Meeting ‘my people’ – video gamers with very long memories – took me back to an era of machine play that lacked megabytes but had far more tangible presence ...

While you can pick up the standard black version for £90 or less in the UK, the newly released white edition has a recommended retail price of £129.99. This may seem like an excessive price increase, ...

It can be really hard to warm up to coding in Assembly. But this tutorial looks to make it understandable and (almost) easy. It focuses on programming a game for the ZX Spectrum. But you won’t need ...

Two handheld systems based on the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum are set for release later this year. Retro Games Ltd – which ...

Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...

The parents of the home computer gamers of the 1980s presumably hoped we’d become programmers or accountants, but instead their kids ended up like me I had one of those ads pop up on Twitter recently.

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/ ...

Sinclair Research was best known in the United States for the tiny ZX80, and the ZX81, under its Timex branding. However, they also made the ZX Spectrum which had many features that were — at the time ...

This anniversary edition of the ZX Spectrum comes in two versions, with a limited collector’s edition shipping out in June.

Retro home computing from the 1980s is coming to handheld gaming, and the target audience may be niche, but the devices look ...