humour

Sometimes retro gaming is about reliving the classics.
Other times… it’s about watching a game collapse under its own ambition.
This is the latter.

Created and released in 1983 by Danish developer Peter Gjørup, Big Race was a single‑player action game written specifically for the Lambda 8300. It features Danish‑language messages, simple arcade mechanics, and all the hallmarks of a one‑man project on a ZX81‑style machine. On paper, it’s a straightforward racing game. In reality, it behaves more like a stress test for the computer’s reset circuitry.