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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #15 – The Lords of Midnight

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From one classic to another, we leave Elite and turn to the towards the next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and No.#15 is delivered with both a map and patience, for you’re going to need both with Beyond Software’s timeless The Lords of Midnight. Arriving on the ZX Spectrum back in 1984, programmed […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #16 – Elite

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After the quite frankly fantastic Starquake we decided to stick around in the great black void for our next entry in the Your Sinclair Top 100, as we pick up No.#16 in we notice we’ve got here from Firebird a short story and a keyboard overlay hidden in this huge box. I’m guessing Elite is […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #17 – Starquake

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Carefully removing Underwurlde from the cassette player, placing it into its case and then popping said game into a box marked, “Never to be played again” – currently occupied by Football Manager, Hypersports and International Match Day – we load up the next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and we’re instantly met with another ruddy platformer!  However […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #18 – Underwurlde

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As Eric completes is task of mischief, depositing his report back in the safe and leaving half the school drunk as skunks, we eject Back to Skool and head towards our next helping in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  At No.#18 is another release from the software house Ultimate Play the Game – on first glance […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #19 – Back to Skool

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No longer being involved in the macabre, trap dodging, kill or be killed Spy vs Spy we rapidly leave the area in our plane and look towards our next game, hoping that life in our next Your Sinclair Top 100 entry will not be so brutal. However looking at No.#19 it appears we’re not escaping […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #20 – Spy vs Spy

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After crawling around numerous air vents looking for Jones the cat in Alien, we finally make our escape in the Narcissus, and turning to our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 we discover that Number #21 is another tie-in, but this is from the MAD Magazine. Loading onto our CRT screens is two […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #21 – Alien

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Pulling over for a while and taking a tea break, as tiredness kills, we park up Chase H.Q. and turn to our next offering in the Your Sinclair Top 100 this next game – at No.#21 – is a classic sci-fi/horror movie tie-in.  We now have in our cassette players the Ellen Ripley-bothering Alien – from Mind […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #22 – Chase H.Q.

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After making the break for freedom in The Great Escape, leaving the bally Hun looking confused at little piles of dirt all around the exercise yard, we take to loading our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  It couldn’t get any more different as No.#22 puts us straight into a high-octane car chase […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #23 – The Great Escape

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Rapidly leaving the rather humdrum Starstrike II behind, we open the box marked classics in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and hope our next game isn’t so disheartening.  Taking a glance at the cover of No.#23 I’m sure that The Great Escape – from Ocean Software – will not let us down one bit…I hope. The […]