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Exclusive Interview – John Wilson talks about Zenobi Software, unreleased titles and whether we’ll see the Balrog on the ZX Spectrum Next

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Villordsutch talks with John Wilson (The Balrog) about Zenobi Software… There was a time when us gamers didn’t require ultra-real graphics delivered in 4K resolution, nor truth be told did we actually require graphics, for our days were occupied with text-based adventure games and here we lost real time. Reading lines of an unfolding story […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 5 Review – ‘Oxygen’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 5: Oxygen… Directed by: Charles Palmer Written by: Jamie Mathieson Doctor – “Oh look Bill it’s Nardole! What a lovely surprise! I thought I sent you to Birmingham for a packet of crisps!?” Nardole – “Yes I saw through your cunning ruse” Doctor – “Yes well if you will go thinking for yourself.” […]

Elite Systems issue a statement regarding the Recreated ZX Spectrum

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With talk about the ZX Spectrum Next and the ZX Vega+ what’s often forgotten is the Recreated ZX Spectrum from Elite Systems.  Looking rather fantastic, a replica bluetooth keyboard honouring the original rubber-keyed Spectrum with an app (Google/iOS) that brought the user games and Sinclair BASIC.  This machine looked like a winner however it was […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 4 Review – ‘Knock, Knock’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 4: Knock, Knock… Directed by: Bill Anderson Written by: Mike Bartlett Bill – “He’s My Grandad” Doctor – “Ahhh, come on! Father at least” Bill – “Alright, Grandfather!” When Doctor Who aims to frighten you, it really knows where those dark corners are in your mind, where you keep those […]

Video Game Review – Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls on the ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls on the ZX Spectrum… Monty Mole from Gremlin Graphics was huge star on the 1980’s gaming scene.  Wanted: Monty Mole rocked the 8-bit gaming world as a wee stubby mole, designed by Peter Harrop, wandering through the British Coal Mines (set during the 1980’s Miners Strike) snaffling coal […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 3 Review – ‘Thin Ice’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 3: Thin Ice… Directed by: Bill Anderson Written by: Sarah Dollard Doctor – “I’m two-thousand years old and I have never had the time for the luxury of outrage.” Doctor Who has been rather good at bringing a number of things to our screens – history, morality, ethical questioning, life and death […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 2 Review – ‘Smile’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 2: Smile… Directed by: Lawrence Gough Written by: Frank Cottrell-Boyce Doctor – “We’re in the utopia of vacuous teens!” In “Smile”, our second episode of Doctor Who Series 10 (written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce who also wrote “In the Forest of the Night” from Series 8) we are taken to one of Earth’s […]

Interview – Julian Chappell of the classic ZX81 publishing house Software Farm

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Villordsutch chats with Julian Chappell of the classic ZX81 publishing house Software Farm… The Sinclair ZX81 was (and still is) a plucky little machine.  RAM packed with 1K of memory this machine came into its element when you crammed a hefty additional 16K onto the back of it, however at the time gaming on the […]

Project ZX review and interview with creator Richard Langford

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Villordsutch reviews Project ZX and chats with creator Richard Langford… Back in 2009 the BBC aired a drama based around the rise of the British home computer market, with its two main players being Sir Clive Sinclair played by Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong and Miller, Danger Mouse) and Chris Curry played by Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, […]