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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

And so something that looked pretty while you waited for three or four minutes for the...

And so something that looked pretty while you waited for three or four minutes for the game load

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And so something that looked pretty while you waited
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for three or four minutes for the game load.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
01:20:10
Uploaded
Apr 11, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Gracious Films

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Movie Summary

Sinclair ZX Spectrum. This film goes into all the finer details of how and why the ZX Spectrum was created, what impact the computer had as well as the various versions
Now what happened with me, I was still at school at the - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
Now what happened with me, I was still at school at the
I came in work experience for a week - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
I came in work experience for a week
So I sat down and sat on the spectrum, plug it away, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
So I sat down and sat on the spectrum, plug it away,
Stayed for for two weeks. I just did loads of graphics. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
Stayed for for two weeks. I just did loads of graphics.
Some of the loading screens were beautiful art, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
Some of the loading screens were beautiful art,
A loading screen would come up, which served no purpose - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
A loading screen would come up, which served no purpose
And again, it was on your telly - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
And again, it was on your telly
Magazines were an easy way of finding an echo chamber - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
Magazines were an easy way of finding an echo chamber
There was a real kind of window shopping thing as well, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
There was a real kind of window shopping thing as well,
I relied on those magazines as my lifeblood - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
I relied on those magazines as my lifeblood
They were doing some game reviews quite early on - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:15
They were doing some game reviews quite early on
And even today I'll be drawn to a game on how it looks, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And even today I'll be drawn to a game on how it looks,
You could write in, you could ask them how - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
You could write in, you could ask them how
You could ask them what upgrades to get, how - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
You could ask them what upgrades to get, how
And that was crucial for spreading - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And that was crucial for spreading
So we would write letters. You couldn't go on the internet - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
So we would write letters. You couldn't go on the...
You had to write an actual letter - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
You had to write an actual letter
There was a regular feature in Sinclair user - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
There was a regular feature in Sinclair user
And I called myself the Perlin goblin - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
And I called myself the Perlin goblin
So the magazines gave you this sense of being part - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
So the magazines gave you this sense of being part