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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #97 – Mined-Out

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Working our way on through the Top 100, we cautiously step into No. 97 arriving at Mined-Out from Quicksilva, released back in 1983. Mined-Out featured some classic box-art for a ZX Spectrum game, that not only did it have bare-chested lady on the front, but it fibbed about […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #98 – Pheenix

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing on with the Your Sinclair Top 100 ZX Spectrum games ever made the next game on our list is Pheenix from Megadodo. Megadodo released three games in total – including Pheenix – and other than they share the same name of the publishing company behind the fictional Hitchhikers […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #99 – Maziacs

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing on with the Your Sinclair Top 100 ZX Spectrum games ever made the next game on our list is Maziacs from dk’tronics. Though dk’tronics – who were based in Great Yarmouth – produced mainly hardware for Sinclair machines, it was on the rare occasion they dipped their toes into […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #100 – Zzoom

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Back in the 1980s there was a computer that existed in most British homes called the ZX Spectrum.  This machine was the doorway to many different worlds for anyone that owned it, as we tanned our faces which rested two foot away from a cathode-ray screen every […]

Another new “Retro” machine arrives! Welcome the ZX Spectrum Next

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New “Retro” machines currently seem to be appearing from all corners! We’ve already had the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega, the Recreated ZX Spectrum also we have incoming the new Vega+ along with The 64. Well now something else has appeared on the horizon and it looks rather beautiful. Titled the ZX Spectrum Next, this machine looks the hard-shelled […]

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ goes into production

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As you know here at Flickering Myth we’ve kept you updated with the latest news on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega +, the hand-held ZX Spectrum – designed by Rick Dickinson – with 1000 licensed games installed upon it. The crowdfunding campaign was launched on Indiegogo and raised £366,655 (over 367% of the total) in the […]

Book Review – Sinclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium

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Villordsutch reviews Sinclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium… Being born in the 1970’s I have the Sinclair ZX Spectrum rainbow colours coursing through my veins.  I still today fly the flag of the ZX Spectrum and though I’m more than happy to allow some gently mocking of this 8-bit machine to been tossed around, my greying hackles […]

Hardware Review – ZX Spectrum Vega

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Villordsutch reviews the ZX Spectrum Vega… I’ve been interested in getting my hands on the ZX Spectrum Vega since its conception a year or so ago.  I’ve been a ZX Spectrum user since the early 1980’s, my first Sinclair product was the ZX81, then I went straight to the hard-shelled 48K and moved to the […]