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…
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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.