The joys of owning a sweet looking #puppy! I've had this record since 1987, kept it nice and clean. Now look! 🤨 #GeorgeHarrison #Dog #MansBestFriend  #Shihtzu

After losing Lennon we've realised, after the last month, or so that we got used to having 3 dogs. So, last night we put that right. Here's 9 week old (born on 1st July) Willow who we've welcomed in to the fold. She's also a #Shihtzu like Duggie. #Dog #MansBestFriend

Look what arrived today - the 1st issue of the new #ZXSpectrum magazine, #FREEZEZX. Woop woop! Well worth getting yourself a copy if you're into all that - just like I am! You can buy yours from here: freeze64.com/freezezx-iss... @freeze64.bsky.social

I'd like to add that I started this project a few weeks ago, after replaying Adrian Singh and @markrjones1970.bsky.social Speccy remake of Mr. Do. Which, if you haven't played it, is awesome! Mr. Do! and Dig Dug remain firm favourite coin ops of mine, and both provide inspiration for Grave Danger.

Here's all the footage I filmed of #Cast, #RichardAshcroft & #Oasis at #HeatonPark in #Manchester on Wed 16 July 2025: youtu.be/sR3DdECj-m0 #OasisLive25 #OasisReunion

Jasper's trying to hide from the heat!! He is in all 3 of these photos 🤭 #Dog #MansBestFriend

Nice day trip to Lytham St. Anne's today for a #dog walk on the beach in the sun! #MansBestFriend

Don't suppose anyone has this specific edition of 'The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles' for sale? Tried Ebay, lots of copies, but the sellers refuse to check if they have copies with this cover before posting. They'd rather I order it then send it back if it's wrong! 🙄🙄🙄

I could use your help with my fundraiser for Duggie's eye trauma on GoFundMe. Please share, support, or donate – every small action counts. These vet fees have taken its toll & he needs further monitoring & medication gofund.me/21ed35b2 #Dog #MansBestFriend #Shihtzu

After a stressfull month our #holiday in Llanddeiniol, Wales has started today. #Dog #MansBestFriend

I could use your help with my fundraiser for Duggie's eye trauma on GoFundMe. Please share, support, or donate – every small action counts. These vet fees have taken its toll & he needs further monitoring & medication gofund.me/21ed35b2 #Dog #MansBestFriend #Shihtzu

Lennon's remains are back home & in his box, sat next to his old buddy Monty. #Dog #MansBestFriend

Nice walk over #PenningtonFlash with Phil & the #dogs this afternoon. #MansBestFriend

In the July 1986 issue of #YourSinclair they listed the 10 1st ever 128 games for the #ZXSpectrum. Here's a photo of them all (with a few 48k imposters to cover the ones I don't own) & a link to a zip of all 10 titles (tested!) tinyurl.com/2zkea4tk Which game was the 1st 128 game you ever played?

It's well known that #Fairlight2 on the #ZXSpectrum isn't completeable. Does this screenshot (Dec 86 issue of #YourSinclair) show part of the unseen end screen? At the end you were supposed to sail off on a boat. Is this image in the code? Does it exist anywhere complete?

10 years ago today #BobWakelin wished me a happy birthday & sent me this - youtu.be/INwe_nl4QSM?...

What was this all about? #UltimatePlayTheGame making new #ZXSpectrum games in March 1989? Their last game, Bubbler, had been reviewed in June 1987. This was nearly 2 yrs later. What were the game titles? Why didn't they appear? Any one know what went on back then? #RetroGaming

#BrianWilson RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpM2...

Took me3 attempts to get the best condition cover of this issue of #SinclairUser that features the best example of the #Fairlight artwork for my scan. So I have 2 spare issues - 1 is the copy I've had the longest, 2 I've had a few weeks, 3 I got recently & is the copy I'm keeping.

Off to the vets AGAIN so, hopefully, Duggie can, at last, have his stitches taken out of his eye. What with what happened to Lennon we've been absolutely rinsed by vets fees this month! 😬 #Dog #MansBestFriend

Our beautiful #dog Lennon passed away at 13:25 today, aged 16 years & 4 months. 6 February 2009 - 5 Jun 2025. Rest in peace beautiful boy 😥 #MansBestFriend

Is anyone able to take a flat, straight on photo of the #ZXSpectrum barcode on the side of the Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge box for me so I can print 1 out? I lent mine to an exhibition once & they put a dirty great purple sticker over it which ripped it off once I got it back!

