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| x Ad Astra | Best Shoot 'em Up | ||
| x Ah Diddums |
Ah Diddums is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 home computers released by Imagine (in the UK) in 1983.
The player controls a Teddy Bear who is trying to escape a toy box in order to comfort his crying baby owner. Teddy's job is...
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Golden Joystick Award for Best Original Game | |
| x Archon: The Light and the Dark |
Archon: The Light and the Dark is a video game developed by Free Fall Associates and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was originally developed for Atari 8-bit computers in 1983, but was later ported to several other systems of the day, including...
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Best Strategy Game | |
| x Arkanoid |
Arkanoid (アルカノイド, Arukanoido) is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. It is based upon Atari's Breakout games of the 1970s. The title refers to a doomed "mothership" from which the player's ship, the Vaus, escapes.
Much like the game Breakout,...
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Least Accurate CRASH Review | |
| x Arnhem |
Arnhem: The 'Market Garden' Operation is a battle strategy game by SSI. It was released for MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC in 1985 and for the Commodore Amiga in 1991. In the U.K. it was published by CCS.
The player takes the role of either the...
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Best Wargame | |
| x Auf Wiedersehen Monty |
Auf Wiedersehen Monty (German for "Goodbye Monty") is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and MSX. Released in 1987, it is the fourth of the Monty series, following Monty is Innocent, Monty on the Run and the successful...
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Best Platform Game | |
| x Batman: The Movie | Crash Readers' Award for Best Game Overall | ||
| x Cabal |
Cabal (カベール) is a 1988 arcade video game originally developed by TAD Corporation and published in Japan by Taito Corporation and in North America and Europe by Fabtek. In this game, the player controls a commando, viewed from behind, trying to...
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Best Advertisment | |
| x Carrier Command |
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Carrier Command is a landmark 1980s computer game available on Amiga, Atari ST, PC, ZX Spectrum, Apple Macintosh, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC computers.
Described by The Games Machine as a "seminal game destined to change the state of gaming",...
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Best Original Game |
| x Claymorgue Castle | Golden Joystick Award for Best Adventure Game | ||
| x Commando |
Commando (Japanese: 戦場の狼, Hepburn: Senjō no Ōkami, lit. "Wolf of the Battlefield") is a run and gun, vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released in 1985. Its influence can be seen in various later games in the genre, including Gun.Smoke,...
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Best Shoot 'em Up | |
| Best Coin-Op Machine | |||
| x Daley Thompson's Decathlon |
Daley Thompson's Decathlon is a computer game based on Konami's Track & Field, developed and released under license by Ocean Software in 1984. It was released in the wake of Daley Thompson's popularity following his gold medals in the decathlon at...
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Best Arcade Game | |
| Golden Joystick Award for Best Arcade-style Game | |||
| x Driller |
Driller (also known as Space Station Oblivion in the United States) is a 1988 puzzle video game. It was written by British developers Major Developments and published by Incentive Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Commodore...
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Crash Readers' Award for Best Game Overall | |
| Best Graphics | |||
| Most Imaginative Game | |||
| Best Game Packaging | |||
| Most Accurate CRASH Review | |||
| x Dynamite Dan |
Dynamite Dan is a platform game for the ZX Spectrum and other 8-bit formats written by Rod Bowkett and released by Mirrorsoft in 1985.
Gameplay is similar to other 8-bit platform games such as Jet Set Willy. A very highly rated game at the time.
The...
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Best Platform Game | |
| x Dynamite Dan II |
Dynamite Dan II: Dr Blitzen and the Islands of Arcanum is the sequel to the highly rated original Dynamite Dan. It was written by Rob Bowkett (ZX Spectrum) and Keith Goodyer (Amstrad CPC) and published by Mirrorsoft for the ZX Spectrum and the...
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Best Platform Game | |
| Best Sound FX | |||
| x Eastenders | Worst Game | ||
| x Eights | Best Board/Card/Puzzle Game | ||
| x Elite |
Elite is a seminal space trading video game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers. The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of ...
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Crash Readers' Award for Best Game Overall | |
| Game of the Year | |||
| Best Arcade Game | |||
| Best Spectrum Game | |||
| Golden Joystick Award for Best Original Game | |||
| x Fairlight |
Fairlight is an isometric projection arcade adventure video game developed by Bo Jangeborg and Jack Wilkes at EDGE Games and released in 1985. Developed in seven months, Jangeborg created the GRAX game engine using some prior code and components...
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Best Arcade Adventure | |
| Best Graphics | |||
| Best Music | |||
| State of the Art Award | |||
| x Feud |
Feud was an innovative 1987 computer game for the MSX and ZX Spectrum home computers, among others. The player takes on the role of the sorcerer Learic, cursed with aging, and must fight his evil twin Leanoric before his time runs out.
In some...
