Phantoon
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This probably won't gain much traction here as it's a British gaming related thing from the distant past, but Sir Clive Sinclair, responsible for the ZX (that's "zed-ecks") Spectrum has died.
In the early 80's, computers hadn't made much headway into British homes so he developed (along with other people like the dear departed Rick Dickinson) a series of computers that were extremely cheap to buy. While antiquated by today's standards these machines were most people's first exposure to computers and the likes of BASIC. From this, the British computing industry was born, leading to such luminaries as Rare, who as Ultimate Play The Game released some of the best and most impressive Spectrum (or Speccy, to its mates) games.
The 8 bit era here was largely dominated by the Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad CPC, with consoles as a distanst second place, and it's largely due to the work of people like Sir Clive.
Then he tried to get into the electric vehicle business 35 years too early, but that's another story...
In the early 80's, computers hadn't made much headway into British homes so he developed (along with other people like the dear departed Rick Dickinson) a series of computers that were extremely cheap to buy. While antiquated by today's standards these machines were most people's first exposure to computers and the likes of BASIC. From this, the British computing industry was born, leading to such luminaries as Rare, who as Ultimate Play The Game released some of the best and most impressive Spectrum (or Speccy, to its mates) games.
The 8 bit era here was largely dominated by the Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad CPC, with consoles as a distanst second place, and it's largely due to the work of people like Sir Clive.
Then he tried to get into the electric vehicle business 35 years too early, but that's another story...