☆Competition☆ - "Would You Like Your Very Own F1 Team Name In An F1 Video Game?"

How Would You Like To Help Out An Indie Game Developer and get your creation Iimmortalized in beautiful Pixels forever!?

What Will Your Team Name Be?

Do you think you could come up with an alternative name for an existing F1 Team that the guys at Pixel F1 could use in their upcoming F1 Video Game?

If your F1 Team Name is considered to be inventive enough it will make it into the final game! 

☆Due Out near the end of 2013☆

How To Enter:

• Take a look at the Pixel F1 cars in the pic attached to this post.

• Concentrate on the F1 cars which have question marks against them.

• The Teams That Need Alternative Names are:

- Williams

- Caterham

- Sauber

- Marussia

• Try and come up with an alternative team name that incorporates a subtle reference to the real team name.

• ☆Look at the already completed Team Names for inspiration☆

• Go to the comments section of this post and enter the F1 Team Team Name you have thought of.

The guys at Pixel F1 will decide the winners

Closing date for entries will be 23/08/13

What have you got to lose?

Good Luck and May The F1 Be With You!

Pixelf1.com

☆"Speccy Nation" - @WordPlay4Games☆ #RetroGaming

"Speccy Nation"

Here's a book for those who L♡VE learning about the history of gaming and home computers like we do.

 

Games writer Dan Whitehead has published a C☆☆L book called Speccy Nation: A Tribute to the Golden Age of British Gaming. 

It covers the beautiful and almighty  ZX Spectrum home computer. 

Dan Whitehead takes a good look at 50 of the best and obscure ZX Spectrum games that contributed to the DNA of 'The Speccy' through the golden age of UK home gaming and bedroom coders.

The Speccy ended up with a software library of over 24,000 titles!

The Speccy was ahead of its time with a wide range of software that included programming tools, word processors, spreadsheet programs, drawing and art programs, It was the workhorse all rounder personal computer of its time.

Such is the love of the Speccy to this day, the creation of new Spectrum titles by devoted fans continues!

The game devs of the Speccy era are the stars of their day who worked with resources that were extremely limited by modern game devs standards. 

The first Speccy released in 1982 were available in two models, one with 16 Kilobytes of RAM!!

Then came the next advanced model which meant you had access to an eye watering 48 kB of RAM!!

If you want to see how the Speccy changed the face of home computers for a nation and a generation then we suggest you grab a copy pronto.

Let us know how you got on with Speccy Nation, was it a good read?

We'd Love to know your fave Gaming or Computing related reads so as we can feature your faves in future Games Freezer articles!

Richard - Reporting From The GamesFreezer Library