The logo is 256 pixels tall and 192 pixels wide with a palette of 15 shades: seven colors at two levels of brightness each, plus black. The ZX Spectrum was created on April 23, 1982 in the United ...

For gamers of a certain age the ZX Spectrum was the ultimate games machine, and now it’s making a return – with a £100 price tag and 1,000 Spectrum games pre-loaded.

The ZX Spectrum releases November 22, and has a price of £89, which translates to around $99 at US distributors. You can pre-order the ZX Spectrum on Amazon now ahead of release (it could sell fast).

The ZX Spectrum was wrapped in a plastic case and weighed just 550 grams (1.2lbs), compared to the metal, clunky 1.8kg (4lb) Commodore 64, and back-breaking 3.7kg (8.1lb) BBC Micro.

The ZX Spectrum Next makes 1982 seem like yesterday. The Speccy is 35 years old this year, and the ZX Spectrum Next is aiming to celebrate the fact with a new Kickstarter campaign.

The ZX Spectrum is one of the best-selling computers of all time: a British-made, 8-bit machine that shifted around 5 million units across Europe after its launch in 1982.

The ZX Spectrum would continue to play host to games of wildly varying quality until it was discontinued in 1992. The fact that it feels like the device lasted for far longer than that speaks to ...