Puzzle game where you must remove distractional thoughts from the Professor's head by turning the wheels round once with the thoughts on them

Software House: Mind Games
Author: Binary Design Ltd

Brian Jack's Superstar - Martech Chuckie Egg > A 'n' F Jasper - Micromega Project Future - Micromania Overlords - Lothlorien Wriggler - Romantic Robot Harrier Attack - Durell Braxx Bluff - Micromega Skooldaze - Microsphere Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle

Software House: Beau Jolly
Author: Various

Codename Mat > Micromega Wizards Lair > Bubblebus Technician Ted > Hewson Mutant Monty > Artic Snooker > Visions Android 2 > Vortex On The Run > Design Design Coventant & ...

Software House: Beau Jolly
Author: Various

Forbidden Planet Who Dares Wins II Cauldron Juggernaut 3D Luna Attack Herbert's Dummy Run Geoff Capes Strongman Astroclone Give My Regards to Broadstreet Showjumpin

Software House: Beau-Jolly
Author: Various

3D Starstrike Blue Thunder Son of Blagger Automania Bugaboo Psytron Wheelie Fall Guy Blade Alley Penetrator

Software House: Beau Jolly
Author: Various

4 Explosive Hits:   Double Dragon (by David Leitch, Ben Jackson, Jeremy Nelson & Danny Whelan) WEC Le Mans (by Mike Lamb, John Mullins, Jonathan Dunn, Bill Harbison & Alick Morrall) Last Ninja 2 (by Mevlut Dinc, Gary Thornton & Brian Marshall) Afterburner (by Keith Burkhill, Jon Paul Eldridge, Focus Creative Enterprises & Mark Jones)  

Software House: Ocean
Author: Various

Software House: Tynesoft
Author: Various

Ian Botham Test CricketH

Software House: Tynesoft
Author: Various

CopterStroke 4ChessfireSound Effect

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

VampireBig PrintAmplifier SimulationBallistaTable

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

SpiderElementsPixelLong Way Home Vol 1VortexRenumberThe 1

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

Snake Tower Sketch 4 Bar Chart Adder LWH3

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

QuarkSprLong Way HomeBeakersBreakersScrambl

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

GammaEuroDroidLong Way HomeTacticsM LoaderScreen 2Maze 3

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

ElevatorLensrayLong Way HomeTransmateLetter Number PuzzleListvarsYahtze

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

Cowboy Shoot OutGrip ZapperMachine Code TutorLong Way HomeShut the BoxesWariColour MasterCardsTape Header ReaderHyperbow

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

Home at Last Typing Snowman Sam M/C Tutor 2 High Res Print Star Atlas

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

Pyramania Letter Editorial Tutor 3 Music Full-feature Adventure for Christmas Of Dungeons and Green Men Sky Fight Reviews Competition Zounds Textele Animate

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

Contents Missile Defence Editorial Machine-Code Tutor Chordmaster (48k) Ludoids (48k) Of Dungeons & Green Men Solitaire Reviews Dark Star Competition Explode Crossword

Software House: Argus Press
Author: Various

Live WireCustard PieMachine Code TutorLong Way Home Volume 2Fig ChessBooklis

Software House: Argus Press Software
Author: Various

2 Player darts action, take it in turns to wind the score down to zero

Software House: Mastertronic Ltd
Author: Binary Design Ltd

Take the role of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the UK

Software House: Incentive Software
Author: Rob Carter

1994 by Vision

Software House: Currys
Author: Various

Software House: Visions
Author: Kevin Bezant

Software House: D & H Games
Author: D & H Games

The game explains that you have materialised in another time and dimension due to a strange combination of weeties, milk and sugar

Software House: DKTronics Ltd
Author: Chris Fayers

Software House: Postern LTD
Author: Mike Singleton

Aims to teach the user Spectrum basic in 30 hour

Software House: Microtrust
Author: National Extension College, Cambridge

Compilation containing:Tau Ceti, Dan DareI-Ball, Kane, Mystery Of the Nile, Way Of the Exploding Fist, Spindizzy, Ninja Master, Rasputin, Zolyx, Ghostbusters, F

Software House: Beau Jolly
Author: Various

Early game written by John Ritman, who would later co author the Matchday games and Head Over Heels

Software House: Artic
Author: John Ritman

Build your own virtual reality

Software House: Domark
Author: Incentive Software

All time classic 3D bike chase game, the sense of speed as the player races into the ever deepening forest at the time was sensational, and is still impressive today

Software House: Micromega
Author: M J Estcourt

Software House: CRL
Author: Derek C. Baker

"The first 3-dimensional computer pool game that lets you view the table from almost ANY ANGLE YOU CHOOSE!" Also released under the title Maltese Joe's Pool Challeng

Software House: Firebird Software
Author: Aardvark Software

Written in what seems to be in basic, this is a puzzle game, where the player has to try and get four of the same colour in a row, either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally

Software House: Artic Computing Ltd
Author: Vin Marsden

Seiddab is baddies backwards, this is an early Steve Turner title, who would later produce the Dragontorc games

Software House: Hewson
Author: Steve Turner

This is a progression for 3D Seiddab attack, and see the player flying through space, moving up, down left and right to shoot down the approaching ships

Software House: Hewson Consultants Ltd.
Author: Steve Turner

Apparently written with Return of the Jedi in mind, you take on the role of Luke Clearthinker

Software House: Custom Cables International Ltd
Author: Elfin Software

Into the screen shoot em up, like being a front gunner on a space fighter, fighting off a swarm of alien invaders

Software House: Codemasters
Author: The Oliver Twins

Amazing clone of the Star wars arcade machine, complete with Tie Fighters to battle, shooting towers on the planet surface, before flying down a trench to take out a reactor! The game features some o ...

Software House: Realtime Software
Author: Realtime Software

Software House: Firebird
Author: Alan Cresswell

This was a superb conversion of the arcade hit Battlezone

Software House: Realtime Software
Author: Realtime Software

A very early Spectrum game, and written by Don Priestley, who would later write acclaimed games such as Trapdoor

Software House: Dktronics
Author: Don Priestley

What lies in the depths of the TUNNEL? Flying bats, leaping toads, scurrying rats, crawling spiders, and perhaps more, all appear live in 3D TUNNEL

Software House: New Generation Software
Author: Malcolm E Evans

HUGE 3D ADVENTURE Never before released as an individual game

Software House: Encore
Author: Fatman, Dobbin, Neil Strudwick

4 Crash Smashes for Spectrum 48k, a compilation guaranteeing quality, as all games had scored over 90% in Crash Magazine, other compilations for the Commodore 64 and Amstrad would also be released

Software House: Gremlin Graphics
Author: Various

Strike Force Cobra Dead or Alive Gunboat Alternative software were a clever software house, they would re release games, but not take any of the original artwork, thus saving a significant amount o ...

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: Various

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: Various

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: Various

Also known as 4 Soccer Simulators

Software House: Code Masters & EDOS
Author: Peter Williamson, Sean Conran, Adrian Ludley, David Whittaker

Software House: Martech
Author: Various

Unusually for one of these compilations, there is no filler here, all the games are very good indeed

Software House: Beau Jolly
Author: Various

Set on the space ship Orion, which has been taken over by an alien race

Software House: Ricochet
Author: Bubble Bus Software

Includes: Dark Star Eddie Kidds Jump Challenge Heroes of Khan Scuba Dive A Day In The Life Special Operations

Software House: Beau Jolly
Author: Various

Includes:  Auf Wiedersehen Monty Supercycle Jack The Nipper Gauntlet Top Gun Kung Fu Master

Software House: Boots
Author: US Gold, Gremlin, Ocean

ContainsScooby DooFighting Warrior1942The Sacred Armour of AntiriadJet Set Willy IISplit PersonalitiesDue

Software House: Hit-Pak
Author: Various

Arcade skateboarding game

Software House: U.S. Gold
Author: Tiertex Ltd

The player controls a skateboarder, the object of the game is to perform stunts accumulating points for which skate park tickets are obtained

Software House: Kixx
Author: Tiertex Ltd

Low speed chase game in which the player must avoid obstacles with limited fuel to escape a pursuing car

Software House: Elite
Author: Chris Harvey

A Spectrum game in which the player takes on the role of Sir Clive Sinclair, guiding him through a 'typical' day's work

Software House: Micromega
Author: Stephen J Redmond

Software House: Encore
Author: Mark Harman

The game of the film, the last to star Roger Moore as 007, picks out four of the films more action oriented scenes

Software House: Domark
Author: David Bishop, Chris Palmer, Tony Knight, Daryl Bowers, Gary Burfield-Wallis, Grant Harrison, Gary Knight, Argentino Trombin, Nichola Blades, Robert Ritson, Tony Crowther, David Aubrey-Jones

A title by Micromega before they became self publishing, it plays a simple game of snap, when all the pictures have been matched, the rocket on which they are shown lifts off

Software House: Longman
Author: Micromega

Software House: Miles Bozeat
Author: Miles Bozeat

Software House: Cases Computer Simulations
Author: JPW Smith

Originally a title for the Commodore C16, this is an arcade flight sim game, that spawned an even better sequel, this spectrum version suffers from choppy graphics, and some enemies, become indistingu ...

Software House: Gamebusters
Author: Paul Laidlaw, Ian Martin, Nigel Stevens, Guy Wilhelmy, Damon Redmond

Originally a title for the Commodore C16, this is an arcade flight sim game, that spawned an even better sequel, this spectrum version suffers from choppy graphics, and some enemies, become indistingu ...

Software House: Cascade
Author: Paul Laidlaw, Ian Martin, Nigel Stevens, Guy Wilhelmy, Damon Redmond

Software House: Cascade Games
Author: James Byrne, Nick Fitzsimons, Roger Taylor

Arcade Flying action, which sees the player taking control of flying, bombing duties, even arming of the aircraf

Software House: US Gold
Author: Paragon Programming

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Silhouette Software

Software House: Microprose
Author: F. William, J.R. Denman, Imre Kovats, Laszlo Szenttornyai

Software House: Microprose
Author: F. William, J.R. Denman, Imre Kovats, Laszlo Szenttornyai

Software House: Virgin Games
Author: Gang of Five (Link Tomlin, Martin Wheeler, Sam Garforth)

This is an unusual game, in that the player does not control the onscreen character, but a gunsight

Software House: Virgin Games
Author: Virgin Games

Compilation of four games, which are Rock 'n' Wrestle, I,Ball, Seabase Delta and Thrus

Software House: Prism Leisure
Author: Various

Ad Astra - To The Stars - is the motto of the legendary Deep Space Patrol

Software House: Gargoyle Games
Author: Gargoyle Games

Compilation of three games: Shadow Warriors: The latest, greatest and most ambitious martial arts coin-op game now rages onto your computer featuring interactive scenic backdrops! The secrets ...

Software House: Ocean
Author: Various

Software House: Oford Computer Publishing
Author: Francis O Ainley

An EDOS copy of Advanced Fruit Machine Simulator

Software House: EDOS
Author: Mark Baldock, David Whittaker

A fast, furious and incredibly addictive pinball game featuring - Trapdoors, Rollover Lanes, Mega-bumpers, 4 flippers, Bonus Lanes, extra balls, Ball Trap, Mystery Tube, realistic movement and MUCH MORE!!

Software House: Code Masters Ltd
Author: The Oliver Twins

This is really a five a side management sim, containing rather oddly, all the teams from the English and Scottish leagues, split into 4 leagues

Software House: Mastertronic Plus
Author: Steve Hannah

Fly your plane over a rolling landscape completing various missions, taking over territory, and blasting enemy fighters out of the sky

Software House: Byte Back
Author: Digital Integration

Software House: Artic Computing Ltd
Author: Richard Turner, Chris A. Thornton

Software House: Sinclair
Author: Artic

Software House: Sinclair
Author: Artic

Text adventure in which a ship on an exploration mission is drawn onto an Alien craft by a graviton beam

Software House: Artic Computing Ltd
Author: Artic

An adventure game set in the Aegean Sea in the times of Ancient Greece

Software House: Spinnaker Software Corp.
Author: Joyce Hakansson Associates, Inc.

