At the point of writing, the forthcoming release of The Spectrum is far from new news, but it would have felt remiss of me not to write a little piece on it.
Continue reading The Spectrum (the Retro Games Ltd one)
This footy / Renegade speccy game mashup was inspired by England getting through to the final in the Euro Cup in 2024, but like the speccy games involved, the design is intended to live on!
Continue reading Making of Speccy City vs Renegade Rovers
This mashup speccy pixel design pays tribute to many of our favourite speccy favourite sports games and the 2024 Paris Olympics, with a little daft humour thrown in!
Continue reading Making of SpecOlympics – Speccy Sports Mashup
Released in 1983, Atic Atac is a dungeon-crawling adventure that combines exploration with action. Players control one of three characters – a knight, a wizard, or a serf – each with unique abilities. The goal is simple, yet challenging: navigate through a sprawling, maze-like castle to retrieve a magical artifact and defeat the evil wizard residing within.
Continue reading Ultimate Exploring – Atic Atac and Sabre Wulf
Barbarian caused a bit of a palaver with the comically gory Spinning Head Chop move. They added to this, when Palace Software got Wolf from Gladiators (Michael van Wijk) and Maria Whittaker from page 3 of the Sun to model for this exotic cover art & poster in 1987.
Continue reading Barbarian – the Spinning Head Chop
The beautiful rubber-keyed ZX Spectrum had a BREAK SPACE key, situated over the iconic slanted 4-colour band.
Continue reading ZX Spectrum Rubber Key: Break / Space