Category: Sinclair News
He’s back, and this time it’s Christmas! Zombo returns in this brand new completely unofficial game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum! Now featuring 76% less game-breaking bugs than the first game in the series! Story Centuries of overwork and stress have finally taken their toll – Santa has suffered a psychotic break and gone missing from his workshop in North…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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 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…
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 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…
