If you never saw a ZX Spectrum live back in the day, you are probably one of those unlucky chaps living in the USA. Beyond those 5 million units sold there were clones aplenty, eapecially in Spain which launched a specialized 128 kB version prior to Sinclair's introduction of that toasrack model in Great Britain. The simple hardware without any special chips and tons of readily available software spawned over 100 (in)official clones around the world, especially in Eastern Europe. So the ZX Spectrum's worldwide influence can hardly be overstated.

@jazzchicken87

23 күн бұрын

I never knew there was also a handheld version of the Spectrum. Also has its own advert 😄

@firsteerr

23 күн бұрын

wasn't the Timex the US spectrum ? i have seen lots of Russian or rather soviet clones which seem to have been pretty good

@seraphinberktold7087

23 күн бұрын

@@firsteerr I do not know too much about those Timex machines. The Timex Sinclair T/S 2068 was a partly Spectrum-compatible computer and its improvements over the ZX Spectrum were its downfall IMHO because there was not too much software available for it.

the tape loading was a right pain but no where NEAR as painful as typing in a game from a magazine only to have it be shit and nothing like the ad ten hours down the swanny

@jazzchicken87

23 күн бұрын

Haha yeahhhhh good times aye? 😅

oh my goodness that psst cover nearly killed me and got my fetishistic materialistic memory awake.I had one sinclair 48k in my childhood and I'm an iranian.yes you heard me it had a serious fan base back in the day here .

@jazzchicken87

24 күн бұрын

Haha that makes me happy to hear. Pssst was one of my fav games as a child 😄 After seeing the different versions I believe ours was the Spectrum +1. Unsure what size Ram it was though 🤔

@keyvanmehrbakhsh4069

24 күн бұрын

@@jazzchicken87 nice video btw it was so fun watching it and made me laugh fairly.

Not a console. Technically a home computer.

@jazzchicken87

23 күн бұрын

Yep