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• Another three games up for review which which may not have enjoyed the Speccy limelight: Dina Blaster, Edd the Duck and Pick N Pile. All worth playing though!

• Four games which may not have enjoyed the Speccy limelight: Bedlam, Fire Trap, Gothik and Hot Shot.

• Here's a pair of shooters up for review: Challenge of the Gobots and Mag Max.

• Got part two of the 2008 TRB Top 100 added, so that's games in positions 91 thru to 80 covered.

• Six games reviewed, rolled out in almost in a SU 6-pack style: a corker, a good one and the rest are all average to dire. You're looking at: Critical Mass, Double Dragon, Mailstrom, Oink!, Rygar - Legendary Warrior and Travel With Trashman.


• As you should have noticed, I've added a better plug for the The Spectrum Games Bible on the front page and I've also created a page documenting the books in the Misc section, here.

• Time for another couple of reviews, this time all ending in -mania: Pac-mania and Clickmania.

• No reviews to mention, just people this time. I went to the Retro Fusion event in Leamington on Saturday and I met some corking people (in addition to meeting The Spectrum Games Bible's co-author Paul) - SirClive, uglifruit, marmito, jetsetwilly plus getting Jonathan Cauldwell to buy a copy of Book One! I also had chats with retro*gamer's very own editor Darran Jones (who is a v good bloke) and Simon Goodwin, he of the techy side of Crash magazine and now a Creative Director of Codemasters!
  
  There were loads of other people too - such as the two who are making the retro computer museum whose names I can't remember and I had a long amiga-related conversation with woody.cool. Would definitely recommend going to the next one!


• Finally, a big thanks to everyone who bought a copy of Book One or Book Two of The Spectrum Games Bible - you're all top people!

• A couple of reviews to make up for the lack of updates: Alien Highway and Pac-Man. More on the way!


• Also added the first part of the 2008 TRB Top 100 - see what you think!

• Apologies for the lack of updates. I've been busy writing reviews for and editing The Spectrum Games Bible. On a side-note, I've now got 37 reviews to add to TRB and I'm also working on the latest Top 100.

• No new reviews (yet) but have updated the front page as book one of The Spectrum Games Bible 1982 - 1984 is on sale NOW.

• A trio of games of varying quality to keep you entertained during the Bank Holiday Weekend; Kolobok Zoom 2, Dizzy Dice and Yabba Dabba Doo!.

• Two more games reviewed for TRB; one you may have heard of, 3D Space Wars, and one you might not have; Rock n Roller.

• Four more games find themselves being reviewed; the Spanish Capitan Sevilla, the also Spanish (but English version) Freddy Hardest (cheers Matty), the egg-tastic Fantasy World Dizzy and the interesting Trashman.


• Also added MySpeccy.com to the links section

• A couple of games reviewed for the May Bank Holiday, both with uber-long names: Percy the Potty Pigeon and King of Time Super Turbo Killer.

• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Spectrum games make their TRB debut. Specifically, they are: Lunaris, Bubble Trouble and 4x4 Off-Road Racing.

• A pair of different games here: One that wasn't released in the UK (Curro Jimenez) and one that's not been released at all (Existenz).

• There's a quartet of games been reviewed and seventy-five percent of them are quite good! check out International Ninja Rabbits, Mad Mix 2, Treasure Island Dizzy and Zythum.

• No April Fool's joke! I've amended the nav-bar throughout the site, everso slightly changed the front page, amended the games index page and updated a couple of other pages, including debuting this years' Top 100 badge. No major shake-up, but I thought it was time for the static graphic nav-bar to go. Comments are welcome!

• To see out the end of March, here's Mad Mix reviewed for your pleasure.

• A pair of reviews at other ends of the quality scale; Lazer Tag and Quick Draw McGraw.

• A quintet of better than average games for you to peruse, which are (in alphabetical order): Exploding Wall, H.A.T.E. (from Matty), Skull, Spectron and Thrust.


• I've also re-jigged the front page, to house the plug for the Spectrum Games Bible which I am co-editing with WoS forum contributor PSJ3809. I've tweaked a few other pages as well, as part of a gentle 'sharpening up' (not re-design) of the site. I am planning to slowly release the upgrades in between reviewing games, trying to get the new Top100 completed, attempting to have a life etc :-).

• Another day and another couple of games reviewed; Eric and the Floaters and Sheer Panic.

• A couple of good games reviewed for a change; Pool and Egghead in Space.

• More proof that the Awards section will not run out of candidates, here's Cyber Rats!

• A couple more oldies (Jawz and Kong) and a pair of dragon-themed shooters (St Dragon and Dragon Breed) up for review today.

• A couple of oldies and a goodie reviewed for your delectation. Enter Driller Tanks, Hungry Horace and I, Ball 2 (which is c/o Matty).

• Here's some Spanish pinball action in the form of Enchanted.


• Also, here's a bit of self-promotion - TRB has been featured on page 100 of the latest issue (number 47) of Retro*Gamer magazine! UK Subscribers should have had their issue through the door today with the mag hitting WHSmith's on Feb 1st. Enjoy the rest of the mag too :D

• Another two reviews; Pitfall ZX and Mpthrilla.


• I've also slightly tweaked the complete games index page so that the 1K & 4K Minigames plus the Unfinished Business demos get their own section at the bottom of the page.

• Two more reviews for January; one great, one a bit crap. Rough Justice and G.I. Tech, respectively.


• I've also added a new element to the Misc section. It's called Unfinished Business. It's dedicated to unfinished games which are in a playable state. As I already had Doom, Mortal Kombat and Mario Islands, they've been moved into that section. I've also added Cybereal, Project X and Worms for now. More to follow no doubt ...

• Three more reviews for January; two original piles of turd and a licenced arcade adventure which is rather good. No, I'm not drunk. The games are: Cowboy Kidz, Merlin (courtesy of Matty - his first TRB review of 2008) and Garfield - Big, Fat, Hairy Deal.

• Kicking off 2008 with one of the hideously awful Spectrum games ever - 1999. Also revel in the Russian elegance that is Magic Block.

• Happy New Year!!! No site updates, other than switching the '©2007' to '©2008' on the front page and a couple of other mini-maintenance tasks.