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Are the Oliver Twins making a new Dizzy game?

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Here is a true blast from the very dust-caked past for those of you of a certain age, and those who remember when 8-bit games where just actually called “games”. If can you recall when we traded these games upon magnetic tape we called “cassettes”, then you will also remember a certain egg from the […]

Strax to team up with Jago and Litefoot in a special Doctor Who spin-off from Big Finish

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Big Finish Productions has just announced a very interesting amalgamation that is bound to be rather brilliant.  Strax, the Sontaran butler to Victorian investigator Vastra and her wife Jenny, will be swapping the Paternoster Gang for a short spell with Jago and Litefoot.  This new release will be called Jago & Litefoot & Strax. In […]

Report: PLAY it! at the MOSI in Manchester

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Villordsutch reports from PLAY it! at the MOSI in Manchester… Yesterday evening I attending the grand opening of PLAY it! at the MOSI in Manchester.  The doors were finally flung open for a hands on video gaming event for the next coming fortnight, which will see people embracing gaming through the past three decades. Whether […]

Big Finish to adapt the original The Avengers comic strips

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Big Finish Productions has signed a licence with STUDIOCANAL and DC Thomson to produce full cast audio productions of The Avengers comic strips which were original published in Diana in 1966 and 1967. The eight episodes will be released over two box sets in April and November 2016, and will run alongside The Avengers: The […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #64 – Buggy Boy

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After the brilliance that was Batty we don’t have to travel far as we journey to our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 as Buggy Boy – at No. #64 – is also from the Elite Systems Ltd. publishing house too. Buggy Boy was originally released on the arcade from Tatsumi in 1985; […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #60 – Knot in 3D

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From one oddly named game to another today, we leave Eric and the Floaters and zoom over to the rather colourful Knot in 3D which arrives at number #60 in the Your Sinclair Top 100. Knot in 3D was was created by Malcolm E. Evans in 1983, and was released via New Generation Software – […]

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 […]

Interview – Clive Townsend talks about his ZX Spectrum classic Saboteur

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Clive Townsend created and released Saboteur – with software publishing house Durell Software – back in 1985.  Taking on the role of a clad in black Ninja, you had to steal a computer disk and make your way through numerous rooms, filled with guards, lasers and dogs to the helicopter waiting for you on the roof; […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #71– Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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With Hijack and it hellish lifts safely behind us, we now set sail for a completely different location as we head for Liverpool, Merseyside to both solve a murder and find our way to the Pleasuredome.  We’ve arrived at No.#71  in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and it’s the completely bizarre Frankie Goes to Hollywood. […]