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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #68 – Tapper

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Polar opposites now from yesterday’s Match Point which was all healthy people and Barley Water (whatever that is?) to working in a bar with Tapper today, where the only serving you have here is flinging ale down a bar to patrons before they grab you by the neck. Tapper was released by the ‘publish anything […]

Book Review – The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels

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Ben Rayner reviews The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels… The Commodore 64 was essentially my first console experience. Watching and waiting as those tapes worked their painfully slow magic before dinner was what made most of my evenings as a child that little bit more special. Games like Turrican, Bubble Bobble, Double Dragon and […]

Video Game Review – Double Bubble on ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Double Bubble… In the latest Homebrew Review on the ZX Spectrum I look at a simple looking arcade puzzle game that involves you guiding two bubbles across a small obstacle course.  I say simply, Double Bubble is a game that will have you cursing your machine in a matter of minutes as the secondary bubble […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #69 – Match Point

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After the dire Tempest clone yesterday – dubbed G-Force – we’ve arrived at our second sports game so far in the Your Sinclair Top 100 (the first being Football Manager), this being Match Point from Sinclair Research Ltd. Match Point was published in 1984 from Psion Software, the software publishing house behind Horace Goes Skiing, Flight […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #70 – G-Force

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We leave the Pleasuredome from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, setting our sights on Number #70 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 games and it’s rather a bizarre little number called G-Force; rather disappointingly it’s not the kids cartoon from the early 1980’s. G-Force arrived in 1983 from EMM Software, created by Boris Baginski (BB Design). […]

The Week in Star Wars – More on the Rogue One reshoots, Episode VIII nears production end, new games from E3, Hayden Christensen return and more

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The Week in Star Wars returns with some updates on the Rogue One reshoots, all the news coming out of E3 (new games!) and Hayden Christensen begging to return yet again… We’ll kick things off this week with an update on those Rogue One: A Star Wars Story reshoots. If you’re behind on the story, […]

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance may be coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4

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According to the Taiwan Game Software Rating Board (via Gematsu), Activision is set to bring its two Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games to PlayStation and Xbox One, along with 2012’s Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, with all three games receiving ratings for the current-gen platforms. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance was developed by Raven Software and featured similar four-player […]

Video Game Review – Invasive Species on ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Invasive Species on ZX Spectrum… In today’s Homebrew Reviews on the ZX Spectrum you become one of the most vile creatures on the planet – a summer destroying wasp – as you attempt to keep the garden in which you live clean of all things not you. Loading Invasive Species from Sludge and with the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #71– Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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With Hijack and it hellish lifts safely behind us, we now set sail for a completely different location as we head for Liverpool, Merseyside to both solve a murder and find our way to the Pleasuredome.  We’ve arrived at No.#71  in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and it’s the completely bizarre Frankie Goes to Hollywood. […]