Console and Computer Equality

Let's face it. All of these consoles and computers featured in this comic would have moderate success in Singapore if not for the video game prohibition of 1983 that saw arcades banned for several years. Part of the prohibition included Singapore Broadcasting Corporation banning any telecast of video game commercials whatsoever. Even educational games such as Oregon Trail and Basic Math/Fun With Numbers were also affected by the prohibition.

While video game consoles and home computers were not banned by the prohibition, the period of that prohibition greatly affected the Commodore C64 and the Colecovision, and these two gaming machines were more popular than some of these consoles and computers featured in this comic. Sometimes, we just cannot have nice things, all because we had to protect our morals.

Spectrum Kirby

Author's Note: My apologies for not uploading any tributes to the ZX Spectrum's 40th Anniversary and the Kirby franchise's 30th Anniversary. To make up for this, here is a comic where Kirby inhales a ZX Spectrum.

While Kirby's kind comes in several different colors other than pink, there was, however, no such thing as a multi-colored Kirby. That is, until he inhaled a ZX Spectrum keyboard and gains the red, yellow, green and cyan stripes found on the right side of the ZX Spectrum keyboard.

This comic also pays homage to the Brawl in the Family webcomic's gags where Kirby inhales various objects.

Remembering Clive Sinclair

It is with deep sadness that Sir Clive Sinclair, the creator of the ZX-80, ZX-81 and ZX Spectrum, passed away on the 16th of September, 2021, at the age of 81. He invented the future, but the future was not ready for it. Perhaps his greatest legacy was that he introduced the world to affordable computing when the ZX Spectrum was released on the 23rd of April, 1982.

Farewell, great inventor. Your legacy will live on through the various ZX Spectrum fan clubs.