Category: Freeware
Scuttle Butt is a new game by Karl Hörnell for the ZX Spectrum. If someone asked me if there are any new original games on the ZX Spectrum, I would point them to Scuttle Butt. Please note, if toilet humour is not your thing, then I suggest you stop reading right now, as this game involves a big bottom and…
David Taylor has kindly shared a ‘New Old’ game for Windows PC. The game is called “Galactic Merchant 200” which is a simple old school BBS Door Game. Below you can read more about the game from David himself. “Back in 1991, in the province of Ontario was a time when BBS’s were the place to be, while exchanging ideas…
Graeme Cowie contacted me through Facebook just now, to let me know that beta 1 of his Amiga Bomb Jack remake has been released! We have been following the game closely with previous News posts here and here. Quick update to say I’ve updated the Bomb Jack Beer Edition, it’s to the point now that it is good enough for…
Alec Foster recently wrote a fantastic new article, Remembering the Commodore Plus/4. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend doing so, especially if you love the Plus/4 as much as I do! Today I would like to keep the Plus/4 vibe going, with a fantastic new Homebrew title, which completely took me by surprise! The game is called…
Good News, remember we gave you exclusive heads up on the new Arkanoid clone for the ZX Spectrum Next called Nextoid? Well Lampros Potamianos announced today that the game download will be available very soon! V1.0 of Nextoid! is in the new TBBLUE distribution that will be uploaded soon! Definitely an Arkanoid clone, but I like to see it as…
Ziriax is a horizontal scroller for the Amiga that was developed by The Whiz Kidz (a group of Belgium-based coders) and released by Software Business way back in 1990. Influenced by Arcade Shoot’em ups such as Nemesis, Vulcan Venture, Sky Shark and Thundercross, Ziriax is a four stage shoot’ em up, in which you fight against waves of bullet-spewing aliens…
LoadError has recently released a new Vic-20 game called Pyrotech. The game was originally written in basic and then compiled to pseudo-code. In the game you command of a team of Pyrotechs on a mission to collect and defuse a batch of time bombs before they explode. LoadError’s description of the game made me smile. “It’s a gobble gobble, don’t…
Planeta Sinclair recently shared some interesting News about a remake of an old game by Marco Carrasco and Rui Tito. The game is called Aquatic Invaders and was recovered last year by Sinclair Planet. The original BASIC code has been re-written for the compiler Boriel’s ZX Basic, resulting in a much faster game. You can read more information about the…
Alessandro Grussu has recently released a new ZX Spectrum Compilation, which contains his first two games, Lost In My Spectrum and Apulija-13. The compilation is a disk-only release and has been devised for use with ZX Spectrum 48K/128K systems equipped with Beta Disk or similar interfaces, or MGT Plus D, or memory card based interfaces such as the DivIDE or…
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…
