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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

And the 80 meant that there were some really terrific games developed for it very quickly

And the 80 meant that there were some really terrific games developed for it very quickly

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And the 80 meant
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that there were some really terrific games developed
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for it very quickly.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
01:02:48
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
And that took off like wildfire - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
And that took off like wildfire
He hadn't set out to develop a machine - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
He hadn't set out to develop a machine
He acknowledged that that's what they did do with it. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
He acknowledged that that's what they did do with it.
And that drove sales and that was all well and good, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
And that drove sales and that was all well and good,
So I think for a lot of people, their first experience - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
So I think for a lot of people, their first experience
You've got explosions, grabs, loads of colors, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
You've got explosions, grabs, loads of colors,
Growing up in the early eighties, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
Growing up in the early eighties,
You'd go to the arcades, it would just be rows - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
You'd go to the arcades, it would just be rows
And I was always pestering my parents to go - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
And I was always pestering my parents to go
So the opportunity to have a machine - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
So the opportunity to have a machine
When you go back to the early eighties, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
When you go back to the early eighties,
And already on the ZX 81, there were versions - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
And already on the ZX 81, there were versions
Games like three D Monster MAs - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
Games like three D Monster MAs
The spectrum was coming out - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:15
The spectrum was coming out
And I went on to writes Cosmic Debris, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
And I went on to writes Cosmic Debris,
Totally unimaginative really, which Arctics sold again. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
Totally unimaginative really, which Arctics sold again.
But this time on a pretty good royalty deal, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
But this time on a pretty good royalty deal,
So almost as soon as the spectrum came out, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
So almost as soon as the spectrum came out,
We ripped off arcade games - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
We ripped off arcade games
We all went to the arcades - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
We all went to the arcades