> All in all ZX Spectrum platform is almost entirely responsible for me picking programming as my profession.

Me too. Started with the 48k, switched to assembly soon after getting bored with BASIC, and for a few years I got my name printed in Your Sinclair for posting POKEs for various games.

The Z80 assembly language set me in good stead for early programming with MS-DOS (3.3 or so) as the assembly syntax was familiar. (I think Zilog engineers were ex-Intel. But my memory is a little hazy these days.)

I still play "Choas:The Battle of Wizards" on an emulator every few months, alongside "The Hobbit" and the various Hungry Horace games.