If you were not aware, retro gaming Kickstarter project, Blast Annual 2020: Volume 1, has been live for the past week. Currently 28 days remaining and sitting on 31% of the target goal, the creators of Blast Annual like its backers, want to get the publication fully backed and printed.
Posts Tagged ‘zx spectrum’
Xelda: Quest for the Golden Apple Released on ZX Spectrum
November 16th, 2017
Neil Reive What initially started out as a memory test for a game development engine developed into Xelda, a fully fledged adventure for the ZX Spectrum with just a little hint of The Legend of Zelda for good measure.
Bounder Coming to Mobile Platforms, Features Three Versions
November 5th, 2017
Carl Williams Bounder, originally published by Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd in 1985, is coming to both Android and iPhone soon. For those that are not familiar with Bounder, you are controlling a tennis ball trying to navigate platforms suspended high in the air. Miss a jump and well, you die. Simple. Considering this is a classic title […]
Space Escape, Action/Puzzle Platform Game Released for the ZX Spectrum
October 10th, 2017
Neil Reive With all the recent hype surrounding the C64 Mini, it’s nice to see some releases for other 8-bit computers. And with Space Escape, we have a new action puzzler platform game to play with on the ZX Spectrum.
A New ZX Spectrum Vega+ update, Sort Of
August 10th, 2017
Brandon Weicks Starting a campaign update with an apology never bodes well for its backers and the latest update from Retro Computers is no exception.
Left Behind – New Game Released for the ZX Spectrum
July 22nd, 2017
Neil Reive It’s always nice to see that our beloved computers and games consoles are still receiving no software after 30 years, and this time, it’s the ZX Spectum that has a new game. Left Behind has just been released and is the second game to enter the recently announced ZX DEV-Conversions programming competition.
Crash Annual 2018 Smashes its Kickstarter Target
July 21st, 2017
Neil Reive A Kickstarter campaign for a new issue of Crash magazine was launched in the past 24 hours and has already surpassed its target goal. This means that a 99th issue of the classic ZX Spectrum gaming magazine will be published in annual form just in time for Christmas 2017.
Legend of Zelda Ported to ZX Spectrum – Bandit Gaming
June 3rd, 2017
Carl Williams Hmm, what is the over/under on Nintendo dropping the ban hammer on this work in progress featuring the Legend of Zelda franchise? So far, the ZX Spectrum port by Dave Clarke is looking quite good. There are some bugs and some things missing but this is a work in progress.
The Grumpy Git: Retrocomputing and eBay
May 15th, 2017
brianhedley Well, here we are again at another Monday. The wondrous world of computing rolls on, getting forever more irritating by the minute. I once again have found something to complain about so here we go… We all like retrocomputing; the playing of old games bringing back hours of nostalgia, or hours of pain, depending on […]
Top 5 ZX Spectrum Games
April 23rd, 2017
brianhedley Well, to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the humble ZX Spectrum, I have decided to compile a list of my five favorite games. They will probably not be the ones most people would pick as I’m just weird. The games chosen are the ones I have poured the most hours into personally, so they may […]
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