ZX Spectrum

Sinclair Research Ltd. in 1982

Designed by Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research (hardware) and by Steve Vickers on contract from Nine Tiles Ltd (software). Sinclair's industrial designer Rick Dickinson was responsible for the machine's exterior appearance.
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Tech info
resolution: 256 x 192 x 16 colors, no palette
memory: 16K ROM, 16/48K RAM
CPU: Z80
sound: Internal speaker

List status

there are 3574 games for this platform, 2161 (60.4%) have one or more images, 2298 (64.2%) with a gametype, 700 (19.5%) with perspective while 154 (4.3%) have a description. 2668 (74.6%) have a release date, 3292 (92.1%) have a company.
Overall: 52.2% ?

1981	2
1982	91
1983	406
1984	386
1985	336
1986	368
1987	368
1988	238
1989	191
1990	120
1991	99
1992	37
1993	13
1994	1
1995	2
1996	5
1997	1
1998	1

2005	2

2008	1

2668 games with valid date were considered (74.6%)

most popular games

Sex Tetris
Questprobe 2 : Spider-Man
Lunar Jetman
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Skooldaze
007 - The Living Daylights
007: A View to a Kill
Head over Heels
Alien 8
Arkanoid

15 top ranking games

Head over Heels
Alien 8
Highway Encounter
Penetrator
Atic Atac
Match Day II
Scooby Doo in the Castle Mystery
Skooldaze
Knight Lore
Green Beret
Pi-In'Ere
Ping-Pong
Bomb Jack
International Cricket
The Last Mohican

Common gametypes

adventure	934
platformer	411
strategy	274
shooter	242
simulation	208
action/reflex	173
sport	144
maze	85
beat 'em up	60
racing/driving	56
fighting	28
edutainment	24
puzzle	22
flight	21
role-play	15
casino/cards	11
gun shooting	8
trivia/quiz	7
board game	7
turn-based	5
manag./econ.	3
first-person-shooter	3
pinball	1

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Top ZX Spectrum tags

007 1940s 20thcentury 21stcentury africa aliens anthroprotagonist basketball bicycle bmxracing boulderdash boxing breakouts cartoon centipede chainreaction chess christmas city-newyork-ny comic cricket cyborgs darts did dizzy dracula earth elevators europeancomic extraterrestrial femaleprotagonist fighteraircraft fixedshooter forest frankenstein freescapeengine future golf hannabarbera martialarts missilecommand motorcycle motorracing motorsport movie ninja nonhuman pacman postapocalypse quilladventuresystem racquetsports rescue robots snake soccer subterranean tennis text traditional trivialpursuit tropic tvseries uvl-missingimages western wordinput worldwar2

10 most common companies

Mastertronic	129
Codemasters	91
Firebird	90
Ocean	84
U.S. Gold	55
Gremlin Graphics	52
CRL	49
Melbourne House	48
Atlantis Software	47
Dinamic	42

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