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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #82 – Hyperaction

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From one strategy game to another, as we arrive at Hyperaction, No. #82 from Silversoft.  A puzzle game that upon first appearance you may despis, but after a few further rounds, this could become one of your firm favourites. Hyperaction was created by Iain Christopher Hayward, Jay Derrett back in 1984. Initially Hyperaction seems like a […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #83 – Football Manager

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It takes a steely nerve to put a curly-haired, bearded chap smiling on the cover of something and then expect it to sell well. In truth this only really happens once a decade it being Bob Ross’ (Deceased) turn the decade before.  However when Kevin Toms appeared, smiling on the cover of his Football Manager […]

The Top 10 Greatest ZX Spectrum Tunes Ever!

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Going through the Top 100 Your Sinclair games [follow the countdown here] I’ve become aware of the rather brilliant – and also dire – tunes that were designed around the games – some hidden amongst levels, but most placed in a prominent spot as the game’s main theme. Not wanting to be overly biased I strolled along […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #84 – Technician Ted

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If our gaming life was our C.V. it would look rather interesting over the past few days space fighter extraordinaire, trash man, defender of the human-race and now today a technician in a chip factory as our life brings us to Number #84 Technician Ted. In our second Hewson Consultants game within the Your Sinclair […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #85 – Guardian 2

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After the grounding role of a refuse collector in Trashman from yesterday’s Your Sinclair Top 100, we’re back into the murky depths of outer space in this Defender-like game, as  No.#85 on the list is Guardian 2. Published by Hi Tec Software in 1990, I recently discovered – thanks to a programmer from the past named Rich Stevenson – […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #86 – Trashman

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After the heroic adventures in space with Codename: MAT, we’re brought down to Earth with a very large bang as our role in life becomes one in which you have to deal with everybody’s daily rubbish:  Number #86 is Trashman published by New Generation Software from way back in 1984. Though the idea of a computer […]

Hardware Review – DOOM Edition Y-300CPX Headset

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Villordsutch reviews the DOOM Edition Y-300CPX Headset… To celebrate the release of DOOM from Bethesda and id Software Thrustmaster have issued two officially licensed headsets, the Y-350X – a totally new Xbox One/Windows headset, and a repainted release of their Y-300CPX which is classed as their Universal model, covering all machines which includes the Mac, PC, […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #87 – Codename: MAT

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Yesterday we had Wheelie, a rather brilliant piece of imagination, and today with No. #87 we drop into Codename: MAT – or as it’s also know Codename Mission: Alien Termination. Micromega, who produced a number of games which ranged from Postman Pat’s Trail Game to the ultimate Deathcase, created Codename: MAT way back in 1984.   We […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #88 – Wheelie

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After yesterday’s movie tie-in Cobra we come to a tiny piece of originality which was was clearly created on some rampant cheese eating bing by some Eddie Kidd/Evil Kenevil fan.  We’ve arrived at Number #88 and it’s called Wheelie. Published by Microsphere in 1983, the same software house behind the The Train Game which sat at Number #95, comes […]