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The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #81 – Dark Star

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After being firmly grounded in the Hyperaction’s mazes, we now take to the stars once again with Design Design’s Dark Star which arrives at No. 81 in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  According to the World of Spectrum the game was supposedly inspired by John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon’s film of the same name, though anybody who […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #31 – Lunar Jetman

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With a heavy heart we leave Jet Set Willy and continue counting down in the the Your Sinclair Top 100 and it appears we’re in luck as what floats in at No.#31 is another Ultimate Play the Game release – this time it’s Lunar Jetman. Lunar Jetman bobbed into view back in 1983 from Tim and Chris […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #51 – Robotron

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From one highly addictive classic to another, we attempt to tear ourselves away from Jumping Jack and load up No. 51 in the Your Sinclair Top 100.  Robotron will have you swearing so loudly your surrounding neighbours will be picking up a few new colourful words today. Robotron – also known as Robotron 2084 – […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #25 – Manic Miner

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After the frantic, colourful space shmup that was Light Force our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 takes us deep under our own worlds surface.  Number #25 is the classic platformer Manic Miner. Manic Miner came from the brain of Matthew Smith in 1983, published by Bug-Byte Software and then Software Projects.  It […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #23 – The Great Escape

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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: #39 – Mercenary

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Cruising highways are gone and now forgotten as we wave goodbye to Highway Encounter; with our next entry in the Your Sinclair Top 100 our world has become somewhat hollow, somewhat wireframe, and now we sell our cut throat services for cash.  At No.#39 is the 3D game of technical wizardry – it’s time to […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #21 – Alien

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Pulling over for a while and taking a tea break, as tiredness kills, we park up Chase H.Q. and turn to our next offering in the Your Sinclair Top 100 this next game – at No.#21 – is a classic sci-fi/horror movie tie-in.  We now have in our cassette players the Ellen Ripley-bothering Alien – from Mind […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #7 – The Sentinel

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The world of the cute needs to be removed from your memories for the next slice of gaming history!  Rainbow Islands is nothing like our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100, which is currently loading into our ZX Spectrums.  Granted No.#7 from Firebird is a hailed as a classic, but you’re really not […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #48 – Renegade

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After the peace and quiet has passed with a few rounds of Tetris, it’s only right our attention returns to some real action.  What better way to do this that with smacking somebody in the teeth, then following this up with high-kick, knocking them straight off the edge off a train station!  Obviously we’re not advocating this […]

The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #58 – Operation Wolf

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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 […]