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Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Forget St. George’s Day, it’s 25 years since the launch of the ZX Spectrum, a home computer that went on to sell millions in the UK and kick-start tens of thousands of programming careers (including mine).

Mon 23rd Apr 2007, 8:52pm GMT

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I'm one of the tens of thousands, although mine was a 16K. Almost all games were developed for the 48K version which was really frustrating!
Luckily Jumping Jack worked on it.

— morcs, 2nd May, 11:34am

Jumping Jack was incredibly frustrating, yet addictive.
There were some pretty good games for 16K early on, such as JetPac, TransAm, CDS Pool and Jungle Trouble.

— Matt Round, 2nd May, 1:54pm

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