Whether that's for better or worse is for you to decide, but here's a gallery of ZX Spectrum classics reimagined as PlayStation 4 games...
It's fair to say that modern game covers generally adhere to a pretty strict formula, in comparison to the games from 30-odd years ago. Whether that's for better or worse is for you to decide, but here's a gallery of ZX Spectrum classics reimagined as PlayStation 4 games... SKOOL DAZE HORACE GOES SKIING MANIC MINER CHUCKIE EGG ATIC ATAC JACK THE NIPPER JET PAC
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Mr.S
24/4/2019 10:43:57 am
Wow when did Miner Willy get so buff? Maybe there’s a Smash Bros style game with only ZC Spectrum game characters in it, in some alternate universe where Clive Sinclair was the Miyamoto of his time.
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Grembot
24/4/2019 10:58:39 am
You’re hired!
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Cal
24/4/2019 11:20:33 am
Canis Canem Edit (aka Bully) is pretty much already Skool Daze for Playstation anyway. Also no need to invent a new Codemasters logo, they're still around ;)
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24/4/2019 01:44:50 pm
True, but it would have to be made into a racing game for them to publish it.
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James Walker
24/4/2019 11:42:35 pm
Nah, Bully’s pure Yankee ain’t it? Nowt to do with Skool Daze mate.
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Johnny Walker
24/4/2019 11:56:52 am
What about the helicopter game i think it was called team Apache
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FriendMichael
24/4/2019 12:12:00 pm
I vastly preferred the days of barely-competent child-like scrawlings, but then I do have an active interest in outsider illustration
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retrowarrior
24/4/2019 12:52:22 pm
This is completely spot on, you nailed it.
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Clown4skin
24/4/2019 01:13:10 pm
When you grew up and stopped taking an active interest in the medium, causing each title to blur into the next. The way my grandma thought Nirvana sounded like REM: inexperience was her downfall there.
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retrowarrior
24/4/2019 01:25:37 pm
Haha!
Clown4skin
24/4/2019 03:01:25 pm
Right, but they are joke covers made for that purpose. Personally I don't think we've ever seen so much scope, in all of gaming ever, as we have on the PS4 right now
Mike
24/4/2019 06:56:38 pm
90% of ZX games were egg themed.
Daph
24/4/2019 01:21:12 pm
You have definitely excelled .. X
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Panama Joe
24/4/2019 02:20:32 pm
Good to see the repeated use of "bombfetti" in every cover, a term coined by Yahtzee Crowshaw when he too noticed the pattern where covers using exploding confetti imagery. It's this generation's lens flare.
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Stance the Whelk
24/4/2019 03:10:42 pm
But why shouldn't everything have swearing and guns in it? Why have I gotta worry about your kids? As you say, they have the extensive Nintendo catalogue
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Penyrolewen
24/4/2019 08:19:06 pm
You haven’t got to worry about anyone’s kids. You can still have all the sweary gun games you’ve got now but why can’t there be some more stuff that isn’t that?
Stance
25/4/2019 08:13:01 am
Sekiro, Dreams, Horizon all say different, those are off the top of my head. All massive budget games with new ideas and no fixed audience. I'm seeing far more risk taking and new ideas from Sony than from Nintendo, far more. My Switch has been gathering dust for months now
Spiney O'Sullivan
25/4/2019 12:40:17 pm
Honestly, having seen far too many cases of kids whining or tricking their parents into buying age-restricted games for them in retail stores, I have a vague suspicion that publishers have quietly accepted that a lot of parents simply do not care what their kids are playing, so they might as well make 18-rated games since they're going to sell both to adults and kids anyway. If anything, that age rating probably means they appeal to kids even more.
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Meatballs-me-branch-me-do
25/4/2019 05:28:36 pm
Because violence and gore and bad swears appeals to kids! We thought Splatterhouse and Mortal Kombat were the coolest things ever! You could cut heads off in Barbarian!
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moonbucket
24/4/2019 02:31:24 pm
I just knew Horace was suffering an existential nightmare and just didn't have the resolution to fully convey his torment to the player.
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Bryan
24/4/2019 08:44:50 pm
Christ Biffo, I'm never going to be able to sleep after seeing the new Horace or Jack the Ripper. Are they set in the spooky cancelled resident evil 4 timeline?
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James Walker
24/4/2019 11:45:42 pm
This is fucking VINTAGE Digi! The cowboy Melbourne House logo made me do a proper LOL in bed much to the Chagrin of my missus.
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Spiney O'Sullivan
25/4/2019 12:42:51 pm
These are great. I'm all for more of this kind of thing in the future.
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Steve
25/4/2019 07:07:33 pm
They're all good, but why are all of the PS4 covers splattered with marmalade?
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