Spectrum Computing

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In the modern era of Spectrum gaming I think Drift! by Zosya Entertainment wins hands down. It's simply stunning, it has everything, great visuals, great animation and really catchy music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohkJ-Uc4tk

Bugaboo the Flea: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/739/ZX-Spectrum/Bugaboo_the_Flea It is a Spanish game called La Pulga, and I'm not sure if we must consider the Spanish release as a re-release, pretty sure they released the game on Spain first or at least at the same time, and even in that c...

Well, looky what arrived in the post today! https://beep.robertmorrison.me/uploads/2021/548eaf08a0.jpg Mine arrives next week (I hope). Wonderful game! Fortunetely my prayers have been answered and Bitmap Soft will release Redshift (the best shmup on the Speccy in 30 years) in a deluxe edition on A...

Some of my favourites in 1990 El Capitán Trueno (Dinamic Software, 1990) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqI1oDtZkk Dan Dare III: The Escape (Virgin Games, 1990) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLcrTNKwKfs E-Motion (U.S.. Gold, 1990) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpddE8K84Tc Emilio Sánchez Vicari...

From what I've been recommended over the last couple of years, I get the impression this accolade actually goes to Evgeniy Suhomlin (I think that's his name) with his "sinc LAIR" channel. I don't know any Ukrainian or Russian, yet YouTube keeps recommending his videos or streams to me all...

For me it's different - I get a huge kick from buying and checking old games, even those which have been a bit mangled by the wheels of time. But it's probably have more to do with a sort of micro-archaeology than nostalgia (which I'm kind of immune to). I just have a great respect for those old so...

I remember Rex getting a great review in YS ( a mega game) plus there was a playable demo on a YS covertape and I remember thinking it was a really nice game. But it was impossible to find in the shops! And nobody I knew had a copy either. I think Rex was Martech's second last game, I wonder if the...

In the end it's just the supply and demand law. That might've been true, to some extent at least, before covid, Brexit, and other recent quagmires. I built my collection between 2018-19, was watching the retro market very closely during this period, and it was all rather normal. Prices were reasona...

Although it's an average game (to say the least), I can understand a high price for Robocop 3 (not that high, really): it was the last or one of the latest games released for the Spectrum by Ocean Software in 1992, probably there were not many units produced and just a few sold, it came in a fragile...

I remember this topic being discussed before. In fact, Match Day entry already includes the TV advert in 'related links' section. But there are still many videos not included. Checking the YT channel of the links you've provided, I see there are more videos: Yes, I've seen all those videos too. Any...

Hi all! In the last few years is quite common that some homebrew Spectrum developers make a video preview or a teaser of their new games. I'm talking about videos made by the same team developing the game or by friends under comission. Some of these video previews are really great, not just showing ...

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Do we know who the author is, by the way? The author of both games (Erinia and La Estrella de la Mañana) is "DaRe", but this is just a pseudonym, I don't know his real name. He has a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/DaReInt and a blog: https://dareaventuras.blogspot.com/ Best regards

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It seems that ERINIA, a text adventure in Spanish from 2020, has not been included on ZXDB yet.

https://www.caad.es/fichas/erinia.html

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@Alessandro, I tried to visit Play On Retro (after reading the interesting feature), but got this message which I tried to visit the site via Chrome. I don't have anything from Cisco on my machine and have not seen this type of screen previously, only the similar Google ones): Hi [mention]PeterJ[/m...

Hi According to Paco Pastor of ERBE Software, a covers designer for CBS Records called Rufino Vigil was the artist behind the cover of Mapgame (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/9136/ZX-Spectrum/Mapgame). You can check this information on the following article chronicling ERBE Software's price d...

Joefish wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:18 pm The irony is, the more technically complex FPS game that it turns into - comes with a map!

Hope they amend that for the cassette edition (they have done some improvements on Drift! and Just a Gal, for instance, for their physical editions), and also put a key for map in the prologue of the game.

Nice artwork but I didn't enjoy this as much as Zosya's other recent games I'm afraid. I guess it's different if you like mapping things out, but I don't and I can never get my head around games with changing directions like Dun Darach. Even Andy Capp is beyond me! So I just wandered around lost wi...

Neat as it looks, I hate the games like this where the directions keep getting turned around all the time. They just don't work. Why can't we just have East-West walkways, and when you go North or South there's no long street, you just move up or down to the next parallel East-West path? If you hav...

It remids me of Tir Na Nog, the way the character walks through the paths. Nice game. And the volume control directly from the game itself... it's the first time I've seen that, any other game using it? That's just the prologue of the game. Very much like a blend of Tir Na Nog or Neadeital and Vall...

Perhaps I'm too used to shopping games at Matra for just 8,75 euros on great single jewel cassette editions, but they also release some of them on deluxe editions for 22-25 euros. Sorry about Bumfun, but I'm not exactly a fan of his anodyne and expensive single jewel cassette editions. The Matra ar...

Hmm, it does get expensive with shipping. I'm fine with €16 for the cassette. Bumfun charge £15 for chrome cassettes, and plenty of boxed games with extras sell for £25-35. I think the Zosya stuff is more unusual. If I don't go for the full package, I'll at least pledge for the digital download. Pe...

A few years ago I paid 40 euros for the The Sword of Ianna by Retroworks on Dandanator That looks like a decent investment... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-128k-SWORD-OF-IANNA-cartridge-RetroWorks-2017/324213273036?hash=item4b7c9df1cc:g:XOgAAOSw629f6xqH :o Wow!!! Sure it is. Due t...

Even Zosya stuff costs £25 to my door - as much as I like to contribute, that's a £5 more than I'm comfortable with :? Yes, it isn't cheap for sure, but a big part of that price are shipping costs. 15 pounds or 17 euros for a cardboard box edition of Valley of Rains or Drift! is great. A few years ...

Great stuff! I thought Marsmare was ace. I can see the Delta's Shadow connection in the Next graphics, which I'm all for. Modernised but recognisably Speccy. Definite backer here! I love this game too, but in my opinion, this physical edition is too expensive. 16 euros for just a single jewel casse...