Category: ZX Spectrum

Merry Christmas From Horace, New ZX Spectrum Christmas Game from Steve Broad!

The Horace video game series was created in the 1980s by William Tang for Beam Software. The series comprised Hungry Horace, Horace Goes Skiing and Horace and the Spiders. Hungry Horace and Horace and the Spiders were two of the few ZX Spectrum games also available in ROM format for use with the Interface 2. The original Horace game, Hungry…

Thursday Retro Gaming News Updates

Now we are finally up and running with the new look website, our next plan is migrating some pages from CiA. Fred Fish disks, 17Bit Software Public Domain, Box Art, Articles and Reviews. Currently the games pages are up on the site but they still need some work, mostly screenshots and adding new games. Keep an eye on the site…

Fill Your Friday Night With Some Fantastic New Retro Game Updates!

You may have noticed it’s been quiet here these last few days, and we haven’t been updating the News much. Well there’s good reason for this, we have been adding the final touches to the new improved ‘Vintage is the New Old’ website and we are coming close to the big reveal, which we hope will be before Christmas. I…

ZX Spectrum Next hardware goes gold!

If you, like everybody else, is excited about the upcoming ZX Spectrum Next, a modern version of the iconic Sinclair computer you will be happy to know that the hardware development  has reached the gold status! ‎Victor Trucco‎ has announced on Facebook that he is “satisfied with the results and designed the final PCB to produce a small batch as…

Willy’s New Mansion Special Edition, Twelfth Anniversary Release

Willy’s New Mansion is a redesign of Matthew Smith’s classic game Jet Set Willy created using the Jet Set Willy Editor v. 2.03 by John Elliott. The game can be played on any ZX Spectrum emulator or real hardware. The game is available in .sna and .tap formats. Twenty years have passed since Willy stepped into his mansion and realized…

Waiting for the light, New ZX Spectrum Text Adventure, What will be your Next Move?

Waiting For The Light is a great new text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. Not much to say about this game, it’s a text adventure, I’m sure you all know by now how these play out. However if you have a lot of patience and love to follow an interesting story, this may be exactly what you have been craving :) The…

The Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh, ZX Spectrum Full English Translation

The Adventures of Winnie-the-pooh is a Russian Spectrum game originally released in 1996 by Publisher Softland. Inspired by the Winnie the Pooh books, you play a bear called yep you guessed it, Winnie the Pooh. The game is your typical walk and collect platformer, very much like many other Speccy platformers. From what I have been reading on other websites, people…

Gabriele Amore Releases Two Donkey Kong Homebrew Games for the ZX Spectrum!

Donkey Kong Jr. is a 1982 arcade-style platform video game by Nintendo. It first appeared in Arcades, and, over the course of the 1980’s, was later released for a variety of platforms, most notably the Nintendo Entertainment System. Donkey Kong Jr. is the sequel to the video game Donkey Kong, which featured Mario as the hero and Junior’s father as the villain…

Mysterious Dimensions, New ZX Spectrum 128K Platformer by Hooy-Program

Mysterious Dimensions is a cute little ‘collect’em up’ platformer for the ZX Spectrum 128. Those of you that know me will know I am mostly a Commodore fangirl, but I do occasionally turn to the darkside and play other formats, and this game certainly didn’t disappoint. Beautiful colours, Graphics are basic, almost child like but this adds a certain charm…

Harbinger Convergence, New ZX Spectrum 128 Game, Looking Fantastic!

The fate of thousands of worlds is in your hands, as a result of the project Harbinger you must embark on an epic sci-fi adventure to save millions of lives throughout the galaxy.. An ancient alien race seeks revenge … and only you can stop it ! Harbinger Convergence is a new Sci-fi Arcade Adventure game which is divided into…