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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #6 – R-Type

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After reaching the heady heights – in numerous landscapes – then proclaiming yourself The Sentinel, our calling in the Your Sinclair Top 100 now sees us return to the inky black.  Number Six from Electric Dreams Software sees us going nose-to-nose against Bydo, as we take control of R-Type. R-Type began its life in the […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #83 – Football Manager

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It takes a steely nerve to put a curly-haired, bearded chap smiling on the cover of something and then expect it to sell well. In truth this only really happens once a decade it being Bob Ross’ (Deceased) turn the decade before.  However when Kevin Toms appeared, smiling on the cover of his Football Manager […]

The Top 10 Greatest ZX Spectrum Tunes Ever!

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Going through the Top 100 Your Sinclair games [follow the countdown here] I’ve become aware of the rather brilliant – and also dire – tunes that were designed around the games – some hidden amongst levels, but most placed in a prominent spot as the game’s main theme. Not wanting to be overly biased I strolled along […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #98 – Pheenix

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing on with the Your Sinclair Top 100 ZX Spectrum games ever made the next game on our list is Pheenix from Megadodo. Megadodo released three games in total – including Pheenix – and other than they share the same name of the publishing company behind the fictional Hitchhikers […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #94 – RoboCop

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Arriving at Number #94 and we hit one of the first crimes in this Your Sinclair Top 100 as we find Murphy upholding the law and searching for justice in one of the greatest movie tie-in games on the ZX Spectrum.  We’ve arrived – already […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #95 – The Train Game

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… After the frantic Cruising on Broadway, you’d probably be under the impression that #95 The Train Game is a sedate little number; however you’d be very wrong and after twenty minutes of this you’ll possibly be suffering from an acute migraine due to stress. The Train […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #99 – Maziacs

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Continuing on with the Your Sinclair Top 100 ZX Spectrum games ever made the next game on our list is Maziacs from dk’tronics. Though dk’tronics – who were based in Great Yarmouth – produced mainly hardware for Sinclair machines, it was on the rare occasion they dipped their toes into […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #97 – Mined-Out

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Villordsutch counts down Your Sinclair’s Top 100 ZX Spectrum Games… Working our way on through the Top 100, we cautiously step into No. 97 arriving at Mined-Out from Quicksilva, released back in 1983. Mined-Out featured some classic box-art for a ZX Spectrum game, that not only did it have bare-chested lady on the front, but it fibbed about […]

Spectrum Addict: Load “Film 2” – A documentary for all ZX Spectrum fans

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Back at the end of September we reviewed Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict from Andy Remic.  A documentary feature film based on Andy Remic’s memoirs growing up with the ZX Spectrum; part cinema drama, part interviews, part nostalgic journey.  We awarded the documentary 4 out of 5 stars saying of it, “If you lived in […]