Category: ZX Spectrum
Clive Townsend will be releasing the third instalment of Saboteur this year. As I am sure you’re aware, Saboteur is an absolute classic etched in our minds from childhood. The game was released on various platforms, but the most loved version was on the ZX Spectrum. For those of you that are somehow not familiar with this game, you take…
Lost in Worlds is a new cutesy Russian platformer by Nihirash. The first (and hopefully not the last) game by coder Alexander Sharikhin, Lost in Worlds was created using the Platform Game Designer engine, which was released in 2005 by Jonathan Cauldwell, also the creator of AGD, currently the most used game creation engine for the ZX Spectrum. In Lost…
Victor Trucco has posted an update on behalf of Henrique and I couldn’t be more excited! They have received the physical samples of the initial plastic injected case which needed some adjustments that were already applied to the moulds. From the pictures, the cases look amazing and exactly like I was hoping they would be. To help us feel the Next…
I recently saw the news about a new release of the ZEsarUX emulator and decided to write a post about it because I think it is one of the best and most versatile emulators around that are still in full development. You can use ZEsarUX on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Raspberry PI. ZEsarUX is more than a ZX Spectrum emulator,…
Planeta Sinclair shared some interesting News not long ago, about a colour remake of 3D Monster Maze. For those of you that are not familiar, the game was released way back in 1982, developed from an idea by J.K.Greye and programmed by Malcolm Evans in 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81 with 16 KB of memory expansion. 3D Monster Maze puts the player…
Something for later in the year ALL HALLOWS – Rise of the Pumpkin. Utilizing Andy Johns code. A barmy bouncing platformer will emerge.. You play the Pumpkin and you have noticed the dark tower as awoken! It can mean only one thing. The Dark Forest Lord is preparing to break free from his 1000 years of imprisonment! You must reactivate…
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…
