The iberian peninsula was all about the ZX because pirating tapes was the norm. Also, saving custom software in tapes was cheap and producing the games in tapes, the same; they could even fight piracy by selling the games in newspaper kiosks at a very cheap price.

Similar on how the Play Station spread about the country: burning CD's and modding the PSX was trivial.

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pjmlp an hour ago | parent [-]

Yeah, one reason why I grew up bilingual, besides having grandparents close to Badajoz, was the amount of Speccy stuff in games and magazines that we got from the other side of the border, because why bother with translations. :)

Microhobby, Micromania, Solo Programadores (this one came later in 32 bits days), are some I still remember the names.

La Abadía del Crimen, Sir Fred, Livingstone Supongo, Game Over, and such.

	▲	anthk an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And Aventuras AD; but TBH most modern games written for the ZX in Spanish (especially text adventures) are many times better than "La edad de oro del software español" (The golden age of the Spanish software).