Royal Mail Retro video games stamps

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Not enough speccy games on these stamps, but I believe Jaz Rignall was involved and he always had it in for the speccy.
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It's because these are games that launched franchises or cross-platform releases across Europe and round the world. Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy had nowhere near the staying power of the Dizzy games. At least it's a Spectrum screenshot, even if the magenta is bit iffy.
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In 2017 the spanish postal service launched a stamp remembering La Abadía del Crimen in his 30th annyversary:

https://www.correos.es/ss/Satellite/sit ... ioma=en_GB
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