Life in 8-bits

[NovaCoder]

My first computer was a ZX81 in 1981, what a horrible little computer

Keyboard like a lump of plastic (which is was), black and white and no sound.   As I could never get the cassette games to load I had to type in the code for each game I wanted to play from the games magazines which had the code for each game listed.   Can you imagine anyone doing that to play a game these days!

[NovaCoder]

Have you ever played 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81? i heard that was a cool game on it

Yep that was meant to be one it's best games but I never played it because I couldn't find a cassette player that would actually work with the computer (a common problem), unlike Commodore products it didn't come with its own official cassette player.

The longest game I ever typed in was called 'Swag', it took me about 4 hours to type that sucker in (16k) and only got to play it for about 10 mins because I was told to go to bed