As Sci Fi London hosts the Horizons event, celebrating 30 years of Uncle Clive’s Sinclair Spectrum this weekend, retro computing continues to ride the crest of a wave. For someone who spends a lot of weekend time at demo scene … Read more
A Speccy running Twitter. Do not adjust your screens. VCF-UK, Bletchley Park 2010. OK, so is there ANYONE reading this who is unaware that today is the 30th birthday of the ZX Spectrum, first gaming addiction of many? From Google’s … Read more
We’ve added three new designs to the site this week, inspired by such superb retro gems as Sim City, Out Run and Pokémon. Hope you like them! It’s Super Effective! T-Shirt £15.95 Magical Sound Shower T-Shirt £15.95 SC Electric T-Shirt … Read more
If found, please return via the good folks at this blog. At one point today, around 30 people from my 500-odd strong twitter feed were in the main atrium at the ARM building in Cambridge, among the limited number gathered … Read more
This week in Wordchazer’s world has been quite a big one. Normality returns in the shape of the start of the Formula 1 season. The BBC Micro is almost 30, and the local jungle telegraph has been jangling all week … Read more
It seems the past and future of games and coding met head on today. So, whilst perusing Twitter (founded 2006) on the PurpleBerry (makers RIM founded around 1984) I was reading about the Raspberry Pi launch (today, 2012), the Young … Read more
OK, so I hadn’t intended this, but when my husband told me about this piece, I knew exactly where it was going to be shown. The BBC has produced a slideshow of handheld gaming consoles through the years. From 1978 … Read more
Howard Scott Warshaw is a man who knows what he likes, and being a high ranking systems engineer at Hewlett Packard is not it. Programming games for Atari, however, is. This is how he came to leave the former for … Read more
It started with a tweet. My association with this website, I mean. There I was at the Replay convention in Blackpool in November, rapidly running out of battery on my mobile (hereafter usually referred to as the PurpleBerry) when I … Read more
Snake is to mobile phone gaming what Pac Man is to upright cabinets or Tetris is to consoles. If you’ve never heard of it, please leave now. If you’ve never played it, you’ve probably never had a phone. If you … Read more