The Vectrex is a vector display-based home video game console that was developed by Western Technologies/Smith Engineering. It was licensed and distributed first by General Consumer Electronics (GCE), and then by Milton Bradley Company after…
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Atari 2600
The Atari 2600, originally sold as the Atari Video Computer System or Atari VCS until November 1982, is a home video game console from Atari, Inc. Released on September 11, 1977, it is credited with…

Micro Men
Affectionately comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s. Legendary inventor Clive Sinclair battles it out with ex-employee Chris Curry, founder of Acorn Computers, for dominance in the fledgling market. The…

SAM Coupé
The SAM Coupé is an 8-bit British home computer that was first released in late 1989. The machine is based around a Z80B CPU clocked at 6 MHz. The machine was marketed as a logical…

Sinclair C5
The Sinclair C5 is a small one-person battery electric velomobile, technically an “electrically assisted pedal cycle”. It was the culmination of Sir Clive Sinclair’s long-running interest in electric vehicles. Although widely described as an “electric…

Robotron KC87
The Robotron KC 87 was an 8-bit home computer produced in East Germany in 1987. Based around a 2.5 MHz U880 CPU, essentially a Zilog Z80 clone with a BASIC interpreter in ROM and software…

Commodore PET
Released in 1977, the Commodore PET was Commodore’s first full-featured computer, which formed the basis of their entire 8-bit line including the C64.