 In recent years, Northern Ireland has made increasing contributions to the United Kingdom's video game industry.In March 2012, Parliament instated certain tax reliefs for UK game developers.Whereas the North American and Japanese video game industry boomed with console games, the UK market for video games was grown out of home computers, specifically the BBC Micro by Acorn Computer in 1981, and the ZX Spectrum from Sinclair Research (alongside Sinclair's earlier ZX80 and ZX81 systems) and the Commodore 64 by Commodore International in 1982.