If you're old enough to remember the crackling loading screens of the ZX Spectrum, take off your trousers and put a towel down, because you can now play its pixellated genius on your futuristic iPhone ...

They’re a little hard to find in the US, but the ZX Spectrum is right up there with the Commodore 64 and the Atari 8-bit computers in England. [Alistair] wanted to recreate the feeling of sitting ...

Back in early 80s Britain, when home computing was still very, very young, Sinclair's ZX Spectrum opened the eyes of bedroom gamers to a new world of color and became a massive hit. The affordable ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from ZX Spectrum Pac-Man Arcade This is a faithful conversion of the original Pac-Man arcade for the ZX Spectrum 48K. Everything was recreated with as much ...

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is fondly remembered by many for being their first introduction into the wonderful world of computing. Its advanced capabilities coupled with a spectacularly low price made it ...

It may have been startlingly modern once, but at 30, the Sinclair Spectrum is as close in time to the world's first commercial computers of the 50s as it is to the latest iPad. It's doing rather ...

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While last year's officially licensed ZX Spectrum Vega—a plug-and-play games-only version of the UK's finest 1980s home computer—didn't quite live up to expectations, creator Retro Computers is hoping ...

The 8-bit era of home computing was a far simpler time than the digital age we live in today. It was a world without online multiplayer, 3D accelerator chips or stereo sound, yet many claim that this ...

What if? That question haunts retro gamers everywhere. What if the companies behind beloved childhood machines hadn’t driven off a cliff in a clown car of bad decisions? ZX Spectrum fan Henrique ...

In the U.K., the iconic 8-bit home computer of the 1980s was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Few keyboards have surely been pounded as hard as the Spectrum’s rubberised complement of grey rectangles.

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/ ...