Category: ZX Spectrum
The Digital Retro Park is one of the premier museums of digital culture. Falk Heinzelmann and Stefan Pitsch are the guys who started it all, and they’ve taken some time to talk to AJ and Joerg about the museum, as well as take us on a virtual tour while we’re all stuck at home! (interview starts at 10:05) https://scene.world/drp
Laserbirds, the new fast-paced shoot’em up for the ZX Spectrum by Bitnamic Software is now available for purchase as a digital download. Last month we talked about Laserbirds where we mention that the physical tape would be available sometime in the first half of 2020 but due to the current state of affairs the world is facing, Bitnamic has decided…
Quantum Sheep has announced the immediate availability of Jumpin’ Jupiter, a new platform game for the ZX Spectrum. Int the game, you play Jupiter, and your objective is to find all cups of tea that have been scattered across the solar system. Heavily inspired in Manic Miner, the game relies on your ability to avoid the enemies and environmental hazards…
Back in 2017, I was pretty excited about the ZX Spectrum Next crowdfunding campaign and the whole idea of the modern retro computer. However, I remember to tell people that the “Next” part of the project wasn’t that interesting to me. As a “purist” retro collector, I didn’t care too much about a modern computer with modern capabilities but with…
Bitnamic Software, a Portuguese-Brazilian joint-venture has announced its new exclusive ZX Spectrum release. Laserbirds is a shoot’em up game and your mission is to destroy aliens known as Ornitoids, a powerful enemy that has excellent earing and memory as well as great hierarchical organization capability. The enemy’s AI is a strong selling point of the game. The waves of Laserbirds,…
ZX Parachute is a new game for the ZX Spectrum developed by Carles Oriol that follows to the letter the Nintendo Game & Watch game device released in 1981 where you control a boat that has to prevent parachutists to fall into the water infested by sharks. The boat can be moved left or right but can only be in…
Although it is not unseen to have games developed in a short period of time, it is easy to make a really good game in less than one week. One game that falls in that category is Yazzie, developed by Denis Grachev for the competition Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019, which happened at the beginning of last month. Yazzie is…
We announced a while ago that Bitnamic Software has recently (re)released a ZX-81 game called Treasure Quest (with the original title “Em busca dos tesouros” em Portuguese which would translate to “In the search of the treasures”). The game was developed by Tadeu Curinga da Silva when he was 16 years old. The new version is an update from the…
Joe Blob is a small game created by Ronan McEvoy in 1989 that was never officially released until now. Felipe Veiga, Pedro Pimenta, Mario Viegas, and Andre Leao, all members of the Espectroteam and also Planeta Sinclair website got together and with the help of Andy Green, have created a remastered version of Joe Blob to be included in Woot!…
That’s not the first time Fusion Retro Books does a promotion like that, but it is always welcome to see good books for free or very cheap. Some of their “In Pixels” books are free, including C-64 In Pixels and The Story of the ZX Spectrum In Pixels Volume 1. The next two volumes of the Speccy series are only…
