Punching Robots 2084

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Tag: ZX Spectrum

  • Watch: Beyond The Scan lines on JetPak DX

    Posted on this, the day of our Molyneux,

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    Rob
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    I reckon it was all downhill for Ultimate after Jetpac. Not a reflection of how poor any subsequent games were (post-US Gold aside, they were far, far from it) but how fantastic Jetpac is. Alongside Pssst and Cookie, it oozed an arcade sensibility that would largely disappear as Ultimate’s games got larger and more ambitious…

  • Four Minute Warning

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    Rob
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    Four Minute Warning is a small (very small) two screen videogame that tasks the player with collecting a few objects to take with them into a fallout shelter, all within the 4 minutes from the warning siren going off to the nuclear missiles hitting. What sounds like a fairly simple task is made all the…

  • Zeroptian Invasion

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    You know, I was absolutely convinced I’d put words down on Zeroptian Invasion some time back but perhaps I should have double checked that one sooner because no, no, I had not. I am really fond of Zeroptian Invasion. I’ve long nurtured an appreciation of the single screen shooter, from Space Invaders, Galaga and the…