Back in June 2016, Hewson Consultants dropped onto Kickstarter the rather splendid looking Hyper Sentinel, which was aimed at Apple users. Created by bedroom coder Jonathan Port, aka Four5Six Pixel this game sang of its love for the excellent Uridium and the fantastic frantic classic shooters that kept you coming back for more, no matter how […]
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 […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #30 – Nebulus
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: #36 – Cybernoid
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, […]
Gaming Godfather Andrew Hewson brings Hyper Sentinel to Kickstarter
For those of a certain age to see names like Andrew Hewson along with his software publishing house Hewson Consultants Ltd you knew that you were getting a game that was going to be of excellent quality. Games like Exolon, Nebulus and of course Uridium belonged in a special place within your many rows of cassettes. Now arriving […]