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Most Influential Football Games of All-Time
Who Else Misses Football?! Football is an integral part of American culture, but it’s an even bigger part of video game history. From its roots on the Atari 2600 to the eight-bit classics that revolutionized the genre, football games are the rock that helps keep the industry afloat. Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. details…
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The Pyramid – Tough as nails platformer for the ZX Spectrum by amikoES
The Sunday retro gaming news just keeps on coming, as after already featuring games such as Baby-Man VS Terminatots PT1 for the ZX Spectrum, and Sabre Wulf Remastered for the C64. Here we have a new game for the ZX Spectrum by AmikoES called ‘The Pyramid’. A challenging platformer in which the developer describes it as…
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Sabre Wulf – Is still getting a C64 remaster, and it looks awesome!
Earlier today we found out that ‘ Sabre Wulf ‘ is still coming to the C64 as a full remaster by Genesis Project. Yes indeed this famous game released in 1984 by Ultimate Play the Game, and originally released on the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, C64 and Amstrad CPC, will soon be making its home…
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Baby-Man VS Terminatots PT1 – A new puzzle platformer for the ZX Spectrum by PuttyCAD
We’ve just been given the heads up through our Facebook group and via Saberman, that PuttyCAD has released another ZX Spectrum game for you to play. Titled as Baby-Man VS Terminatots PT1, you play as The Prof, and your task is to create an army of Terminatots to send back through time to take on Baby-Man…
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The Drifter: Murder, Mystery, and Second Chances VGMM
The Drifter puts you in the boots of a man who dies before the opening credits roll, then gets a second chance to uncover why someone wanted him dead. With gritty pixel art and practical detective puzzles, it’s less about inventory management and more about staying one step ahead of the people trying to kill…
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A review of Everquest from Boss Fight Books
While not, strictly speaking, the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Everquest has a notorious reputation as the first such title to truly break into the mainstream. In his Boss Fight history, Matthew S. Smith covers pretty much everything that both led into Everquest’s original creation, and then, the controversies it inspired. Then…
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Revisiting the Classics: Old Games Find New Life in 2025
Old favourites are back in 2025, giving new players a chance to try them and letting long-time fans revisit the titles that shaped their early gaming memories. From jungle missions to skateboarding and classic card tables, these remakes and re-releases do more than just echo the past. They bring improved graphics, smoother gameplay and the…
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How 80s Arcade Culture Shaped Modern Online Entertainment
Visiting any arcade from the 1980s, you would have been bombarded with sounds: bleeps, happy whoops of players enjoying their victories, and the thud of coins collecting in the slots. Today, you’d have those same (almost) sounds plugged into the online casino interfaces. The flashing lights, the reward chimes, even the rapid-fire gameplay that kept…
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Top 10 Nintendo Entertainment System Retro Games Of All Time
How often do you play games that are quite old, but still relevant and nostalgically appealing to you? Surely everyone has a couple or three games that are pleasant to remember, noting any events associated with them, or just to note how far ahead of time the game was, made you dive in and left…
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Hair Trigger – Mr Hair is back with a new ZX Spectrum game from MicroChops/Northern Games! (Physical Edition Pre-Order)
Rich Langford’s amazing inlay artwork!New homebrews for the Amiga, Amstrad, C64, so what’s next? Well it’s the ZX Spectrum’s turn for a new game announcement! As MicroChops & NORTHERN GAMES will soon release the full version of the arcade blaster of ‘Hair Trigger’. A highly enjoyable game, in which you must fly through dangerous zones…
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