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This is a link post BBC Micro games, you say? HERE YA GO.

(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sat 15 Jun 2019, 17:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Tea-Bag Terror
pfft
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 15 Jun 2019, 19:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post plenty'o'lols there
teabag-terror-lols
 (I helped save b3ta! SpookySpoon www.vivino.com/users/hig.func, Mon 17 Jun 2019, 13:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post Good find
Having a quick go of Prince of Persia.
 (Sherbs, Sat 15 Jun 2019, 20:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hmm, Sugar Smash looks familiar.
Someone has actually back-ported Candy Crush to the BBC Micro.
I mean, wow. What a world we live in.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Sat 15 Jun 2019, 23:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'd always wondered what might have been
Had they gave it a little more than 8 fixed colours.

Someone made a mod to give more colours to choose from, but only 16 on-screen. The result is pretty impressive!

stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13545#p177181
 (Glis, Sun 16 Jun 2019, 0:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post "how good could the graphics be on this old computer if we use hardware to make them better"
feels like a game with no limits
 (I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 16 Jun 2019, 10:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Isn't that basically what the Spectrum Next is?
Some of the games look fun, but not very Spectrummy.

They should have house rules for games to retain the Spectrum feel, such as your character must not be human and you must feature a Sinclair C5 and/or Clive Sinclair at some point in the game.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 16 Jun 2019, 13:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think it was a bit overdone. I did want to see Timex/MSX style hi-colour, that the 128K SHOULD have had originally.
Although the point was to make a modern programmable machine, not a Speccy emulator.
Various kickstarter shitbags have robbed people of their money with that plan already.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 17 Jun 2019, 12:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post I see where you're coming from
But PCs did kind of do exactly that from year dot with interchangeable graphics cards.

In this case I think it illustrates what could have been with a minor tweak in the design phase. The Spectrum Next feels like a total overhaul of a computer so it doesn't resemble what the spectrum stood for; a very budget-conscious computer with corners cut to meet a price point. The Beeb was by no means budget conscious, but its display capabilities felt so weak compared with everything else the computer had to offer.
 (Glis, Sun 16 Jun 2019, 17:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post A 16-colour mode when you only have 8 colours does seem a bit daft.
The Speccy's FLASH bit was just as dumb an idea too. But that was intended as a working computer, not a games machine.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 17 Jun 2019, 12:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Cool.
This is one of the best games on that particular platform.
 (I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sun 16 Jun 2019, 17:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Always had a soft spot for
the Felix games myself.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 16 Jun 2019, 18:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh yes,
I played a lot of Felix and the Evil Weevils back in the day...

I probably hacked it for infinite lives and putting my schoolmates' names in the highscore table (I did that a lot...).
 (I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sun 16 Jun 2019, 23:37, , Reply)