Villordsutch chats with Bill Harbison about his career in gaming… Bill Harbison has been in the gaming business now for three decades plus. Cutting his teeth on the ZX Spectrum over at Ocean Software he delivered some truly outstanding pieces of artwork of the rubber-keyed wonder. Now with a client list including SEGA, the BBC […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #5 – Head over Heels
After well and truly informing the Bydo Empire where they can put their invasion plan yesterday in R-Type, we decide on staying in the black void that our ancestors so imaginatively called,”Space” for our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100. Number Five is another one from Ocean Software and bizarrely it involves the […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #8 – Rainbow Islands
As with Boulder Dash yesterday we’re rocking the extreme’s again today in the Your Sinclair Top 100, and we’ve gone from the extremely basic looking world of deep-mining to the glorious, colourful world of Rainbow Islands at No.#8 from Ocean Software. Rainbow Islands was originally an arcade release for Taito which sprung up in 1987; […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #22 – Chase H.Q.
After making the break for freedom in The Great Escape, leaving the bally Hun looking confused at little piles of dirt all around the exercise yard, we take to loading our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100. It couldn’t get any more different as No.#22 puts us straight into a high-octane car chase […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #23 – The Great Escape
Rapidly leaving the rather humdrum Starstrike II behind, we open the box marked classics in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and hope our next game isn’t so disheartening. Taking a glance at the cover of No.#23 I’m sure that The Great Escape – from Ocean Software – will not let us down one bit…I hope. The […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #43 – Midnight Resistance
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: #45 – International Match Day
We leave one world of spheres with Bobby Bearing and enter another – however as regular readers of the Your Sinclair Top 100 know, the following genre really isn’t my favourite. You could actually say that I personally despise what’s hiding behind No.#45, which is International Match Day from Ocean Software. International Match Day was […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #58 – Operation Wolf
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: #71– Frankie Goes To Hollywood
With Hijack and it hellish lifts safely behind us, we now set sail for a completely different location as we head for Liverpool, Merseyside to both solve a murder and find our way to the Pleasuredome. We’ve arrived at No.#71 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and it’s the completely bizarre Frankie Goes to Hollywood. […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #74– Pang
After a succession of not overly enjoyable games – with the final one being Wriggler – it’s great to finally pick up a game that not only rings back from the past with some brilliant gaming memories, but within the opening few rounds still shows you that the gameplay has been retained after a quarter of a century. […]