Let the Games Live Forever

Hi! How many Spectrum games do you know? 50? Maybe even 100? Meanwhile, there are about 20 thousand games for the Spectrum. (You can download this image, made up of title screens from all the games, and see for yourself that there are SO many of them). Yes, I admit, more than half of them are simple creations only slightly more complex than "Hello, world!", ones you don't even want to waste time on, let alone seriously play. But among the rest there are quite worthy specimens. After all, if you think about it, there's no difference between a brand-new game that came out yesterday and one that came out in 1985, provided you haven't played either. I'd even say a 1985 game has a bit of an edge, since it already has ratings and fans.

Anyway, closer to the point

I've mentioned before that we have a website Viva Games, which collects all (or almost all) retro games for the ZX Spectrum. Well, we've done a colossal amount of work restoring nearly 5000 (!) original game descriptions in English, Spanish, Italian and other languages, as well as translating them into Russian and English. This titanic work took more than a year, and now we're starting to gradually publish these descriptions on the site. And to make it more interesting for you, we've hand-picked several hundred underrated games - little-known, yet original and in some ways distinctive. These games will be published regularly in the official Viva Games Telegram group. We've provided each with a short description, our summary, and the ability to play online right on the Viva Games website.

What's the goal of all this hustle?

Besides the promised game descriptions, we're going to publish game analytics, polls, contests and other stuff, because few people love ZX Spectrum games as much as we do. So it won't be boring. Join us! By the way, this channel exists in two versions - if English suits you better, here's the English-language version of the channel. P.S. The vast majority of descriptions are taken from open sources - from the World of Spectrum website, as well as many others. The descriptions were in a text format inconvenient for the modern web and had to be adapted manually. Thanks to each and every one who painstakingly typed these texts from the covers of physical versions. We've preserved all copyrights and links in the texts, thank you! See you in the Telegram channel! With love for the Spectrum and Spectrum enthusiasts, Alexey Khaidukov (aka Epsilon) and Evgeny Kolesnikov (aka Buddy/ERA).