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Get away from it all with Golden Seas on the Spectrum Next!

Paul Morrison0
Spectrum Next owners with a taste for text adventuring are in for a treat with the new release of Golden Seas, by sunteam. An exclusive to the platform, it's a gripping open world adventure featuring a wealth of puzzles and, thankfully, no random deaths. According to the story, you, Martell, have a simple life sailing the waters of the Clasp - an area known as the Golden Seas, which is
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ZOSYA race back onto the Spectrum with Rubinho Cucaracha

Paul Morrison0
ZOSYA Entertainment, who wowed Spectrum owners recently with their stunning racing game Travel Through Time Volume 1: Northern Lights, are back with another racing game. Somewhat surprisingly it isn't Volume 2, but instead is a combative racing game called Rubinho Cucaracha. The backstory is minimal - as the website itself says, "Desperate driver Rubinho Cucaracha competes with a dozen principled rivals for victory at the newly formed European Championship.". Once
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Dij-a see this 8-bit era book?

Paul Morrison0
Mark R. Jones, who was (predominantly) a graphic artist at games giant Ocean Software in the late 1980s/early 1990s, has written a book about his experiences in the games industry. It's called "LOAD DIJ DIJ", with the unusual name coming from the act and sounds of loading a ZX Spectrum game. Spanning 253 pages, it's an excellent, and very personal behind the scenes look at one of the biggest early
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Jetboard Joust is all systems go!

Paul Morrison0
Fans of Defender-esque shoot 'em ups who are pining for some humanoid-rescuing action on their PlayStation or XBox consoles should be thrilled to learn that Jetboard Joust is now available. Previously released on Steam and the Nintendo Switch, the game is a surprising sequel to 1989's unremarkable ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 release, Skateboard Joust. Programmer James Closs has used the power of modern systems to produce something far superior
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TX-1696 – PREVIEW

Bret Pritchard4
There are some fantastic games out currently for the Spectrum Next - games like Baggers In Space, Delta's Shadow and Q*Bee. Nothing prepared me however for what I thought was some new (Meega) Commodore Amiga shoot ‘em up for the cream beast - to be in fact a new Spectrum Next title! As soon as I watched the new teaser trailer with smooth parallax scrolling, huge colourful shiny sprites and
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