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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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Amstrad CPC Arcade Game Conersions
August 6th, 2016 
CPC4EVA Any serious gamer would no doubt remember games like Pacman, Space Invaders, Galaga, Asteroids and Frogger. Created around the 1970s to early 1980s, these video games are still highly revered to this very day, the so called ‘Golden Age’ of the arcade video games industry. Ah, it was a time when video game arcade machines would be […]
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Review: Cybernoid for the ZX Spectrum Blasts the Competition
February 4th, 2015 CPC4EVA The perfect star studded sky, the perfect federation high paying job, the perfect dream life and a lovely day for a stroll across the planet with the missus…. suddenly your idyllic planetary space life has been turned upside down by raiding Pirates !!! It’s panic stations, the much sought after and highly valuable federation storage […]
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Tags: 2d, Cybernoid, J. Dave Rodgers, John M. Phillips, Nick Jones, Raffaelle Cecco, retro, retro game, retrogaming, shooter, side scroll, Speccy, spectrum, united kingdom, ZX 
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New Game: Rebound Brings Classic Breakout Style Enjoyment to the ZX81
December 23rd, 2014 Carl Williams Breakout has been a mainstay of gaming for over 30 years now, it has gone by many different names but the gameplay is the same. A paddle rests at the bottom of the screen and a ball flies around the screen hitting squares that make up the level. If you miss the ball with your […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: Arkanoid, ball, Bob, Bob's Stuff, Breakout, Paddle, Rebound, retro, retro game, retrogaming, spectrum, ZX81 No Comments »
Revenge of the License: Paul McCartney’s Give My Regards to Broad Street
November 30th, 2014 Michael Crisman The 1980s were such an innocent era for interactive entertainment, especially when it came to the home computer. Machines like the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum were all the rage, but nobody had quite figured out just what you were supposed to do with them yet. Since there wasn’t the Internet to rain hate and […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: argus press, bad idea, commodore, concept software, driving, film, give my regards to broadstreet, paul mccartney, revenge of the license, spectrum, zx spectrum 2 Comments »
New Game: Battle Tank 3D Released for the ZX Spectrum
November 28th, 2014 Carl Williams The ZX Spectrum has been getting quite a bit of love from homebrew developers lately. Take Battle Tank 3D for example which is basically a 3rd person take on the classic Battlezone game. Gabriele Amore has taken the daunting task of making something original on the Spectrum (think just how hard that is) and came […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 3d, aliens, Battle Tank, Battle Zone, Battlezone, Gabriele Amore, homebrew, retro, retro game, retrogaming, Sinclair, spectrum, tank, ZX 3 Comments »
Competition- SpeccyJam is Coming, Sign Up Now and Rock the Retro
August 25th, 2014 Carl Williams The ZX Spectrum is a computer that was not widely available here in North America but over in Europe this thing rocked, and in some circles still does. We were recently contacted by the SpeccyJam people about covering the event, it won’t start till August 29th so you still have time to sign up. We […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2014, August 29th, carl williams, coding, competition, programming, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, SpeccyJam, spectrum, triverse, ZX No Comments »
Revenge of the License: Cobra
August 17th, 2014 Michael Crisman One year before Peter Weller stalked the streets of Old Detroit as Robocop in his mission to eradicate crime, Sylvester Stallone and his mirrored shades stalked the streets of Los Angeles as Detective Marion “Cobra” Cobretti, AKA “the strong arm of the law.” And just as they did with Robocop later on, Ocean waved some […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: action, ad, c128, c64, cobra, commodore 64, film, licensed, mirror shades, movie, ocean, platformer, revenge of the license, spectrum, sylvester stallone 1 Comment »
Revenge of the License: Friday the 13th
August 3rd, 2014 Michael Crisman Yes, retro gaming fans, it’s another “Revenge of the License” column. Last week we checked out the first James Bond adventure for the home computer, A View to a Kill. Today we’re jumping into the horror genre to look at Friday the 13th. But not that one. Nooooo. As much as I love the NES […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: ad, camp, commodore, computer, crystal lake, friday, friday the 13th, horror, jason, license, machete, retro, revenge of the license, spectrum, survival 2 Comments »
Revenge of the License: A View to a Kill
July 27th, 2014 Michael Crisman While Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 is likely the first title to pop to mind when someone brings up James Bond video games, it’s far from the first game to make use of the license. And while A View to a Kill doesn’t hold this distinction either (that goes to the more simply-named James Bond […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 007, action, ad, adaptation, adventure, amstrad, bond, commodore 64, domark, driving, enterprise 64, film, james bond, michael crisman, Modern Zorker, movie, msx, retro, retro gaming magazine, revenge of the license, spectrum, view to a kill 1 Comment »
