Welcome adventurer to The Evil Castle, called so because it is a castle and... erm, evil! As a brave and very likely foolhardy soul, you've decided to pop your head around the portcullis and do a spot of monster slaying. And business is good because this particular Evil Castle comes equipped with six in-house monsters, the most terrifying of which has the fear-inducing name Behemoth. Fortunately, the castle has it's own little shop rather like those found in hospitals but, rather than dry sandwiches, energy drinks, a highly limited choice of magazines and wilting flowers, this one is stocked to the gills with flaming torches, armour, magical amulets and a couple of weapons to boot - so now all you need is skill, cunning, bravery (which were all out of stock) and some cash, good luck! The game can be downloaded here, it comes with a PDF manual and needs a 16K RAM expanded VIC 20 to play.

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Mariano the Dragon - Capers in Cityland sees cutesy titular dragon Mariano on a quest to save his imprisoned friends; they were all locked away for failing to complete a series of tasks that varied from painting storage drums and collecting stars to a bit of espionage and now our small, scaly friend has to take on those very same tasks in order to get the keys to release everybody else. Although they have previously released titles on one machine and subsequently converted them to others, Mariano the Dragon - Capers in Cityland is the first time that Computer EmuZone Games Studio have simultaneously released a title on both Spectrum and CPC.

  Web link:         Computer EmuZone Games Studio

Back in 1982, Commodore released a VIC 20 game on cartridge called Raid On Fort Knox. Some twenty three years later and, on a rainy afternoon in 2007 with nothing on the telly, Nino Porcino had the idea of taking the game he remembered from his childhood and disassembling it - as you do (or is that just me?) But things took an Oldschool Gaming style turn at this point because, once he had this disassembly, his next decision was to put it back together in a interesting new way and Return To Fort Knox was conceived. It's taken a while to get to the maternity ward because Nino knew exactly how he wanted the remixed game to be and put a lot of work into that vision; the number of active guards in the game was increased to fifteen, a new "freeze ray" feature added and eight shiny new levels were created from scratch, but after all that work father and child are doing well and receiving visitors.

  Web link:         Nino Porcino's website
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