RoboCop Review
The tie-in to Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 masterpiece of an action thriller… As time goes by, one can’t help wondering if this game didn’t represent some...
Phantom Club Review
Even superheroes
need a club to not feel excluded… And if you want to feel like one
of the good guys in a world of evil bastards,...
Nightmare Rally Review
Get behind the wheel
for some bad dream-inducing rally in quite a rad racer…! …
Wait… No… Wrong game and wrong platform… But this doesn’t mean
that the...
NightHunter Review
Sick and tired? Fed
up with always having to play Van Helsing or some vampire hunter when
going up against Count Dracula? Anemia and lack of nourishment...
Nether Earth Review
Wipe out the
invading scum in this proto-RTS game… Feel the full aspect of this
mechanized conflict between Earth and the Insignian forces… The
last stand…
STORY
So that’s...
OutRun Review
SEGA’s racing game
compressed and compromised like there was no tomorrow (Or future!)
after the 1986 Christmas holidays… But were there any traces
of redeemable factors in the...
R-Type Review
We just have to…
You can’t talk about
the ZX Spectrum without mentioning the port of R-Type in detail. It
just can not be done.
STORY
The Speccy in
original...
10 Arcade Ports – “As Good As They Could Get?”
To quote Mel Croucher in the “From Bedrooms To Billions” (2014) documentary: “By 1984, certainly ’85, the parasites had moved in… Yeah? The managers, the...
Lone Wolf: Flight From The Dark + Lone Wolf 2: Fire On The Water Review
Anyone who ever had
any connection to 80s table top role-playing games and Fantasy
gamebooks should know in his / her sleep who Joe Dever (R.I.P.) and
Gary...
Jack The Ripper Review
There were all these
warnings for graphic content… But none for the weirdly intriguing
plot… Or that the game does its damnedest to crawl under your
skin…
Everything depicted
in...
iD Review
Ever since computers
were invented, people have wished that they could communicate with
them on a human level. Maybe this all stemmed from the idea that
computers were...
Hive Review
Pest control takes a
turn for the unbelievably bloody serious when an alien bee-hive
invades Myrtle Rowbottom’s garden.
STORY
So there is this
giant extraterrestrial bee-hive that suddenly landed...
Fat Worm Blows A Sparky Review
You have got to love
literal video game titles… Although some of the immediately make
you wonder if the games in question actually can be something real…
At...
Emlyn Hughes International Soccer Review
Never, ever forget Pro Evolution Soccer, but forget some of the dozens of Football games on the 8-bit machines…! Because Emlyn Hughes’ program is absolutely...
Dark Sceptre Review
Get the gang
together and set out to destroy the force that once gave invading
enemies a destructive power… On the Islands Of The Western Seas,
there isn’t...
Contact Sam Cruise Review
Attempt to solve a
tricky and increasingly dangerous case in lovely 8-bit Game
Noir-style, and dream of how good and relatively uncomplicated life
felt back in Skool Daze...
The Bobby Yazz Show Review
So what is it? Is it
a game show? Because it looks like an Old School maze-puzzle oriented
arcade game from the early 80s… Developed in the...
Alien 8 Review
Big surprise – An Ultimate Play The Game is mentioned wherever the ZX Spectrum is brought up. But what can and are you supposed to...
La Abadía Del Crimen Review
An adventure /
mystery game in Spanish (Although an unofficial English translation
does exist.), based on Umberto Eco’s novel “The Name Of The
Rose”. For the ZX Spectrum...
January MMXX: ZX Spectrum Reviews
We’re kicking off the 20s with what basically is a whole month of ZX Spectrum reviews – Every day that isn’t a Saturday or Sunday...