We live in a world of bedroom coders creating apps in mere hours and Instagram selling for $1bn, but rather than Apple's App Store, it was the launch of the ZX Spectrum in 1982 that kick-started the ...

A former Sinclair employee explains why the company behind the iconic ZX Spectrum refused to understand its importance to a generation of gamers. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

30 years ago today, the ZX Spectrum was born, and some of you still bang on about it. That's because it was brilliant and cheap (£125/£175) - much cheaper than rivals BBC Micro (£299/£399) and ...

It was the computer that introduced a generation to video gaming, helped to earn Sir Clive Sinclair a knighthood and even made programming cool: the ZX Spectrum has a lot to answer for. But when, 30 ...

More than five million copies of the various ZX Spectrum computers were sold over the family's eight year lifespan, not including third-party clones. The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than ...

The new ZX Spectrum Vega features an SD card slot and joypad controls Production is set to start on a remodelled version of the ZX Spectrum, which will come pre-installed with 1,000 classic game ...