(Or the Commodore 64, I suppose, but not both.
Its not that the games are necessarilybad, more that they were tremendous for their time.
Oddly enough, there are some Spectrum games on Steam, thanks to a publisher calledPixel Games.
Is the list based almost entirely on nostalgia?
Nononononono… well, yes.
But as well as nostalgia theres also the sort of informed reasoning that the modern games journalism consumer expects.
The level design in this timeless single-screen jump-em-up is still unimpeachable, if at times esoteric.
But its the kind of esoteric thatll make your heart sing, so it shall.
Telling, indeed, that the 2002 remake for Game Boy Advance changed pretty much nothing except the visuals.
Which they also shouldnt have changed.
Look, its a great show, get it watched.
Next, though, its something called Eyeball Crush, which is much more involved in its production.
Third, you need fried eggs, but where the hell are you going to get eggs…?
But thats another article altogether.
Which has already been written a million times.
