Games every ZX Spectrum owner should play Every Spectrum owner will have had their own personal favourites on Sinclair’s popular home computer, and I have drawn up a list of what I believe to be the best. My Spectrum Top 10 is based on my experiences of innovative games, that even 30 years later will…
What is Pyjamarama for the Spectrum all about? Pyjamarama was part of the series of Microgen platform games, including “Automania”, “Everyone’s a Wally”, “Herberts Dummy Run” and “3 weeks in Paradise” that starred our hero Wally Week. Playing the part of the sleeping Wally’s “dream” alter ego, the object of the game was to explore…
Frak! By Aardvark Software (1984) Back before the word Frak! became a swear word on the most recent incarnation of Battlestar Galactica, or a controversial form of mining, it was a 1986 platform game on the BBC Micro. My friend had a BBC Model B and a Sony colour monitor, and we would play Frak!…
The first survival horror game? 3D Monster Maze was a 1982 computer game for the Sinclair ZX81, one of the first home computers to be launched in the UK. At this time the closest thing to a “scary” video game was Atari’s Hunted House (also 1982), on the 2600 console. Haunted House was however very…
PSSST! was one of my first experiences of a really slick and addictive Spectrum game. It was launched by publisher Ultimate! around the time of Jet-Pac, prior to the later and more popular isometric games. I remember cutting out the coupon in Sinclair User to order the game, paid for with a postal order for…
In my retro games reviews I’ve covered a few arcade conversions including , so won’t repeat what I’ve aleady said about some of the liberties taken in the early days by developers like Acornsoft. But if they hadn’t stretched the boundaries of IP infringement we would not have arcade perfect conversions such as Arcadians (a…