Software House: Activision
Author: Software Studios (Keith Burkhill), Foursfield (Jon Paul Eldridge), Focus Creative Enterprises Ltd (Mark A. Jones)

Impressive conversion of the Sega coin op, it may be monochrome, but all the speed and action is there

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Software Studios

This is one of the Spectrum's clones of Missile Command, in which the player must protect the cities at the bottom of the screen from attack by missiles, follow the trail of the missiles, and launch your own to neutralise the

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: Richard Stevenson

A note worthy game for a few reasons, this is effectively a series of mini games rolled into one, you play the eponymous hero, who must drive, fight, and shoot in a third person way towards an evil sc ...

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Software Creations

The first game was a pleasing mix of gameplay styles, the sequel is more in the form of a side on shoot em up, improved graphics, but not the Agent X we were expecting

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Software Creations

Software House: Imagine
Author: Davis H Lawson

Software House: Pulsonic
Author: B. Renato

This is the game of the incredibly popular TV show, about an incredibly fast and dangerous helicopter, taking on all kinds of bad guys and despot governments

Software House: Elite
Author: Richard Wilcox

Incredibly simplistic game where Harry must try and escape from Alcatraz priso

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Barry Jones

In a rather posh gold case, this was one of the better games released by Imagine in their first guise before being taken over by Ocean

Software House: Imagine Software
Author: Ian Weatherburn, Paul Windale

 Alien 8 is a game by software house "Ultimate Play the Game"

Software House: Ultimate Play The Game
Author: A.C.G.

A Space Invaders clone for the ZX Spectrum

Software House: ACE
Author: Ray Jones

Software House: Sinclair/Kuma Computers
Author: P Dormand

A nuclear war has resulted in the Earth becoming inhospitable to humans, leading to it being taken over by aliens

Software House: Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd
Author: Marco Paulo Carrasco, Rui Manuel Tito

Strange mixture of shoot 'em up and a block breaker game, where the character at the bottom of the screen shoots through a brick wall at aliens behind

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: C.M.E.

Software House: U.S Gold
Author: Doug Bowser

Two early 16K games compiled onto one tape

Software House: K-Tel
Author: Titan Programs

Conversion of the popular Sega arcade machine

Software House: ACE
Author: Pamela Roberts, Jack Wilkes, Mike Marchant, NT

This was the game of the hit film Aliens, where Marines and scientists must do battle with near indestructible Xenomorphs, which will also kill on sight

Software House: Electric Dreams
Author: Software Studios (Mevlut Dinc, Mark Eyles), Pennsoft, Soft Machine, Focus Creative Enterprises Ltd

Software House: Ricochet
Author: Software Studios

Compilation containing:XecutorInside OutingBobby BearingShadow SkimmerMindstoneWarlockPsytraxxBrian BloodaxeThat's The SpiritStarbik

Software House: The Edge
Author: Various

Three games of letter recognition to help children learn the alphabet, and the computer keyboard: Random Rats: Press a letter key to destroy the rats! Invaders: Press the appropriate letter to sto ...

Software House: Blackboard Software
Author: Eve Gorton, Paul Gorton

Speed Skating, Ski Jump, Skiing, Bob Sled, and Biathlon are the events on offer in this budget title

Software House: Atlantis
Author: Barry Jones

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Jason Austin, Paul Hiley, Mark A. Jones

This is an isometric arcade adventure, where the player controls a tripod walking machine that that can fire bombs in a straight line where it bounces along, until it hits an object

Software House: M.A.D.
Author: Binary Design

Software House: Mind Games
Author: P Rawling

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Software House: Amstrad / Ocean Software
Author:

Vortex Software had a small, but important library, they were one of the first companies to perfect the isometric game, starting with this title, and moving on to the highly acclaimed Highway Encounte ...

Software House: Vortex Software
Author: Costa Panayi

Software House: Sunshine
Author: Peter Aked

Icon driven adventure, which was a game totally of it's time, with Northern sterotypes having the titular character running round after his missing dole cheque

Software House: Mirrorsoft
Author: Nigel Brown, Jim Tripp, Jas C. Brooke

Move the boat at the top of the screen left and right, then Press a key to cast your line

Software House: Virgin
Author: Dirk Olivier

Graphic creation tool with an extensive range of options to allow users to easily create good looking sprites, logos and graphics

Software House: Softcat
Author: Softcat

Seminal Isometric 3D game from Sandy White

Software House: Quicksilva
Author: Sandy White

Maze game where the player must guide Barnabee through the labyrinths to rescue his friend

Software House: Bug Byte Software
Author: Adrian Sherwin, Tim Lewis, Andrew Peckham

A game about nuclear annihilation

Software House: Command Software
Author: Joey & Dino

This is a version of Lunar Lander, a nice simple game where the player must land his craft safely on the moo

Software House: Mastertronic Ltd
Author: Ian Rich

Water skiing game, control a speedboat and keep the skier safe, not easy when the water is filled with rocks, sharks and other boats

Software House: Quicksilva
Author: John Hollis

Software House: Zeppelin
Author: Dented Designs

Software House: US Gold
Author: Various

Consists of: Street Fighter Side Arms 1943 Road Blasters Bionic Commando

Software House: U S Gold
Author: Various

Software House: Imagine
Author: David H Lawson

Compilation of four games, Minefield, Invasion

Software House: J K Greye Enterprises Ltd
Author: J K Greye

Have tank

Software House: Electronic Arts
Author: Dynamix

Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito

Software House: Imagine Software
Author: Mike Lamb, Ronnie Fowles and Mark R. Jones

Very early release by Ocean software, re released by Firebird as Terra Force ,this is a vertical shoot em up where the player must hit the alien five times, before he devours the Earth and Moo

Software House: Ocean
Author: David W Harper

This game is known, like most Dinamic games for it's punishing difficulty

Software House: Imagine
Author: Dinamic Software

This game is known, like most Dinamic games for it's punishing difficulty

Software House: Summit
Author: Dinamic Software

Strategy game concentrating on the battle for Arnhem bridg

Software House: CCS
Author: Robert T Smith

Editor and assembler progra

Software House: Bug Byte
Author:

Contains 4 new games:Harry Hare's LairMutant Monty And The Temple Of DoomCurse Of The Seven FadesRobin Hoo

Software House: Artic
Author: Various

Asterix and the Magic Cauldron is a graphic adventure computer game developed by Beam Software and published by Melbourne House in 1986 for ZX Spectrum

Software House: Melbourne House
Author: Beam Software

Advanced Tactical Fighter Shoot-'em-up air combat gam

Software House: Digital Integration
Author: Ian Beynon, Kevin J. Bezant

Released with Lunar Jetman, these two games would immediately become massive hits for the Ultimate Play The Game label

Software House: Ultimate Play The Game
Author: A.C.G.

Includes Skatin' USASnoball In HellGunfighterPeriscope U

Software House: Atlantis
Author: Various

All Terrain Vehicle Simulato

Software House: Codemasters
Author: The Darling bros

Tape copying utilit

Software House: Homebrew
Author: Homebrew

Software House: Mikro-Gen
Author: Chris Hinsley

For 48k ZX Spectrum Pi-In-'Ere Crusoe Dartz New Wheels John? Morris Meets the Bikers Pi-Balled Pi-Eyed Piromania Olympimania Yakzee "Calling all writers

Software House: Automata UK
Author: Various

Turn based board gam

Software House: Automata UK
Author: J H Woodhead

Also called 'The Legend of Avalon

Software House: Hewson Consultants
Author: Steve Turner

Very early Spectrum game, playing rather like the old arcade classic Scramble, the player flying along a landscape avoiding aircraft

Software House: Abacus Programs
Author: Kevin Flynn

The sequel to The Way of the Tiger, which was a one on one fighting game

Software House: Gremlin
Author: Shaun Hollingworth, Peter M. Harrap, Chris Kerry, Greg A. Holmes, Steve Kerry, Ben Daglish, Colin Dooley

Text Adventur

Software House: Top Ten
Author: Mark Rivers

Very politically incorrect game that sees our hero hunting dinosaurs, while also seeking out a mate, to do this he strikes her over the head and drags her to the cave, once there, food can be passed i ...

Software House: Imagine
Author: Eric the Bear, Abdul Hafiz Ibrahim, Steve Cain

The sequel to Skooldaze

Software House: Microsphere
Author: David S. Reidy, Keith Warrington

The sequel to Skooldaze

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: David Reidy, Keith Warrington

Software House: Electric Dreams
Author: Software Images

Re release of the Virgin game from the film, some of the movies' best loved moments captured in digital form

Software House: Firebird
Author: Software Images

Spectrum +3 Dis

Software House: Mirrorsoft Ltd/Image Works
Author: Probe Software

Software House: Image Works
Author: Image Works

Backgammon is a 3000 year old game of chance and skill for two players

Software House: Sinclair Research Ltd.
Author: Psion - Steve Kelly

16K or 48K Spectru

Software House: Pi Software
Author: Ian Marshall

An arcade action game that see the player capture animals using the in-game encyclopedia

Software House: Fantasy Software
Author: Bob Hamilton, Darren Hamilton, Stuart J. Ruecroft

(From back of cover) Seven levels of lean, mean, fighting screens to battle through

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Paul Owens, Mark R. Jones, Bill Harbinson

Conversion of the Data East coin op, sees two players battling a side scrolling landscape despatching all kinds of hoods to rescue the President of the United States

Software House: Imagine
Author: Paul Owens, Mark R. Jones, Bill Harbison

Conversion of the Data East coin op, sees two players battling a side scrolling landscape despatching all kinds of hoods to rescue the President of the United States

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Paul Owens, Mark R. Jones, Bill Harbison

Puzzle game that involves our ball bouncing onto blocks to change their colour, which is incredibly difficult with the amount of enemies floating about

Software House: Mastertronic Added Dimension
Author: The Firm

An educational hot-air balloon flight simulator

Software House: Heinemann
Author: Five Ways Software Ltd

Software House: Heinemann
Author: Heinemann

Re-release by Kixx (originally by Palace Software

Software House: Kixx
Author: Paul Atkinson

Software House: Palace Software
Author: Steve Brown, Shaun Griffiths, Richard Joseph

Software House: Gamestar / Activision
Author: John F. White, Tony R. Porter, W.C.R. Allen, Troy Lyndon, Doug Barnett

This is an acclaimed isometric game, where very much like an Ultimate style game, Batman must work his way through a series of rooms to collect the parts to put his Batmobile back together agai

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Jon Ritman, Bernie Drummond, Mark Serlin, F. David Thorpe

This is a very innovative game, where it plays as if in a comic strip, following Batman's as he takes on his usual foes

Software House: Ocean
Author: Special FX Software

This is a very innovative game, where it plays as if in a comic strip, following Batman's as he takes on his usual foes

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Ocean

Based on the 1989 movie starring Jack Nicolson as the Joker and Michael Keaton as Batman

Software House: Ocean
Author: Mike Lamb, Dawn Drake, Matthew Cannon

Based on the 1989 movie starring Jack Nicolson as the Joker and Michael Keaton as Batman

Software House: Ocean
Author: Mike Lamb, Dawn Drake, Matthew Cannon

A platform game that follows the events of the 1989 Batman film

Software House: Hit Squad
Author: Mike Lamb, Dawn Drake, Matthew Cannon

High resolution screen mapVariable difficulty levels9 defence squadronsInstructions in programRandomly selected targets and bomber routesMorse sound optionSolo Game Strategy game that pits the forces ...

