I don’t need to tell you how important this little black rubber-keyed beast was to me, during my late childhood and early teens. It was my first “real” computer (technically, it was my father’s, but…), and not only did I spent thousands of hours playing hundreds of games on it, it was also the computer I learned to program (BASIC) on, when I was 9 or 10.

It was a time that seemed magical, with endless possibilities. I still remember the afternoon when my father introduced that (at the time) weird thing at home. I didn’t know it then, but it would be one of the most important and enduring influences on my life.

Twenty-five years. Doesn’t even seem that long ago.

And people are still creating new games for it… who’d have thought?

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1. The Hobbit (ZX Spectrum / Commodore 64, 1982)
2. Penetrator (ZX Spectrum, 1982)
3. Doomdark’s Revenge (ZX Spectrum / Commodore 64, 1984)