Category: ZX Spectrum

Castle of Sorrow, A New Platform Adventure For The ZX Spectrum

Castle of Sorrow is a new Spanish platform adventure game by ZXMan48k. This is his first game and was created using the Arcade Game Designer engine. The story is short and simple: “Help our hero Constantin to avenge the death of his beloved, go into the castle and discover the mystery that lies within it.” Your adventure begins within an intricate…

What If Exolon Was On The ZX Spectrum Next?

Over on the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook group today, Simon Butler recently shared a teaser image of what Exolon could look like on the ZX Spectrum Next. This beautiful work of art is by Andy Little (Andrey Kovalchuk) from Russia, and is another small example of what could be possible using the raw power of the Next. While this is…

MonkeyMcGee, Where Are My Bananas? A New Work in Progress ZX Spectrum Next Platformer!

MonkeyMcGee is a new work in progress game by John McManus (Code), Simon Butler and Paul Sidman Hesso for the ZX Spectrum Next. Simon is handling the graphics and so far, it’s looking fantastic! Beautiful bright vibrant colours, clearly showing the “Next” step in ZX Spectrum gaming. Little MonkeyMcGee is pixel perfect, along with some interesting looking enemies, electricity and various other…

Nextoid! A New Game for the ZX Spectrum Next Coming Soon!

Today Lampros Potamianos (WASP Team) has announced that his new Arkanoid clone “Nextoid” for the ZX Spectrum Next is almost complete and will be released soon with the Next TB-Blue distribution package. All that is left to do is some debugging, level design and add some music jingles. Below is a demo of some of the levels. Lampros mentions that…

Chris Wilkins Has Announced Crash Annual 2019!

Chris Wilkins has just announced a follow up “Crash Annual 2019” after the massive success of the Crash Annual 2018. This will be the 100th issue of the legendary ZX Spectrum magazine! There is even more good News!, Oliver Frey will be designing the cover art again, so you know it will be something very special! Look forward to a…

Fantasy Zone: Escape from the Pyramid, Final Version Released!

Salinas Franck shared some interesting News on Sarah’s Speccy Group about a new homebrew ZX Spectrum game by Antonio J Pérez. Most of you should be familiar with the name “Fantasy Zone”. I’m a HUGE fan of this game and often play the Sega Master System and PC Engine versions. Originally a 1985 Sega Arcade game, Fantasy Zone was also…

SUC-Session Scene Magazine Issue 74 Available Soon!

SUC-Session is a complete paper magazine for Spectrum News and articles, selectively as pdf or professionally printed. The SCENE+ disk mag contains a plenty of selected programs from all over the world, which are converted for different disk systems. The latest issue is 74 and will be available to purchase very soon. The magazine is published in the following formats;…

Ever wanted to see a ZX Spectrum Next Laptop? Well Now One Exists Thanks to Dan Birch!

Hopefully you should all be aware of the ZX Spectrum Next by now. The Next is an expanded and updated version of the ZX Spectrum, fully compatible (software and hardware) with the original. You can play any games, demos, use original hardware, you name it. And it also runs new software created more recently to make use of expanded hardware,…

Dave Clarke’s Impossabubble, Digital Download Now Available!

Just a quick post to let you know, Dave Clarkes new Speccy game is now available as a digital download! You can purchase Impossabubble right now for the pocket money price of only $1.49! I paid more than that for a Vanilla Latte today! Head over to retrobeachman.itch.io and grab your copy now! [vsw id=”hJMugcHBVeQ” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]There have…

New Speccy Game in Development, Rubicon by John Blythe

John Blythe has teased a new work in progress AGD game for.. yes.. you guessed it.. ZX Spectrum! I think we are going to have to change our website name to “Speccy is the New Old” soon! The game is called Rubicon (like the drink) and is looking very colourful and cute, but don’t be fooled, not everything cute is…