Father, Husband, website developer, avid gamer since the mid-70s and collector of just about anything video game related. 8-Bit microcomputer and Sinclair specialist with a huge Sinclair related collection of his own. Blogs about retro gaming here but occasionally elsewhere when people ask. Bored of Mario and never much liked Zelda. Performs quirkafleegs for cold hard cash. Often found destroying ice crowns in the Lands of Midnight.
Remembers: Lunar Lander.
Plays: Steel Battalion, Gears of War
Steve Dixon of Purple Unicorn Software talks exclusively to RGC about his latest work-in-progress – Lucy the Ladybird: I have played some interesting games made using Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD) especially graphically but nothing much has really captured my imagination or done something I would say was newContinue Reading
Sinclair Software and Peripheral Catalogues described the whole range of Sinclair branded software (at that particular time). As time went on the catalogues grew and also later included Sinclair branded peripherals such as Microdrives, the ZX Printer, Interface 1 and Interface 2. Most early ZX Spectrums (rubber keyed 16K andContinue Reading
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4 CLIP ‘FROM BEDROOMS TO BILLIONS’ FILM BUNDLE AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDERS ONLY! ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ is a British two hour feature length documentary movie that tells the remarkable story of the UK Video games Industry. Starting in the late 1970’s the film shows how the creativity and vision ofContinue Reading
For our next WOTM I have decided to pick one of my personal favourite sites on the internet – 8-Bit Central (www.8-bitcentral.com), a site of such depth you could trawl it all day and still want more. From the homepage: 8-Bit Central is dedicated to preserving retro gaming by providingContinue Reading
Yes, we add yet another retro version of the irritating modern gaming phenomenon that is Flappy Bird. Not that the retro versions are irritating. These remakes are borne of a love of our gaming past. A fusion of old and new showing respect for ancient gaming systems that many modernContinue Reading
What could be better than Flappy Bird on the VCS? Flappy Bird on the ZX81, that’s what! The little black wedge gets it’s own version of the gaming phenomenon courtesy of Bob’s Stuff. This version is called Quack and uses the immense power of the Zeddy to show off thisContinue Reading
It’s true folks. If you missed out on the original smartphone/tablet version of Flappy Bird because the author pulled it from sale, well don’t despair. TACS Games have released a version called Flappo Bird for yours and our favourite wood covered console. Just download the Atari 2600 ROM here andContinue Reading
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4OGpcCsOD0] The following is taken from the NG:DEV.TEAM website: NEO XYX is the first TATE Maniac Shooter on NEO·GEO™. Now on NEO·GEO™ and Dreamcast™ Game Features: 6 stages with varied and colorful settings 6 endbosses 5 midbosses 16-bit hand-drawn graphics (dot graphics) Switchable between vertical (TATE) and horizontal controlsContinue Reading
I’ve been following Joe’s Game Boy modding exploits on Instagram for some time (@joeteach) and was more than delighted when he agreed to aggregate his modded GameBoys for all to see here on RetroGamesCollector. Ranging from the subtle ‘Grey Boy’ to some of his more striking combinations, one thing remainsContinue Reading