Many here will remember Colin Jones failed Kickstarter campaign to bring back the classic 8 and 16-bit computer game Slightly Magic with a version based on the original Spectrum iteration as well as brand new updated one. He was discouraged by this failure and decided to go ahead and make the game anyway and now the game is close to being released. As of today Jones has confirmed that the remake of Slightly Magic will be released on iOS, Android, PC, Mac and OUYA on the 7th July. So if you're wanting a bit of retro goodness on the go then keep the date in your diaries.

Slightly Magic is an arcade adventure computer game originally published in 1991 by Codemasters for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It follows the story of Bigwiz The Wizard who has left the castle in a hurry and has been a bit forgetful. He forgot to pack his spare wand, he forgot to lock his laboratory door and forgot to take his nephew Slightly with him. To make matters worse, a sunburned dragon has run off with the Princess Croak and the spell cabinet has been knocked over spreading the spells everywhere. The gameplay in Slightly Magic is closely related to that of the Dizzy games. As with Dizzy, the player starts off with no equipment and has to explore the area to find items and solve puzzles, but Slightly Magic expands this idea by allowing the use of spells to solve puzzles. The player must collect the ingredients and the correct spell word to cast a spell, which would allow the player to solve a puzzle (for example, a fish spell to turn into a fish and swim in water).

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