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The development of the crowd-funded ZX Spectrum Vega+ has been, to say the least, troubled but recent updates from Retro Computers Ltd appear to give a new hope to its backers and to fans of the beloved 8-bit computer.
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ZX Spectrum to Receive The Ooze Homebrew
March 15th, 2017 
Carl Williams We don’t often cover homebrew releases for the ZX Spectrum computer. One reason could be that we are primarily a North American based site (we have been working on expanding with new team members across the globe). Another is that we are careful about what we cover for various reasons–often a title is just not […]
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Metal Man Remixed for ZX Spectrum Now Available as Free Download
February 19th, 2017 Neil Reive Metal Man Remixed was initially developed for the ZX Spectrum as one of the reward options in the Kickstarter campaign for the ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium art book in 2015. The game’s developer, Oleg Origin, has now made the game available as a free download–so now you have no excuse to play this fantastic […]
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Monty Mole and the Temple of Lost Souls Released on ZX Spectrum
February 12th, 2017 Neil Reive Back in the 1980s heyday of the ZX Spectrum, Gremlin Graphics enjoyed huge success with a series of games featuring their Monty Mole character. The series has recently been resurrected with the release of Monty’s Honey Run in January 2017, and now its follow up, Monty Mole and the Temple of Lost Souls, is here.
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Pietro Bros. New Mario Bros. Clone for the ZX Spectrum
December 25th, 2016 Neil Reive While an official licensed Mario Bros. game did make it to the ZX Spectrum in 1987, it is generally considered to be a poor port of the 1983 arcade platformer by Nintendo. With that in mind, Christian M. Gonzalez has been working away for many months on his own version of the game and has […]
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In the Walls of Eryx – H. P. Lovecraft Inspired Game Released on ZX Spectrum
December 19th, 2016 Neil Reive The latest release on the ZX Spectrum is In the Walls of Eryx from Monster’s Legs Productions. The game is based on a short story of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth J Sterling, which was first published in Weird Tales magazine in 1939. The short story follows a prospector who becomes […]
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Four Unloved ZX Spectrum Sports Games
October 28th, 2016 Carl Williams The ZX was a haven for sports games in the eighties, with everything from football and motor racing to bowls and kung fu getting the video game treatment. A few of them, such as Daley Thompson’s Decathlon (and all its button-mashing goodness) never left the public consciousness but the majority never came close to immortality. […]
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Review – Sam Mallard Case of the Missing Swan for the ZX Spectrum
October 22nd, 2016 Carl Williams Text adventures and I go way back. From classics like Zork to The Hobbit to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I have enjoyed text adventures for almost three decades now. Then came the graphical text adventure which The Hobbit could be viewed as an early precursor of, and it was only getting better in […]
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Saboteur 2 Gets Upgraded to 128k on ZX Spectrum Gaming Computer
July 8th, 2015 Carl Williams Back in the day games had very limited graphics and sound capabilities. Developers had to work to get gamers drawn into the game world they created. Work hard. Take a game like Saboteur 2, in its original form it was a good game but could have been better. Of the many platforms Saboteur 2 hit […]
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Review- Castlevania Spectral Interlude for ZX Spectrum
February 16th, 2015 Carl Williams Okay, this is a tough review to write for me. Not because it is a bad game or anything but because Castlevania Spectral Interlude is just so damned good. While this is a fan made title, i.e. technically illegal as Konami has not licensed this version, it feels like an official Konami release. Aleksander Udotov […]
