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The Top 5 Worst ZX Spectrum Games Ever!

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Villordsutch wades through the Top 5 worst ZX Spectrum games ever… As I’ve worked my way through the annals of Speccy games [follow my Your Sinclair Top 100 here], I’ve come across a fair few games, that in all honesty, I personally don’t feel should even be allowed into the sunlight.  Granted at a point […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #75– Wriggler

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After Three Weeks in Paradise yesterday which came from a software house that had programmers at desks creating games, music composers for title music and art departments for posters and cassette inlays ,we turn to Number #75 in this Your Sinclair Top 100 which is called Wriggler – a game completely designed by a schoolboy. It wasn’t just […]

Forged in Development Hell: 6 Reasons why Doom is a Great Reboot – and Duke Nukem Forever isn’t

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Christopher Machell with six reasons why Doom is a great reboot – and Duke Nukem Forever isn’t… The original Doom is one of the most influential games of all time, ranking alongside such icons as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Super Mario Bros. as emblems of the medium. After eight years in development hell, it’s nothing […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #76 – Three Weeks in Paradise

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After the soul crushing Gyroscope we arrive at the final ever Wally Week game from the Icarus software publishing house Mikro-Gen.  Slowly plodding in at Number #76 from the Your Sinclair Top 100 is Three Weeks in Paradise. Mikro-Gen delivered solid titles that soldwell  and they were having a run of high rated games, even seeing one […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #77 – Gyroscope

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After the two rather excellent games of Flying Shark and Atic Atac we descend rapidly towards Number #77 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and scream towards the arcade-puzzle game Gyroscope from Melbourne House. Our second game from Melbourne House in the chart so far (the first being Sir Lancelot just last week), Gyroscope spun into existence back in […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #78 – Flying Shark

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With Ultimate’s Atic Atac, which was the last game looked at in the chart, our fortunes are continuing to run high as swooping in from Firebird at Number #78 is Flying Shark, the Taito coin-op classic from 1987. This is our second game in the countdown from Firebird so far – the first being Gyron – […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #79 – Atic Atac

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From one supposed classic yesterday to one real classic today! Arriving at Number #79 in the charts – rather criminally too – is Atic Atac from Ultimate.  You may be instantly wondering – as I was – why this game is so low in the Your Sinclair Top 100. I have no idea and as […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #80 – Sir Lancelot

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From yesterday’s detailed space adventure of Dark Star we turn to Number #80 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and it’s very much a depart from the scenes we witnessed yesterday.  In another game which could easily be labelled as a Manic Miner clone, we open the portcullis on Sir Lancelot. Sir Lancelot was published […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #4

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #4… The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the STAR TREK franchise continues in this special event mini-series! The fate of two civilizations comes down to the ultimate face-off between Captain Kirk and the Klingons! As the bulkhead door closes on Star Trek: Manifest Destiny, the comic to celebrate the 50th […]