We live in a world of bedroom coders creating apps in mere hours and Instagram selling for $1bn, but rather than Apple's App Store, it was the launch of the ZX Spectrum in 1982 that kick-started the ...

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It was the computer that introduced a generation to video gaming, helped to earn Sir Clive Sinclair a knighthood and even made programming cool: the ZX Spectrum has a lot to answer for. But when, 30 ...

There have been many significant days in the history of the UK games industry, but the launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was arguably the first of them. I went to meet two people that helped make it ...

More than five million copies of the various ZX Spectrum computers were sold over the family's eight year lifespan, not including third-party clones. The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than ...