If you read anything about the Zx Spectrum today, it seems impossible to avoid the influence of Horace.

It just so happens that, unfortunately, many consider him to be the mascot of the entire system. Yes, I spent plenty of time playing Turtles, Target Renegade and the port of WWF Wrestle Mania, but I also spent some time playing more aged titles like Cyclone and Scuba Dive (cover tapes), Back 2 Skool ( naughty copy) and Ghostbusters (budget release under the “Ricochet” label.) In fact, in the pantheon of great Spectrum games, I think there was only really one key omission. Not only did I end up with a huge library, then, but it was one that represented the entire span of the machine. Though the Spectrum would still receive premium £9.99 releases for the next couple of years (including a great port of the NES Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and an impressive but sluggish port of Final Fight), by this point the vast bulk of its library was available for next to nothing – either as official budget releases, hastily discounted premium titles, magazine-mounted cover tapes or – very rarely – as titles copied illicitly from friends. Though my Speccy was only in active use until around 1992, I still ended up filling two huge plastic crates with tapes – and most of those would have been tightly packed miniature jewel cases to boot. In practice however, i think it was a stroke of genius. In theory buying a new Spectrum in 1989 – when the advanced Amiga and Atari ST were already on the market with their fancy 16-bit games – was a colossal error.

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