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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #36 – Cybernoid

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We are currently on a roll in the Your Sinclair Top 100 with Gauntlet then Lode Runner and now we have something truly fantastic.  At No.#36 is Cybernoid from one of the most respected publishing houses out there, Hewson Consultants Ltd. Cybernoid arrived on the ZX Spectrum in 1988, created by Raffaele Cecco, Nick Jones, John M. Phillips, […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #32 – Jet Set Willy

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Still riding high from Knight Lore from the day before we turn to today’s Your Sinclair Top 100 and cross our fingers hoping that we’re given something just as wonderful.  Pulling our hand from the bag of ZX Spectrum gaming delights, it’s revealed that No.#32 hasn’t let us down as it’s the true classic Jet […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #29 – Think!

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With the graphical wizardry of Nebulus from Hewson served to us in our last instalment, you’d now expect our bar to be set pretty high in the Your Sinclair Top 100, so when what looks like a square version of Connect 4 strolls up at No.#29 – calling itself Think! – we’re instantly sneering at it […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #28 – Deactivators

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Forcing the old grey matter to actually do some work seems to be on the cards again, as we wave goodbye to Think! and greet our next title in the Your Sinclair Top 100. Deactivators which sits at No. #28 however this isn’t a flat 2D board game – here we’re in the pseudo-3D realm of bomb […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: 50th Anniversary Cover Celebration

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: 50th Anniversary Cover Celebration… Star Trek: 50th Anniversary Cover Celebration issue is a collectors piece.   Anyone who has picked up their IDW Star Trek comic book or looked at it on their eReader and the first thing they’ve said before they even open a page is, “Wow!”, this is for you. […]

Interview – Rick Dickinson talks about designing iconic Sinclair machines

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Villordsutch interviews Rick Dickinson about his the moment he started working with Sinclair Research Ltd, how he got there and how do you design a new “retro” machine… Rick Dickinson is one the most recognisable British designers to anyone involved in 1980’s home computing boom or the rather huge current retrogaming circuit.  It was his talents that […]

Video Game Review – Karlos on the ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Karlos on the ZX Spectrum… On today’s Homebrew Review we take our ZX Spectrum into the deepest, darkest Peru in search of lost Inca idols. Karlos wanders into the great unexplored with nothing more than his trusty hammer and a certificate in Moving & Handling.   Karlos was originally published by the Perspective […]

Dan Dare coming to Big Finish in December

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Big Finish has announced today that we will be seeing Dan Dare arrive as a brand new audio production from B7 Media which will star Ed Stoppard as the titular hero alongside Geoff McGivern as Digby, Heida Reed as Professor Peabody and Raad Rawi as the villainous Mekon. Created by Frank Hampson, Colonel Daniel McGregor Dare […]

Video Game Review – Retroid for the Nintendo Game Boy

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Villordsutch reviews Retroid for the Game Boy… The Nintendo Game Boy arrived on the gaming scene back in 1989 and it truly took the world by storm, combined with the Game Boy Color, Light and “Play it Loud” releases the Game Boy to date has sold 118.69 Million Units.  What’s more scary if you multiply […]