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 […]
Sinclair designer Rick Dickinson sadly passes away
Rick Dickinson the award-winning British designer has sadly passed away. Rick was the genius that, amongst other things, brought to our homes – in the 1980’s – the iconic ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum. Gathering numerous awards, he continued his passion and only recently was working on the upcoming machine the ZX Spectrum Next. Rick […]
ZX Spectrum Classic Game Challenge delivers a real dose of nostalgia
Back in the 1980’s when I wasn’t high as I kite on Wham Bars, Highland Toffee and Tizer, you would either find me in a darkened corner of my bedroom listening to the screeches of my ZX Spectrum loading, or huddled in another corner trying to out-number my friends with the current favourite pack of […]
Exclusive Interview – John Wilson talks about Zenobi Software, unreleased titles and whether we’ll see the Balrog on the ZX Spectrum Next
Villordsutch talks with John Wilson (The Balrog) about Zenobi Software… There was a time when us gamers didn’t require ultra-real graphics delivered in 4K resolution, nor truth be told did we actually require graphics, for our days were occupied with text-based adventure games and here we lost real time. Reading lines of an unfolding story […]
Video Game Review – In the Walls of Eryx on the ZX Spectrum
Villordsutch reviews In the Walls of Eryx on the ZX Spectrum… In today’s Homebrew Reviews we take a look at a new ZX Spectrum game inspired by a short story from by H.P. Lovecraft and Kenneth J Sterling. With Venusian Lizardmen, Farnoth Flies and an invisible Labyrinth you already can feel this is entering the world […]
Video Game Review – Crazy Kong City – Episode One: Saving Helen Blond on the ZX Spectrum
Villordsutch reviews Crazy Kong City – Episode One: Saving Helen Blond on the ZX Spectrum… Everyone on the planet is more than aware of Donkey Kong from Nintendo. Here we find Mario, actually known as Jumpman on the original release, who must scale numerous iron girders to rescue his current squeeze Pauline (Princess Peach was yet […]
Book Review – The Little Book of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games
Villordsutch reviews The Little Book of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games by Chris Wilkins… I’m a big fan of nearly everything to do with Sinclair Computers. It’s something I’m fairly open with and if you wander into my dining room you’ll see safely secured to my wall – in a nice little corner – a timeline of Sir […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #1 – Deathcase
Well this is it! We turn off Rebelstar and load up the final game in the Your Sinclair Top 100. It’s been over three months but finally we get to see what the greatest ZX Spectrum* magazine believed was the ultimate title in the Spectrum’s history. At No.#1 we have Deathcase from Micromega! (*probably) It was […]
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 […]
Interview: Henrique Olifiers talks about the ZX Spectrum Next
At the beginning of May we brought you the news about the ZX Spectrum Next, the latest machine to appear on the market that is catering for the highly popular “Retro” scene. With a thirst for knowledge we managed to speak with Henrique Olifiers, who is part of the team bringing the ZX Spectrum Next […]
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