The Realtime Games team outside their office: Andy Onions, Graeme Baird and Ian Oliver. The trio were responsible for some of the ZX Spectrum's greatest wireframe shoot-'em-ups such as 3D Starstrike and Starglider.

David Marshall, author of one of the Spectrum's finest combat flight sims, Fighter Pilot, in his office circa 1989. David sadly passed away in 2016, aged just 62.

Christian Penfold and Mel Croucher of Automata at a trade show in the early-mid 80s. In protest against the violence in computer games, Automata had cleared its stand to make way for jazz band. Note the posters behind the band: "Trumpets Not Crumpets, Peace Not Violence"

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Mastertronic's Martin Alper, John Maxwell, Alison Beasley and Alan Sharam have fun on the office pinball machine circa 1985.

Monty Python Terry Jones at the launch of Mosaic Software/Level 9's Erik The Viking game in 1984.

The story of Captain Blood, in which you track down and murder your own clones - five times eurogamer.net/the-story-of-c…

US Gold's Tim Chaney is presented with an award by Jools Holland at the 1984 C&VG Golden Joysticks. US Gold featured in the Best Strategy Game section with Beach Head coming second behind The Lords Of Midnight.

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Incentive Software's bespoke C5 atop the company Volvo, circa 1985.

Imagine Software co-founder Mark Butler arrives at his offices astride a custom-made motorbike circa 1983.

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This little fellow, Milo from The Mask

Proud to announce our involvement in the brand new Spectrum from Retro Games Ltd. We are responsible for the mini CRASH magazine inside, and for coordinating some of the IP agreements! #zxspectrum #retrogaming

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Update #17: ZX Dreams - a book for all those who love the ZX Spectrum kickstarter.com/projects/zzap6…

From the man who brought you the brilliant "ZX Nightmares", Graeme Wizwords Mason brings us the sequel, "ZX Dreams"! A 232-page hardback book featuring the best games on the ZX Spectrum. Already smashed through it's funding goal, the next stretch (dust cover) is just £300 away!