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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

Now, once that happened, we started getting demos coming through the Post people calling...

Now, once that happened, we started getting demos coming through the Post people calling us, people coming to Sheffield to bring their demos in, et cetera

Full Transcript

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Now, once that happened, we started getting demos coming
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through the Post people calling us, people coming
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to Sheffield to bring their demos in, et cetera.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
01:31:06
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
But what we were quite good at was identifying people - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
But what we were quite good at was identifying people
You may have noticed I'm actually wearing a classic Spectrum - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
You may have noticed I'm actually wearing a classic...
A very early street fighter esque game for the Spectrum. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
A very early street fighter esque game for the Spectrum.
It was just a really fun kung fu style game. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
It was just a really fun kung fu style game.
They produced a game called Four D Time Gate, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
They produced a game called Four D Time Gate,
And I think that helped establish certainly Quicksilver - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
And I think that helped establish certainly Quicksilver
They published Matthew Smith's Manic Minor - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
They published Matthew Smith's Manic Minor
There were a lot of publishers like that, smaller publishers - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
There were a lot of publishers like that, smaller publishers
The real game changer was a company called Master tro - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:16
The real game changer was a company called Master tro
So to have these budget games, which retailed - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
So to have these budget games, which retailed
There's your classic Master TRO game, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
There's your classic Master TRO game,
And a very basic cassette tape instructions - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
And a very basic cassette tape instructions
So what you could buy for 1 99 changed a lot. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
So what you could buy for 1 99 changed a lot.
And it changed in 1985 with the release - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
And it changed in 1985 with the release
Finders Keepers were so good that Master TRO realized - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
Finders Keepers were so good that Master TRO realized
And when David Jones produced Spellbound, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
And when David Jones produced Spellbound,
'cause people just realized that you could get a lot more - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:18
'cause people just realized that you could get a lot...
In Storm Ringer finished the first - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
In Storm Ringer finished the first
Storm Ringer. Sold well - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
Storm Ringer. Sold well
Even with Storm, I was still a bedroom coder, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
Even with Storm, I was still a bedroom coder,