SAM Coupé



"SAM hits the street!"

The SAM Coupé is a computer produced by MGT (Miles Gordon Technology), a small British company founded by two former Sinclair Research employees.

This machine was an unofficial successor to Sinclair's ZX Spectrum, partially backwards-compatible but offering much improved graphics and sound. It would have been a very strong contender against any other 8-bit machine from the early 1980s. However, it only came out in late 1989, when the market was quickly moving to more advanced 16-bit machines like the Amiga and the ST. So it was a major flop, only selling about 12,000 units, and only a few dozen games were made for it.

Due to its rarity, it has become much sought by collectors, and there is still a very active homebrew scene around it.

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