Spector, Author at RVG

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Zaxxon

While Donkey Kong was the AAA pack-in for the Colecovision, it was the isometric shooter Zaxxon that dropped people’s jaws

Arcade games were never literally converted to consoles in the eighties- there were always slight gameplay differences in even the

When the Colecovision was released with Donkey Kong in 1982, their strategy for taking on Atari was clever: buy some

Elite released a number of high profile arcade conversions such as Bomb Jack, Commando, Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins and Space Harrier,

Jim Bagley took a fairly big risk when he converted Cabal to the Spectrum. Refusing to settle for monochrome, Bagley

This 1988 Operation Wolf conversion of the hugely successful coin-op showed the Spectrum was still relevant in the ST/Amiga era

Thinking the market wasn’t there anymore for a Breakout clone, Elite initially gave Batty away free with an issue of

The spinning disc controller returned to the arcades in 1986 with Arkanoid – an excellent update of the bat ‘n’

The DIVMMC Future is the latest in a line of divIDE interfaces for the ZX Spectrum range which allow you