Software House: Microgame Simulations
Author: Robert Erskine

Compilation of three loosely based arcade machines, Typhoon, Operation Wolf and Guerrilla

Software House: Ocean
Author: Various

Post-apocalyptic action game based on the 1983 board game This is the 1987 Summit re-release; the original was published by Games Workshop in 1984

Software House: Summit
Author: Gary Chalk and Ian Livingstone

An acclaimed Breakout clone originally released exclusively with Your Sinclair magazine

Software House: Elite
Author: Mark Betteridge

Software House: Encore
Author: Elite Systems - Mark Crane

Can Thor save cute chick from the hungry dinosaur, he must make his way to the beast's lair, on his trusty rock wheeled tricycle, by jumping over rocks and pits, get help to cross water with turtles a ...

Software House: Software Projects
Author: Michael Davies, Johnny Hart

In the 1980s, to add simulator to the name of a game was the done thing, and this title was no different, not really any kind of simulator, more racing along a beach avoiding a helicopter dropping bom ...

Software House: Silverbird
Author: Probe Software

Multi part game that sees the forces of good try and invade the land of a vile dictator

Software House: US Gold
Author: David J. Anderson, Ian Morrison, F. David Thorpe

Far more hand to hand combat involved than it's predecessor, and unfortunately not as much fun this time round

Software House: Americana
Author: Platinum Productions

The idea here is to use the four screens to breed chicks from eggs up to adulthood, which it would be a lot easier to do without the other creatures in the halls trying to steal the eggs

Software House: Fantasy Software
Author: Bob Hamilton

A ladders game in the mould of Chuckie Egg, with the player having to get three batteries to the lower level, into a car which can then be driven away to complete the level

Software House: Artic Computing Ltd
Author: Jon Ritman, Guy Stevens

You are trapped on tile asylum planet 'Bovryll', your only weapon a twin firing photon bolt

Software House: M.C. Lothlorien
Author: Steve Hughes

Software House: Scorpio Gamesworld
Author: Richard Wright

Contains Bomb Jack, Commando, Frank Bruno's Boxing, Airwol

Software House: Hit Pak
Author: Elite

Contains Paperboy, Battleships, Ghouls 'n' Goblins, and Bomb Jack II

Software House: Hit Pak
Author: Elite

Software House: Betasoft
Author:

"Takes the agony out of assembler

Software House: Sinclair Research Limited
Author: Incognito Software Ltd.

Software House: Tynesoft
Author: Harry Price

Software House: Artic
Author: John Prince

As a bigfoot you have to rescue your bigfoot girlfriend who has been captured

Software House: Code Masters Ltd
Author: Drew Northcott, Mike Talbot, Richard Cheek, Sarah Day

The game has our hero trying to prove the existence of a new German weapon, and then taking control of a brand new helicopter, he must take down the weapon

Software House: Mirrorsoft
Author: Dalali Software

The game has our hero trying to prove the existence of a new German weapon, and then taking control of a brand new helicopter, he must take down the weapon

Software House: Silverbird/Mirrorsoft
Author: Dalali Software

Arcade conversion where our commando has an extendable arm, and can shoot from the other to make his way up and along enemy camps, swinging from trees and collecting power ups along the way

Software House: US Gold
Author: Software Creations

Arcade conversion where our commando has an extendable arm, and can shoot from the other to make his way up and along enemy camps, swinging from trees and collecting power ups along the way

Software House: Kixx
Author: Software Creations

A prediction utilit

Software House: Sinclair
Author: R Clark

Software House: Kixx
Author: Toposoft

Early adventure game with maps to guide the player round, loads in four distinct sections, lair,castle,temple,tower

Software House: Carnel Software
Author: Roy Carnell, Stuart A. Galloway

Software House: Firebird
Author: Mike Follin

Into the screen space shooting action, where the player skims the surface of a planet, avoiding towers and forcefields, and blasting enemies, also has cavern sections

Software House: PSS
Author: PSS

One of the few games that were exclusive to a cover tape

Software House: Your Sinclair
Author: Martech Games Ltd (Jim Gardner, Malcolm J. Smith)

Blizzard pas is an atmospheric text and picture adventure, and HARD stars a little robot trying to escape a series of caverns using his trusty jetpac

Software House: Tynesoft
Author: Mark Woodroffe

Blockbusters from Macsen Software is based on the well-known television series of the same name

Software House: Macsen Software/Mark Goodson/Talbot Television
Author: Tim Williams, Chris Jones

48k/128

Software House: Gremlin Graphics
Author: Steve Marsden, David Cooke, S. Leighton, Ben Daglish

The people of Bloodwych awake to find a stranger in their town, a man who willhalt the demon that lies dormant with in their castle

Software House: Image works
Author: Philip Taglione, Pete James, Anthony Taglione

The player controls a bi plane, and flies round the landscape taking down enemy fighters, and dropping bombs on targets, 

Software House: US Gold
Author: Synsoft

Double sided cassette containing Blue Max for the Commodore 64/128 and Gift From The Gods for the ZX Spectrum released alongside issue 1 of A

Software House: A.C.E magazine
Author: US Gold/Ocean

Arcade shoot 'em up that has a steely helicopter up against a heavily fortified landscape, taking out fortifications, guns and finally destroying a nuclear reacto

Software House: Richard Wilcox Software
Author: Richard Wilcox

Side on racing game, a bit in the style of Nintendo's Excitebik

Software House: Firebird
Author: GigglyWurx

A rival gang is after your title and girlfriend, to keep them both you have to beat them on their own turf

Software House: Alternative Software Ltd
Author: Richard Stevenson, Paul A. Bellamy, Nigel Speight

Another title that is totally different on other formats, this is a simple race up the screen game avoiding obstacles

Software House: Mastertronic
Author:

Huge selling over head BMX racing game, featuring some inventive tracks and good balanced gameplay

Software House: Code Masters
Author: Tim Miller, James Wilson, David Whittaker

Up to FOUR players at the same time! choose your rider, customize your own bike

Software House: Code Masters Ltd
Author: The Oliver Twins, James Wilson, Bob Stevenson, KAL, David Whittaker

Fun isometric puzzle action game, with a ball bearing character trying to make his way through corridors and rooms filled with traps

Software House: The Edge
Author: Mark Alexander, Nicolas Osterlin, Bo Jangborg, Jack Wilkes

Software House: Genesis
Author: Five Ways Software Ltd

Contains Herbert's Dummy Run, Lil Alien, Black Hawk, Tarantula

Software House: Top Ten
Author: Various

Boilerhouse was a game where you played as a worker who's job was to reduce pressure in the boilers

Software House: Front Runner
Author: Andras Fordos, Tibor Horvath, Donat Kiss, Nagy Seres, Steve Newport

Very good version of the arcade game, you need to guide Jack, who is out to collect every bomb from each single screen, while avoiding the floating enemies, collect the special power ups on screen to ...

Software House: Elite Systems Ltd
Author: Paul Holmes, Andy Williams, Karen Trueman

Software House: Encore
Author: Paul Holmes, Andy Williams, Rory C.Green

Early game from David Jones, who would find major acclaim in the Magic Knight series of games

Software House: Procom Software
Author: David Jones

Software House: Firebird Silver
Author: John F. Cain

This is a very good arcade conversion of the Namco classic, very familiar to anyone who has played the game, fly a space ship round a square play area and take out the motherships by shooting the four ...

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Binary Design

Spectrum release of the Boulder Dash Construction Kit

Software House: Hi-Tec Software
Author: First Star Software

Help guide the titular snake to collect all the food that appears on each screen in order to advance, but watch, as the snake will get longer for each piece of food collected

Software House: CDS Micro Systems
Author: CDS Micro Systems

Software House: Codemasters
Author: Owen Brunette

Brainstorm is an arcade strategy game

Software House: Firebird Software Ltd
Author: Pete Cooke

2D platform adventure, where the player must collect keys to escape the maze like levels, with only a laser and Jetpack for help

Software House: Bubble Bus Software
Author: Tom Prosser

Brainstorm: Matrix-Move letter pattern teaser

Software House: Micromega
Author:

Very intriguing multi part arcade action game, you are on a rescue mission, but the hardest part is actually landing on the surface first

Software House: Micromega
Author: Tony Poulter

There was a period around 1985 to early 1986 that home arcade conversions were not of high quality, and unfortunately Breakthru was one such game, the problem being that if you hold down the fire butt ...

Software House: Data East / US Gold
Author: Paul Houbart, Simon Butler, Dawn Drake, Noel Hines

Dark Ages arcade action, rather like Jet Set Willy, where the Viking Brian comes to England and must conquer the land by finding the crown jewels and sitting on the throne

Software House: The Edge
Author: Charles Bystram, Jack Wilkes

Software House: CDS Software
Author: CDS Software

'Brian Jacks, world famous Judo and TV Superstars champion made it very clear

Software House: Martech
Author: Ian McArdle, Malcolm J. Smith

Software House:
Author:

for the 16k and 48k Spectrum

Software House: CP Software
Author: M. Blythe

Software House: Cult
Author: Adam Parker, Shaun Mclure

One of a few games that used the Magnum Light Phaser, another version of the same game used the Code Masters gun

Software House: Virgin Mastertronic
Author: SuperSonic Software

In Bruce Lee you will experience the power and glory of Bruce Lee, one of the greatest masters of martial arts

Software House: US Gold Ltd
Author: LT Software, F David Thorpe, Ocean Software Ltd

In Bruce Lee you will experience the power and glory of Bruce Lee, one of the greatest masters of martial arts

Software House: Americana Software Ltd
Author: L.T. Software, F. David Thorpe, Ocean Software Ltd

Very successful arcade conversion, that has two small dragons jumping around the screen blowing bubbles to catch enemies, and them popping them, turning them into fruit, which can then be collected fo ...

Software House: Firebird
Author: Andrew Threlfall, Mike Follin

Demo of the arcade conversion, that has two small dragons jumping around the screen blowing bubbles to catch enemies, and them popping them, turning them into fruit, which can then be collected for po ...

Software House: Firebird
Author: Andrew Threlfall, Mike Follin, Stephen Ruddy

Very successful arcade conversion, that has two small dragons jumping around the screen blowing bubbles to catch enemies, and them popping them, turning them into fruit, which can then be collected fo ...

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Software Creations

This is a rarity, as it is a micro game for a European machine, published by a Japanese company, who ordinarily had little time for such machines, as consoles were far more prominent in the Japanese g ...

Software House: Sinclair Research Ltd
Author: Hudson Soft

A bit like a horizontal River Raid with a Buccaneer aircraft, the type the Fleet Air arm used before the Harrier Jump Jet, flying along a river collecting fuel an missiles, while taking down, boats, p ...

Software House: Firebird Silver
Author: Insight Software

Software House: Quicksilva
Author: Francisco Suarez Garcia, Francisco Portalo Calero

From the arcade, Buggy boy sees the oversized vehicle racing into the screen in the fastest time possible

Software House: Elite Systems
Author: Dented Designs

From the arcade, Buggy boy sees the oversized vehicle racing into the screen in the fastest time possible

Software House: Elite Systems (Re-release by encore)
Author: Dented Designs

Despite the futuristic space theme of the cover, which is another of the great covers meant to catch the eye of young people with a couple of pound notes in their pockets, this is actually a darts gam ...

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Shaun Heveron

Help Butch Hard Guy rescue captured war veterans from the robot forces of the evil Doctor Tie Fu through 20 hazardous screens of danger

Software House: Advance Software
Author: Future Concepts

Help the spider to eat as many butterflies as it can, but watch out for the live wire on the window sill and the purple spider eater

Software House: Pulsonic
Author: Hugh Davis

Stricken by the highly contagious "Byte Bitten" malady, all you want to do is play "Sea King"

Software House: Firebird
Author: Tony Barber

Gameplay for this one has Sir Clive in his trusty C5 car driving through forests avoiding trees, ghosts, wheels and even hoovers (a nod to the fact that the C5 was assembled in Hoover's UK factory), c ...

