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The Ultimate Guide to Games For The ZX Spectrum (Version 2)

deadpan666deadpan666
edited February 2012 in Announcements
A chap called A.J.Green who I play in the Retroleague with has recently released version 2 of his E-Book, The Ultimate Guide To Games For The ZX Spectrum.. I told him I'd give people a heads-up about it on here...

In his own words.... Version 2 of the Guide is now available on eBay. The Guide now covers more games, and has a full colour screenshot for every game reviewed. It is a complete guide to every game commercially released for the Speccy, and is avalable as an eBook on CD. Running to over 2,000 pages, the guide features nearly 11,000 games, and also comes with a facts and stats section, and an Excel spreadsheet which summarises all the games and their original magazine ratings. The Guide is also come down in price, and is now available for only ?5 + 50p p+p.

Here's the link to Ebay...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120830319962?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

And here's a link to the E-book's site, where you can download a sample and check out pics, etc.

http://zxspectrumguide.weebly.com/index.html

Looks pretty groovy! I ordered mine yesterday....
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  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited January 2012
    Err ... no international post? :-? :cry:
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited January 2012
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Err ... no international post? :-? :cry:

    Send him a message...I'm sure he'd be happy to oblige!
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  • Rebelstar without a causeRebelstar without a cause
    edited January 2012
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Err ... no international post? :-? :cry:

    He hasn't got permission from Gigatron!
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited January 2012
    CURSE THEE GIGATRON!!!
  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited January 2012
    it really nicely presented, the only thing that's a bit off is a title of a game on one page then the rest of the stuff on another, as if slightly misaligned?

    or is that just the sample?
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited January 2012
    BiNMaN wrote: »
    it really nicely presented, the only thing that's a bit off is a title of a game on one page then the rest of the stuff on another, as if slightly misaligned?

    or is that just the sample?

    Not sure...I'll let you know when I receive mine. I should have it by Tuesday...
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  • sirclive1sirclive1
    edited February 2012
    BiNMaN wrote: »
    it really nicely presented, the only thing that's a bit off is a title of a game on one page then the rest of the stuff on another, as if slightly misaligned?

    or is that just the sample?

    Got mine today , and although i do like it and would recommend it , it could be better presented . Its just hard work to read through , i stopped at page 13 and im usually very patient , i don't know if its because im using the adobe reader or its deliberatly chopped in the middle of the review and screenshot ?
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited February 2012
    Does look good, wish i could buy a book of it though as i'm not keen personally on just downloads.

    Great idea to have all these screenshots and mini reviews, think the text saying also available on a compilation etc could be cut out as thats quite a bit of space for each game.

    But a book of this would be great (and to cut down the space get rid of some of the 'filler' type games).

    But impressive stuff though, must have taken the guy ages.
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited February 2012
    Just got mine, and yeah..the text is sometimes a bit difficult to read and split over pages.....so could have been a bit better presented...

    But to give A.J. credit, it must have taken ages, so just getting it in a readable form was probably the goal...and I love the fact I can look through it, find interesting screens and then read his mini-review to see if it's worth loading up the game! A great way of finding hidden gems....

    So it comes recommended...he deserves a fiver just for the effort of putting it all together! :D
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  • psj3809psj3809
    edited February 2012
    deadpan666 wrote: »
    JBut to give A.J. credit, it must have taken ages, so just getting it in a readable form was probably the goal...and I love the fact I can look through it, find interesting screens and then read his mini-review to see if it's worth loading up the game! A great way of finding hidden gems....

    Yeah thats what i like the sound of, just think a huge chunk could be deleted from it but fair play to including practically all of the archive it seems !
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited February 2012
    Plus, at over 2000 pages, imagine how many there would be if everything was laid out so all the info about games was on the same page....:lol:
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