This looks a great project from Dan Whitehead. Click below to be notified when it's Kickstarter begins

Everything Must Go, via Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/10874…

Really enjoying Dom Joly's very funny and slightly worrying book about conspiracies

Happy 35th birthday to the Game Boy, the endearingly rudimentary console that was millions of people's first introduction to video games theguardian.com/games/2024/apr…

Next week, I will start planning the On The ZX Spectrum #12! One year ago I started this newsletter and it's grown to almost 800 subscribers in that short time. Thanks to you all!

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Favourite Speccy games…
Scuba Dive, ‘83

For some people Ultimate, Ocean or Codemasters define the Speccy, for me it’s Durell. They made a small number of games but each one captured my imagination. Scuba Dive had a “what else is down there?” quality #zxspectrum #retrogaming

N64: a visual compendium

Contains over 150 titles that defined the N64, from Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007 to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Banjo-Kazooie.

Buy now: bitmapbooks.com/collections/al…

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'There's a problem with the Commodore 64!'
'What is it?'
'It's a dull brown micro computer, but that's not important right now'

This week's On The ZX Spectrum Magic Knight Patreon Extra (I know, snappy, right 🤣) is a special on this issue of Crash from 40 years ago!
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Back when Amazon first announced Fallout, I wrote this about the key ingredients it needed to include in the show.

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Last week I got to write about my favourite Gameboy game for Retro Dodo

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I've updated the On The ZX Spectrum page on the Wizwords website. The very first On The ZX Spectrum newsletter has been reproduced there, too.

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This week on On The ZX Spectrum, I interviewed a coder behind many games for various budget software houses in the 80s. Looking forward to putting the feature together for On The ZX Spectrum #12, out on the 3rd May. Sign up here: onthezxspectrum.eo.page/onthezxspectrum

Sega Mega Drive is back and under the main TV. First up is Desert Strike!

An interesting article about 2000AD 8-Bit Games #Commodore64
Strontium Dog: The Death Gauntlet (Quicksilva, 1984)
Strontium Dog: The Killing (Quicksilva, 1984)
Rogue Trooper (Piranha, 1986)
Nemesis The Warlock (Martech, 1987)
Slaine (Martech, 1987)
Judge Dredd (Melbourne House,

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The Golden Keel... starring John Belushi 😂

Favourite Speccy games…
Renegade, ‘87

A Spectrum game that I think looks & plays BETTER than its arcade parent. The 128k version has all the fighting moves (except the dumb arcade run), all the levels & great music - the best beat ‘em up on the Speccy #zxspectrum #retrogaming

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I played Agent X back in '87. I was 14. Its coder, Steven Tatlock, was the same age. Its artist, brother John was 13. Sadly they were taken advantage of - not by Mastertronic I hasten to add - read all about it in this week's On The ZX Spectrum: onthezxspectrum.eo.page/onthezxspectrum