Software House: Scorpio Gamesworld
Author: Bruce Jones

Acclaimed arcade conversion from the talented coders at Special FX, it has all the levels and weapons from the arcade original, another Ocean title that took full advantage of the Spectrum 128k

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: James Bagley, Charles Davies, Keith Tinman

The idea here is for Caesar to clear the larder of mice and take them out of the door, take too long and they eat all the food

Software House: Mirrorsoft
Author: Andromeda Software

The player gets to play through BMX, Surfing, Half Pipe, Bean Bag, Rollerblading and Fling the Disc, scoring more points the harder he tricks performed

Software House: Epyx
Author: Choice Software

The player gets to play through BMX, Surfing, Half Pipe, Bean Bag, Rollerblading and Fling the Disc, scoring more points the harder he tricks performed

Software House: Epyx
Author: Choice Software

Run and gun game, with a soldier of fortune clearing out whole areas of enemy troop

Software House: Pirate Software
Author: Binary Dynamics

Program designed around the school curriculum for O-Level Chemistry

Software House: Calpac
Author: J J Warren

This is an acclaimed platform slashing game, especially on Amstrad, this Spectrum version is a colouful platform adventure, where the hero has fallen asleep and awoken in the time of King Arthur and C ...

Software House: Ariolasoft
Author: Víctor Ruíz Tejedor, Ignatio Ruiz Tejedor, Florentino Pertejo, Santiago Morga , Víctor Ruíz Tejedor, Luis Rodríguez, Ignacio Bergareche

A vertically scrolling shoot em up in the vein of Xecute

Software House: Mastertronic Plus
Author: The Front Room Team

How to use capital letters

Software House: Blackboard Software
Author: Eve Gorton, Paul Gorton

Space exploration game, where you are in an alien craf flying to planets, evading defence systems, collecting species to go in a futuristic Ark

Software House: Players
Author: Imagitec Design Ltd

Educational software that demonstrates the careful planning needed in loading a cargo ship to carry the maximum amount of cargo without risking the safety of the crew or the vessel itself

Software House: Macmillian Education
Author: Five Ways Software Ltd

Software House: Scorpio Gamesworld
Author: Barry Jones

Software House: Sinclair
Author: Victor Serebriankoff

One of the Spectrum's toughest titles, you take control of a witch, as she flies above ground on her broom stick, and then can land and take part in platform levels, all to get ingredients to create h ...

Software House: Palace Software
Author: The RamJam Corporation

Early Ocean software title about the quest to enter a castle to rescue Guinevere, it was a simple maze exploration game, collecting weapons to take on the Knights wandering the castle to try and find ...

Software House: Ocean
Author: Paul Owens, Christian F. Urquhart, F. David Thorpe

Clone of the arcade game Frogger, but starring a caveman and featuring dinosaurs instead of cars

Software House: CRL
Author: R.R. Rowlingson

A platform action game, about a caveman exploring flip screen rooms collecting eggs

Software House: Atlantis Software Ltd
Author: Adrian Shaw, David Shaw and Graham Shaw

You are trapped in a maze of caves deep underground, you must find five keys to escape, one of which is in three pieces, There are forty screens in all, which are overrun by the forces of the Lord of ...

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Mr Chip Software

Software House: Atlantis
Author: John Shepherd

Centi-Bug also known as Centibug was an arcade action game inspired by the hit Atari game 'Centipede'

Software House: DKTronics Ltd
Author: Paul Johnson

Unlicensed version of the arcade game Centipede

Software House: DK'tronics
Author: David J. Heelas

Very close in style and gameplay to Hewson's Exolon, replacing the space character with a tank

Software House: Atlantis
Author: The Shaw Brothers

Contains Kick Off, Pro Tennis Tour, Fighter Bomber, Carrier Command, P47, Rick Dangerous

Software House: Ubisoft
Author: Various

Lost in a nightmare world, full of giant spiders, killer crabs, bubbling marshes and deadly weeds, this is a world you must travel across to enter the dreaded chamber and steal a priceless treasure

Software House: Omega
Author: Philip Rolfe

Under the control of the Amstrad company, the Sinclair machines had really got a second wind by 1989, although only selling ever selling 128K machines, this led companies such as Ocean to produce only ...

Software House: Ocean
Author: John O'Brien, Bill Harbison, Jonathan Dunn

Under the control of the Amstrad company, the Sinclair machines had really got a second wind by 1989, although only selling ever selling 128K machines, this led companies such as Ocean to produce only ...

Software House: Ocean
Author: John O'Brien, Bill Harbison, Jonathan Dunn

The arcade conversion of the second game was not nearly as successful as the first game, both in content and at retail

Software House: Ocean
Author: Ian Morrison, Alan Grier, Chris Scudds, Douglas Little

 'O' Level Revision Videonotes with Graphics Includes the following topics: Bonding Classification Metals Structure of the Atom Redox Reactions The Periodic Table Electrolysis Chemical Laws Acids Chemical Energy Resources Bases Non-Metals Salts Organic Chemistry

Software House: KH Software
Author: Les Kendall, Linda Burnley

Simulation Grand Prix racing game, where ten tracks can be raced around

Software House: Psion
Author: Steve Kelly

A chess program for the 48K Sinclair Spectrum written in fast and efficient machine-code

Software House: Psion Ltd
Author: Psion

Software House: Mikro-Gen
Author: Mikro-Gen

Chess Tutor is a new way of learning all about chess - using your ZX Spectrum

Software House: Sinclair Research Limited
Author: Braveline Ltd

Loosely based on the Michael Jackson video, thriller, you need to rescue your girlfriend from the haunted mansion by working your way towards it, avoiding the undead, bats and other such nasties

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Richard Wright, Ray Owen

An isometric adventure game set on an alien spaceship bound for earth

Software House: Firebird
Author: Shahid Ahmad

Software House: Ocean
Author: Sandor Kertesz, Jeno Haberland, Gyorgy Apor, Oszkar Balazs, F. David Thorpe

Software House: Atlantis
Author: David Simon

Blast your way through 6 increasingly difficult levels of gameplay infested with every imaginable type of 'nasty' and several unimaginable types as well, to rescue the incarcerated Chronos who has bee ...

Software House: Mastertronic Ltd
Author: Tim Follin, John Tatlock, Steven Tatlock

Test pilots are only wrong once

Software House: Electronic Arts
Author: Ned Lerner

Classic ladders and platforms games, which see the player climbing ladders and jumping gaps, collecting eggs to complete a level, bird seed can also be collected for extra points, all the while avoidi ...

Software House: A&F Software
Author: Nigel Alderton

Far more like Jet Set Willy than it's predecessor, this time Harry must travel the 120 rooms of a chocolate factory to take the eggs before they release mayhem in the workplace

Software House: A'n'F Software Ltd
Author: A'n'F Software Ltd

Re-release by Mastertronic (originally by Custom Cables International

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Kevin Baker

More colourful platform action from the Hewson label, the game follows Slick, who is trying to find and defuse a bomb planted by Abracadabra

Software House: Hewson Consultants Ltd
Author: Steve Marsden, David Cooke

Cj is on route via plane to and English zoo, hitting turbulence, the cage breaks open, using an umbrella CJ floats down to the ground, and then starts his long journey back to his family in Africa

Software House: Code Masters
Author: Big Red Software

This is the Spectrum version of Colossal Caves one of the most important pieces of software released in the early years of computing

Software House: Melbourne House
Author: John Jones-Steele

Software House: Bubble Bus Software
Author: Nick Jones

Sir Clive is going to Spain in his trusty C5, where he must get to the Bullfight on time

Software House: Illusion
Author: Bruce Jones

Software House: Sinclair Research
Author: ICL

Software House: Leisure Genius
Author: Leisure Genius

Codename MAT launches you into the incredible world of 3D arcade strategy

Software House: Micromega
Author: Derek Brewster

Following on from Codename Mat, Mat with his new ship Centurion II is continuing his battle against the Myons, now confined to the capture and defence of the Karillium Mines

Software House: Domark
Author: Derek Brewster

Games included on the compilation include

Software House: US Gold Ltd
Author: Various

Software House: Tynesoft
Author: Harry S Price

This comprehensive program allows collectors of stamps etc

Software House: Sinclair
Author: ICL

Colossal Caves is one of the most important pieces of software released in the early years of computing

Software House: Level 9 Computing
Author: Level 9 Computing

Software House: CDS Software
Author: CDS Software

Third person perspective helicopter sim, the aim is to arm your Lynx helicopter, and fly out over the rolling terrain to take out enemy tanks, and rescuing troops, all while keeping your base safe fro ...

Software House: Durell
Author: Mike Richardson

Unusual large box version of the Durell classic Third person perspective helicopter sim, the aim is to arm your Lynx helicopter, and fly out over the rolling terrain to take out enemy tanks, and resc ...

Software House: Durell
Author: Mike Richardson

This acclaimed game is a combat training sim, where the player goes through basic training to join the Elite Marine Corp

Software House: Ocean
Author: Mike Lamb, Andrew P. Deakin, Ivan Horn, David Whittaker, Jas C. Brooke

This acclaimed game is a combat training sim, where the player goes through basic training to join the Elite Marine Corp

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Mike Lamb, Andrew P. Deakin, Ivan Horn, David Whittaker, Jas C. Brooke

Comet was an electrical retailer that traded from 1933 to 2012, it sold TV and other entertainment systems, kitchen appliances

Software House: Comet
Author: Various

Compilation containing:XenoTrantorBobsleighLeviathonThe Armageddon ManShackledMercenaryHardball10th FrameChol

Software House: U.S. Gold
Author: Various

The gameplay is very close to the arcade original, and follows the vertical scrolling formula

Software House: Elite Systems Ltd.
Author: Keith Burkhill, Nigel Alderton, Rory C. Green, Karen Trueman

The gameplay is very close to the arcade original, and follows the vertical scrolling formula

Software House: Elite Systems
Author: Keith Burkhill, Nigel Alderton, Rory C. Green, Karen Trueman

Comp-U-Tax covers: Taxpayers resident and domiciled in U

Software House: Micromega
Author:

Simple introduction program to the world of computers, to get the user used to the hardware, and then guide them into programming

Software House: Express Marketing Limited
Author: ACL

Board game, where the player is given random letters to place on a board, the longer the word, more points are scored and also where the letters sit on the board can score double and treble points

Software House: Psion
Author: Steve Kelly

Digital version of the boardgame Scrabble

Software House: Sinclair
Author: Psion

Board game, where the player is given random letters to place on a board, the longer the word, more points are scored and also where the letters sit on the board can score double and treble points

Software House: Psion
Author: Steve Kelly

Strategy game played by two players, one plays red, one plays blue, under their control are engineers, tank divisions, and the players must arrange their troops to attack and counter

Software House: Lothlorien
Author: Robert T Smith

Software House: Incentive Software
Author: Incentive Software

Software House: Atlantis Software
Author: Atlantis Software

Strategy game where the player is an Emperor trying to gain a hundred squares of territory, from a large grid representing the Mediterranean, extra legions are awarded for every 5 squares conquered, t ...

Software House: Cheetah Soft
Author: Duncan Nightingale

Using the same graphics engine as the Skool games, this is a very atmospheric game, following a private detective

Software House: Microsphere Computer Services Ltd
Author: David S. Reidy, Keith Warrington

16 or 48k Ram Spectrum Exclusive to the Spectrum, although years later the unreleased BBC version would surface, this simple but addictive game would feature the eponymous Cookie trying to mix some i ...