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Easiest Game | |
| x Fighter Pilot | Crash Readers' Award for Best Simulation | ||
| x Game Over |
Game Over is a computer game developed by Spanish software company Dinamic Software and published by Imagine Software in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and MSX.
The game's hero is 'Megaterminator' Arkos, the former loyal...
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Best Game Inlay | |
| Best Advertisment | |||
| Most Overhyped Game | |||
| x Gauntlet |
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Gauntlet is a fantasy-themed hack and slash 1985 arcade game by Atari Games. It is noted as being one of the first multi-player dungeon crawl arcade games.
The players, up to four at once in the arcade version, select among four playable fantasy...
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Golden Joystick Award for Ultimate Game of the Year |
| x Ghouls 'n Ghosts |
Ghouls'n Ghosts (Japanese: 大魔界村, Hepburn: Daimakaimura, lit. "Great Hell Village") is a platform game/run and gun developed by Capcom and released as an arcade game in 1988, and subsequently ported to a number of other platforms. It is the sequel to...
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Best Sound FX | |
| x Gunship |
Gunship is an AH-64 Apache helicopter simulation that was released by Microprose in 1986. Its platforms include DOS, Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, MSX, Sharp X68000 and ZX Spectrum. The game was later ported onto the Sega Mega Drive by U.S. Gold in...
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Crash Readers' Award for Best Simulation | |
| x Head Over Heels |
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Head Over Heels is an arcade adventure, released in 1987 for several 8-bit home computers, and subsequently ported to a wide range of formats. Originally, the working title for the game was Foot and Mouth.
Visually, Head Over Heels bears a number of...
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Best Arcade Adventure |
| Most Challenging Game | |||
| x Heavy on the Magick |
Heavy on the Magick is a computer game for Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum published in 1986 by Gargoyle Games. The game's influences draw heavily from the occult, with the Master Therion in the plot below a reference to Aleister Crowley. To finish the...
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Best Adventure | |
| x Hyper Sports |
Hyper Sports, known in Japan as Hyper Olympic '84 (ハイパーオリンピック'84) is a video game published in 1984. It is the sequel to Konami's Track & Field and features seven all-new Olympic events. Like its predecessor, Hyper Sports featured two run buttons...
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Best Sports Simulation | |
| x Impossible Mission |
Impossible Mission is a platform computer game for several home computers. The original version for the Commodore 64 was programmed by Dennis Caswell and published by Epyx in 1984.
Impossible Mission has the user play a secret agent who must stop an...
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Best Platform Game | |
| x Jetpac |
Jetpac is a ZX Spectrum, VIC-20 and BBC Micro video game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983. The game is the first in the Jetman series, and was the company's very first release. The game was written by Chris Stamper with...
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Golden Joystick Award for Ultimate Game of the Year | |
| x Knight Lore |
Knight Lore is a computer game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. The game is the third in the Sabreman series, following on from his adventures in Sabre Wulf and Underwurlde. Unlike the earlier games in the series it used...
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Best Arcade Adventure | |
| Golden Joystick Award for Ultimate Game of the Year | |||
| x Konami's Ping Pong |
Konami's Ping Pong is a sports arcade game created in 1985 by Konami. The game is noted as the first video game to accurately reflect the gameplay of table tennis, as opposed to earlier over-simplifications like Pong. As with other Konami titles of...
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Best Music | |
| x Kosmic Pirate | Worst Game | ||
| x Light Force |
The Light Force is a fictional power housed inside the maidens of the Royal Family in the videogame, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. The game's main antagonist, Vaati the Wind Mage, is after the Light Force so that he can become a God. Princess...
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Best Graphics | |
| x Manic Miner |
Manic Miner is a platform game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). It is the first game in the Miner Willy series and among the early titles in the...
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Golden Joystick Award for Best Arcade-style Game | |
| x Match Day II |
Match Day II is a football sports game part of the Match Day series released for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, MSX and Commodore 64 platforms. It was created in 1987 by Jon Ritman with graphics by Bernie Drummond and music and sound by Guy Stevens ...
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Best Sports Simulation | |
| x Mercenary |
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Mercenary is the first in a series of computer games, published on a number of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, by Novagen Software. The second and third games were known as Damocles and Mercenary III: The Dion...
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Best Atari Game |
| x Miami Vice |
Miami Vice is a 1986 computer game published by Ocean Software for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum as a tie-in for the television series of the same name. The music was composed by Martin Galway.
Crockett and Tubbs are trying to smash...
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Best Soundtrack | |
| x Mordon's Quest | Best Text-only Adventure | ||
| x Mugsy | Crash Reader's Award for Best Strategy Game | ||
| x Myth: History in the Making |
Myth: History in the Making is a 2D platform game published by British publishing house System 3 (later renamed to Studio 3 Interactive) for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. It was also released on the NES as "Conan:...
