Released in honour of 2014’s Speccy Jam competition, Speccy Jams is a collection of 8 catchy Spectrum-style ditties produced for the AY-8912 sound chip contained in the ZX Spectrum 128 & +2/3 Preview Stream/Buy
Tag: Zx Spectrum
Review A Bad Game Day 2014: Give My Regards To Broadstreet
Is it that time of year already? four months ago we looked at a truly great game, so now it’s time to look at something utterly dreadful. Blimey. My nomination for this year’s review a bad game day is 1985 Spectrum title “Give My Regards Read More …
Unreleased Spectrum Game turns up 24 Years Later. On eBay.
Well this is the stuff that (weird retro gamer’s) dreams are made of: Virgin Games’ supposedly unreleased Judge Dredd Spectrum game has turned up. On eBay. For £3.99 plus postage. It was posted in a thread over at the World Of Spectrum, which contains both the Read More …
Review a Great Game Day 2014: Hijack
Do you remember Review A Great Game Day 2013? No? That’s ok. It was a while ago (a year, in fact) and a lot has happened in the interim. So then Last year, I chose to review the rather tremendous Speccy Beat ’em up Target Read More …
Outrun: The Spectrum Ports
Its cold, its wet, its nasty and half the country is underwater. There’s only one thing for it: it’s time for an Outrun marathon. Dissapointingly though, Outrun is covered pretty well online. From dedicated fan sites through to socialist analysis theres a staggering amount of material covering almost Read More …
Christmas Games
With the family packed off an the turkey completely devoured, now’s the time to generally start getting stuck into the Christmas games. Hurrah! No no, not games set at Christmas (although there are some that were definitely worth a mention,) this is about games received Read More …
Licensed Games: Are They Any Good?
So the other day we discovered that licensed games aren’t all rubbish, but are they actually any good? We’re not looking at games that simply avoided being turkeys, today only the best will do. Once again, I’ve opted to go for a single Read More …
If we’re honest, Street Fighter 2 Was a bit poor.
The weird difficulty spikes, the jerky animations, the single playable character. what? You didn’t think we were talking about timeless classic “The World Warrior” did you? No, no, no! This is about the original sequel to Street Fighter, the computer-only title Human Killing Machine. This Read More …
Outrun Europa
So the other day i popped down to RetroGameBase in Streatham ( absolutely amazing shop by the way – well, well, well worth a visit.) Despite an alarming amount of temptation sitting on every shelf, I managed to escape with just a couple of titles Read More …
8th April: Review A Great Game Day
Right, so according to the nice chaps over at 1morecastle.com, today is review a great game day! Hurrah! But there are so many great games, how can you pick just one? should it be for the Megadrive? Saturn? What about the Snes, PS1 or N64? Read More …
Photo of the day 03/09/12
Taken on my ride into work: Raw Power
Ghostbusters!
El Reg have written a retrospective on one of my favourite Speccy Games, Ghostbusters: Considering I was late onto the Speccy scene, arriving at a time there were many more technically impressive games available, I have no idea just why I liked Ghostbusters so much. Read More …
Photo of the day…
Piccadilly circus, specified! I much prefer it this way.
Some people upload game videos…
…but most people don’t leave the original Spectrum loading procedure intact! “paulisthebest3uk”, I salute you: [youtube]http://youtu.be/zlsDmALohQQ[/youtube]
London
You are drab and miserable, but you are home. Even if you didn’t elect me as mayor.
Happy birthday Speccy!
Happy 30th Birthday Zx Spectrum! You were so much better than the C64. Well done to Google for their ingenious St George’s day/Zx Spectrum doodle.
Nice morning….
In happy spectrum world
HEAR my Face
Yes, Using the powers of modern technology, you can HEAR my face Read More …