[Editorial] Guess what’s next on I ❤ Old Games! – 01/10/17

Hello guys,

Finally my two weeks of horrible shifts are about to finish. My colleague is back so from the next week I’ll have more spare time to dedicate to myself.

However during last week I’ve found some spare hours to play, especially with the last games I’ve bought, Probotector, Ghost ‘n Goblins and Shadow Warriors. And especially this last one. I’ve loved Castlevania and in my honest opinion this is the Ninja version of Castlevania. I can’t stop playing it even though I’m still a newbie and I have to do my best to stay alive. The best part of my horrible shifts last weeks is that I haven’t worked in the morning so I went to bed quite late and I had time to read and that’s the reason why I’ve already completed the last issue of Retro Gamer. I’ve also picked up again The ZX Spectrum book just to prepare for the Retro Gamer Issue #172 in which there will be a piece for the 35th Speccy anniversary I’ve already celebrated.

Regarding the Spectrum, after having explained to my ~~uninterested~~ girlfriend how the attribute clash works we had a small exchange of views and it was like:

Me – Wow I love so much the graphics on the Spectrum, look at this (showing her a still of Dynamite Dan). I mean, I know they’re rude but they had to fit in a tiny 16k of memory, even an empty Word document is bigger than 16k! How come I love so much this stuff???

GF – It looks like it was made with Paint by a drunk 5 year old.

Me – *sadness intensifies*

Obviously everything was in italian but the heart of the matter was that. But my sadness ignite again my love for the Speccy so I’ll look after some good games, even though the best ones are quite expensive. If I were in the UK I think I could buy them easily for a bargain but in Italy nobody is selling Speccy games and to buy them from the UK is worth a fortune. I hope to find a good soul…

GAMES

Europa Universalis IV
Begun: November 16th, 2016
Status: 60% completed, on hold
Duke Nukem – Episode three: Trapped in the Future
Begun: January 4th, 2017
Status: 60% completed, on hold
Super Mario Bros. 2 – The Lost Levels
Begun: January 16th, 2017
Status: 12% completed, on hold
Castlevania
Begun: January 24th, 2017
Status: 66% completed, on hold
Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker
Begun: April 25th, 2017
Status: 33% completed
Super C
Begun: June 23rd, 2017
Status: 57% completed

BOOKS

Retro Gamer #171
Begun: September 21st, 2017
Status: 100% completed on September 30th after 9 days
The ZX Spectrum Book
Begun: June 17th, 2017
Status: 50% completed
The Ultimate History of Video Games
Begun: November 16th, 2016
Status: 4% completed, on hold