Retrospec are a team of coders, graphics artists and computer musicians who have gathered together to bring you all the best remakes of old 8 bit games.
Analysing and viewing the zx spectrum games Knight Lore, Alien 8 and Pentagram by ultimate. Includes links to various ultimate related sites, a tutorial on isometric gaming (using the isocis c++ library).
Elite site setup by Ian Bell, co-author of the original BBC-Micro version and later the port to the 8-bit NES. Site includes a flight manual, version information, FAQ, Text Elite, fiction, Elite The Musical, and an archive containing the executables and source code for most release versions of Elite.
Long, long ago in the lost and fabled desert city of Antescher, a tiny hero and heroine, each a mere 14 pixels high, struggled valiantly against a small army of relatively giant Ants ...
Collected material from the long-running 'Your Sinclair' magazine. Well put together. Good transition from paper to web-page. A large number of the original reviews have been carefully reproduced.
Minimal site focusing on the latest products. Take a look at Planetoids and Jetpac for the work they published with Psion and Ultimate. World of Spectrum's hardware page contains articles on various Sinclair and 3rd Party products.
The people who brought us games like Jetpac, PSSST, Tranz Am and Cookie. The're more well known in recent history as a 2nd party Nintendo developer, producing top-notch Gamecube and Gameboy titles.
The best way to play Nintendo games is on Nintendo consoles (NES, Famicom, Gameboy, Gamecube, ...). Thankfully though, some of the early arcades' did manage to make their way on to our humble speccy. Try these licensed ports of Donkey Kong and Mario Bros.
Made it big in the low-end budget world with classics like the Dizzy series. Still going strong with full priced games on consoles and Intel boxes. Try Colin McRae DiRT and IndyCar Series.
A veteran developer (and former publisher) of computer and video game software. Try out these ports of Tekkan's Bomb Jack and Sega's Space Harrier for a taste of their warez.
From the first teak effect Atari, through PacMan and up to the Megadrive - we're talking Retro gaming and computing. Be it Spectrum or Saturn, whatever blast from the past waggles your joystick, eBay is the place to find it.
For over eight years Retrogames has provided information and news to gamers and collectors of classic videogames and machines. Includes a mail order service for software and hardware across many classic formats (Sinclair, Commodore, Nintendo, Sega, SNK, etc.).
Retrogamer is a printed fanzine published in Liverpool, UK which is dedicated to classic video games. The zine's definition of classic is any old game (basically 8-bit and 1980's) that made you forget the time or ate all your money at the arcade.