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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #4 – Stop the Express

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After forgetting the poor souls trapped in eternal slavery and making the easy break for freedom, we leave Head Over Heels and make a run for No.# 4 in the Your Sinclair Top 100, which in this case is Stop the Express from Sinclair Research Ltd. Stop the Express arrived on the rubber keyed wonder […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #5 – Head over Heels

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After well and truly informing the Bydo Empire where they can put their invasion plan yesterday in R-Type, we decide on staying in the black void that our ancestors so imaginatively called,”Space” for our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  Number Five is another one from Ocean Software and bizarrely it involves the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #6 – R-Type

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After reaching the heady heights – in numerous landscapes – then proclaiming yourself The Sentinel, our calling in the Your Sinclair Top 100 now sees us return to the inky black.  Number Six from Electric Dreams Software sees us going nose-to-nose against Bydo, as we take control of R-Type. R-Type began its life in the […]

Video Game Review – Karlos on the ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Karlos on the ZX Spectrum… On today’s Homebrew Review we take our ZX Spectrum into the deepest, darkest Peru in search of lost Inca idols. Karlos wanders into the great unexplored with nothing more than his trusty hammer and a certificate in Moving & Handling.   Karlos was originally published by the Perspective […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #7 – The Sentinel

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The world of the cute needs to be removed from your memories for the next slice of gaming history!  Rainbow Islands is nothing like our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100, which is currently loading into our ZX Spectrums.  Granted No.#7 from Firebird is a hailed as a classic, but you’re really not […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #8 – Rainbow Islands

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As with Boulder Dash yesterday we’re rocking the extreme’s again today in the Your Sinclair Top 100, and we’ve gone from the extremely basic looking world of deep-mining to the glorious, colourful world of Rainbow Islands at No.#8 from Ocean Software. Rainbow Islands was originally an arcade release for Taito which sprung up in 1987; […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #9 – Boulder Dash

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From the hi-tech to the low-tech.  We go from one extreme to the other in today’s Your Sinclair Top 100, as yesterday we were in the latest line of hypersonic jets as we played T.L.L., but today we’re given the latest in the line of pickaxes!  At No.#9 we are playing the classic Boulder Dash […]

Interview – Rick Dickinson talks about designing iconic Sinclair machines

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Villordsutch interviews Rick Dickinson about his the moment he started working with Sinclair Research Ltd, how he got there and how do you design a new “retro” machine… Rick Dickinson is one the most recognisable British designers to anyone involved in 1980’s home computing boom or the rather huge current retrogaming circuit.  It was his talents that […]