Graeme Robertson on why There Will Be Blood should have won Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best that 2007 had to offer were something of an oddity, in that nearly every film nominated in the main categories dealt with rather dark and complex themes, with the only light in this […]
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Interview: Bob Smith of Bob’s Stuff on creating a new wave of ZX81 and ZX Spectrum games
Villordsutch chats with Bob Smith of Bob’s Stuff about creating a new wave of ZX81 and ZX Spectrum games… The Sinclair ZX81 – currently 35 years old – is a great British machine that proudly boasts 1K of RAM or 16K if you buy yourself an additional RAM pack. It’s fair to say on its […]
Video Game Review – Z-Exemplar on PC Steam
Villordsutch reviews Z-Exemplar on the Steam… Back in 1987 Irem released a side-scrolling shooter called R-Type upon the arcade houses across the world, and this caused Gaming Waves that are still being felt today. It was a glorious game, with swarms of enemies, bosses so huge and grotesque that they were in fact morbidly beautiful at the […]
Video Game Review – Merry Christmas From Horace on the ZX Spectrum
Villordsutch reviews Merry Christmas Fom Horace on the ZX Spectrum… Horace, the no necked, vacant staring shape of a being is – in some classic ZX Spectrum owners hearts – the official mascot of the their machine. Yes, we have Miner Willy from Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, Monty Mole from a cluster of games […]
Interview – Musician Dave Rogers talks about the 1980’s computer scene, his influences and Chiptune
Villordsutch interviews Dave Rogers… Back in the 1980’s the British software boom erupted and with it emerged some seriously talented people, from coders and graphic artists to musicians; it’s amongst the latter that Dave Rogers stood out for many a gamer at the end of the 20th Century. Mostly known – at the time – […]
Video Game Review – Retroid for the Nintendo Game Boy
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 […]
Book Review – Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson
Villordsutch reviews Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson… For anybody who lived through the home computing boom of the 1980’s if you glimpsed Hewson Consultants on the front of one of your games it meant two things: 1) Here was a fantastic, well made game which was going to keep you engaged […]
Ten great ZX81 games you really need to play!
Villordsutch with ten great ZX81 games you really need to play… Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX81 celebrated its 35th Anniversary in March 2016. This small unassuming machine to most people today, with a mere 1K of RAM, is quite possibly laughable 0 but this sleek flat-keyboarded machine began a revolution that is still rolling today. When […]
Video Game Review – Sewer Rage on the ZX Spectrum
Villordsutch reviews Sewer Rage on the ZX Spectrum… Loading up another homebrewed game on the ZX Spectrum, we’re given the lowest of the low jobs, as we’re sent deep into the sewers of the UK, forced to fix them due to a mandatory work order from the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions). If you […]
Video Game Review – Vallation on the ZX Spectrum
Villordsutch reviews Vallation on the ZX Spectrum… Vallation has just arrived on the ZX Spectrum, and is originally a Commodore 64 game created by Jason Kelk aka. Cosine for the RGCD C64 Cartridge Development Competition 2013, this has now been brought over to the Sinclair machine – with love – by Tardis Remakes & Søren […]