Software House: Ultimate Play The Game
Author: Chris Stamper

Sinclair Silver version, of Ultimate Play The Games 3rd title, a far rarer and slightly more expensive one to source

Software House: Ultimate Play the Game
Author: ACG

In the era of Prohibition, Flappers and Gangsters, Cop-Out portrays the battle between the Police and Mobsters in the roaring 1920's

Software House: Mikrogen
Author: Raffaele Cecco

In the skyscraper world of the future a mutant strain is beginning to infect the fabric of civilisation

Software House: Omega Software
Author: Alistair Miller

Be part of a space station rescue mission, firstly get close enough to blast the exterior of the station open, then using a jetpac, pluck off the crew members one by one

Software House: Imagine
Author: Steve Lavache, Steve Cain, Abdul Hafiz Ibrahim

Early game from Jon Ritman who found found fame later on with the Matchday, Batman and Head Over Heels games

Software House:
Author: Jon Ritman

Top down shoot 'em up action, on a grid

Software House: Byte Back
Author: Peter Mannion, John Brennan, Iain Traynor

The queen of the Wartoads has been kidnapped and is being held inside a machine, that unless it is stopped will slice her in two, you, as the bravest of the wartoads must collect the eight pieces of a ...

Software House: Ocean
Author: Denton Designs

A fascinating introduction for children to simple addition and subtraction

Software House: Longman Software
Author: Micromega

Spectrum version of Britain's longest running TV quiz

Software House: TV Games
Author: Armand Jammot

Computer racing progra

Software House: Intraset
Author: D. Martin Evans

ContainsBounderAnarchyToyota Rally DemoBite the DustMoon MagicPokemani

Software House: Crash
Author: Various

Software House: Crash
Author: Crash

Cassette of games free with Crash magazin

Software House: Newsfield
Author: Various

ContainsBoulderdash 4Double DareLemmings DemoSpy vs Spy

Software House: Crash
Author: Various

Cassette of games free with Crash magazin

Software House: Crash
Author: Crash Ltd

Cassette of games free with Crash magazin

Software House: Crash
Author: Crash Ltd

Software House: Powertape
Author: Various

Fat Worm Blows a SparkyAlpine GamesKemshuDoomskull

Software House: Crash
Author: Various

Cassette of games free with Crash magazin

Software House: Crash
Author: Various

Cassette of games free with Crash magazin

Software House: Crash
Author: Crash Ltd

Software House: Crash
Author: Codemasters

Cassette of games free with Crash magazin

Software House: Crash
Author: Crash Ltd

Software House: Powertape
Author: Various

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Software House: CRL
Author: Steve Evans

You are racing the worlds craziest race, The American cross country prestige cars Race

Software House: Hit Squad
Author: Jorgen bech

Software House: Titus LTD
Author: Titus

Software House: Sinclair
Author: Mr Micro

A text-based cricket simulator

Software House: T. J. Owen
Author: David Owen

Software House: Hi-Tec Software Ltd.
Author: Harry Manley

"All the Drama, Tension and Excitement of one day International Cricket is captured in this Amazingly Realistic Strategy Game

Software House: Challenge Software
Author: Alan J Clayton

Called Crime Busters, but is about guiding Benny The Burglar around and stealing to get rich!Looks rather like Impossible Mission

Software House: Players
Author: Michael Blanke, Arno P. Gitz

Durell Software produced some excellent titles for the Spectrum between 1983 and 1986

Software House: Encore
Author: Durell (Simon Francis, Julian Breeze)

Software House: Cult
Author: Simon Conway

Take out the metallic rats that are out in force, taking special care not to mess with the purple ones

Software House: Silversoft
Author: Iain Christopher Hayward

The Pirates have returned in their new battlestar, even more fearsome than the last

Software House: Hewson
Author: Raffaele Cecco, Nick Jones, J. Dave Rogers, John M. Phillips

Stuck in a series of rooms full of killer robots, you need to blast your way out of everyone, also watching out for the clouds of lethal gas

Software House: Dixons
Author: Iain Christopher Hayward

Helicopter rescue game, using the same graphics engine as Android 2 and Tornado Low Level, the idea is to rescue civilians caught up in a natural disaster, while avoiding the high winds that cause you ...

Software House: Vortex Software
Author: Costa Panayi

Software House: Firebird Silver
Author: Geoff Foley

Software House: Alligata Software
Author: Intelligent Chess Software

Chess program that won the second European Microcomputer Chess Championship

Software House: Sinclair Research
Author: Intelligent Software

Ready to capitalise on the nations euphoria at Daley's success in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, this game follows him on his quest for glory, competing in a series of athletics challenges to score ...

Software House: Ocean
Author: Paul Owens, Christian F. Urquhart, F. David Thorpe

Ready to capitalise on the nations euphoria at Daley's success in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, this game follows him on his quest for glory, competing in a series of athletics challenges to score ...

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Paul Owens, Christian F. Urquhart, F. David Thorpe

This game was released in time for Daley Thompson to defend his Decathlon title won in Los Angeles in 1984

Software House: Ocean
Author: Dave Thompson, Bill Harbison, Jonathan Dunn

This game was released in time for Daley Thompson to defend his Decathlon title won in Los Angeles in 1984

Software House: Erbe Software S.S.
Author: Dave Thompson, Bill Harbison, Jonathan Dunn

This game was released in time for Daley Thompson to defend his Decathlon title won in Los Angeles in 1984

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Dave Thompson, Bill Harbison, Jonathan Dunn

 From the word go, Ocean Software were a great advocate for the 128K Spectrum, providing much enhanced versions of some of their classic games, they would be the first company to produce 128K onl ...

Software House: Ocean
Author: Paul Owens, Dan Hartley, Jonathan M. Smith, F. David Thorpe

Missing a couple of the events of the 128K version, and it loads the events one at a time

Software House: Ocean Software Ltd
Author: Paul Owens, Dan Hartley, Jonathan M. Smith, F. David Thorpe

The sequel is a very different game to the first, and has our hero jetting around the screens, trying to destroy a weapon that is threatening the universe

Software House: Virgin
Author: Gang of Five

The sequel is a very different game to the first, and has our hero jetting around the screens, trying to destroy a weapon that is threatening the universe

Software House: Virgin
Author: Gang of Five

Having a break from his world saving operations, Danger Mouse and Penfold are called in to action again, when a new plot from Greenback comes to light

Software House: Sparklers
Author: Cosgrave hall production

Penfold has been kidnapped by Baron Greenback, as part of his latest scheme for world domination, he plans to make enough whoopee cushions to disrupt the next meeting of the UN council meeting

Software House: Sparklers
Author: Phil Snell

Help Danger Mouse investigate the titular Black Forest Chateau in order to shut down a Pi-beam that is zapping world leaders

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: Brian Belson, Edgar Belka, Kevin Buckner

Unlike the other Danger Mouse games, this is a text adventure games with static screens to set the scenes

Software House: Creative Sparks
Author: Brian Belson, Edgar Belka, Kevin Buckner

Software House: Gremlin
Author: John O'Brien, Berni, Ben Daglish

Known for it's huge characters and lack of colour clash, this is a tale of two civilisations clashing

Software House: Firebird
Author: Beyond Software, Maelstrom Games Ltd (Mike Singleton, David Gautrey, Alan Jardine)

The second game to use the Freescape graphics engine, which enabled the player to explore a 3D world, solving puzzles and taking out the bad guys

Software House: Incentive
Author: Major Developments

Space shooter, in which the player must conquer 16 zones, using the scanner to find enemies and warp gates

Software House: Crystal Software
Author: Neil Mottershead, Simon Brattel, Martin S. Horsley

The mission is to guide bomb disposal droids around five buildings, starting at the bottom of each one, and seek out all the devices and make them safe, many traps and obstacles will stand in your way

Software House: Reaktor
Author: Tigress Marketing

Death Star Interceptor is a graphic "shoot-em-up" computer game designed by Emerson Best and Mark Cale and published by System 3 Software in 1984

Software House: System 3 Software
Author: Simon Lipowicz and Andy Blazdell

Game of the third film in the notoriously violent series starring Charles Bronson

Software House: Gremlin Graphics
Author: Shaun Hollingworth, Peter M. Harrap, Chris Kerry, Ben Daglish

Solve various problems you may be having with this software

Software House: Collins Soft
Author: Hamid Beyzaii, Stuart Armstrong

Software House: Scorpio
Author: Ian Reed

Software House: Currys
Author: Interstella

Direct from the hit T

Software House: Hi-Tec Software Ltd
Author: Andrew Swann, Ben Daglish, Peter Tattersall

Software House: Thalamus
Author:

Software House: Computer Rentals Ltd.
Author: CRL

North African campaign strategy game

Software House: CCS
Author: Robert T Smith, John Berry

Software House: Bulldog Software
Author: Eugene Messina, David Lincoln-Howells

Software House: Automata UK
Author: Mel Croucher, Andrew Stag

  A game with up to two players where you had to dive underwater with a limited air supply and place pipes down to connect a broken pipe

Software House: DKTronics Ltd
Author: John R. Edmonds

Wander among the ancient columns of the Lost City of Atlantis

Software House: Richard Shepherd Software Ltd.
Author: Richard Shepherd

Many years ago, a pirate ship was sunk, after the crew unleashed a devil by removing seven stones, you are now part of the exhibition that is determined to reach the ship and find them once more

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Brian O'Shaughnessy

Play the role of a new dictator as you have token over a country in a military coup, all done via text screens, making such decisions as make a General vice president, and raising cash by illegal arms ...

Software House: DK'tronics
Author: Don Priestly

Although in visual style the game looks a bit like Sega's Alien Syndrome, it plays along similar lines to Gauntlet, with Alein Brains and Slime floating around

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Mongee Boswell

The game required the user to enter their personal information like weight, height, age and their name

Software House: DKTronics Ltd
Author: R.C. Fleming

The Ultimate test of nerve as you dig your way out of trouble and avoid the ravenous monsters

Software House: Ocean
Author: Oxygen Software

Another early game from Jon Ritman, author of Matchday and Head Over Heels, it is a Star Wars inspired into the screen space shooter, it even has an intro story delivered in the crawl style, where the ...

Software House: Artic Computing Ltd
Author: Jon RItman

This is a very simple game, one of the in pack games that came with the Spectrum Plus 2 series of computers after the take over from Amstrad

Software House: Sinclair
Author: Daren White, John Line Gem Software

This is based on the Tron arcade machine, the player is required to jump between three platforms, while throwing discs at an opponent at the far end of the arena

Software House: Artic
Author: Ian Rich

10 Spectrum + 2 HitsFreddy HardestGame OverLegend Of KageMovieAthenaArkanoidTankHead Over HeelsSlap FightBatma

Software House: Ocean
Author: Various

Dizzy is a series of games programmed initially for the Amstrad and Spectrum by Andrew and Philip Oliver, known together as the Oliver Twins

Software House: Code Masters Ltd
Author: The Oliver Twins, Jon Paul Eldridge

Spectrum Comprises of five cassettes   Treasure Island Dizzy - Fantasy World Dizzy - Treasure Island Dizzy -Fantasy World Dizzy -Dizzy Fast Food - Magic Land Dizz

Software House: Code Masters
Author: The Oliver Twins

Dizzy Dice will get you in a spin, a modern fruit machine with hold facility, and feature hold, as well as gambling on a roulette wheel, can you break the bank

Software House: Players
Author: Paul van Der Meer

As the name suggests, everyone's favourite egg is floating down the rapids in a barrel, shooting at enemies such as crocodiles, and avoiding the sides of the canyon

Software House: Codemaster
Author: Paul Griffiths, Michael A. Sanderson, Allister Brimble

More platform jumping action from our egg frien

Software House: Code Masters
Author: Jon Cartwright

Collection: Spellbound Dizzy Kwiksnax Dizzy Down The Rapids Panic Dizzy Prince of the Yolk Folk

Software House: Code Masters
Author: Jon Cartwright, Peter Ranson, Chris Graham, David Whittaker, Allister Brimble

Collection of 4 games from developer DK'Tronics: Invaders Maziacs Jumbly Zig-Zag

Software House: DK'Tronics
Author: DK'Tronics

Side scrolling shoot em up, where the player is travelling through a body ridding it of disease

Software House: Cascade Games
Author: Stewart Green, S.W. Scott

This is the sequel to Lords of Midnight, and is an RPG strategy game, and is far more complex than the previous title, adding far more characters and more locations

Software House: Beyond
Author: Mike Singleton

The sequel to The Pyramid, the game has the hero riding in his armed bubble travelling around a large castle, shooting areas holding crystals, when the crystals are collected, a boss type creature awa ...

