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LORD SUGAR’S MARVELLOUS AMSTRAD MUSEUM

Boredom can lead to great ideas, and that was starkly the case when Amstrad founder Lord Alan Sugar revealed plans to buy up his old products and use them as the basis of a new museum. He spoke of his desire after social media users began tweeting him photos of their retro Amstrad machines. “Nothing much inspired this desire to revisit the past other than having nothing else to do at the moment,” he tells Retro Gamer in an exclusive interview.

The proposal emerged at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and it could have been seen as

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