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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

Really. It gave the tools of production to the hands of millions and you made your own fun...

Really. It gave the tools of production to the hands of millions and you made your own fun and it enabled you to kind of get your head around, okay, well this is a set of instructions that I need to give this machine

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Really. It gave
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the tools of production to the hands of millions
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and you made your own fun
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and it enabled you to kind of get your head around, okay,
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well this is a set of instructions
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that I need to give this machine.
Duration
14 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
01:13:03
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
Let's see what I can do. It just fed that curiosity again, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
Let's see what I can do. It just fed that curiosity...
It's what drives curiosity and creativity. There - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
It's what drives curiosity and creativity. There
So instead of one company making 10 games that everyone had - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So instead of one company making 10 games that everyone had
So someone who likes football games - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
So someone who likes football games
Other computers have as well, but this was cheap. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
Other computers have as well, but this was cheap.
It was in everyone's houses, it was color. It's beautiful. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
It was in everyone's houses, it was color. It's...
The spectrum for me opened my eyes to art in computer games. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
The spectrum for me opened my eyes to art in computer games.
The color, the things you could do on screen, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:15
The color, the things you could do on screen,
So if you've got two colors moving in front of each other, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
So if you've got two colors moving in front of each...
So you'd have all these, uh, graphics changing color - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
So you'd have all these, uh, graphics changing color
You couldn't do graphics on the spectrum without knowing how - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
You couldn't do graphics on the spectrum without...
It started the great video games C Crash I never even knew - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
It started the great video games C Crash I never even knew
But I'm telling you what color clash really - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
But I'm telling you what color clash really
I mean, I was just discovering girls break - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
I mean, I was just discovering girls break
This is awesome. It was my opportunity to do - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
This is awesome. It was my opportunity to do
I could spend all day and all night doing this - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
I could spend all day and all night doing this
The amount of games that we used to get - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
The amount of games that we used to get
There were so many that we played for five minutes, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
There were so many that we played for five minutes,
There was a whole genre around that time - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
There was a whole genre around that time
They had so much in them, so much - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
They had so much in them, so much