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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #62 – Thrust

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If you’ve managed to stay awake after yesterday’s sleep inducing Computer Scrabble then you’re in for a rather splendid treat today, as landing at number #62 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 is the rather excellent Thrust. Thrust (originally written by  late Jeremy Smith for the BBC Micro) clearly wore its love for the Atari game Gravitar on […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #80 – Sir Lancelot

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From yesterday’s detailed space adventure of Dark Star we turn to Number #80 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and it’s very much a depart from the scenes we witnessed yesterday.  In another game which could easily be labelled as a Manic Miner clone, we open the portcullis on Sir Lancelot. Sir Lancelot was published […]

Technical specifications released for the ZX Spectrum Next

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After the release of the ZX Spectrum Vega+ technical specs just the other day, it would seem us retrogamers of the world are being spoilt, as arriving late yesterday evening on the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook page was the final technical specifications for the rather splendid looking machine that is the ZX Spectrum Next.  Not […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #49 – Tetris

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After the adrenaline, wheelie filled world of Enduro Racer we need a come down, and what better game to take with us to our quiet corner than the one resting at Number #49 in the Your Sinclair Top 100, which is Alexey Pajitnov’s classic Tetris. Tetris is the game that quite possibly everybody on the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #19 – Back to Skool

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No longer being involved in the macabre, trap dodging, kill or be killed Spy vs Spy we rapidly leave the area in our plane and look towards our next game, hoping that life in our next Your Sinclair Top 100 entry will not be so brutal. However looking at No.#19 it appears we’re not escaping […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #82 – Hyperaction

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From one strategy game to another, as we arrive at Hyperaction, No. #82 from Silversoft.  A puzzle game that upon first appearance you may despis, but after a few further rounds, this could become one of your firm favourites. Hyperaction was created by Iain Christopher Hayward, Jay Derrett back in 1984. Initially Hyperaction seems like a […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #63 – Computer Scrabble

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We descend rapidly from the petrol-headed world of Buggy Boy, as we pull a chair up to the virtual table for our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  Our gaming universe suddenly becomes somewhat quieter with the ZX Spectrum version of the board game Scrabble. Scrabble – or as it’s correctly known here Computer Scrabble – was […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #61 – Eric and the Floaters

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We leave the orb stealing, gravity pulling, highly enjoyable but Thrust-rating (hope you caught that?) space adventure and we turn to quite possibly the strangest titled game in the Your Sinclair Top 100, one that in some parts of the UK is really lost in translation.  We’ve arrived at No. #61 and in bobs Eric […]