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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #63 – Computer Scrabble

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We descend rapidly from the petrol-headed world of Buggy Boy, as we pull a chair up to the virtual table for our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  Our gaming universe suddenly becomes somewhat quieter with the ZX Spectrum version of the board game Scrabble. Scrabble – or as it’s correctly known here Computer Scrabble – was […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #61 – Eric and the Floaters

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We leave the orb stealing, gravity pulling, highly enjoyable but Thrust-rating (hope you caught that?) space adventure and we turn to quite possibly the strangest titled game in the Your Sinclair Top 100, one that in some parts of the UK is really lost in translation.  We’ve arrived at No. #61 and in bobs Eric […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #57 – Dun Darach

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After all the “pew-pews” yesterday in Operation Wolf, most of you are no doubt tired and need a well-earned sit down.  Well pull up a chair, get a very big sheet of paper, some pencils, a big rubber, book a week off work and load up Dun Darach – which is No.#57 in the Your […]

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 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #54 – Rastan

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If the life of being a sneaky Ninja in Saboteur was just too quiet for you, then the job waiting for you at No.#54 in the Your Sinclair Top 100 will be truly be right up your street.  It’s time to take your chopper in hand and prepare to swing it hard as Rastan has […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #55 – Saboteur

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Leaving the dire Bounty Bob Strikes Back hopefully far behind us, we look to the light and hope that around the corner in the Your Sinclair Top 100 something wonderful is waiting at Number #55, and I can tell you that something is.  Out from the shadows steps Saboteur! Saboteur was published back in 1985 by […]

Music Review – The Spectrum Works by Allister Brimble

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Villordsutch reviews The Spectrum Works by Allister Brimble… If you asked most classic gamers if they would like to sit down and listen to the tunes of a ZX Spectrum for just under an hour, they’d probably look at you like you’re a fool.  Expecting to be blasted in the ear with the migraine inducing screech […]

Interview: Bob Smith of Bob’s Stuff on creating a new wave of ZX81 and ZX Spectrum games

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Villordsutch chats with Bob Smith of Bob’s Stuff about creating a new wave of ZX81 and ZX Spectrum games… The Sinclair ZX81 – currently 35 years old – is a great British machine that proudly boasts 1K of RAM or 16K if you buy yourself an additional RAM pack.  It’s fair to say on its […]

Video Game Review – Merry Christmas From Horace on the ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Merry Christmas Fom Horace on the ZX Spectrum… Horace, the no necked, vacant staring shape of a being is – in some classic ZX Spectrum owners hearts – the official mascot of the their machine.  Yes, we have Miner Willy from Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, Monty Mole from a cluster of games […]