ZX Spectrum Next software

[vanpeebles]

I did wonder if that was pce sunteam

[Einar Saukas]

BaSoko

[Einar Saukas]

The Hollow Earth Hypothesis

[TMD2003]

I've got an idea, albeit one that might get shot down harder than a Frenchman at Agincourt.

Why not keep a counter of the number of official Next releases that have been indexed on ZXDB, and compare it to the number of commercial releases for failed consoles (e.g. Nuon, Nokia N-Gage, Game.com) and those that weren't complete catastrophes but still significantly less popular than all the big ones (e.g. Atari Jaguar, Neo-Geo). In other words, "there are now more Spectrum Next titles than (insert console here)", and there must be someone nerdy enough to keep a tally of official releases for consoles that most of us never knew existed.

TV Tropes, on their page for the Spectrum, has this passive-aggressive comment about the Next: "Precisely what problem this is meant to solve is not clear, but it does look extremely cool." Maybe this counter would be a response to TV Tropes, because if the Next served no purpose, there'd be little more than a trickle of software, in much the same way as the Dragon 32 community went berserk at the sight of an all-new game in 2009. One game.

Something else to keep a watch on: when will the Next have more titles available for it than the QL...?

[8BitAG]

"Precisely what problem this is meant to solve is not clear..."

Bit rich, coming from TV Tropes. Pots and kettles and all that.

[akeley]

Why would we even consider to be bothered about what some random wrote on a website?

[Daren]

Galaxy of Error by Steve Monks. Great puzzle game! http://www.stevemonks.com/goe/

[smurphboy]

Galaxy of Error by Steve Monks. Great puzzle game! http://www.stevemonks.com/goe/

This is great, a Sokoban clone with some added features, a haunting tune and nice graphics. Worth a play if you have a Next.

[Daren]

Flappy Bird has just been released: https://retrobeachman.itch.io/flappybirdzxnext

Another game showing the power of NextBASIC.