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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: #7 – The Sentinel

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The world of the cute needs to be removed from your memories for the next slice of gaming history!  Rainbow Islands is nothing like our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100, which is currently loading into our ZX Spectrums.  Granted No.#7 from Firebird is a hailed as a classic, but you’re really not […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #48 – Renegade

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After the peace and quiet has passed with a few rounds of Tetris, it’s only right our attention returns to some real action.  What better way to do this that with smacking somebody in the teeth, then following this up with high-kick, knocking them straight off the edge off a train station!  Obviously we’re not advocating this […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #58 – Operation Wolf

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We couldn’t arrive at anymore of a different place than like we witnessed yesterday; gone are serene Hyper Sports gamely locations, as today’s Your Sinclair Top 100 game – Number #58 – is a slice of violent, brutal and unabashed slaughter!  Operation Wolf has loaded up and it’s taking no prisoners. Operation Wolf started its gun-toting life […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #30 – Nebulus

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Resetting our ZX Spectrum, we remove from memory Lunar Jetman, looking towards our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and again it’s another from the Hewson Consultants Ltd.  Number #30 was a game that made both critics and gamers really stop and look, as Nebulus had a certain unique feature. Nebulus was programmed by John […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #41 – Fantasy World Dizzy

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From one classic to another, as we leave J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit – which followed Bilbo Baggins as he trekked across Middle-Earth with a group of Dwarves tackling Goblins, a Dragon and also claiming the ring with the essence of Sauron within – we now turn to a tale of an egg!  Not just any egg mind […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #43 – Midnight Resistance

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At the rather uneventful, amazingly hum-drum game that was Rescue, we now arrive at a game that truly is the complete opposite – a game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 that is so full of action and colour that if your shoelaces aren’t done up tight enough your socks will be blown off!  At […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #84 – Technician Ted

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If our gaming life was our C.V. it would look rather interesting over the past few days space fighter extraordinaire, trash man, defender of the human-race and now today a technician in a chip factory as our life brings us to Number #84 Technician Ted. In our second Hewson Consultants game within the Your Sinclair […]