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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 […]

Mirror’s Edge heading to the small screen for TV series

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EA DICE’s video game franchise Mirror’s Edge is heading to the small screen, with Deadline reporting that Endemol Shine Studios has snapped up the rights to develop a female-centred action series. “We clearly see Mirror’s Edge as a franchise for the global TV audience,” said Sharon Hall, President of Endemol Shine Studios. “It has a […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #96 – Cruising on Broadway

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing with the countdown we arrive at No. 96 and with this we hit Cruising on Broadway from Solarsoft, released way back in 1983. With the box art and title – seen above – you’d probably be expecting something flash and filled to the back […]

Video Game Review – Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition

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Calum Petrie reviews Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition… Not a Hero – Super Snazzy Edition is the console release of Rollingmedia’s disturbing and frantic side scrolling shooter. The game is a bizarre mix of over the top violence with satire of stereotypes ranging from drunken Scottish people to Russian gangsters. With its side scrolling […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #97 – Mined-Out

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Working our way on through the Top 100, we cautiously step into No. 97 arriving at Mined-Out from Quicksilva, released back in 1983. Mined-Out featured some classic box-art for a ZX Spectrum game, that not only did it have bare-chested lady on the front, but it fibbed about […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #98 – Pheenix

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing on with the Your Sinclair Top 100 ZX Spectrum games ever made the next game on our list is Pheenix from Megadodo. Megadodo released three games in total – including Pheenix – and other than they share the same name of the publishing company behind the fictional Hitchhikers […]