Most Popular Zx Spectrum Games - Page 10
Super Soccer
1986
Super Soccer
1986
Super Soccer is a soccer simulation developed for the Spectrum 48/128 by Imagine Software in 1986. It was also later released by Ocean Software as a free game with Crash Magazine. Control is either with joystick or keyboard. gameplay is either single player against computer teams, or up to 8 players in a turn-based multiplayer mode. Games last about 5 minutes, and a timer counts this down, but stops to wait for penalties, free kicks, half-time, etc. The player controls one team member at a time, and this player is shown by a halo above their head. If this player moves away from the ball too far or for too long, control is switched to the next nearest player on the football field. Players with highest score at the end win the match.Block Dizzy
1992
Block Dizzy
1992
This game was created by a reader of Your Sinclair, Arno van der Hulst, and sent in to them for inclusion on their Cover Tape. It appeared with Issue 81, dated September 1992, as part of their Magnificent 7 series of cover mounted cassettes. The idea of the game is to plonk together three or more blocks of one colour, causing them to disappear from the play area. You can't alter the orientation of the blocks, but by pressing fire you can rotate the colours. Once you've connected enough blocks to reduce the number at the right hand side of the screen to zero, you move on to the next level. The instructions in the magazine state that choosing the 'Kempston Joystick' option in the menu won't work.Vatman
1989
Vatman
1989
Vatman is a side-scrolling beat-em-up that was given away free with Your Sinclair Issue 46, on their covertape "Smash Tape No. 22" Your goal is to travel through the level as mild-mannered Eric Jone's alter-ego Vatman, punching tax-swindling bad guys and avoiding hitting nice old ladies, until you get to the boss at the end of the level. Power ups are available to regain health lost by getting hit by enemies.Quazzi
1985
Quazzi
1985
Unofficial version of Hunchback Appeared as a type-in program in Issue 17 of Your Spectrum magazine in August 1985, and also on that month's Digi-Tape, already typed up and ready to load on your machine. As with the original, the player must take control of Quazzi and cross the screen along a wall, avoiding obstacles and traps, to reach and ring a bell at the other side, eventually reaching Quazzi's true love, Esmerelda.Castle Rathbone
1985
Castle Rathbone
1985
Text Adventure that appeared as a type-in program in issue 17 of Your Spectrum magazine. It also appeared on that month's cover-mounted Digi-Tape, already typed up and ready to play. The plot is that you have to help three members of the Your Spectrum team escape from the confines of Castle Rathbone, the mythical place where Your Spectrum magazine is created. There are four escape routes, one for each of the team members and one for you, and you can't use an escape route meant for one member for another. Commands are entered in the usual text adventure style, by entering them in via keyboard.The Terrors of Trantoss
1986
Following a familiar theme, an evil power rises when an undead wizard once banished to the mountains of Mortran returns to terrorise the villagers of a small village in the fantasy land of Hapshal. The followers of the undead wizard Trantoss have been gathering the shattered pieces of the golden mace that once gave him his powers and the player takes control of two brothers, the strong woodcutter Lobo and the stealthy rogue Scarn whose mission is to thwart their evil plot.The Secret of Little Hodcome
1987
The Secret Of Little Hodcome is a text adventure from Zenobi Software with mild horror elements. Once upon a time the player had a distant, and forgotten relative. That relative is no more meaning that the player has inherited a cottage in the tiny hamlet of Little Hodcome. After a bit of not-too-productive research, 'Where is this place?', off you trot to meet the estate agent. Naturally, this being an adventure, all is not well in the English countryside and the object of the game is to uncover and vanquish whatever evil force lurks there.Lockdown Town ZX
2022
Lockdown Town ZX
2022
Drive around Lockdown Town picking up patients and delivering them to the hospital for treatment while avoiding the nasty covidiots. Rinse and repeat! How many lives can you save!Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler
1988
A text adventure in which the player takes up the mantle of Sherlock, called upon to investigate into the business of George Wathley. His cousin Victor is suspicious that George has been importing contraband and wants the famous sleuth to turns his skills to discover the truth.Seaside Sourcery
1997
Seaside Sourcery
1997
Seaside Sourcery is a text adventure in which the player takes the role of Rodney Prentice, apprentice wizard. Rodney has been sent to Scarpool's finest hotel, The Royal, to receive a prestigious award on behalf of the High Mage. Unfortunately the awards get stolen and the game is all about Rodney's attempts to retrieve them.Pussy: Love Story from Titanic
1999
Pussy: Love Story from Titanic is a single player game which contains platform and falling brick puzzle solving elements. Gameplay is similar to the game Popils. The story behind the game is that Leonardo won a ticket to travel on the Titanic's maiden voyage. There he met the girl of his dreams, Kate. However Kate was rich and Leonardo was poor and worse, a thief. Their love was forbidden. The game consists of a series of fifty puzzles in which the objective is to get Kate & Leonardo to meet. Kate is usually on top of a parapet or trapped behind a wall shouting 'Help' and the player must guide Leonardo to her. To solve these puzzles Leonardo can climb ladders and, with his mighty fist, he can smash bricks. Smashed bricks disappear and the bricks above them will fall down to take their place. Some bricks are hollow and cannot be smashed, others will explode. The game also features teleports, which the manual assures were a common feature on the original Titanic, enemies to deal with, and two lengthy platform sequFrank the Flea
1986
Frank the Flea
1986
Frank is lost. He wants his Mummy. He knows that she is somewhere on the 2nd floor of Major Mansion, but where?Solar Invasion
1989
Yumiko in the Haunted Mansion
2012
A maze-style ZX Spectrum title. Help Yumiko avoid ghosts, light the haunted mansion's candles, and rescue your parents across 32 stages before time runs out!Smash T.V.
1991
Hitman
1984
Laserbirds
2020
Laserbirds
2020
Laserbirds is a shoot'em up about toxic alien birds named Ornithoids that threaten the earth and it's up to you, mankind's last line of defense, to take them down.Zoinho in the Garden of Fools
2022
Zoinho in the Garden of Fools is an isometric adventure about a chubby and friendly cyclops named Zoinho who got lost in the not very relaxing and a bit macabre Garden of Fools, where nature is almost never your friend and the supernatural is present at all times.Kung-Fu Master
1985
Kung-Fu Master
1985
Loosely based on a movie, Kung-Fu Master is a side scrolling action game for one or two players, who alternate turns.Pac-Man
1984
Pac-Man
1984
The ZX Spectrum port of Pac-Man. The game was previously released as a bootleg game under the name of Z-Man.
