Category: ZX Spectrum
Double Sided Games has announced that the ‘Match 3’ style puzzle game, Vegetables Deluxe will soon be available for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore VIC-20. The premise behind the Vegetables Deluxe is to swap adjacent vegetable shapes to form lines of three or more in a row. When this occurs, those shapes are destroyed and new shapes drop in from…
Strand Games has announced that the illustrated text adventure games The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter from Magnetic Scrolls are now available in a remastered version for the ZX Spectrum Next. To make the news even more interesting, all their source code is on GitLab which means you can download these games for free. Strand Games website explains…
Treasure Island Dizzy is a game released in 1988 by Codemasters. Developed by the Oliver Twins, the game was initially released for the ZX Spectrum and followed versions for many platforms: Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, NES, Amiga CD32, Windows, and Atari Jaguar. As you can see, the Plus/4 is not in the list! Don’t sweat!…
The well-regarded ZEsarUX emulator reached version 9.0 bringing a foot-long list of new features and improvements, notably the addition to non-Sinclair machines like MSX, Colecovision, Spectravideo, and SEGA SG-1000. ZEsarUX is open-source and multiplatform, having off-the-shelf installers for Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry PI, and many others. Initially created to be a ZX Spectrum emulator, Cesar Hernandez’s program quickly extended its…
Now you can taste a Pokemon-like game running on a ZX Spectrum +3! The developer known as +3Code has created a J-RPG featuring ‘Poke’, a mutant cat that is very similar to the Nintendo’s most famous Pokemon. Who are we kidding, it is a 100% accurate copy :) The game was created using the +3 BASIC language and it is…
Quantum Sheep, the author of Jumpin’ Jupiter has released Last Train to Tranz-Central, a new game for the ZX Spectrum 48k/128k. Although in essence, the game is a puzzle-platformer where you grab collectibles while avoiding the enemies, its setting conveys an old-school Run ‘n’ Gun arcade game, which makes it pretty unique compared to some other great recent releases for…
With an emotional post on Kickstarter, Henrique Olifiers has announced that the first campaign has finally come to an end, with all ZX Spectrum Next units delivered to the backers. Everything started four years ago, when Four Henrique Olifiers, Victor Trucco, Fabio Belavenuto and Rick Dickinson embarked on this journey to bring the ZX Spectrum back to like, creating the…
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Starting this month, Clube MSX is taking over the sales and distribution of other great Portuguese-speaking publications: Espectro and Jogos80. Now you can buy the new issues of both magazines in the same place Clube MSX is available (including for international customers). Jogos80 #23 is a retro gaming magazine created by Marcus Garrett and Eduardo Luccas published twice a year….
