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ZX Spectrum Games - Cookie, Pssst, Death Wish and JetPac

4/24/2016

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We are opening a boxed donation which came to us earlier this week and these classic games were inside. Jet Pac is of course one of the most famous games on the Spectrum, it was released in 1983 on both the Spectrum and Commandore VIC - 20 ( My very first computer ) . The game spawned two other sequels, Lunar Jetman (1983 ) and Solar Jetman : Hunt for the Golden Warp Ship (1990 ) which was only released on the NES system. Also from that same developer came Pssst and it was released shortly after Jet Pac . Cookie was the third game from Ultimate Play The Game ,  but it seemed to resemble too much the Pssst game and did consequently not receive good reviews . Death Wish 3 is a game from Gremlin and was released in 1987 , was quite violent compared to other games in this era and you can see the resemblance with the first Grand Theft Auto, it was open world,  extremely voilent, and if you mistreat  the civilians the cops will show up and start chasing you :)
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Death Wish 3
Jet Pac
Pssst
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ZX81 by Sinclair Research 

4/23/2016

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​The ZX81 is a home computer produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Scotland by Timex Corporation. It was launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair's ZX80 and was designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing for the general public. It was hugely successful and more than 1.5 million units were sold before it was eventually discontinued. The ZX81 found commercial success in many other countries, notably the United States, where it was initially sold as the ZX-81. Timex manufactured and distributed it under licence and enjoyed a substantial but brief boom in sales. Timex later produced its own versions of the ZX81 for the US market – the Timex Sinclair 1000 and Timex Sinclair 1500. Unauthorised clones of the ZX81 were produced in a number of countries.

We got this one with an extra 16K RAM expansion.
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​The ZX81 was designed to be small, simple, and above all cheap, using as few components as possible to keep the cost down. Video output was to a television set rather than a dedicated monitor. Programs and data were loaded and saved onto audio tape cassettes. It had only four silicon chips on board and a mere 1 KB of memory. The machine had no power switch or any moving parts (with the exception of a VHF TV channel selector switch present on early "ZX81 USA" models and the Timex-Sinclair 1000), and used a pressure-sensitive membrane keyboard for manual input. The ZX81's limitations prompted the emergence of a flourishing market in third-party peripherals to improve its capabilities. Such limitations, however, achieved Sinclair's objective of keeping the cost of the machine as low as possible. Its distinctive design brought its designer, Rick Dickinson, a Design Council award.
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​The ZX81 could be bought by mail order in kit form or pre-assembled. In what was then a major innovation, it was the first cheap mass-market home computer that could be bought from high street stores, led by W.H. Smith and soon many other retailers. The ZX81 marked the first time that computing in Britain became an activity for the general public, rather than the preserve of businesspeople and electronics hobbyists. It inspired the creation of a huge community of enthusiasts, some of whom founded their own businesses producing software and hardware for the ZX81. Many went on to play a major role in the British computer industry in later years. The ZX81's commercial success made Sinclair Research one of Britain's leading computer manufacturers and earned a fortune and an eventual knighthood for the company's founder, Sir Clive Sinclair.
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Here is a picture of ZX81 sold as an kit which you had to assemble yourself :)
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ZX Spectrum Games

4/22/2016

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We obtained these two games , all inclusive and in perfect condition . Live Ammo from Ocean which is considered to be the best collection that was issued on Sinclair and contains games like  The Great Escape , Top Gun , Green Beret , Rambo , Army Moves and we also got the game Hot Rasputin , a kind of 3D / Isometric platform game , got really good reviews at the time, especially for graphics , and was one of the more difficult games on this machine.
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ZX Spectrum

11/21/2015

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​The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd.

Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, the machine was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black and white of its predecessor, the ZX81. The Spectrum was ultimately released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level model with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987; together they sold in excess of 5 million units worldwide (not counting numerous clones).
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​The Spectrum was among the first mainstream-audience home computers in the UK, similar in significance to the Commodore 64 in the USA. The introduction of the ZX Spectrum led to a boom in companies producing software and hardware for the machine, the effects of which are still seen; some credit it as the machine which launched the UK IT industry. Licensing deals and clones followed, and earned Clive Sinclair a knighthood for "services to British industry".

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​The Commodore 64, Oric-1 and Atmos, BBC Microcomputer and later the Amstrad CPC range were rivals to the Spectrum in the UK market during the early 1980s. Over 24,000 software titles have been released since the Spectrum's launch and new titles continue to be released--over 100 in 2012. In 2014, a bluetooth keyboard modelled on the Spectrum was announced.
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