Category: ZX Spectrum
You may remember a while back we closely covered the ZX-Dev Conversions competition 2017. Coders were set the task of creating their own ZX game conversion. The competition created a huge buzz within the Spectrum community, and as a result, some fantastic new games were created, specifically, Mighty Final Fight, Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors and one of my personal favourites, Gimmick!…
Anthony Perez (greenwebsevilla), veteran of the Spectrum development scene, is in the process of developing Gremlins 2: The NES Batch for the classic 8-bit micro. When horror comedy Gremlins 2: The New Batch hit movie theatres in 1990, a slew of video game adaptations were soon to follow. Sunsoft were responsible for developing a version of the game for the NES,…
Rucksack Games are pleased to announce the release of Rubicon: Run the Maze for the ZX Spectrum 48k/128k, now available for download from their website. The backstory to Rubicon sees you playing as NYM who’s in his last day of childhood and , as tradition dictates, must take part in a right of passage to cross the Rubicon maze so…
Only a few days ago, we announced that Andy John’s new game, Nixy The Glade Sprite, had finally gone gold, and that we promised to deliver a full review once the game was complete. We’re extremely pleased to announce that Andy has now officially released the game, and we’re very proud to bring you one of the first reviews of this lovingly-crafted…
Thursday we shared News about Nixy The Glade Sprite, which is Andy Johns brand new ZX Spectrum platformer. Today we have some exciting exclusive News to share! Nixy The Glade Sprite is now officially released and you can download it right now, here at Vintage is the New Old! Andy has also announced his new website for current and future…
Here are the final 8bit demo results for the Multimatograf 2018 Demo Party which was held 29th-30th April 2018, in Vologda, Russia. 1. Marinows by Insiders 2. Qumi Demo by Qumi Team 3. atarin by techno lab 4. In Your Space sound demo by Manwe 5. CSP2018 Invitation by flushakkkr 6. DiHALT 2018 invitation by Q-Bone All results: results.txt Pouët:…
Back in February, we shared some News about a new platformer coming to the ZX Spectrum Next called Monkey McGee: Where are my Bananas? Fast forward to May and we can see that John, Simon (Miami Vice, Platoon, Target Renegade) and Paul have been hard at work getting the game together, showing off a brand new promo video! The first…
You may remember we mentioned Bubblesoft’s new upcoming ZX Spectrum game back in early March. Nixy the Glade sprite is a brand new AGD platformer, which we have been vigorously putting through it’s paces since the very first alpha version, weeding out the bugs, sharing ideas, and suggesting to Andy what could be improved to make the game the very…
Retro gamers will be pleased to learn that Jaime Grilo, stalwart member of the Spectrum homebrew development scene, returns with yet another exciting AGD title. In a change of pace from the arcade platform antics seen in the likes of Tea-Leaf Ted and previous releases, Quahappy is an arcade adventure game that puts players in control of Dauntless Andy, a soul both brave…
Buzzsaw is a game by Jason J. Railton, that was originally released way back in 2011 as Buzzsaw+ (Foxton Locks Mix). Cronosoft have now made the game available to purchase on cassette for the tidy sum of five pounds. Buzzsaw is a puzzle game with traits from Tetris, but with some subtle differences to make the game a little more…
