Cover artwork of Jeff Wayne's Video Game Version of The War of the Worlds

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Jeff Wayne's Video Game Version of The War of the Worlds

VG90 catalogues Jeff Wayne's Video Game Version of The War of the Worlds (1984), a release from the 8-bit home-computer and console era for ZX Spectrum, for research and discovery.

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About the game

Dating from 1984, Jeff Wayne's Video Game Version of The War of the Worlds for ZX Spectrum is preserved in the VG90 archive as a catalogue entry — a factual marker of a release that belonged to the 8-bit home-computer and console era.

the 8-bit home-computer and console era was a period of rapid change for the medium: bedroom coders and small studios shipped astonishing work on tiny memory budgets. Placing Jeff Wayne's Video Game Version of The War of the Worlds in that timeline shows where it sat as the industry evolved.

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Why it matters

The value of a record like this is context: the 8-bit home-computer and console era produced far more games than the handful everyone remembers, and bedroom coders and small studios shipped astonishing work on tiny memory budgets. An archive earns its keep by preserving the long tail, not just the hits.

Technical notes

Platform on record: ZX Spectrum. Release year: 1984. Details are drawn from public catalogue metadata; corrections and additions are welcome through the archive.