1991+
The price of the 16-bit computers continued to fall and by 1991 you could pick up an Atari ST or even an Amiga for a little over £300. This brought them within reach of Spectrum owners looking for a viable upgrade path. An alternative option was the Amstrad CPC Plus machines, but by the Nineties who the hell wanted a new 8-bit computer? Just ask MGT.
For a while those who stuck with the, and . The latest coin-ops were also converted, but the likes of , and were clearly too much for the poor hardware to handle. In April 1992 Amstrad announced that it had ceased manufacturing the Spectrum. And so after precisely ten years as a going concern, during which more than five million units were sold, the production lines finally stopped.
