The rubber-keyed ZX82 Spectrum was launched in 1982 and became one of the biggest selling home computers.
It came with a game about reproducing rabbits and a version of
the tennis game Pong.
The greatest games were things like Jet Set Willy, Atic Atac and TransAm, and had to be loaded from cassette tape. They were so good that you can still get Spectrum emulators for your state-of-the-art PC to play them.
A couple of other ZXs had been launched in previous years but
the Spectrum was the one that really took off. By the following year its inventor
Clive Sinclair was knighted.