Software House: Fantasy Software
Author: Bob Hamilton

Software House: Melbourne House
Author: Binary Design

Conversion of the famed arcade brawler, that sees one or two players fighting their way up to a confrontation with Mr Big

Software House: Melbourne House
Author: David Leitch, Ben Jackson, Jeremy Nelson, Danny Whelan

Re release of the arcade conversion originally published by Melbourne Hous

Software House: Mastertronic Plus
Author: Binary Design Ltd

Yet more side scrolling beat em up action, working your way towards the gangs that kidnapped your girlfriend, featuring many more moves than the original, and in a much grittier move, weapons such as knives and bricks, and even grenades can be used

Software House: Virgin Mastertronic
Author: Binary Design Ltd

 The Double Dragons, Billy and Jimmy seek to avenge the death of Marian - and might even be able to bring her back to life if they can only penetrate the secret lair of the Shadow Boss

Software House: Virgin Games Ltd
Author: Paul Ranson, Peter J. Ranson

Two adventure games for the price of one

Software House: Double Play Adventure
Author: Dave Bowden / Dave Walls

Castle Colditz - You stand alone in the heart of the most terrible P

Software House: K-Tel Productions
Author: Felix Software

Arcade action game in which players must help a droid dig through underground tunnels whilst avoiding unstable rocks, bomb, and hostile robots

Software House: Firebird Software
Author: Probe Software

Featuring jaw dropping graphics for the time, Draconus stars two characters, Frognum and Draconewt, who must obliterate the mighty Tyrant Beast

Software House: Zeppelin Games
Author: Spike, Michael Owens

Software House: Quicksilva
Author: M Preston, P Hunt, R.Rose, D Moore

Second in the series of the cartoon platformer

Software House: Software Projects
Author: Elite

Digital version of the boardgame Draughts played against a computer controlled version of Albert Einstein

Software House: Rack-It
Author: Rafaelle Cecco, Paolo Malnati, Giovanni Zanetti

Quite a revolutionary game on the Spectrum that pushed the now aging machine to it's very limits

Software House: Incentive Software
Author: Major Developments (Chris Andrew, Ian Andrew, Stephen Northcott, Paul Gregory)

Emerging from deep underground are Mammut and the mindless cohorts, only the driller tanks can stop them invading the summer palace

Software House: Sinclair
Author: Hudsonsoft

Two games one on tape

Software House: Star Dreams
Author:

On the Spectrum, Durell produced some of the finest and best selling games on the system, this compilation was one of the most successful, containing four of their best titles, Combat Lynx is a combat ...

Software House: Durell Software
Author: Various

One of a few games that were exclusive to a magazine cover tape, another notable being Batty

Software House: Your Sinclair
Author: Dinamic Software

Split screen action, Dwarf and Duck are the Dynamic Duo! Lost in the realms beyond magic, in the Dark and Dingy "Night House" They have to find their way out against incredible odds

Software House: MCM Software S.A.
Author: Antony R. Lill Antony R. Hartley

This is a sprawling arcade adventure, with highly colourful locations and characters, played in a split screen format, the game was originally published by the Mirror Group's, Mirrorsoft

Software House: Silverbird
Author: Rod Bowkett

A colourful 2D arcade adventure, with a space suited hero trying to make his way through trap filled screens filled with exploding gasses and aliens

Software House: Mastertonic
Author: Paul Hargreaves

Storming a Nazi fortress, this is a very gauntlet inspired game, viewed from above, and sees the player collecting keys and ammunition to work his way further into the castle

Software House: Players Software
Author: Kevin Parker, Robin Chapman

Double Play Adventure 12: Two adventure games for the price of one

Software House: Double Play Adventure
Author: Steven Allen, Alistair Lock (Earth Bound); S. Baxter, S. Dawson (Alter Earth)

An early version of the coin op classic Missile Command on the Spectrum, by Artic software who would produce a good few titles for the Spectrum in the early years of the machine

Software House: Artic Computing
Author: Donald J. Campbell

A game by Pete Cooke and Ian Ellery, the game is known for its smooth parallax scrolling, and scaling with the players ship moving away from and toward the screen, getting smaller and larger

Software House: Firebird
Author: Pete Cooke, Ian Ellery

A space exploration game, where the player must explore the tenth planet of the solar system, examining objects, and making it habitable

Software House: US Gold
Author: Walking Circles

Clone of Pac-Ma

Software House: Add On Electronics
Author: Elfin Software

Software House: Ricochet
Author: Ian McArdle

Software House: Atlantis
Author: David Simon

Humerous look at the 1987 General Election that would give Margaret Thatcher her third term in office, looking at all the campaigning that needs to go on for an election

Software House: Virgin Games
Author: JAM

Text based Election game, including manifest creation and canvacing the doorsteps to raise votes for your chosen party

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Mastertronic

Agent Otto must collect all the secret papers, fight his way through the building and escape by car

Software House: Bug-Byte Software Ltd
Author: David Whittaker

Fast into the screen shooter from Hewson, you are in control of a ship flying along a checkered roadway, taking down enemy ships and vehicles

Software House: Hewson
Author: John Wildsmith, Stephen J. Crow, Nick Jones, John M. Phillips

Elite is the classic space trading combat title, and an early example of a sandbox game, in that the player can decide how they want to play it

Software House: Firebird
Author: Torus

The regular 48K game failed to work on the new 128K machines, so a new version of the game was released, without the contraption that was the lenslock which was universally hated by players, who would ...

Software House: Firebird
Author: Torus

Very attractive platform game, that sees the Elf hero running and jumping in his quest to find four potion bottles, that need to be poured into a magic cauldron to destroy a book of immortality, that ...

Software House: Players Premier
Author: Bizarre Computer Productions

Undoubtedly inspired by the Iranian embassy siege, in which the SAS stormed the building and rescued all the hostages, eliminating the perpetrators in the process

Software House: Sinclair Research
Author: ICL

The Emerald Isle lies in the Bermuda Triangle, hidden by fogs and treacherous waters, the game features a text adventure with over 200 pictures

Software House: Level 9
Author: Shaun D. Abbott, Pete Austin, James Horsler

A motorcycle racing management simulation

Software House: CRL Group PLC
Author: G.B. Munday, B.P. Wheelhouse, Jay Derrett

Conversion of the off road bike racer, viewed in the 3rd person, you must beat the other riders to the checkered flag, while not letting the clock tick down

Software House: Activision
Author: Giga Games

Conversion of the off road bike racer, viewed in the 3rd person, you must beat the other riders to the checkered flag, while not letting the clock tick down

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Alan Laird, Ian Morrison, Focus Creative Enterprises Ltd

A simulation of American Footbal

Software House: Sport-Sim
Author: Mark Watson

Graphically complex for the Spectrum, the game has decent parallax scrolling, where the foreground moves at a faster pace than the back ground

Software House: M.A.D.
Author: Binary Design

Text adventure that follows the first story of the Famous Five

Software House: Enigma Variations
Author: Colin Jordan

The all-action sequel to Shadowfire

Software House: Beyond
Author: Denton Designs - John Heap, Karen Davies, Simon Butler, Fred Gray

Gauntlet clone with some elements of spell casting to aid the druid on his way

Software House: Firebird
Author: Dene T. Carter, Brian Pollock, Kevin Wallace

Another 2D platform adventure, from the author of Exolon and the Cybernoid games

Software House: Mikro-Gen
Author: Raffaele Cecco, Chris Hinsley, Nick Jones

Bomberman inspired game, that is another in a series of titles that originated from Japan, and was published by Sinclair, as an attempt  to woo the Japanese publishers and programmers to produce ...

Software House: Sinclair Research Ltd
Author: Y. Tanaka, T. Sasagawa, Roger Garland

Very early 16 K Spectrum title, from Malcom E Evans, the man behind the classics 3D Monster Maze, and 3D Defender for the ZX81

Software House: New Generation Software
Author: Malcom E Evans

Software House: Encore
Author: Rob Hubbard, Andy Walker

Thrills and chills in the Artic with Percy, Growler and the Snowbugs

Software House: Ocean Software Ltd
Author: Christian F. Urquhart, F. David Thorpe, Nick Pierpoint

Software House: Grandslam
Author: Source Software

250K of pure mystery

Software House: Domark
Author: Ian Livingstone

Software House: Challenge Software
Author: Alistair McNair, Steven Parker

Software House: Silverbird
Author: Timothy Closs

Football management simulator that recreates a European competition

Software House: E & J Software
Author: A.J.Clayton

Early strategy game, with all the stats in place to plan a climb of the world’s highest mountain

Software House: Richard Shepherd Software
Author: Richard Shepherd

Software House: Mikro-Gen
Author: Mikro-Gen

Software House: Microsphere
Author: Microsphere

A game of mass exploration, where parts of a downed space ship must be found in a huge play area of millions of quite similar looking screens

Software House: Electric Systems
Author: Simon Dunster, Graham T Relph

Software House: MicroProse
Author: MicroProse

Originally published by Digital Integration who had a reputation for producing some of the Spectrum’s best loved action simulators

Software House: Action Sixteen
Author: Lee Burns, Les Doughty

Fast, Furious 3D flight combat

Software House: Virgin Mastertronic Ltd
Author: Sorcery, Paul Hiley, Chris Graham

Software House: Sinclair User
Author: Ocean

Early game from Steve Crow, the creator of the excellent Wizard's Lair and Starquake, among others

Software House: Poppy Soft
Author: Steve Crow

Software House: Firebird
Author: Perfection Software (Tim Williams, Chris Jones)

Join the hero in his quest to gain access and explore the castle of the King of Fairlight, the last light kingdom left, after a series of weak rulers have left the rest of the land in faded darkness

Software House: The Edge
Author: Mark Alexander, Nicolas Osterlin, Bo Jangborg, Jack Wilkes

Continue as Ivsar in his quest to bring light from darknes

Software House: The Edge
Author: Bo Jangeborg, Niclas Osterlin

This is a fast paced Side scrolling shoot em up, taking in such scenery as pyramids and oasis

Software House: Bug Byte
Author: Steve Lee

The fall guy was a famous Tv show, starring Lee Majors, as a travelling stuntman, who would also solve peoples problems and fight  crime

Software House: Elite Systems Ltd.
Author: Andy Williams, Rory C. Green

Colony - 1987 by Ste L

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: various

More platform adventuring, starring our favourite egg friend

Software House: Code Masters Ltd
Author: Oliver Twins, Neil Adamsom, David Whittaker

A dungeon crawling text adventure

Software House: Abbexs Electronics Ltd
Author: P. Canter

Two brothers are fighting it out using their trusty cauldrons to mix up spells to use on their foe, including turning villagers into zombies, and sprite firing balls

Software House: Bulldog Software
Author: Binary Design

Software House: Mindscape
Author: Gray Matter

Software House: Computer Rentals Ltd
Author: Richard Taylor

Spectrum ZX       Dem

Software House: Computer Rentals
Author:

Formerly released by Digital Integration, who released a small, but high quality library of titles, most of which were simulation type games

Software House: Digital Intergration Limited
Author: D K Marshall

Formerly released by Digital Integration, who released a small, but high quality library of titles, most of which were simulation type games

Software House: Digital integration
Author: D K Marshall

Formerly released by Digital Integration, who released a small, but high quality library of titles, most of which were simulation type games

Software House: Byteback
Author: D. K. Marshall

As Fighting Warrior, champion of all Egypt, you must use all your powers of combat and fighting expertise in this arcade quest to rescue the beautiful princess

Software House: Melbourne House
Author: Stephen Cargill , Russell Comte

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Studio B Ltd

Software House: OCP
Author: Francis O'Ainley

Accounting software

Software House: OCP
Author: Francis Ainley

The King of Isbisima is, to say the least, a little upset

Software House: Mastertronic Ltd.
Author: David Jones , Ray Owen

The first game in a series of four starring Magic Knight, this game has a much more action oriented game style than it's sequels, but contains some of their elements, such as puzzle solving, the use o ...

