Tag: zx spectrum
Tiny Nightmares is a game for the Spectrum 48K, based on the masterful 2017 indie game Little Nightmares, the work of Swedish team Tarsier Studios, developed for PS4 , XBox , PC and Switch. Tiny Nightmares is very far from the original concept of the Swedish game, since its mechanics, often based on the setting and psychological terror, are difficult…
Bomber Bot is a new game by the great Gabriele Amore, a man well known for his fantastic ZX Spectrum Homebrew games, and Bomber Bot does not disappoint. Bomber Bot is a bit like Bomberman, you have bombs and enemies, you lay your bomb down and run to safety, and hopefully over time, you have managed to kill everyone, the…
Fast food deliveries drop in from the top of the screen and move around the platforms. Arrows on the platforms direct the food in particular directions and these can be changed by pressing fire in combination with one of the 4 directions, thus re-directing food elsewhere. Customer orders are shown as icons above each of the 3 windows and it…
Virgil’s Purgatory ZX is a metroidvania exploration action platformer. The game is available for ZX Spectrum or MSX, .tap and .rom formats. You can run these files on any good emulator or better still, real hardware. Virgíl’s Purgatory has been updated to version 2.0 on the ZX Spectrum. Lot’s of new changes in place, much more than just bug fixes,…
The evil Doctor Jose Antonio Malvado is trying to turn all the citizens of WeepingTown into mutants! Help Batmanolo stop him! Your suit is ruined but you can recover it for a little while and be more resistant, jump higher and throw your weapon to discover hidden rooms or paralyze enemies. Gather all the mutagen that’s spread all around WeepingTown,…
ZX Parachute is a new game for the ZX Spectrum developed by Carles Oriol that follows to the letter the Nintendo Game & Watch game device released in 1981 where you control a boat that has to prevent parachutists to fall into the water infested by sharks. The boat can be moved left or right but can only be in…
The Yandex Museum, located in Moscow Russia, launched a retro games contest in July, seeking new game submission for the ZX Spectrum by 5 December 2019. The contest has proven to be quite popular with 19 games submitted and now you have until 11 December to try out all the entries and submit your vote. Browsing through the submissions there…
Bruce Lee is a video game designed by Ron J. Fortier, with graphics by Kelly Day and music by John A. Fitzpatrick. Originally developed for the Atari 8-bit, the game was published in 1984 by Datasoft, along with ports for the Apple II, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Bruce Lee RX by Allan Turvey is a graphical update…
Andy Green recently announced a top-down maze shooter called Mage Rage, which will be coming to the ZX Spectrum. Developed by John Davies and Andy using AGDx Mini, you take control of Mercure the Mage, exploring a ravenous beasts evil lair, full of spiders, bats, rats, goblins and trolls. You must recover “Magical Swirls” which were stolen from the stone…
In the latest release of the popular podcast “Retro Island Diskettes” hosted by Neil from RetroManCave and Dr Andrew Armstrong from The Backoffice Show we hear the life story of veteran developer Tim Gilberts. Tim was responsible for many titles but is perhaps most well known for The Quill, a text adventure game toolkit which allowed anyone to create interactive…
