Category: Featured Article

Community Showcase: André Leão talks about Planeta Sinclair and his passion for the ZX Spectrum

Planeta Sinclair is the most important source of news and technical articles exclusively dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum for the Portuguese-speaking community. Behind its success is André Leão, a very passionate Speccy enthusiast living in Portugal. For the past week, we’ve been chatting about our websites and other projects and decided to make a cross-interview where I talked about…

Noobs Review 9 :- Sim City (Super Nintendo 1992)

Sim City has seen releases on most (If not every) system over the years, how does the SNES version hold up? Lets find out…

Noobs Review 8 :- Micro Machines (Megadrive 1993)

Micro Machines for the Mega Drive hit the stores in 1993, does it still hold up today? Lets find out

Noobs Review 6 :- Super Star Wars (Super Nintendo 1993)

Super Star Wars was released on the Super Nintendo in 1993, and was known as being a hard game, does it still hold up almost 30 years later?

Review: Bonnie and Clyde (ZX Spectrum)

We check out the latest Spectrum release from ZOSYA Entertainment

Noobs Review 3 :- Mega Man 2 (NES 1988)

In 1987 Capcom, under the guidance of director “Akira Kitamura” released Mega Man on the Nintendo Entertainment System, sales were disappointing, to the point where a sequel was canned..until the developers within Capcom decided to produce the game in their own free time. And then on the 24th December 1988 Rockman 2 was released to the Japanese Public. And a…

Noobs Review 2 :- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (NES 1990)

Back in the late 80`s there was a phenomenon about to launch in the UK, (No i`m not talking about shell suits) i`m talking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (In the UK the Ninja was replaced to Hero Because…you know….reasons). Konami released one of the greatest arcade games ever into the arcade in 1989, the 4 player simultaneous play…

From a vintage computer collector to hoarder to collector

A month ago I published on YouTube a video showing my vintage computer collection from when I was living in my old place (the video was shot in Nov/Dec 2019) and my main point when posting it was to raise the discussion about the differences to be a collector or simply accumulating old computers just for the sake of it….

Retro Revisited: Elf (Amiga)

Superb visuals and a quirky sense of humour make this retro platformer stand out from the crowd!

Introducing the Chloe 280SE, a new Z80 microcomputer

Imagine an alternative 1987. IBM never bothered to enter the microcomputer market. Apple has yet to launch the Macintosh. A new generation of 16-bit computers aimed at people who grew up with 8-bit machines is on sale. The IIGS from Apple, the Amiga from Atari, the C65 from Commodore. But the MSX Turbo-R is still in development. There’s a small…