Category: ZX Spectrum
Bruce Lee is a video game designed by Ron J. Fortier, with graphics by Kelly Day and music by John A. Fitzpatrick. Originally developed for the Atari 8-bit, the game was published in 1984 by Datasoft, along with ports for the Apple II, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Bruce Lee RX by Allan Turvey is a graphical update…
Bitmap Soft is looking to be the next ‘big player’ in the software publishing space for vintage home computers with the launch of two cassette format debut titles – All Hallows (ZX Specrum) and Chronicles of Nanako (Amstrad CPC). Established earlier this year by Darren Doyle and Jamie Battison, Bitmap Soft will be specialising as a software house publishing new…
Andy Green recently announced a top-down maze shooter called Mage Rage, which will be coming to the ZX Spectrum. Developed by John Davies and Andy using AGDx Mini, you take control of Mercure the Mage, exploring a ravenous beasts evil lair, full of spiders, bats, rats, goblins and trolls. You must recover “Magical Swirls” which were stolen from the stone…
The ZX Spectrum Kickstarter has been a thrilling soap opera we all have been following for the past two and a half years, almost as long as Days of our Lives. The journey is not short of soap-opera-like surprises, bad news and even cliff hangers. While the end date is still to be defined, the newest update 51 brings more…
Antstream is the world’s first retro game streaming subscription service (think Netflix, but for retro games!). AJ, Martin, and Joerg talk to Antstream’s Brandon Keenan and Jo Clifford about how this all came together, and how they’re paving the way for the future of retro gaming. https://scene.world/antstream
Quadron is an excellent ZX Spectrum game that was released as a digital download last December, written by Andy “Cosmium” Beale in 1986-87 and never released until last year! If you missed that or don’t remember, we have even written a comprehensive review of the game. Another fun fact (for us!) is that Andy didn’t have access to the original source code,…
All the NEXT backers have received today an email full of good news. The new keyboard was already tested and approved by the manufacturer and is on its way to UK for the stamp of approval by the team. The new keyboard, based on an extended matrix as explained in the previous update, already proved a 100% accurate on the composite…
Way back in February 2018, we announced some interesting News about an upcoming Arcade remake of Mr.Do! for the ZX Spectrum which you can read about here. Mr.Do! is an Arcade game created by Universal in 1982, similar to Namco’s Dig Dug. Mr. Do! was also released on other systems, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Apple…
Hewson Consultants! Who doesn’t know them! (Later renamed to #21stCenturyEntertainment), we talk to Andrew Hewson who started all this and talk about the good old times, as well, as talking about what Rob Hewson does nowadays as an Indie videogame developer and publisher with Huey Games, releasing #HyperSentinel on the Switch before and currently working on Kickstarting their new game…
With the end of NOMAN 2019 this April 14th, the Basic 10Liners contest is also over and the winners announced. If the BASIC 10Liner contest is new for you, check our previous article about it: 2019 BASIC 10-Liner Contest in On! This year there were nothing less than 83 contestants which made the task to give scores to all of…
