{"id":30726,"date":"2026-02-06T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30726"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","slug":"rubber-keyed-wonder-expansion-pack-smashes-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/games\/rubber-keyed-wonder-expansion-pack-smashes-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber-Keyed Wonder: Expansion Pack Smashes Kickstarter Target"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may recall that <strong>The Rubber-Keyed Wonder<\/strong> is <strong>Gracious Films<\/strong>\u2019 acclaimed documentary about the ever-popular 8-bit <strong>ZX Spectrum<\/strong> home computer, that was released last year, and while the documentary covered a lot of ground, the film\u2019s makers have plenty more <strong>Speccy<\/strong> goodness that they didn\u2019t manage to squeeze in, which they hope to rectify by producing a companion piece that\u2019 s set be called &#8216;<strong>Rubber-Keyed Wonder: ZX Spectrum Expansion Pack<\/strong>.&#8217;<br \/><br \/>However, this new companion piece is planned to consist of more than just offcuts from the original film, and is set to feature specially made films as well as unseen material from both <strong>Gracious Films<\/strong>\u2019 extensive archive and the original movie.<br \/><br \/>To be included in <strong>Rubber-Keyed Wonder: ZX Spectrum Expansion Pack<\/strong> is \u201cfurther insight into Sir Clive Sinclair and his companies, the design of the ZX Spectrum, its peripherals and many of the games that featured on the Sinclair computers.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The project was originally intended as a three-hour long digital-only release, but it soon expanded into a six-hour project, and as a result, the film\u2019s makers have launched a Kickstarter to raise funds to produce R<strong>ubber-Keyed Wonder: ZX Spectrum Expansion Pack<\/strong> as both a digital 4K release, and as a physical release to be split across two Blu-Ray discs.<br \/><br \/>So, if you enjoyed <strong>The Rubber -Keyed Wonder<\/strong>, and you\u2019d like to learn even more about the wonders of the <strong>ZX Spectrum<\/strong>, then you can back the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/graciousfilms\/the-rubber-keyed-wonder-zx-spectrum-expansion-pack?ref=user_menu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kickstarter<\/a> for <strong>Rubber-Keyed Wonder: ZX Spectrum Expansion Pack<\/strong> now. At the time of writing, the <strong>Kickstarter<\/strong> campaign still has 10 days left to run, and it has already raised \u00a319,032, smashing its goal of \u00a36,000. It certainly seems that the humble <strong>ZX Spectrum<\/strong>\u2019s popularity continues to endure, well over 40 years after the machine was first released. Indeed, just this week, we reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/sausagewaregames\/\">new homebrew game<\/a> coming to the format, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/crash-live-2026-tickets\/\">live event<\/a> dedicated to the computer!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: ZX Spectrum Expansion Pack - New Kickstarter\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2VM5KMXSEKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that The Rubber-Keyed Wonder is Gracious Films\u2019 acclaimed documentary about the ever-popular 8-bit ZX Spectrum home computer, that was released last year, and while the documentary covered a lot of ground, the film\u2019s makers have plenty more Speccy goodness that they didn\u2019t manage to squeeze in, which they hope to rectify by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[237,238,204],"class_list":["post-30726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-rubber-keyed-wonder","tag-rubber-keyed-wonder-zx-spectrum-expansion-pack","tag-zx-spectrum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31071,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30726\/revisions\/31071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}