Treasure Island Dizzy
AI PlatformerPuzzleClassicAn egg with boxing gloves washes up on a cursed island — the game that turned Dizzy into British budget software's best-loved mascot, and arguably the best entry in his own series.
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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Chuckie Egg
AI PlatformerClassicHenhouse Harry climbs ladders and dodges hens to collect eggs against the clock. Deceptively simple, ferociously addictive, and blessed with some of the tightest controls of the early Spectrum era.
Jet Set Willy
AI PlatformerClassicMiner Willy's mansion is even more perilous than his mine: sixty-plus surreal rooms to explore before his housekeeper will finally let him go to bed.
Manic Miner
PlatformerClassicMatthew Smith's 48KB masterpiece: twenty caverns of pixel-perfect peril and the Spectrum's first continuous in-game music.