Category: Sinclair News
PIXEL QUEST is a ZX-Spectrum version of Picross (also known as nonogram) that plays tribute to several classic ZX-Spectrum titles! Solve each puzzle to gradually reveal heroes and other famous pixel images from your favorite Speccy games! Complete gameplay freedom: solve puzzles in whatever order you want, using whatever control method you can imagine! Play to collect classic pixel art in a…
On Oct 21st, 2015, Marty McFly arrives in our year, finally! The future pictured in the movie is not quite right, but it is an important date nonetheless. To celebrate this day, we have selected few retro games you should play, if you haven’t done already. Since we are talking specifically about the second movie, our choices are narrowed down…
Retro Computers, the company behind the ZX Spectrum VEGA just announced its Christmas special promotion. For the twelve weeks leading up to Christmas and the New Year, Retro Computers will be placing eleven golden tickets at random into boxes of the ZX Spectrum Vega. If you’re lucky enough to find one, then not only will you receive your ‘normal’ black…
BITBITJam is a RetroGame event where people around the world create a game for old hardware in a weekend. This year’s BITBITJam was held from Fri 24 of July to Sun 26 of July, there were some fantastic entries and you can now download all the retro homebrew goodness over at http://bitbitjam.com/#entries. The winner for Best Confronted Kingdoms Game is Les Quizarables…
From Craig Turner: “So folks, most of the year’s gaming events have now been and gone and if you’re a regular show-goer, we hope you enjoyed them all! BUT – there’s one more important one left on the calendar and is sure to give you your best dedicated retro-gaming fix and the perfect atmosphere for a pre-Christmas blast with your friends…
Last year Ben Heck built a ZX Spectrum clone, and made it a portable unit. This time, he wants to try again, but doing it properly, in a way other people could build their own unit, following a cleaner project than the previous one. This 26-minute video is the first part. If you like tinkering with hardware or build stuff,…
Let’s be honest here, neither Recreated ZX Spectrum and ZX Spectrum Vega are a real recreation of the iconic and beloved Sinclair ZX Spectrum, but that doesn’t take away the value of these two modern hardwares: bringing back to a broader audience the experience to play all the great ZX Spectrum games. Recreated ZX Spectrum is a Spectrum-alike keyboard that…
Habi from CPCWiki Forums has ported Pac-Mania over to the Amstrad PCW. Pac-Mania is an arcade video game in the Pac-Man series, released by Namco in 1987 (and distributed by Atari Games in the United States and Europe). It runs on Namco System 1 hardware and was the last arcade title in the Pac-Man series until 1996. Pac-Mania is a…
Last week we announced Vitno Exclusive News about the upcoming underwater Speccy platformer called Aquanoids. Today we are excited to announce that the final version has now been released and you can download it here on Vintage is the New Old, from the link below. You can read everything you need to know about this fantastic new game over at…
F.L over at World of Spectrum Forums has ported the ZX Spectrum version of Barbarian to the Sega Megadrive/Genesis! You can download the port (and other versions) over at http://barbarian.1987.free.fr. The rom works on a real Sega Genesis/Megadrive (ntsc or pal), and on emulators. (Kega Fusion works best) Download: barbarianSPECTRUMmegadrive.zip Website: http://barbarian.1987.free.fr Forum Thread: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/