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Best Adventure | |
| x Operation Thunderbolt |
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Operation Thunderbolt is a one- or two-player shooter arcade game by Taito made in 1988.
Operation Thunderbolt is the sequel to Operation Wolf. Roy Adams and Hardy Jones, two green berets, must save American hostages from a hijacked airliner which...
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Best Graphics |
| x Out Run |
Out Run (アウトラン, Auto Ran) (also spelled OutRun and Outrun) is an arcade game released by Sega in 1986. It was designed by Yu Suzuki and developed by Sega-AM2. The game was a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the best-selling video...
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Golden Joystick Award for Ultimate Game of the Year | |
| x Rebelstar | Crash Reader's Award for Best Strategy Game | ||
| x Red Moon | Best Text/Graphical Adventure | ||
| x Repton 2 | Best BBC Game | ||
| x Sabre Wulf |
Sabre Wulf is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. The game is the first in the Sabreman series. It was written originally by Tim Stamper and Chris Stamper, and later ported to many other computer...
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Best Maze Game | |
| Best Advertisment | |||
| x Sanxion |
Sanxion is a 1986 side-scrolling shoot 'em up by Thalamus Ltd., developed by Stavros Fasoulas, along with Delta, another shoot 'em up, and Quedex.
Sanxion is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up, the goal to traverse each level from left to right avoiding...
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Best Soundtrack | |
| x Shadowfire |
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Shadowfire is a computer game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, published by Beyond. It is notable as one of the first games to use a menu-and-icon-driven interface. It was followed by a sequel, Enigma Force, in 1986.
General Zoff is...
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Best Adventure |
| x Snowball |
Snowball was the first game in the Silicon Dreams Trilogy, a series of text adventure games featuring the player in the character of "Kim Kimberly", by Level 9 Computing released in 1983. The game revolved around the space colonisation sleeper ship ...
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Best Text-only Adventure | |
| x Starglider |
Starglider is a 3D video game released in 1986 by Rainbird. It was developed by Argonaut Software, led by programmer Jez San. The game was inspired by Jez San's love of the 1983 Atari coin-op Star Wars, It was a fast-moving, first-person combat...
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Crash Readers' Award for Best Game Overall | |
| State of the Art Award | |||
| Most Innovative Game | |||
| x Starquake |
Starquake is an arcade adventure, platform and maze game written by Stephen Crow and published by Bubble Bus software in 1985. It was released for Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari XL, Tatung Einstein (all 1985), the BBC Micro (1987...
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Best Sound FX | |
| x Stonkers |
Stonkers is one of the earliest real-time strategy games. It was written for the ZX Spectrum and published by Imagine Software in 1983. It was designed and programmed by John Gibson with graphics by Paul Lindale.
Stonkers is controlled either using...
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Best Wargame | |
| x The Great Escape |
The Great Escape is a video game which shares a title and similar plot to the movie The Great Escape. It was programmed by Denton Designs, who went on to produce the similarly acclaimed Where Time Stood Still. It was published by Ocean in 1986 for...
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Best Arcade Adventure | |
| Best Advertisment | |||
| x The Great Space Race |
The Great Space Race (usually abbreviated to TGSR) is a ZX Spectrum space-based combat and adventure game published in 1984 by Legend.
The publishing house Legend was also known as Microl/Legend, and earlier as simply Microl. Legend's chairman and...
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Tackiest Game of the Year | |
| x The Hobbit |
The Hobbit is a computer game released in 1982 and based on the book The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was developed at Beam Software by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler and published by Melbourne House for most home computers available at the...
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Golden Joystick Award for Strategy Game of the Year | |
| x The Living Daylights |
James Bond: The Living Daylights is a video game adaptation of the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights, developed by Melbourne House and published by Domark. It was the first tie-in game for the film series.
Released for the Commodore 64,...
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Most Overhyped Game | |
| x The Lords of Midnight |
The Lords of Midnight is a video game, written by Mike Singleton, and released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum. Conversions for the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 soon followed.
The Lords of Midnight is a wargame/adventure game. The player starts with...
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Best Text/Graphical Adventure | |
| State of the Art Award | |||
| Golden Joystick Award for Strategy Game of the Year | |||
| x The New Zealand Story |
The NewZealand Story (ニュージーランドストーリー, Nyū Jīrando Sutōrī) is a 1988 arcade game developed and published by Taito. The player controls Tiki (ティキ), a sneaker-wearing kiwi who must save his lover Phee Phee (ピューピュー) and several of his other kiwi chick...
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Best Coin-op Conversion | |
| x The Pawn |
The Pawn is an interactive fiction game by Magnetic Scrolls which was first published by Rainbird in 1986. It is remembered for its excellent graphics (on some versions) and the opening music available in some game versions. Also the game itself -...
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Best Adventure Game | |
| Best Adventure | |||
