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Good afternoon Retro Gamers, today we have a special Homebrew treat for you all, Dave Hughes has released a new Shoot ’em up for your Speccy! Dave decided to set himself a goal and see what could be achieved using an old game engine, his choice was Games Designer from Quicksilva Ltd released in 1983! This program is well known…
A new Puzzle game called Mazeract has appeared on the World of Spectrum forums. The idea of the game is to find your way to the exit of each level. All sounds pretty simple and the first few levels are, but as you progress, things get a bit more complicated and you have to find keys to open doors. Sometimes the key and…
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…
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/
We have some great News for all you ZX Spectrum owners out there! reidrac from World of Spectrum Forums has released The Return of Traxtor, which is the sequel to The Legend of Traxtor. Return of Traxtor is a basic puzzle game in which you use the tractor beam to move blocks into the bay, and then fire to throw…
Grass! .. Never had so much fun, Grass! .. Never had so much fun!Ever felt like cutting the grass for fun? Nope me neither! However this is definitely more entertaining than physically cutting real grass. The GameAll you have to do is to mow lawns, precisely and accurately. The game consists of two stages, first stage – a simple “fact-finding”,…
We have a real treat for all you Spectrum Owners out there! COMPLICA DX (by Einar Saukas, Dave Hughes and Yerzmyey) is a fantastic new colourful Arcade style puzzler. Take Connect 4 and give it a twist and you end up with COMPLICA DX! WARNING, this game is Extremely addictive and will have you pulling your hair out, you have…
Euphoria 2D is a new turn-based strategy for the ZX Spectrum. It’s a cross between “The Kingdom of Euphoria” and “Civilization”, but closer to the latter. The game is in two languages – Russian and English.Latest Changes and additions– Farmers can cut wood and key K (“take”), not only to 0 (“pull down”);– Stone extracted once from a mountain, but…
andrewvanbeck from World of Spectrum forums has blessed us with a new game to kick off the weekend! Super 48k Box is a demake of Super Crate Box by Vlambeer. Andrew mentions that this is not affiliated with them in any way, just a fan game made for good old speccy. Key controls are shown on the title screen, supports…
As you may have noticed on the World of Spectrum website, the forums have been unavailable for some time now, but fear not as there is a temporary forum available and is already pretty active considering it hasn’t been up for very long. I stumbled upon a couple of speccy games there which are defintly worth a play. First up…
