Category: ZX81

  • 3D Monster Maze for Sinclair ZX81

    3D Monster Maze for Sinclair ZX81

    The first survival horror game? 3D Monster Maze was a 1982 computer game for the Sinclair ZX81, one of the first home computers to be launched in the UK. At this time the closest thing to a “scary” video game was Atari’s Hunted House (also 1982), on the 2600 console. Haunted House was however very…

  • Sinclair ZX81 old school computing

    Sinclair ZX81 old school computing

    It’s 1981, and I’m an 10 year old boy fascinated with the emerging world of personal computers.  My dad would bring home a Commodore Pet machine from work, the same shape and size as a small car, over the Christmas period. I would spend hours playing Snake (yes, years before Nokia got in on the…