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Video Game Review – Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival

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Scott Watson reviews Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival… Nostalgia – a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time. When Dino Dini’s Kick Off […]

Video Game Review – Deep Core Raider on the ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Deep Core Raider on the ZX Spectrum…One of my favourite all time computer games of old was Thrust created by the late Jeremy Smith. I spent many a wet break time at school on a massive BBC Micro battling both inertia and gravity to steal the orbs from numerous caves.  So when I caught a […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #65 – Batty

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From the addictive maze of Splat!, we turn to one of the Elite’s greatest titles that in truth never actually received a true official release, but first appeared as the free covertape game for Your Sinclair back in 1987.  Batty has finally arrived in the Top 100 countdown, and it is one of this reviewers most favourite games […]

Video Game Review – Tom Clancy’s The Division

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Villordsutch reviews Tom Clancy’s The Division… Now I’ve been playing RPGs for quite literally decades and you can add onto that MMORPGs for close to two decades as I arrived at EverQuest a year or so after it opened its doors.  In amongst the numerous other titles I’ve played Dark Age of Camelot, Warcraft, EverQuest 2, […]

Video Game Review – Coffin Dodgers

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Villordsutch reviews Coffin Dodgers…Let’s be honest, everybody wants Mario Kart on their machines.  If you’ve experienced Mario Kart at any point in your life and then you’ve left and strayed to another console, no matter how perfect the graphics are on your new shiny box you can’t help but want a some form of Mario […]

The Week in Star Wars – Tom Hardy in Episode VIII, Finn and Rey relationship, Battlefront 2 announced, Star Wars: Bloodline reviewed and more

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In this edition of The Week in Star Wars, we’ve got more cameo rumours, news on Battlefront 2, a review of Star Wars: Bloodline and more…We’re kicking things off this week with some more rumours surrounding cameos for Star Wars: Episode VIII. A couple of weeks back we heard that Prince William and Prince Harry […]

Smart Boy turns your Android phone into a Game Boy Color

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Coming soon to your Android device is the rather splendid looking piece of kit called a Smart Boy!  This great retro-inspired product made by Hyperkin – and sold by Funstock – fits over your Android smartphone turning it into a Game Boy Color, allowing you to playing both Game Boy Color cartridges and even original Game […]

Video Game Review – Double Bubble on ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Double Bubble…In the latest Homebrew Review on the ZX Spectrum I look at a simple looking arcade puzzle game that involves you guiding two bubbles across a small obstacle course.  I say simply, Double Bubble is a game that will have you cursing your machine in a matter of minutes as the secondary bubble leisurely […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #70 – G-Force

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We leave the Pleasuredome from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, setting our sights on Number #70 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 games and it’s rather a bizarre little number called G-Force; rather disappointingly it’s not the kids cartoon from the early 1980’s.G-Force arrived in 1983 from EMM Software, created by Boris Baginski (BB Design). This […]