This:
"The back story: in 1982, The Hobbit was the hottest ticket in gaming, thanks to its addition of big bold graphics and a syntax that did away with adventure games' annoying habit of allowing only a limited set of verbs to be applied to in-game objects."
And on the 48k spectrum, you'd wait 15 minutes for it to load, and then, at 14:59 be greeted by "R: Tape loading Error".
ARRGGHH...Pass me the azimuth adjusting screwdriver....