Hasn't this kid been through enough? #TheBombingofPanAM103 #retrogaming #retrogames #zxspectrum

Just watching 'The Bombing of Pan AM 103' on @BBCiPlayer, set in 1988/89, & was surprised to see that the #ZXSpectrum gets a look in during episode 2. Nice to spot an #OceanSoftware game sitting to the left of the computer - #DonkeyKong #RetroGaming

I got my own #ZXSpectrum on 12 April 1984. I then sampled the various mags that caught my eye around the same time. These are the 1st issues of #Crash, C&VG, #SinclairUser & #YourSpectrum I ever bought. I stuck with Crash & bought odd issues of the others. Yours? #RetroGaming

1 of my fav films of all time, this is the advert for the rental #VHS of #CliveBarker 's #Hellraiser film from 1987. This ad is from a late 1988 issue of #Gorezone magazine. #Horror

I loved the2 #Fairlight games on the #ZXSpectrum but have you seen this alternate &, AFAIK, unused loading screen for the2nd game from 1986? Here are2 slightly different versions of it, followed by the released loading screen then the beautiful artwork by Susan Rowe (Can u c the face?) #RetroGaming

A familiar name here I think @markrjones1970.bsky.social

Adverts from #OceanSoftware & #ImagineSoftware you didn't see very often! #RetroGaming #ZXSpectrum #Commodore64 #AmstradCPC

Duggie & Lennon being sweetzzzzz #Dog #MansBestFriend

Thought I'd have a go at improving that #Fairlight cover used for the Sep 1985 ed'of #SinclairUser. So here's a fresh scan (1), compared to the old one (2), then we have a comparison (3) & (4) is a detail showing the background which is barely visible on the ad or game box #ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming

1 of my fav albums from the 60s - #CaptainBeefheart 's 'Safe As Milk', gets an unofficial deluxe edition - contains a remixed stereo album, mono, some great live tracks from the Avalon Ballroom in '66, the A&M sessions & demos. Well worth getting! www.profstoned.com/2025/04/capt...

Daley Thompson's Decathlon on British TV show, does anyone know what the show was? #retrogaming #retro #gaming #zxspectrum #sinclair #OceanSoftware

The artwork for #Fairlight for the #ZXSpectrum & #Commodore64 was printed really small on the game box & the game's ad. This #SinclairUser cover from Sep'85 is the biggest version of the artwork that was printed & allows you to see the details behind Isvar properly. Shame it's not available clean!

I saved this way back in 1987 when working at #OceanSoftware then found it again years later! 'Popie' for the #ZXSpectrum youtu.be/U9gxfK_yjfk?... #Retrogaming

Christmas card from #OceanSoftware from, most probably but not definitely, 1993 #RetroGaming

For the hell of it, let's look at my collection of #OceanSoftware & titles from when they owned the #ImagineSoftware label. These were acquired by me, some as new releases BITD, some from when I worked there (free!), @circa 1991 when I worked in a games shop &, lastly, ebay! #RetroGaming

41 years ago I was amassing as many #ZXSpectrum games as I could from school mates on various C90 & C60 tapes. I'd only had my new machine for a few weeks. These 4 games were amongst the 1st titles I ever experienced on my TV at home. Can you name them? #RetroGaming

These adverts by #UltimatePlayTheGame for 4 of their #ZXSpectrum titles still look stunning every time I come across them. These are from the Jan 1985 issue of #SinclairUser #RetroGaming

I bought this Dec 1984 issue of #SinclairUser a few years back from Ebay. Just realised it still contains the free 'mega-poster' it came with & it's still in the same condition it was in the day it was printed. Mint! Who can tell me who made it? 'SW'? #ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming

Me and my 2 sisters in the garden at our Nana & Grandad's house in Headlands, Northampton around 1982/3 #Childhood

Want a nice #UltimatePlayTheGame for your desktop wallpaper? Feel free to use either of these! :) #RetroGaming #ZXSpectrum #AmstradCPC #Commodore64 #BBCb

Harrier Attack & Scuba Dive, both from 1983&from #DurellSoftware for the #ZXSpectrum Both games were very well done for the time 1st we have the ad for ScubaDive, then the unfettered artwork for the game. Then for HarrierAttack, here's the inlay & then the full version of the artwork #RetroGaming

1of my most fav' games on the #ZXSpectrum BITD was #Fairlight by Bo Jangeborg & released by The Edge in the summer of1985. It appeared, back then, that Bo had created an entire world in48k, full of people that did their own things & where objects had weight & reacted to gravity. Superb! #RetroGaming

As requested, here's my collection of #ZXSpectrum titles by #IncentiveSoftware. I probably spent the most time on Splat! BITD, Moon Cresta I copied off a mate at school & I bought myself Driller as a new release one lunch time when I was working at Ocean in 1987. #RetroGaming

As requested, here's my collection of #MelbourneHouse titles for the #ZXSpectrum. In the early days they were 1 of the best software houses around, then their quality took a dip around the double jewel era. Still, they released enough classics to be kindly remembered today #RetroGaming

What a gorgeous walk it is over #KersalWetlands with the 3 dogs! #Dog #MansBestFriend

I've done a few of these now but over to you. Which companies games do you want to see all together that I own that I haven't featured yet? #ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming

Duggie's tired! #MansBestFriend #Dog #Shihtzu

Here's a gander at my far from complete collection of games for the #ZXSpectrum by #DKTronics, shown in catalogue order number & released between 1982 & 1985. My favs here are, easily, #Maziacs & #Popeye, both by Don Priestley If you played any of these BITD wat was ur fav? #RetroGaming