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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: a bit of a celebration of the pioneering work of Sir Clive Sinclair, who has died, aged 81,<\/a> and his magical machines. <\/p>\n

If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nThe ZX Spectrum was perpetual presence in my youth – seeded through my school days in the form of dog-eared copies of Your Sinclair, furtive exchanges of cassette tapes stuffed with illicit copies of Speccy games, mid-loading POKE cheats, and long nights studiously spend copying out code from Usborne’s wonderful Adventure Game series<\/a> – but the one defining moment of it all was Matthew Smith’s 1983 gaming classic Manic Miner.<\/p>\n

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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: a bit of a celebration of the pioneering work of Sir Clive Sinclair, who has died, aged 81, and his magical machines. If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive. The ZX Spectrum was perpetual presence in my youth – seeded through my school days in the form of dog-eared copies of Your Sinclair, furtive exchanges of cassette tapes stuffed with illicit copies of Speccy games, mid-loading POKE cheats, and long nights studiously spend copying out code from Usborne’s wonderful Adventure Game series – but…<\/p>\n

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