A message for you all to carry through the year

This cold has completely fucked my plans for today. Haven't been able to concentrate on anything for more than 15 minutes at a time.

Still got my mint condition 3DS Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Edition. It truly is a thing of beauty.

Thanks to everyone who helped with Quantum Witch and enjoyed playing it in 2025!

A wee blog to start the year....

Be better if it just said "Cunt" on it....

I'm old enough to remember using 1/2p coins in shops as a kid.

It continues - to describe those who continue to defend actions like this as “apologists” doesn’t seem to be enough.

Your Sinclair (Feb 1993) - Nigel Mansell's World Championship preview #zxspectrum #retrogaming

On this year's SEGAbits year in review show we introduced a new award celebrating SEGA Writing and Journalism, which we awarded to Nick Thorpe of @retrogamermag.bsky.social - Thank you for everything Nick, you will never be forgotten.

That's them on sale now. www.facebook.com/share/p/1FYD...

Just a heads up. A small run of physical copies of BubbleBack are soon being made available for sale. Published by Northern Games, they'll be available through their Facebook page. www.facebook.com/groups/39042...

2026: The plan! http://81632bitretro.com/2026/01/01/2026-the-plan/

The things that instantly take you Back to the Eighties: - SONG: Jump by Van Halen - MOVIE: Ghostbusters - SWEET/CHOC: Highland Toffee - DRINK: Rola Cola - COMPUTER GAME: Robocop by Ocean - BOARD GAME: Monopoly - SMELL: Sunday Roast Your go…

The current issue of FREEZE-ZX zine issue 02 is still available to buy from: freeze64.com/freeze-zx-is... #ZXSpectrum #Speccy #Z80

So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves

Woke up sounding like I smoke 60 a day. Great.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

It's now gone 12.30, and cunts are STILL setting off fireworks. If I wasn't feeling so shitty because of this cold, I probably wouldn't even notice, but I'm all bunged up and can't sleep. The fireworks are not fucking helping.

Oh, Happy New Year folks! May your 2026 be better than your 2025 was.

Happy New Year everyone! Tonight's stream was a lot of fun, and a massive thank you to everyone that popped in. All games featured tonight are linked here, please do go show your support! zx.jimblimey.com/2025.html

Fucks sake... It's 12.20am... enough with the fucking fireworks already!

Your Sinclair Jan 1986: Your Sinclair is born from a redesign of Your Spectrum and sold for 95p with Kevin Cox as Editor. Rasputin demo on cover cassette. Opus advertises Discovery disk system - 3.5" 250k "very (1/5) #zxspectrum #retrogaming

Basic top-down rendering working, as well as the original sprite system and rendering equippable items. Not bad for a day's messing around :) Shadows need some tweaking, but the basic world entity code is there and working! #indiedev #indiegaming

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video? youtu.be/4_fvXrgAm1A?...

Seeing out 2025 by watching Die Hard 2.

For the last time this year, live in 5! www.twitch.tv/jimblimey

Orebody Inc. has had a great 2025. 🥳 🎉 Oratorio launched on Steam! Mega Kaiju Boom Ball had a successful Kickstarter! We finished Mega Kaiju Boom Ball! Crater Song and Mega Kaiju Boom Ball are on deck for Steam launches in 2026! Oratorio is prepped for a Switch release in 2026! Cheers!🍻 #newyears

Tonight! I look at #ZXSpectrum games released in 2025. I look at #MasterSystem games released in 2025. And Wobbly Wilf goes on his annual pub crawl. Join me on twitch at 8pm GMT!

Wish this bloody cold would piss off. Had an awful night's sleep last night, and had to cancel plans with the family for tonight.

Zx Spectrum Sinclair BASIC - Example platform game, character jump routine and a moving platform. More BASIC programming available on my YouTube channel youtube.com/@animatedal?... #zxspectrum #thespectrum #sinclairbasic

If you do use YouTube would you mind giving my latest video a hype? The button should appear on the video player screen. The algorithm isn’t kind to me because I don’t release enough videos youtu.be/aHKYuBDY0l0

Judge Dredd (1990)

I see some fans of the new Commodore seem to want the company to identify anyone seen reselling one of the C64Us. Why? It's not Commodores business what someone does with the item they bought from them. It's not the fans business what someone else does with their own property. The only reason /1

CEO of Activison Blizzard...

Ugh. I have a cold. This sucks.

The Misfits - Last Caress #BestSongHeardToday #DailyDoseOfRock #MusicChallenge #MusicSky

Sat on a table next to John Thompson at a garden centre. Browsed a record rack in a charity shop next to John Thompson. Nodded at John Thompson in a B&Q. He nodded back. Yeah, I somehow see John Thompson a lot in suburban Manchester.

Hello friends. How are you doing? Are you drinking enough water? Have you eaten anything today? Taken a shower? Done some gentle exercise? Please, look after your mental and physical health.

Annualised franchises are the worst thing in videogames. Discuss.

Actually played some videogames today! Haven't managed to do that since the 23rd. Christmas break? I'm busier than usual here!

Reading "Play Nice" by @jasonschreier.bsky.social It's an interesting look at how Blizzard became beloved then almost destroyed by corporate greed. Bobby Kotick really was a money grubbing shitbag.

What are your underrated or favorite small profile games from 2025? For me: Quantum Witch

“DEVELOPING THE GRAPHICS FOR CHASE H.Q.” in FREEZE-ZX issue 03 Preorders opening soon. freeze64.com/freeze-zx/ #ZXspectrum #Speccy #Z80

I'm certainly not biased AT ALL but this sounds like good advice

Please share if you can. Nick was such a huge part of the mag.

Nik’s funeral is taking place on 30th December at 1pm GMT. For those that can’t attend, the funeral will be live-streamed. We have tried to contact as many of Nik’s friends as we could, but we may have missed some. The link is watch.obitus.com username: cuma6886 pin:962499

The #homebrew project, "G-Zero" by "gasega68k" recently received an update The original demo already served as an impressive tech showcase, replicating the #SNES' iconic Mode-7 3D effect, but on the #Sega #Genesis Get it here: gasega68k.itch.io/g-zero #retro #retrgaming #gaming #gamedev #indiedev

Released... planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Highlight of 2025? Going to see Iron Maidens 50th anniversary tour. Hadn't seen them since 2008 (at Wacken). They did not disappoint.