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Retro Review – ZX81 Jetpac (2018)

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Villordsutch reviews ZX81 Jetpac… Back in 1983 the brothers Tim & Chris Stamper released, via their enigmatic software house Ultimate Play the Game, Jetpac for the ZX Spectrum.  This groundbreaking game was both ever-so-simple to pick up and unbelievably difficult to turn off, it also let all fellow Spectrum programmers know what the Speccy could […]

Exclusive Interview – Bill Harbison talks about his career in gaming from the ZX Spectrum to Runescape

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Villordsutch chats with Bill Harbison about his career in gaming… Bill Harbison has been in the gaming business now for three decades plus.  Cutting his teeth on the ZX Spectrum over at Ocean Software he delivered some truly outstanding pieces of artwork of the rubber-keyed wonder.  Now with a client list including SEGA, the BBC […]

Sinclair designer Rick Dickinson sadly passes away

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Rick Dickinson the award-winning British designer has sadly passed away.  Rick was the genius that, amongst other things, brought to our homes – in the 1980’s – the iconic ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum.  Gathering numerous awards, he continued his passion and only recently was working on the upcoming machine the ZX Spectrum Next. Rick […]

Book Review – A Guide to ZX Spectrum Games 1982 to 1984

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Villordsutch reviews A Guide to ZX Spectrum Games 1982 to 1984…. There’s an increase in love for all things retrogaming emerging across the globe, and at the same time there is also appearing a large number of books chronicling the history of the machines and the games of the past.  Of course the greatest machine to […]

Spectrum Addict: Load “Film 2” – A documentary for all ZX Spectrum fans

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Back at the end of September we reviewed Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict from Andy Remic.  A documentary feature film based on Andy Remic’s memoirs growing up with the ZX Spectrum; part cinema drama, part interviews, part nostalgic journey.  We awarded the documentary 4 out of 5 stars saying of it, “If you lived in […]

ZX Spectrum Classic Game Challenge delivers a real dose of nostalgia

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Back in the 1980’s when I wasn’t high as I kite on Wham Bars, Highland Toffee and Tizer, you would either find me in a darkened corner of my bedroom listening to the screeches of my ZX Spectrum loading, or huddled in another corner trying to out-number my friends with the current favourite pack of […]

Exclusive Interview – John Wilson talks about Zenobi Software, unreleased titles and whether we’ll see the Balrog on the ZX Spectrum Next

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Villordsutch talks with John Wilson (The Balrog) about Zenobi Software… There was a time when us gamers didn’t require ultra-real graphics delivered in 4K resolution, nor truth be told did we actually require graphics, for our days were occupied with text-based adventure games and here we lost real time. Reading lines of an unfolding story […]

The ZX Spectrum celebrates its 35th Anniversary – #HappyBirthdaySpectrum

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Villordsutch celebrates the 35th Birthday of the ZX Spectrum… Today marks the 35th Birthday of one of the United Kingdom’s greatest pieces of technology, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.  On this day the 23rd April  back in 1982 this 8-bit machine with its rubber-keys and a massive 16K or 48K of RAM appeared and no matter […]

Music Review – The Spectrum Works by Allister Brimble

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Villordsutch reviews The Spectrum Works by Allister Brimble… If you asked most classic gamers if they would like to sit down and listen to the tunes of a ZX Spectrum for just under an hour, they’d probably look at you like you’re a fool.  Expecting to be blasted in the ear with the migraine inducing screech […]