Eurogamer’s video producer Ian Higton recounts a heart wrenching discovery he made when going through some of his old ZX Spectrum games in a recent article. It’s an extremely intimate and emotional (and brief) glimpse into how gaming as a hobby insinuates itself into our lives in unexpected ways.
The ZX Spectrum is coming back in a radically different form, according to a report from BBC News. The Sinclair Spectrum Vega version of the old-school console is set to arrive in April, with plans afoot to have 1,000 games from the Spectrum back catalog preloaded on the new hardware.
From lowly sprite in 1985, to fearsome beast in 2014. Above is concept art from Chaos Reborn, the reboot of 1985's Chaos: The Battle of Wizards, a turn-based strategy game for the ZX Spectrum. Creator Julian Gollop, who also worked on the original X-Com, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for Chaos Reborn.
Julian Gollop co-created the original X-Com, many years ago, and was not optimistic about the chance of this year's …
Our younger readers won't have lived through it, but the 1980s were in in many ways a bleak time, the spectre of…
Sir Clive Sinclair, 69 years-old, has married a former lap dancer half his age. Congrats!
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