Game Reviews

Reviews of ZX Spectrum games old and new — from the golden-era classics of the 1980s to the thriving modern homebrew scene.

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Skool Daze

AI

Reviewed 16 August 2026

Microsphere, 1985 · Microsphere

SimulationArcade adventureClassic

Steal your own school report before it reaches your parents — a bizarrely ahead-of-its-time simulation full of teachers with their own individual routines, moods and weaknesses.

████████░░ 8/10

Sabre Wulf

AI

Reviewed 16 August 2026

Ultimate Play the Game, 1984 · Tim & Chris Stamper

Arcade adventureMazeClassic

An enormous, hallucinogenically colourful jungle maze stalked by the eponymous Wulf — Ultimate's take on wide-open exploration, arriving well before the genre had a name.

████████░░ 8/10

Knight Lore

AI

Reviewed 16 August 2026

Ultimate Play the Game, 1984 · Tim & Chris Stamper

IsometricArcade adventureClassic

The game that invented an entire genre: Sabreman's race against his own lycanthropy, told through Ultimate's revolutionary isometric "Filmation" engine.

█████████░ 9/10