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Video Game Review – Invasive Species on ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Invasive Species on ZX Spectrum…In today’s Homebrew Reviews on the ZX Spectrum you become one of the most vile creatures on the planet – a summer destroying wasp – as you attempt to keep the garden in which you live clean of all things not you.Loading Invasive Species from Sludge and with the cracking title […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #71– Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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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.Ocean […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #72– Hijack

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With the simple life of bringing love to your girl behind us with Popeye, our world has become somewhat more troublesome in Hijack, which lands at Number #72 in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  A game in which the fate of hostages around the world arrive on your desk within the Pentagon.In our first game within the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #73– Popeye

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With the brilliant Pang passing us by yesterday we arrive at the second game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 from dk’tronics and also Don Priestley (the last being Maziacs), however this game is one of the first television tie-ins Don will be tackling in a rather bright and large way; we’ve arrived at the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #74– Pang

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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.  […]

The Top 5 Worst ZX Spectrum Games Ever!

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Villordsutch wades through the Top 5 worst ZX Spectrum games ever… As I’ve worked my way through the annals of Speccy games [follow my Your Sinclair Top 100 here], I’ve come across a fair few games, that in all honesty, I personally don’t feel should even be allowed into the sunlight.  Granted at a point […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #75– Wriggler

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After Three Weeks in Paradise yesterday which came from a software house that had programmers at desks creating games, music composers for title music and art departments for posters and cassette inlays ,we turn to Number #75 in this Your Sinclair Top 100 which is called Wriggler – a game completely designed by a schoolboy.It wasn’t just the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #76 – Three Weeks in Paradise

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After the soul crushing Gyroscope we arrive at the final ever Wally Week game from the Icarus software publishing house Mikro-Gen.  Slowly plodding in at Number #76 from the Your Sinclair Top 100 is Three Weeks in Paradise.Mikro-Gen delivered solid titles that soldwell  and they were having a run of high rated games, even seeing one of […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #77 – Gyroscope

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After the two rather excellent games of Flying Shark and Atic Atac we descend rapidly towards Number #77 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and scream towards the arcade-puzzle game Gyroscope from Melbourne House.Our second game from Melbourne House in the chart so far (the first being Sir Lancelot just last week), Gyroscope spun into existence back in 1985 […]