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We never had any of them, but there wasn’t really a culture of must-have games then.
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Whenever I tell people I had a Spectrum, they generally reel off a list of classic games, including Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy and 3D Ant Attack. One friend had a Commodore 16, another an Acorn Electron, another a ZX81 – I was the only one with a Spectrum, so there was no playground cassette swapping. Most of my friends didn’t have a computer at home, and there was such a huge variety of systems available that when you did find someone else at school with a computer, it probably wasn’t the same one as yours. People also talk about heated playground spats between Spectrum and Commodore 64 owners – I don’t remember them either. People talk about the NES and Super Mario Bros as being revolutionary, but I didn’t know anyone at school with a NES – I wasn’t even aware it existed. I sometimes feel like I was brought up in a parallel universe when pundits discuss video games from the 1980s.
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I remember my Mum nervously asking ‘are you sure you know what you’re doing, Ben?’ as I did it, and I nodded as I hooked up the aerial and tuned the dial on the front of the TV to the correct RF channel for the Spectrum.
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Over the next year or so, I must have learned how to connect it all up and get it running, because I distinctly remember dragging the black and white TV to the dining room table, connecting up all the wires and getting the Spectrum all set up. I had a go on the bat and ball game, a Breakout clone called Thro’ The Wall – it was the first programme on side two of the Horizons cassette bundled with the computer, and I fell in love with it. I don’t remember my jaw dropping to the floor, nor it feeling revolutionary – I didn’t honestly even really know what a computer was, but I did find it fascinating that you could plug this little box into a TV and make things appear on the screen yourself, rather than just watching a TV programme.