Originally, in the mid-1980s, the magazine covered 8-bit home computers such as the Commodore 64, the MSX line and the ZX Spectrum.
Some columns, like the famous Peliluola by Nordic the Incurable, were written in a subculture insider style, and obscure in-jokes such as exploding hamsters were occasionally used.
Many of the staff were fans of Star Trek: The Original Series and sometimes even wrote entire articles about the show, which had little or nothing to do with home computers.
[8] Risto Hieta became famous by the name Nordic the Incurable as the writer of the Peliluola ("The Gaming Den") column in MikroBitti.
[2] In the 1980s, the MikroBitti staff used to hold an annual summer camp in Lautsia, a small village in the Tavastia Proper region in southern Finland.
Jyrki Kasvi, a longtime contributor to MikroBitti, has mentioned having found many summer camp attendees at executive positions in Finnish IT companies.
[14] In 1989, MikroBitti reviewed a fictional German space-themed computer game Illuminatus, designed by one "Jürgen Sternreise" (which loosely translates to John Star Trek), as an April fools' joke.
Illuminatus supposedly starts out as a single-player spaceflight simulator and then expands into a massive multi-player strategy game.
Its name quickly appeared in Finnish mail order advertisements and even foreign distributors called the magazine to express interest in the game.
In his first editorial, Editor-in-chief Mikko Torikka promised that the newly relaunched Mikrobitti won't write about grass cutters and razors unless someone programs one to play Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up.