Category: Sinclair News
Knights originally a PC game has been ported to your rubber keyed friend the ZX Spectrum. The game has eighty-two levels in which you have to follow the rules of chess. However this is far from the real game of chess, although you do use knight pieces (the horse for non chess fans). Reading Planeta Sinclair’s review, the game seems…
Steel Jeeg is a new AGD game by Francesco Forte. There are many excellent Arcade Game Designer games out there, titles such as Monty’s Honey Run by Andy Johns, Foggys’s Quest by John Blythe and Ooze, also by Andy Johns. With a lot of time, effort and perseverance, you can create a really fantastic game using this engine. Most of…
Another two ZX Spectrum Titles have been saved thanks to Planeta Sinclair website. King Arthur is a strategy game in similar style as Empire by Aralbrec, and Crusaders is an RPG Adventure. You can download both games below. Download: King Arthur Download: Crusaders More Information: Planeta Sinclair
A few days ago, Allan Turvey kindly sent me over the “ZX81 Birthday Edition” of his awesome ZX Spectrum game Roust. Roust is a ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. You can read more about Allan’s game in our previous posts here. The new birthday edition, is pretty much the same game, except it’s been skinned over…
The World of Next website is a new independent resource for finding and sharing ZX Spectrum Next software. As the Next community grows and evolves, more and more software, games, demos and utilities will be written and this site aims to be the #1 resource. In time, you will be able to browse a large database, rate and comment on…
A few days ago our good friends over at Planeta Sinclair shared some interesting News about a new ZX Spectrum game called In Nihilum Reverteri. In Nihilum Reverteri by Yerzmyey, is best described as an ‘interactive novel‘, where you read paragraphs of text, then make a choices, which can change the situation of the game. This appears to be a…
The results for the ZX-Dev Conversions competition are in, and the winner is.. (drumroll) Mighty Final Fight! 2nd Place goes to Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors and 3rd place was Gimmick! Yumeiro Odyssey. [vsw id=”DCMdxXL0yQM” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]Final results 1.Mighty Final Fight 2.Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors 3.Gimmick! Yumeiro Odyssey 4.Retroforce 5.Twinlight 6.Parachute 7.Baby Monkey Alba 8.Bobby Carrot 9.Gandalf 10.ZXombies 11.Saving…
Warhawk is a vertically scrolling shooter published in 1986 by Firebird software. It was released for the Commodore 64, Atari 8bit, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST. In the game, the player must dodge and destroy obstacles along a vertically scrolling screen, at the end of each level, there are a large number of ships flying at the player from various…
The ZX Spectrum was one of the greatest 8-bit micros of the day and, along with the C64, was one of the predominant 8-bit gaming platform in the UK during the ’80s and ’90s. With any popular platform, publishers were always looking to increase software sales and one of the most popular and lucrative genres was the arcade conversion. Coders…
You may remember Monty’s Honey Run, Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls and Ooze. All these games are by Andy Johns, and all were very well-received by the Spectrum Community. Andy Johns is back with some fantastic News about an Arcade Game Designer title he is working on, in fact, it’s not too far away from a release! The…
