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The real game changer was a company called Master tro
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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

The real game changer was a company called Master tro because Master Tro did a deal where...

The real game changer was a company called Master tro because Master Tro did a deal where their games would be distributed into places where you wouldn't normally find video games, for instance, the little corner shop where you buy a newspaper

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The real game changer was a company called Master tro
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because Master Tro did a deal
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where their games would be distributed into places
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where you wouldn't normally find video games, for instance,
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the little corner shop where you buy a newspaper.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
01:32:20
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
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,
And all of a sudden I think people realized - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
And all of a sudden I think people realized
That when Code Masters formed, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
That when Code Masters formed,
You know, we'll, we're just going to sell budget games - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
You know, we'll, we're just going to sell budget...
And they did games like Dizzy Professional Ski Simulator, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
And they did games like Dizzy Professional Ski Simulator,
And eventually the big labels kind - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
And eventually the big labels kind
And so you end up with the likes of the hit squad - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
And so you end up with the likes of the hit squad
So the budget market ends up becoming, again, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
So the budget market ends up becoming, again,
It did become obvious to me that software was so important - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
It did become obvious to me that software was so important
And I hired someone - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
And I hired someone