Cosmic Payback from the ZX Spectrum looks impressive on the ZX81

This week has actually been one to impress, particularly with Doom being proven on the Atari ST, and the more moderen Turrican 128k remaster for the Amstrad CPC. Now it is time for the ZX81 to get in on the motion, as trawling by the most recent Twitter posts, we have simply come throughout a recreation known as ‘Cosmic Payback’ for the ZX81, ported over from the 2020 ZX Spectrum release. A recreation which initially had “a singular Mode 6 graphics engine that enables for easy motion and a way of momentum, with totally different tiles affecting the participant’s exploration pod in numerous methods”. To coincide with this information, we have the most recent footage of the sport beneath.

Whereas suggestions has been extraordinarily optimistic resembling “Wow! That’s critically spectacular. Trailblazer meets bounder ” and “Unimaginable work on such a restricted system”. Here is the most recent from the web site concerning the recreation. “After the unique ZX Spectrum launch of Cosmic Payback, I started to marvel if the ZX81 could be able to working the sport. The thought lay in my head from early 2023 till about late 2024 once I began to work critically on it. Now in 2025, the sport is full, and my idle thought has turn out to be actuality”.