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: David Jones

Fire lord is a medieval village romp, that sees the character trying to rid the land of the evil lord

Software House: Hewson
Author: Stephen J. Crow

Two game pack of two Hewson classic titles, and very different ones at that

Software House: Hewson
Author: Dominic Robinson, Stephen J. Crow

Software House: Micro Computers Ltd
Author: Micro Computers Ltd

Edutainment program starring Mr Greedy, Mr Silly and Mr Forgetful, feature in these computer games written for children of four years and upwards

Software House: Mirrorsoft
Author: Roger hargreaves

3d maze game in which the player must locate a code to defuse the bomb hidden at the end

Software House: CRL
Author: V. Ward

Software House: Silverbird Software Ltd
Author: Timothy Closs

Software House: Silverbird
Author: Timothy Closs

The game follows the movie of the same name fairly closely, as Flash Gordon only has a matter of hours to save the Earth from Ming the Merciless and his Army

Software House: M.A.D.
Author: Icon Design

Famously, this got the lowest score ever awarded to a game in Crash Magazine, it scored just 4%, the main criticism being that the player could not even take off without running out of runway

Software House: Anirog Software
Author: Stefan Walker

One of the earliest 48K games, this was an updated version of the ZX81 Classic

Software House: Psion
Author: Charles Davies

Flippit is a puzzle computer game designed by Leslie George Hartridge and released by Sinclair Research in 1983 for Sinclair Spectrum

Software House: Sinclair Research
Author: Leslie George Hartridge

Software House: Cult
Author: Jay Parnell

Football management simulator that tasks players with all of the behind the scenes tasks of running their football club

Software House: D&H Games
Author: Tony Huggard, John De Salis

Competing for the crown of best management football sim, with the Football Manager series, this game not only allowed you to look after the team, but the whole club

Software House: Cult
Author: John De Sallis, Tony Huggard

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: Alternative Software

Very early and huge selling football management game, it featured only ten teams, and stick graphics, but was one of the first games to actually give a player the chance to feel they were in charge of ...

Software House: Addictive
Author: Kevin J Toms

Football Manager is a football management computer game designed by Kevin J Toms and published by Addictive in 1982 for Sinclair Spectrum

Software House: Addictive
Author: Kevin J Toms

Coming 6 years after the first game, this is considered by some to be the ultimate football sim on the Spectrum

Software House: Addictive/Prism
Author: Kevin Toms

Expansion for Football Manager 2 ( http://www

Software House: Addictive
Author: Kevin Toms

Spectrum 48/128

Software House: Addictive
Author: Kevin Toms

Software House: Addictive Games Ltd.
Author: Bedrock Software

Software House: Gremlin
Author: Gary Priest, Gary Dalglish

Reminiscent of the Starstrike game of the year before, and Starglider game that would come along a few years later, the game involves flying over a landscape, shooting towers and gun emplacements

Software House: Design Design
Author: Simon Jackson, Jon Ritman, Keith Jordan, Simon Rattel

Side scrolling shoot em up, that requires more skill than this usual sort of game, a second button must be pressed to aim the character’s gun all around him

Software House: Kixx
Author: Arc Developments

Formula 1 racing game, which is just as famous for its cover in Spectrum circles, recognised by most who knew the machine in contemporary times, with it’s dramatic depiction of a racing pile up

Software House: Mastertonic
Author: S C Stephens

A Formula One management simulation for up to six players

Software House: CRL Group PLC
Author: G.B. Munday, B.P. Wheelhouse

Software House: Artic Computing Ltd
Author: Chris A Thornton

As the name suggests, foxes have had enough of being hunted, and it's time to fight back against the oppressors, not as easy as it sounds, as the Hunting Dogs have also got clever, and can now fire gu ...

Software House: MCM Software S.A.
Author: John Heap

Software House: Mike Hampson
Author: Mike Hampson

Compilation containing the following classics:Frank Bruno's BoxingBattyCommandoBombjackScooby DooBattleshipsSaboteur1942Ghosts 'n' GoblinsAirwol

Software House: Elite Systems Ltd.
Author: Various

A boxing simulator featuring champion boxer Frank Bruno

Software House: Elite Systems Ltd.
Author: Andy Williams, Trevor Perks, Paul Holmes, Gary Priest, Rory C. Green

Software House: Encore
Author: Andy Williams, Trevor Perks, Paul Holmes, Gary Priest, Rory C. Green

Arcade Horror for Spectrum 48k Single screen game exploring a huge mansion filled with all kinds of the undead

Software House: PSS (Personal Software Services)
Author: Colin Stewart

Fred is a maze arcade adventure, where our archaeologist must enter the tombs of the dead in search of treasure, and then use a series of climbing ropes to try and reach the surface and escape

Software House: Quicksilva
Author: Carlos Granados Martinez (Spain), Paco Menendez [Francisco Menendez Gonzalez] (Spain), Fernando Rada Briega (Spain), Juan Delcan (Spain)

Software House: Dinamic Software/ Imagine Software
Author: Emilio Pablo Salgueiro Torrado, Luis Rodriguez Soler, Javier Cubedo, Manuel Cubedo, Raul Ortega Palacios

Software House: Silver Soft
Author: David Leitch, Jay Derrett

This program uses the graphics capabilities of the Spectrum to present French lanuage in a uniquely interesting and stimulating way

Software House: CDS Micro Systems
Author: CDS Micro Systems

The cassette contains six programs

Software House: Rose Software
Author: Rose Software

Lead a party of teenagers to safety, while being stalked by the evil Jason and his axe

Software House: Bug-Byte
Author: David John Rowe

Software House: Cascade
Author: Rod Ashley, Sean Conran

Software House: Artic Computing Ltd
Author: J. Dale (Frog 5), Paul Williams (Showdown)

Part of the 'Dixon's Pack'

Software House: Dixons
Author:

A conversion of the classic arcade game Frogger

Software House: C-Tech
Author: C-Tech

Software House: DJL
Author:

Homebre

Software House: J Spain
Author: J Spain

Software House: Code Masters
Author:

The Ultimate Fruit Machine Simulator! Made In Englan

Software House: Code Masters
Author:

- Incredibly fast high-resolution 3D action- Race against 40 other riders- Choose from 10 of the world's top circuits- Kempston/cursor/interface 2/keyboard contro

Software House: Micromega
Author:

Software House: Database Software
Author:

Software House: Currys
Author: Shards

Compete in five death-dealing events across a lunar surface

Software House: Mastertronic Ltd
Author: Mike Follin, Peter Gough, Mark Wilson, Tim Follin

A Missile Command styled game from 1983 where players had to fight off fleets of "Klingon battleships" to protect the Starbase

Software House: Omega Software
Author: Richard Brisbourne, Angus McKie

Software House: CRL
Author: Richard Brisburne

Software House: Artic Computing Ltd
Author: Stephen Townsend

Software House: Sunshine
Author: Steve McCarthy

Take control of the last surviving member of the Cosmo Police, as you try and rid the planet Cynep of all evil

Software House: Imagine
Author: John Gibson, Karen Davies

Software House: Imagine
Author: Dynamics

Compilation of some of Ocean and Imagine's Sports titles

Software House: Ocean
Author: Various

Includes: Martian Knock-Out Racetrack Labyrinth Skittles

Software House: Sinclair Research Ltd.
Author: ICL

Includes: Mind the Meteors Daylight Robbery Battleships Invisible Invader

Software House: Sinclair Research Ltd.
Author: ICL

Spectrum 48/128k +2 +3 cassette     comprises of four cassettes     California Games -Alternative World Games - Supersports - Galactic Games

Software House: Gremlin Graphics
Author:

Software House: Software Studios
Author: John Hollis

In the mid 1980's, everyone was getting in on the act of creating software for the Home Micros, and this pack was produced to be sold in Marks and Spencer department stores

Software House: St Michael
Author: Max Philips, Ben White

Contains: Chuckman, Cry Wolf, Ed-On, Ziggarat of Drea

Software House: Custom Cables International Ltd
Author: Elfin Software

Contains: Milipede, Golf, Never Trust a Blond, Goblin Crushe

Software House: Custom Cables International Ltd
Author: Elfin Software

Spectrum 48k/128k Disk Versio

Software House: The Edge
Author: Softek

Software House: The Edge
Author:

Software House: Kixx
Author:

Software House: Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd.
Author: Chris Kerry, Colin Dooley, Marco Duroe

Spectrum 48

Software House: Gremlin
Author: Gremlin

Software House: US Gold
Author: Bob Armour

Dingein crawling action, based on the arcade game, which allowed up to four players to play along

Software House: US Gold
Author: Tony R. Porter, Kevin Bulmer,, Bill Allen, Ben Daglish

Software House: Kixx
Author: Tony Porter, Kevin Bulmer, Bill Allen, Ben Daglish

Software House: US Gold
Author: Atari

Software House: Kixx
Author: Tony R. Porter, Ben Daglish, Bill Allen, Kevin Bulmer

Expansion pack introducing new levels for classic arcade dungeon game Gauntlet

Software House: U.S. Gold
Author: Gremlin Graphics Software

Software House: Virgin Games
Author:

Software House: Martech
Author: Ian McArdle, John K. Wilson, Dave Dew

This program uses the graphics and capabilities of the Spectrum to present a German language in a uniquely interesting and stimulating way

Software House: CDS Micro Systems
Author:

Hunk Studbuckle's brother is trapped in Nightmare Mansion

Software House: Code Masters Ltd
Author: The Oliver Twins, David Whittaker

A graphic text adventure set in a deserted wild west town

Software House: Virgin Games Ltd
Author: John Pickford

An action game based on the hit 1984 film

Software House: Activision Inc
Author: David Crane

An action game based on the hit 1984 film

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: David Crane

Software House: Activision
Author: Columbia Pictures Industries Inc.

