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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 […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #66 – Splat!

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Leaving the round-house kicks with Way of The Exploding Fist behind us, we look at a game that on first impressions you may want to walk away from, but if you stick around for a few minutes Splat! – at no.#66 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 – will hook you in for hours! Splat! […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #67 – Way of the Exploding Fist

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After necking a few ales in Tapper yesterday it’s only right that we take ourselves off and attempt to bring order and control to our lives – and this can only be achieved by dishing out a few roundhouse kicks into somebody’s to the face. We’ve arrived at Way of the Exploding Fist number #67 […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #68 – Tapper

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Polar opposites now from yesterday’s Match Point which was all healthy people and Barley Water (whatever that is?) to working in a bar with Tapper today, where the only serving you have here is flinging ale down a bar to patrons before they grab you by the neck. Tapper was released by the ‘publish anything […]

Book Review – The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels

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Ben Rayner reviews The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels… The Commodore 64 was essentially my first console experience. Watching and waiting as those tapes worked their painfully slow magic before dinner was what made most of my evenings as a child that little bit more special. Games like Turrican, Bubble Bobble, Double Dragon and […]

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 […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #69 – Match Point

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After the dire Tempest clone yesterday – dubbed G-Force – we’ve arrived at our second sports game so far in the Your Sinclair Top 100 (the first being Football Manager), this being Match Point from Sinclair Research Ltd. Match Point was published in 1984 from Psion Software, the software publishing house behind Horace Goes Skiing, Flight […]

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). […]

The Week in Star Wars – More on the Rogue One reshoots, Episode VIII nears production end, new games from E3, Hayden Christensen return and more

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The Week in Star Wars returns with some updates on the Rogue One reshoots, all the news coming out of E3 (new games!) and Hayden Christensen begging to return yet again… We’ll kick things off this week with an update on those Rogue One: A Star Wars Story reshoots. If you’re behind on the story, […]