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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #53 – Ping Pong

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Leaving behind the bloodlust of Rastan from yesterday, we lay down our sword and instead pick up another weapon ready for combat – in this case a paddle; though this in truth will be a lot less bloody and a bit more sweaty.  At number 53 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 we enter the […]

Interview – Clive Townsend talks about his ZX Spectrum classic Saboteur

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Clive Townsend created and released Saboteur – with software publishing house Durell Software – back in 1985.  Taking on the role of a clad in black Ninja, you had to steal a computer disk and make your way through numerous rooms, filled with guards, lasers and dogs to the helicopter waiting for you on the roof; […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #55 – Saboteur

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Leaving the dire Bounty Bob Strikes Back hopefully far behind us, we look to the light and hope that around the corner in the Your Sinclair Top 100 something wonderful is waiting at Number #55, and I can tell you that something is.  Out from the shadows steps Saboteur! Saboteur was published back in 1985 by […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #56 – Bounty Bob Strikes Back

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As we leave the truly immersive Celtic folklore world of Dun Darach we stumble and repeatedly fall into our next helping in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  Delivered to us at No.#56 in what seems a rather hurried heap is Bounty Bob Strikes Back and you may need a hat to hide the patches of […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #57 – Dun Darach

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After all the “pew-pews” yesterday in Operation Wolf, most of you are no doubt tired and need a well-earned sit down.  Well pull up a chair, get a very big sheet of paper, some pencils, a big rubber, book a week off work and load up Dun Darach – which is No.#57 in the Your […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #58 – Operation Wolf

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We couldn’t arrive at anymore of a different place than like we witnessed yesterday; gone are serene Hyper Sports gamely locations, as today’s Your Sinclair Top 100 game – Number #58 – is a slice of violent, brutal and unabashed slaughter!  Operation Wolf has loaded up and it’s taking no prisoners. Operation Wolf started its gun-toting life […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #59 – Hyper Sports

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Stepping backwards from the futuristic sport that was Knot in 3D to the more mundane real world sports in today’s Your Sinclair Top 100, we arrive at a coin-op conversion originally from Konami, though on the ZX Spectrum Hyper Sports was delivered from Imagine Software. Imagine Software had begun to pick up a number of arcade […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #60 – Knot in 3D

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From one oddly named game to another today, we leave Eric and the Floaters and zoom over to the rather colourful Knot in 3D which arrives at number #60 in the Your Sinclair Top 100. Knot in 3D was was created by Malcolm E. Evans in 1983, and was released via New Generation Software – […]

Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 10 Review – The Winds of Winter

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The Winds of Winter Written by: David Benioff and D. B. Weiss Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik In the extra-long finale we’ve witnessed the pieces be moved upon the board both rapidly and violently.  Here finally do we see Daenerys set sail towards the West, Cersei deliver vengeance upon all that have crossed her, Jon Snow become […]