ZX Spectrum Archives

Saturday, November 16, 2019

All Hallows: Rise of the Pumpkin – ZX Spectrum Review

For well over a thousand years, the Evil Forest Lord has been magically trapped within their dark tower, ensuring the

Horace, the 8-bit home computer game character created by William Tang, has always had a bit of an underground cult

Meet our friend GLUF. If you think he is an ordinary frog then you would be mistaken as GLUF is

The Future Was 8 Bit (TFW8B) has long had a strong reputation for thinking outside of the norm when it

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 homebrew scene is definitely interesting. Thanks to these talented groups of people we get some amazing new games to