Dr Steve Vickers | The Sinclair ZX Spectrum needed Colour for Games! | The Rubber-Keyed Wonder Movie

Steve Vickers who co-created the ZX Spectrum Computer explains in this clip how the ZX Spectrum Computer was essentially a short (less than a year) project to upgrade Sinclair's previous computer the ZX81 and how the key to this was to allow for colour! The reason for colour was that games were now being played on the ZX81 and with a booming coin driven arcade industry going on outside, as well as colour games available on home consoles such as the Atari VCS 2600 meant any games designed for this new system (called the ZX82 initially) would need to feature colour if it was going to be a success!

This clip is from our new documentary film celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

2022 will mark 40 years since the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was released in April 1982! The ZX Spectrum computer went onto sell over 5 million units and was one of the most important contributions in 50 years of video game history, and for many was the most important and perhaps most loved!

It wasn't just the wonderful library of computer games that sprung up because of the ZX Spectrum, but it was the chief component that kick-started the British Video Games Industry in the 1980s!

With this project, we are making a standalone 80min feature film documentary plus loads of additional featurettes and game design stories that cover a huge array of subjects all to do with our mutual love for the ZX Spectrum and put it all into one celebratory, 40th anniversary package!

Anyone who pre-orders our new film gets immediate access to a 1 Hour 'Backer Pack' full of clips from the upcoming film and game makings of such as Jon Ritman on Match Day 1 & 2, Graftgold, Equinox with Raff Cecco, Julian Gollop on Chaos and a lot more!
Pre-orders are available here: https://the-rubber-keyed-wonder-40-years-of-the-zx-spectrum.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders