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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #89 – Cobra

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Today we return to another Ocean Software movie tie-in – the last one being RoboCop back at No. #94 – but while this movie tie-in has Sylvester Stallone on the cover of the box, this image – quite frankly – is the strongest link you’ll be seeing to the actually Cobra movie. Yes it has Ingrid in it […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #90 – Bounder

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… From Avalon yesterday we bounce towards the life of a sentient tennis ball with the first Gremlin Graphics game (and it certainly won’t be the last) to grace our countdown, as Bounder arrives to truly shatter our nerves. Gremlin Graphics was the software house that delivered numerous titles […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #91 – Avalon

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Yesterday we had the excellent Green Beret and today we arrive at our first from Hewson Consultants.  Avalon was the game which was quite possibly the precursor for the Monkey Island classics; though interesting to look at and technically rather clever, number #91 in my humble […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #92 – Green Beret

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… After the quite frankly bit of a let-down that was Gyron yesterday, we arrive at number #92 and instantly a smile is smacked back onto our faces – however it rapidly hits you that Green Beret really should be higher in the list than this! […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #93 – Gyron

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… After yesterday’s excellent serving of RoboCop you’d probably be expected something equally as delicious. Well back in 1985 Gyron could have won you a Porsche 923 or £12,500 (GBP) of cash if you managed to successfully solve its puzzle.  However, that prize doesn’t mean anything if […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #94 – RoboCop

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Arriving at Number #94 and we hit one of the first crimes in this Your Sinclair Top 100 as we find Murphy upholding the law and searching for justice in one of the greatest movie tie-in games on the ZX Spectrum.  We’ve arrived – already […]

Interview: Henrique Olifiers talks about the ZX Spectrum Next

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At the beginning of May we brought you the news about the ZX Spectrum Next, the latest machine to appear on the market that is catering for the highly popular “Retro” scene.  With a thirst for knowledge we managed to speak with Henrique Olifiers, who is part of the team bringing the ZX Spectrum Next […]

Comic Book Review – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #4

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Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #4… As the pages closed last month [read our review here] we witnessed the voiceless Kingdom-Brown family – in the UK – regain the power of communication via the means of song, thanks to some smart thinking of Sally and Susan McDuff.  With this Dirk […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #95 – The Train Game

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… After the frantic Cruising on Broadway, you’d probably be under the impression that #95 The Train Game is a sedate little number; however you’d be very wrong and after twenty minutes of this you’ll possibly be suffering from an acute migraine due to stress. The Train […]