4 FINAL FANTASY II - KILLED BY BOMBS!

Dear Readers,

I got my first game over! It was from a pair of Bombs, who wiped us out pretty quickly.

3 FINAL FANTASY II - FIRST BATTLES!

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about our first bit of progress in the game.

1 MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HORACE - ANOTHER 2016 RETRO TREAT!

Dear Readers,

The Unofficial Zombo's Christmas Capers isn't the only ZX Spectrum release this Christmas! There's also this lovely simple arcade game from Steve Broad, which I downloaded and configured for my ZX Spectrum Vega.

1 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES IV TURTLES IN TIME - CO-OP WITH NEPHEW

Dear Readers,

I played a bit of this game over Christmas with my nephew.

1 STREET FIGHTER II TURBO - VS BROTHER & NEPHEW

Dear Readers,

Over Christmas I played a bit of this game with my brother and my nephew.

1 THE UNOFFICIAL ZOMBO'S CHRISTMAS CAPERS - RINGING OUT 2016 IN STYLE

Dear Readers,

Hope ye had a nice Christmas! It's been a while since I made a ZX Spectrum Vega post! I thought I'd try out this game by Malcom Kirk of Monsterbytes Software, who made it as part of the 2000AD MESSAGEBOARD ADVENT CALENDAR 2016™ project.

2 FINAL FANTASY II - NO LEVELS OR EXPERIENCE POINTS! NEW RPG STRATEGY

Dear Readers,

Happy Christmas everyone! Today I'll talk about the weirder gameplay aspects of Final Fantasy II.

1 FINAL FANTASY II - NO NOT THE SNES ONE!

Dear Readers,

It's time to move on to this sequel! This is the GBA remake of the original Final Fantasy II on Famicom, not the SNES release in America that was later corrected as IV in its subsequent releases.

72 FINAL FANTASY - 15 PUZZLE

Dear Readers,

It's time to wrap things up for Final Fantasy, but first let's check out the secret minigame.

71 FINAL FANTASY - SEKHRET, OUR FINAL ENEMY TO FIND FOR 100% BESTIARY!

Dear Readers,

We did it! We found the final enemy Sekhret, #181 in the bestiary and the only one we were missing!

70 FINAL FANTASY - HOT ON THE TRAIL OF FLARE GIGAS

Dear Readers,

Flare Gigas, #149 in the bestiary, was our next target. We found it sometime after the 30th floor of the Whisperwind Cove, on a Gulg Volcano style dungeon floor and on non-hazardous terrain.

69 FINAL FANTASY - THE SHYNESS OF DEATH MANTICORE

Dear Readers,

Death Manticore, number 158 in the bestiary, was what we were looking for next. It was actually on the same floor as the Unicorns in the Whisperwind Cove.

68 FINAL FANTASY - HUNTING FOR UNICORNS

Dear Readers,

We had to go to Whisperwind Cove to find the rest of the remaining monsters to be filled in to the bestiary, the first of which was number 150, the Unicorn.

67 FINAL FANTASY - SPOTTING THE IRON GOLEM

Dear Readers,

Next in our mission to fill the bestiary and "catch 'em all", if you like :), was number 123, the Iron Golem. We had to go through the Chaos Shrine to find it.

66 FINAL FANTASY - HUNTING THE TYRANNOSAUR

Dear Readers,

According to the strategy guides, the Tyrannosaur, which appears as the 103rd entry in the bestiary, was to be found in the desert surrounding the Mirage Tower.

65 FINAL FANTASY - ENCOUNTERING THE DEATH MACHINE

Dear Readers,

With pretty much everything else in the game done, I thought we'd go fill the bestiary. We started by looking for the Death Machine, a rare encounter in the corridor leading to the Wind Crystal where we fought Tiamat.

64 FINAL FANTASY - DEFEATING DEATH GAZE

Dear Readers,

On the 40th and final floor of Whisperwind Cove, we faced the last extra boss, Death Gaze.

63 FINAL FANTASY - DWARF TRADING SEQUENCE

Dear Readers,

There was a dwarf community on one of the floors of Whisperwind Cove. They all wanted something. It's a trading sequence!

62 FINAL FANTASY - PINK ROBOT FRIEND

Dear Readers,

Another very interesting floor in Whisperwind Cove was a deserted village full of scrapped robot materials. The only ones here were a robot and its pink robot friend that needed some spare parts.

61 FINAL FANTASY - CASTLE OF THE DEAD

Dear Readers,

We weren't done with the undead in Whisperwind Cove yet. This floor took place in a castle, where all the royal inhabitants and their guards were undead!

60 FINAL FANTASY - FFVI'S PHANTOM TRAIN AND THE VILLAGE OF THE DEAD

Dear Readers,

One of the floors in Whisperwind Cove is made up of a village of undead people, cursed by the Phantom Train from Final Fantasy VI.

59 FINAL FANTASY - CONFRONTING THE SOULS OF DEFEATED ENEMIES

Dear Readers,

On this floor of Whisperwind Cove, we met a man who told us about the souls of dead enemies that were wandering around here and he asked us to speak with them, to ease their restless souls.

58 FINAL FANTASY - BEAVER HERDING

Dear Readers,

One of the floors of Whisperwind Cove has a man who wants to put his pet beavers into pens.

4 ASTRO WARRIOR - 149,800 POINTS HIGH SCORE, OPTION DRONE STRATEGY

Dear Readers,

Still haven't gotten past the third level, but I got a higher score!

57 FINAL FANTASY - DEFEATING ULTROS OR ORTHROS

Dear Readers,

On floor 20 of Whisperwind Cove, we faced Ultros from Final Fantasy VI, or Orthros as he's known here.

56 FINAL FANTASY - FLOATING CONTINENT

Dear Readers,

One of the floors in Whisperwind Cove was a lovely floating continent above the clouds.

55 FINAL FANTASY - TRICKY FAIRY VILLAGE

Dear Readers,

This is probably one of the deadliest floors in Whisperwind Cove!

54 FINAL FANTASY - DEFEATING TYPHON AND ITS SNORT

Dear Readers,

On the 10th floor of Whisperwind Cove, we met the first boss, Typhon.

53 FINAL FANTASY - HIDE AND SEEK KIDS

Dear Readers,

We appeared in an inn or something on a floor of Whisperwind Cove. There was a kid here who was playing hide and seek with his friends and asked us to find one of them.

3 ASTRO WARRIOR - SCARY THIRD LEVEL, 141,000 POINTS

Dear Readers,

Now for the third level! Never played it before so it's uncharted waters for me... er... uncharted space.

2 ASTRO WARRIOR - DEFEATING NEBIROS

Dear Readers,

Let's have another go at this and see if we can beat Nebiros!