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Video Game Review – Karlos on the ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Karlos on the ZX Spectrum… On today’s Homebrew Review we take our ZX Spectrum into the deepest, darkest Peru in search of lost Inca idols. Karlos wanders into the great unexplored with nothing more than his trusty hammer and a certificate in Moving & Handling.   Karlos was originally published by the Perspective […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #7 – The Sentinel

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The world of the cute needs to be removed from your memories for the next slice of gaming history!  Rainbow Islands is nothing like our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100, which is currently loading into our ZX Spectrums.  Granted No.#7 from Firebird is a hailed as a classic, but you’re really not […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #8 – Rainbow Islands

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As with Boulder Dash yesterday we’re rocking the extreme’s again today in the Your Sinclair Top 100, and we’ve gone from the extremely basic looking world of deep-mining to the glorious, colourful world of Rainbow Islands at No.#8 from Ocean Software. Rainbow Islands was originally an arcade release for Taito which sprung up in 1987; […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #9 – Boulder Dash

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From the hi-tech to the low-tech.  We go from one extreme to the other in today’s Your Sinclair Top 100, as yesterday we were in the latest line of hypersonic jets as we played T.L.L., but today we’re given the latest in the line of pickaxes!  At No.#9 we are playing the classic Boulder Dash […]

Interview – Rick Dickinson talks about designing iconic Sinclair machines

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Villordsutch interviews Rick Dickinson about his the moment he started working with Sinclair Research Ltd, how he got there and how do you design a new “retro” machine… Rick Dickinson is one the most recognisable British designers to anyone involved in 1980’s home computing boom or the rather huge current retrogaming circuit.  It was his talents that […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #10 – T.L.L.

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When people question whether there is any validity in war, maybe in the form of a song, you could respond with, “Gaming on the ZX Spectrum!”, for just the other day – at No.12 – we had Carrier Command and though yesterday’s Sim City may not have been war like it did end in tears.  Today […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #11 – Sim City

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One day you’re fighting international terrorists who stole from right under your noses a high-tech, aircraft carrier – in Carrier Command – and the next you contemplating whether you should be building a residential area so close to a coal burning power station.  The worries of a ZX Spectrum gamer!  In the Your Sinclair Top 100 today […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #12 – Carrier Command

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Leaving the simple, if not deadly, life of Hen-House Harry behind us with Chuckie Egg, we step into the world of futuristic warfare with our next instalment in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  Sailing in at No.#12 is Carrier Command from Rainbird. Carrier Command arrived on the ZX Spectrum back in 1989, programmed by Realtime […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #13 – Chuckie Egg

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After being chased around Antescher in Ant Attack yesterday, we barely get time for a breather as we load up the next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and discover that No.13 also involves us being the prey for something else – this time chickens!  We’ve stumbled into the giant chicken coop that is […]