Street Fighting and Tanks

Hi! It's been a while since new games came out on our resource, and now, finally, there are three of them! Although, probably, two of them should be considered practically one, even though they came from different authors. It's all a bit confusing, so let's figure it out together.

Street fighting is back in fashion

A developer already quite well known in our circles for "classic" games and for a rare clone of the TS-Conf spec under the nickname Marie Slip has finally finished his long-term project - it's a demake of Capcom's Street Fighter 2, which originally came out on the SNES and other platforms, and has now found a second life on the Spectrum-compatible TS-Config. The game needs no long description; everyone knows it's a classic fighting game, the point of which comes down to winning one-on-one fights against six different characters controlled by the computer or your friend. All characters have different sets of moves and super attacks, differing physical parameters, so the game is quite varied and can be played many times, discovering more and more new possibilities. In the Spectrum version, n1k-o worked properly on the sound design and music, so get ready to hear stunning tracks in 3 and 6 AY channels, as well as sampled sounds! The full-color 256-color graphics are almost entirely ported from the SNES, and you can play with a comfortable Sega joystick, without even touching the keyboard. And as usual - if you haven't yet managed to get your hands on the original hardware (I mean ZX Evo), you can also run the game under an emulator on Windows - such a build is included in the downloadable archive.

Classic tanks have found their home

(Fanfare sounds) And now meet my first game on ZX Online (yes, yes, incredible, but in the 5 years of the resource's existence there hasn't been a single game of my own here, and now it has happened). Actually, this is again a demake, a replica of Battle City, which came out back in 1985 on the NES. And this game has a long history. In 1996, after watching and playing 2-3 of the most terrible Battle City clones on the ZX Spectrum, my inner perfectionist boiled over, and I decided to write my own "tanks" that could be played as comfortably as on the "Dendy". A girlfriend helped - she had a NES at home and she carefully copied all the levels for me onto a checkered sheet of paper and wrote down the order in which tanks appear on each level. I wrote the code, drew the graphics and everything else. Immediately after development was finished, this game was sent to a far shelf and then it quite accidentally surfaced somewhere on the internet in 2016. After that, a group of enthusiasts from zx-pk.ru motivated me to finish the game to a release state and release it into the big world. And now, finally, the game has found a home. The title screen for the game was drawn by an artist with an outstanding and memorable style - Joe Vondayl, and we also changed the name to Zedex Tanks (so as not to anger the guys from Namco too much) and wrote a simple story. In short, watch, play, get nostalgic! The game is fully compatible with the classic ZX Spectrum 128 and exists in TAP and TRD formats - whichever is more convenient for you. You can read more details on the game's page.

Tanks on steroids

And if you are the happy owner of a TS-Config or follow this platform, then be sure to check out our third hero for today - the game Battle City for TS-Config. How does this game differ from the previous one? Well, first of all, its author is Marie Slip, the sound specialist is n1k-o; secondly, the game visually looks more like the original NES game; and thirdly, it has far more differences from the original (for the better). For example, the game has only 16 original levels, and the rest are drawn from scratch. Levels with bosses (!), new types of obstacles and new bonuses have also been added. There really is something to study and look at here. The game comes with versions for Windows, as well as a version for Base Config (and you can compare how much worse it is than the conf version :) ).

A parting word

In conclusion, I would like to add that all three games were released with the possibility of free download. But don't forget to thank the authors with generous donations - a colossal amount of work has been put into these games, and donations give the authors confirmation that their work is in demand. Also leave your comments and wishes along with ratings on the rating page - this feedback can influence a lot, for example, additional levels, features, or even versions of the games for ZX Spectrum Next may appear ;) If YOU want it. That's probably all for today. Oh, by the way, anyone who hasn't been following the developments in the recently held Yandex Retro Game Battle competition - be sure to at least try the games. There are very good ones, for example, "Serafima", "COINZ are Mine" - you'll definitely get hooked for a couple of evenings. Now that's really all. Have a good week, new games will be coming soon, stay tuned.