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It's not often you get homebrew for the Memotech MTX or the Microbee. Nor the Sord M5 or SpectraVision SV 318. Well now a new puzzle game reaches some normally un-loved platforms, as well as some more common ones too. Vexed is a puzzle game where you must match the blocks to remove them from...

Voxel Tower, who previously brought the Sensible Software experience to the Amstrad have released Speccy Soccer – a football game for 128k Spectrums. They say "Speccy Soccer is possibly the most complete soccer/footy simulator for your zx spectrum 128kb. You will be able to experience all the...

Meanie Golf - a ZX Spectrum homebrew game released last month by PsychicParrot - has had an update with 18 new levels to play. In Meanie Golf you work your way round a golf course with a difference. Under the course are monsters, which eat the 'meanies' (balls) you pow into them. PsychicParrot...

Chris Bradburne has made a BBC Micro conversion of Deathchase, the ZX Spectrum game by Mervyn Estcourt. Deathchase was originally released in 1983. It is a first-person vehicular combat that involves the player controlling a motorcycle and chasing down enemy bikers while avoiding obstacles in a...

Jack Dragon is a new arcade style, single screen platform game for the ZX Spectrum by Jeff Murray (aka PsychicParrot). You play as an Ice Dragon, attempting to save the land from the evil Lord Knumbskull. The Bomb Jack-inspired game has three difficulty modes, and the aim is to collect all of...

Castle Escape, a platform game by IrataHack, has been released for the Sega Master System. The game was originally launched for the ZX Spectrum last year, and made an appearance on the Spectrum Next earlier this year. "Wee Knight must escape the haunted castle collecting gold coins and...

Ahead of a new documentary on the ZX Spectrum, comes a limited edition Deluxe Collectors box, featuring a copy of the film, and various other pieces of Speccy merch. The new film, The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: 40 Years of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, is being made by Anthony and Nicola Caulfield who...

PuttyCAD have released a new shoot-em-up game for the ZX Spectrum. Baby-man Vs Man-baby sees you take on the role of Henry McMannish-man, who has been transformed into an under-cover baby, and sent back in time to deal with a terrible tantrumming tyrant to try to get him to change his ways...

Fusion Books have launched new issues of Fusion and Crash Magazine, plus a new ZX Spectrum themed radio station, Crash Radio. Fusion Issue #42 Includes reviews of Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection, Clive 'n' Wrench, Evercade C64 Collection1, Dead Space, Deliver Us Mars, Sega Genesis Mini 2...

Lego have recently been making lots of retro gaming inspired kits, such as the Mario one, and the recent Atari 2600 set. One thing they are very unlikely to produce is a Lego set for the city of Antescher from the 1983 ZX Spectrum classic, Ant Attack. Ant Attack was developed by Sandy White and...

Arlasoft have created a version of the 1983 8-bit classic, Chuckie Egg, in Z80 assembly to run on Ponpoko arcade hardware. Arlasoft say: "It's the port possibly only one person wanted, the home computer classic from 1983, complete with its trademark janky physics and platforming action, now...

Pixel Addict, the multi-format retro tech magazine from the same people as Amiga Addict, has just launched its Issue 9. The cover story is about the cultural impact of the original PlayStation, which features guests including Violet Berlin (Bad Influence), Dominik Diamond (GamesMaster), Geoff...

Retro Virtual Machine, which previously emulated the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, has added support for a bunch of Z80 systems: MSX, Colecovision, Master System and SG-1000. The updated emulator has also added support for the Amstrad CPC Plus and the GX-4000 console as well as ZX Spectrum...

The Mojon Twins have released a new game for the ZX Spectrum, Zombi Mall. The game sees you hiding out in a mall to hide from the hungry undead. There's food in the mall, you should be fine right? But no, the Zombies have found their way in... The doors gave in to the horde and the undead...

When we first looked at Antstream Arcade three years ago, it featured just over 500 games across C64, Spectrum, Amiga, Megadrive, and Arcade platforms. Since then the platform has grown to include additional platforms (MSX, DOS, Atari Lynx, Game Boy, NES) and now boasts over 1,300 games. It can...

Shahid Kamal Ahmad is working on a follow-up to his classic 8-bit game, Chimera. The original game was developed on a ZX Spectrum and ported to the C64, Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC – and for some reason*, the Watara Supervision. In the original game you must explore a spaceship, which is on target...

Somehow Beethoven has come back to life and has been imprisoned alongside other great composers. Break out of prison and collect the necessary instruments to rescue your fellow composers. Perhaps then, you can "seize fate by the throat", and maybe even the one who captured you... The game is...

You may have come across Wordle - a web-based word game created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and since acquired by the New York Times. The idea is simple. You have six guesses to guess a five-letter word. If a letter you guess is in the word but in the wrong place, it is highlighted in yellow. If the...

The first completely new Dizzy Adventure from the Oliver Twins in 28 years was released Friday 18th December 2020 for ZX Spectrum! The twins teamed up with the team who made the 2017 Crystal Kingdom Dizzy remake to create the game. Wonderful Dizzy is inspired by L Frank Baum’s book The...