Port of Capcom arcade game

Software House: Elite
Author:

Software House: Encore
Author: Keith Burkhill, Nigel Alderton

Software House: Micromania
Author:

A great boxset comprising of 5 classic games: Rolling Thunder Gauntlet II 720 degrees Outrun California Game

Software House: World Beaters
Author:

Software House: Ocean
Author: John Gibson, Simon Butler, Steve Cain, Roy Gibson, Ally Noble

Software House: Domark
Author: Mike Green, Mike Moscoff

Re-release by Bug-byte (originally released by Domark

Software House: Bug-Byte Software
Author: Mike Green, Mike Moscoff

Software House: Macmillan Education
Author:

Software House: Bug Byte
Author: Grandslam Entertainments

A shameless Pac-Man Clone

Software House: Mastertronic Ltd
Author: Jon Nixon

6 Game Compilation Desolator Side Arms Thunderceptor Mission Elevator Fast N Furious Shackle

Software House: US Gold
Author: Various

Arcade maze game

Software House: Triple 666
Author: John George Jones

The object of this classic game is to monopolise all sites and property within the field of play, by acquiring them by purchase or making deals

Software House: Automata
Author: J. H. Woodhead

The object of this classic game is to monopolise all sites and property within the field of play, by acquiring them by purchase or making deals

Software House: Automata
Author: J. H. Woodhead

Software House: CDS Micro Systems
Author:

Software House: Artic Computing Limited
Author:

Software House: Blaby Computer Games
Author: Gary Capewell

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: The Dreaming Djinn (Charles A. Sharp)

An arcade puzzle game in which you must collect gold nuggets in one of two buckets while avoiding getting caught by demons

Software House: Thorn Emi Video Ltd.
Author: Martin Harris

23 Ways to achieve Sporting Immortalit

Software House: Epyx
Author: Various

Decent arcade conversion

Software House: Virgin Games
Author: Probe Software

Conversion of the fantasy side scrolling beat em u

Software House: Tronix
Author: Jason Green, David Shea, Sound Images

Also known as St

Software House: Artic Computing Ltd
Author: Derek Wilson

The game was programmed by David G

Software House: DkTronics Ltd
Author: David G. Johnson

'Gleneagles' misspelt on cover

Software House:
Author:

A poker game

Software House: Top Ten Software
Author: Antonio Mateus

Help Ernie reclaim all his stolen loot, but watch out for Jack, the local bobby, who is hot on your tail

Software House: Blaby Computer Games
Author: Gary Capewell

Software House:
Author:

Cricket - The skill and concentration of the batsmen

Software House: Audiogenic
Author: Gary Gray

The ultimate fusion of car and driver

Software House: Accolade
Author: Distinctive Software

A top-down racing game by the Oliver Twins

Software House: Code Masters Ltd
Author: James Wilson, Mervin James, Nigel Fletcher, David Whittaker, Serge Dosang, The Oliver Twins

All the Atmosphere of Wimbeldon is captured in this exciting computer version of lawn tenni

Software House: M.A.D. (Mastertronic Added Dimension)
Author: Garry Hughes, Lyndon Brooke

Software House: Mikro-Gen
Author: Simon W Hessel

Green Beret is a shoot-em-up game developed by Konami

Software House: Imagine Software
Author: Jonathan M. Smith and F. David Thorpe

Software House: Mastertronic Plus
Author: Don Priestly

Software House: Starlight Games
Author: Nick Eatock, Simon Welland

American football management game

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: Clockwize

Software House: M. C. Lothlorien
Author: M. C. Lothlorien

Bundle containing 2 games: Grid-Run - arcade maze game  Pontoon - digital version of the card game

Software House: Arcade Ltd
Author: Arcade Ltd

Item in plain box, no picture to uploa

Software House: R A Sparkes
Author:

Software House: Silversoft
Author: Antony Crawford

Drop bombs to bring down buildings to stop your plane, which is constantly losing altitude, from colliding with them

Software House: Titan Programs
Author: Titan Programs

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author: Paul Owens, Mark R. Jones, David Whittaker

A comprehensive strategic war game which covers the battle for the island in the latter months of 194

Software House: Activision
Author: Ian Bird

A Defender clone

Software House: HiTec Software
Author: Steve Evans

Software House: Campbell Systems
Author:

Colourful arcade adventure, with a few nods to Ultimate's Gunfright

Software House: Atlantis
Author: Graham D. Shaw, David A. Shaw, Adrian R. Shaw

The second Ultimate Play The Game title to feature the Filmation 2 technique, which allows the player to enter a building, and explore it, by conveniently making the walls disappear to see inside, and ...

Software House: Ultimate Play The Game
Author: A.C.G.

Side scrolling shooting action, which polarised the critics at the time, both Sinclair User and Your Sinclair rated it highly, while Crash disliked it

Software House: Rack-It
Author: Christian F. Urquhart, Mike Smith

FLY THE 21st CENTURY WARRIOR

Software House: Micro Prose
Author: Arnold Hendrick, Andy Hollis, Gregg Tavares, Sid Meier, Michael Haire, Michele Mahan, Kimberly Disney

Software House: Micro Prose
Author: Darrel Deaniss, Andy Hollis, Arnold Hendrick, Iris Idokogi

Flight simulator for the Apache Gunshi

Software House: Kixx
Author: MicroProse

A helicopter combat simulation based on the AH-64 Apache gunship

Software House: MicroProse
Author: Andy Hollis, Gregg Tavares, Sid Meier

Maze exploration game, that also held a competition for people who played the game to win a Porsche 924 car

Software House: Firebird
Author: Ricardo J.M. Pinto, Dominic M.N. Prior, Philip Mochan, Mark Wighton

Clone of 'Marble Madness', but the player controls a spinning gyroscope instead of a marble

Software House: Melbourne House
Author: Steve Lamb, Tony Mack

Isometric shoot em up from the creators of Highway Encounters and TL

Software House: Gremlin Graphics
Author: Vortex

Superb version of the Activision arcade game, where the intrepid Hero, with his helicopter backpack must make his way down through treacherous caverns to reach trapped miners

Software House: Activision
Author: Software Conversions Ltd

High level User friendly Real time Games designe

Software House: Melbourne House Software
Author: William Tang

Software House:
Author:

A vertical scrolling shooter

Software House: Nexus
Author: Paranoid Software

Software House: Interceptor Software
Author: Michael Barnard

This program is for a computerised orrery (a model of the planets' motions) showing all the planets and Halley's Comet in an animated display

Software House: Skysoft
Author: Maurice Gavin

Software House: Crystal Computing
Author: Neil Mottershead, Simon Brattel, Martin S. Horsley

Fantasy maze game

Software House: Firebird
Author: Design Design

Software House: Melbourne House
Author: Trevor Lever, Peter Jones

Animated simulation of an 18 hole golf course complete with a caddie and a selection of different clubs

Software House: CRL
Author: Peter Curtis

  A single-player maze style arcade game released in 1983 inspired by 'Mr

Software House: DKTronics Ltd
Author: Paul Johnson, Eugene Farrell

The ultimate driving simulator - that leaves all the other driving games behind

Software House: Domark
Author: Tengen

Software House: Tengen/Domark
Author: Mike Day, Matt Furniss

It's MEAN

Software House: The Hit Squad
Author:

Based on the 'Masqerade' book published in 1979, where the clues lay to real life treasure in the form of a golden Hare created and hidden by the author Kit Williams, some where in England, the books ...

Software House: Haresoft
Author: Kit Williams

No doubt inspired by the Falklands conflict the previous year, the game has the player take off from an aircraft carrier and fly over an island to knock out the enemy forces, while avoiding flak, grou ...

Software House: Durell Softwares
Author: Mike Richardson

One of many Pac-Man clones, from the author of the Codename Mat games

Software House: Micro Mega
Author: Derek Brewster

Another in a series of coaching games from the early masters of the genre, Addictive games, famous in the 1980s for the Football Manager trilogy

Software House: Addictive
Author: Simon J C Davies

Also known as Kimera

Software House: Odin Computer Graphics
Author:

Software House: Hewson Consultants
Author: Mike Male

Software House: Gargoyle Games
Author: Carter Follis Software Associates

Help safely deliver people from one side of the screen to the other while avoiding an onslaught of obstacles

Software House: Firebird
Author: Tony Beckwith

Re-enact the trials of Ulysses in this fast-moving arcade game with a difference

Software House: Melbourne House
Author: Beam Software

Infuriatingly addictive game based on the twelve deathly labours of a modern day Hercules

Software House: The Power House
Author: Ayyaz Mahmood, John A. White

A text adventure set in space

Software House: Alligata Software Ltd
Author: C.M. Wright, M.D. Russell

Software House: TSR
Author: Adventuresoft UK Ltd

Software House: Kixx
Author:

A form of hexagonal Chess, that allows for far greater movement for the pieces than the standard square board

Software House: HexaGames
Author: Rob Waixel / Hexagames

Software House: Alternative Software Ltd
Author:

Software House: Vortex Software
Author: Costa Panayi

Assembler/Debugger for the 48K ZX Spectru

Software House: HiSoft
Author:

Integrated Compiler/Edito

Software House: HiSoft
Author:

Compilation celebrating US Gold's 3rd anniversary of games publishing

Software House: U.S.Gold
Author: Various

This is a compilation of 4 games: Robocop: Take on the role of avenging angel as you mete out rough justice to the perpetrators of evil and lawlessness

Software House: Ocean
Author: Various

Baron Von Bankjob has escaped from jail! Who comes to the rescue? It's Hong Kong Phooey, emerging from the sticky top drawer of his special file cabinet, witth the help of trusty police station cat, S ...

Software House: Hi-Tec Software
Author: Dave Thompson, Richard Morton

The third and final game in the Horace series unlike the first two games, was only released on the Spectrum

Software House: Psion
Author: William Tang

The third and final Horace game was exclusive to the ZX Spectrum and can easily be found on cassette, though this cartridge version was also produced

Software House: Sinclair Research Ltd
Author: William Tang

Horace Goes Skiing is a sequel to the very successful Hungry Horace

Software House: Sinclair
Author: William Tang

Software House: Psion Software
Author: Various

A compelling game of speed and skill, teaching young children how to estimate numbers quickly

Software House: Longman Software
Author: Tony Poulter

Four smash hits for your spectrum: -Mindshadow (activision software) -Fighting Warrior (Studio B

Software House: The Force
Author:

Software House: Activision
Author: Software Studios

The no

Software House: Alternative Software
Author: Wyvern Software

Rescue Esmerelda from her castle stronghold

Software House: Ocean
Author: Paul Owens, Christian F. Urquhart, F. David Thorpe

The return of your favourite bell ringer

Software House: Ocean
Author: Paul Owens, Mike Webb, Fred David Thorpe

Pacman-style game for the 16K or 48K ZX Spectrum

Software House: Psion, Melbourne House
Author:

Software House: Protek
Author: Rod Hopkins

Software House: Bubble Bus Software
Author: Dave Collins

Software House:
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Isometric adventure that is the sequel to Sweevo's world

Software House: FTL
Author: Roy Carter, Greg Follis, Rob Hubbard

The final Odin published game, before Firebird took over the role, the game is a futuristic sports game, a bit like American football with jet pacs

Software House: Odin Computer Graphics Ltd
Author: Doug Burns, Paul Salmon

Jetpac shooting fun, from Special FX, who had bought us classics such as Cobra and Firefly

Software House: Sinclair User
Author: Jonathan M. Smith, Charles Davies, Keith Tinman

This is a sports game which includes the following sports: Swimming Skeet Shooting Long Horse Archery Triple Jump Weight Lifting

Software House: Imagine
Author: Jonathan M. Smith, Bob Wakelin

Software House: Silver Soft
Author:

Futuristic sports title that pits two cars against each other to win the ultimate trophy  

Software House: Mastertronic
Author: Steve Hughes, Ste Pickford

Software House: Software Projects
Author: Jonathon Smith, Karen Davies, Tony Pomfret, Stephen Wahid

Same game as Caves of Doom from Mastertroni

Software House: Tynesoft
Author: Harry S Price

Software House: Firebird Silver
Author: Timothy Closs, Kevin Wallace

You find youself in a low gravity maze equipped with an A4A jet pack suit, you have a lazer attached to your belt pointing forwards

Software House: Electric Dreams
Author: Sandy White

You find yourself in a low gravity maze equipped with an A4A jet pack suit, you have a lazer attached to your belt pointing forwards

Software House: Silverbird
Author: Spaceman Ltd

A test cricket simulator featuring legendary player Ian Botham

Software House: Tynesoft Computer Software
Author: Tynesoft Computer Software

A powerful icon-driven graphics and design tool for the 48k Spectrum

Software House: Icon
Author: Terry Wiley

Originally an arcade game, Ikari Warriors is a vertically scrolling shooter for one or two players that was ported to various platforms between 1986 and 1989

Software House: Elite
Author: David Shea, Nick Jones

Software House: Firebird
Author: Peter Torrance

Software House: Audiogenic Software
Author: Steven Tucker, DL

Software House: Cascade Games
Author: Paul Laidlaw, Damon Redmond

Loosely connected to the Monty Mole games, this time the mole has super powers and even went on to appear on the Turbografx console

Software House: Gremlin
Author: Gremlin