I’m feeling all Christmassy with a couple of days to go ’til the big day so why not dig out a Christmas themed game for my favourite computer and give it a whirl… What’s it all about then? So here is The Official Father Christmas by Alternative Software. Released inContinue Reading
£119.57 to be precise. As I have previously highlighted on the site, Macmillan educational titles are going for some very high prices at auction and here is another example. Oil Strike has come up before and fetched a similar price last time round but it still amazes me how farContinue Reading
As I reported back in February 2011, UK based Elite Systems were planning on releasing a recreated ZX Spectrum for use with their mobile gaming apps. Well folks, the good news is that Elite are still planning on doing just that. Now, don’t get too excited Speccy fans; this isContinue Reading
What is the Rotronics Wafadrive? The Wafadrive was a two-drive system for small cartridges containing 1.8mm wide continuous spool tape. In direct competition with the Sinclair ZX Microdrive, this system had a number of unique selling points. The first of which was its price. Originally priced at £129.95 it wasContinue Reading
ZX82? No, it’s called ZX Spectrum Released in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. and following on from the huge success of his previous home micros the ZX80 and ZX81 was Sir Clive Sinclair’s first colour computer the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (code-named ZX82 during development). Gone was the black and white,Continue Reading
Another rare (and these really are) ZX Spectrum title has just been sold on eBay for a whopping £448.23. 27 bidders showed an interest in ‘MacMan and the Caber Eater’ (even though there was a misspelling!) a hard to come by educational game by Sinclair/Macmillan. In previous posts I haveContinue Reading
Not content with giving us the amazing ZX Spectrum title Terry the Turtle, Purple Unicorn Software have released screenshots to RGC of their forthcoming Terry the Turtle – Vektor. From what we can see it looks stunning and the new title will be based on the Yellow and Cyan versionsContinue Reading
Converting my loft (click here to see the finished games room) gave me space enough and an excuse to sort out and catalogue my own hardware collection. I now actually know what I have, what works, what’s boxed or unboxed and what I need to complete certain elements of theContinue Reading
I reported way back in 2009 about a set of Macmillan titles that sold in an eBay auction for figures way above what you normally expect most rare ZX Spectrum titles to sell for. Three of those titles (amongst others) were up for auction again and true to the recentContinue Reading
Another day, another auction. But this was no ordinary auction. In my many years of being an avid ‘ebayer’ (10 years+) I have only ever seen this come up once before. This auction was for Spellbox, a rare educational title by Macmillan under the Sinclair label. Not surprisingly it garneredContinue Reading