12/05/2026
On 23 April 1982, Sir Clive Sinclair unveiled a rubber-keyed, rainbow-striped 8-bit computer at the Churchill Hotel in London. It cost £125. It sold over five million units. It contributed significantly to the launch of the British IT industry.
Around twenty thousand+ games were made for it including of course Jet Set W***y, Atic Atac and ’s personal fave - The Way of the Exploding Fist 👊 ✨
In the middle of an AI arms race, it’s worth remembering that the last time computing felt this exciting was when a small team in Cambridge put a Speccy under several million TVs in Britain.
What was your first ZX Spectrum game? 🎮
