Tag: zx spectrum

Crappy Crates, New Spectrum Puzzle Game by The Death Squad

Crappy Crates is a new Christmas game by Death Squad for the ZX Spectrum 48/128/Vega/Next. You have been placed on another MWA. This time you have to stack crates laden with Christmas crap into the designated pick up areas. Various creatures are out to make your life a misery, and a filthy old pervert dressed as Father Christmas has took…

Cybermania, A New Maze Action Game by Payndz for the ZX Spectrum

Seems we are overrun with new ZX Spectrum releases this week, we have yet another new game, this time from Payndz over at World of Spectrum Forums. Payndz is new to creating games on the Spectrum and Cybermania is his first attempt at writing a game in AGD. From the thread on WoS, Payndz mentions that the game is a…

Stela II – The Secrets of Doctor Malfario, New ZX Spectrum Game from Steve Trower

Steve Trower has released a new maze/puzzle game for the ZX Spectrum titled “Stela II – The Secrets of Doctor Malfario”. Testing his new machine, “Stela”, the Doctor Malfario, in a strange time travel has been lost in parallel worlds. Your mission is to guide Doctor Malfario in his small spacecraft “Stela” back to his mansion through 5 different worlds,…

The Unofficial Zombo’s Christmas Capers, ZX Spectrum

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…

Merry Christmas From Horace, New ZX Spectrum Christmas Game from Steve Broad!

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…

Thursday Retro Gaming News Updates

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…

Fill Your Friday Night With Some Fantastic New Retro Game Updates!

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…

Willy’s New Mansion Special Edition, Twelfth Anniversary Release

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, New ZX Spectrum Text Adventure, What will be your Next Move?

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, ZX Spectrum Full English Translation

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…