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Balloon Fight is an action video game developed by Nintendo. The original 1984 arcade version was released for the Nintendo VS. System as Vs. Balloon Fight, and its Nintendo Entertainment System counterpart was internationally released in 1986. The game play is similar to the 1982 game Joust from Williams Electronics. My fondest memories of Balloon fight was on the original…
ZXombies, Dead Flesh, is a new flick-screen action survival horror inspired by The Walking Dead. You are a lone soldier left from your squad in a city swarming with the undead, after the zombie apocalypse. You’ll have to escort the few remaining survivors between safe-houses, to reach safety east of the city. Major Derring awakes with concussion. He drags himself…
Friday seems to be the day for lot’s of Speccy releases, as we see yet another new game appear on the WOS Forums. Jet Set 40-40 is a new redesign version of the classic Jet Set Willy game by Matthew Smith. With a lot of similarities to the original Jet Set Willy Map, avid Speccy fans will feel right at…
Mighty Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up released in 1993 for the NES just got a ZX Spectrum port! This game is a spinoff of the arcade Final Fight, but with a different art style, with all characters following the Chibi style (big heads and childish bodies). Developed by the Alexander Udotov (Sanchez), with graphics by Eugene Rogulin (ER), and music…
A few days ago we gave you the latest heads up on Allan Turvey’s playable demo of ‘Roust’ (ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust). Today, as promised we have some more exciting Retro News! For the pocket money price of only $2.50 (Is it 1982 again?), you can purchase the full version, so head over to highriser.itch.io/roust…
Early January I made post (along with some other ZX Spectrum homebrew releases) about Allan Turvey’s ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. “Roust” is Allan’s entry to the ZX-Dev conversions competition and he recently shared a fully playable free demo on the Spectrum for Everyone Facebook group! You can download the demo below, a full version is to…
We, “retro” enthusiasts, know well that time goes too fast and we are all aging at the same speed, but we never can expect when someone in the retro scene passes away. This morning I learned through many UK gaming outlets that Bob Wakelin has passed away. He was mostly known in UK and the rest of Europe where Ocean…
Gabriele Amore has released a new Speccy game called Crazy Kong Episode II, Saving Kong. The game is his entry for the ZX-Dev competition and was created with AGD (Arcade Game Designer). The game instantly reminded me of the 1986 Arcade title Rampage, a classic in it’s own right. However the gameplay is very different to Rampage, where you climbed and…
MojonTwins are well-known for their many great games for the ZX Spectrum and other “retro” platforms. It is excellent news for all homebrew developers out there that they decided to release the source code of their game engine MK2, a framework consisting of a modular engine programmed in C and a set of tools to make games for ZX Spectrum….
Bobby Carrot is a video game series developed and published by German company FDG Mobile Games. The series currently consists of five games, all originally developed for mobile phones. Couvej over at zx-dev-conversions.proboards.com has released a demake for the ZX Spectrum Dev Compo. Collect all the carrots while avoiding the spike traps, once you have completed this, head for the…
