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Your Sinclair official top 100
The Your Sinclair official top 100 is a list of ZX Spectrum computer games considered by the magazine to be the best ever. It was compiled by Stuart Campbell and published in the October 1991 to February 1992 issues of Your Sinclair.
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3D Deathchase
3D Deathchase is a 1983 computer game written for the ZX Spectrum by Mervyn Estcourt and published by Micromega in the UK and Ventamatic in Spain.
The player controls a motorcycle-riding mercenary as he pursues two other motorcycles, one blue and...
Tetris
Tetris (Russian: Те́трис) is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was created on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He...
All or Nothing
All or Nothing is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum, released in 1984 by Abbex. The basic premise of the game sees the player parachute into hostile territory, retrieve secret documents and destroy the enemy camp.
All or Nothing is essentially an...
Stop the Express
Stop the Express (in Japan, the game was known as Bousou Tokkyuu SOS (暴走特急SOS)) is a ZX Spectrum video game made by Hudson Soft in 1983. There were also versions for the Commodore 64 and the MSX.
In Stage 1, the player runs along the top of an...
Head Over Heels
Head Over Heels is an arcade adventure, released in 1987 for several popular 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...
R-Type
R-Type (アールタイプ) is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named "Arrowhead" to defend humanity against a mysterious but powerful alien life-form known as "Bydo", which was later...
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a computer game created by Geoff Crammond, published by Firebird in 1986 for the Commodore 64 and converted to the BBC Micro (by Crammond himself), Amstrad CPC (with a cross-compiler written by Crammond), ZX Spectrum (by Mike Follin)...
Rainbow Islands
Rainbow Islands (レインボーアイランド, Reinbō Airando) is a 1987 arcade game developed and published by Taito. The game is subtitled "The Story of Bubble Bobble 2" and is the sequel to Taito's hit game Bubble Bobble from the previous year. It is the second of...
Boulder Dash
Boulder Dash, originally released in 1984, is a classic series of computer games for the Atari 400/800, Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision home computers, and later ported to the NES, Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga...
Tornado Low Level
Tornado Low Level (also known as T.L.L.) is a game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC computers, and released by Vortex Software in 1984 . It was written by Costa Panayi who also coded Android, Android 2, Highway Encounter, Cyclone and...
SimCity
SimCity is a city-building simulation game, first released in 1989 and designed by Will Wright. SimCity was Maxis' first product, which has since been ported into various personal computers and game consoles, and spawned several sequels including...
Carrier Command
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]",...
Chuckie Egg
A&F; Software's Chuckie Egg is a home computer video game released in 1983, initially for the ZX Spectrum, the BBC Micro and the Dragon. Its subsequent popularity saw it released over the following years on a wide variety of computers, including the...
Ant Attack
Ant Attack is a ZX Spectrum computer game by Sandy White. It was published in 1983 by Quicksilva, and converted to the Commodore 64 in 1984. It is notable for having the first playable female character in a videogame (the player starts by choosing...
The Lords of Midnight
The Lords of Midnight is a 1980s 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...
Elite
Elite is a seminal space trading computer 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...
Starquake
Starquake is an arcade adventure, platform and maze game written by Dave Collins and Stephen Crow and published by Bubble Bus software in 1985. It was released for Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari XL (all 1985), the BBC Micro (1987...
Underwurlde
Underwurlde is a video game for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. The game is the second in the Sabreman series, following on from his adventures in Sabre Wulf. The format of the game is a 2D...
Back to Skool
Back to Skool is a computer game, sequel to the popular Skool Daze, created by David Reidy for the ZX Spectrum and released by Microsphere in 1985. The gameplay was very similar to - if more advanced than - Skool Daze, even incorporating most of the...
Spy vs. Spy
Spy vs. Spy was a game first published by First Star Software in 1984 for the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64 and Apple II computers. It was an innovative two-player, split-screen game, based on MAD Magazine's long running cartoon strip, Spy vs....
Alien
Alien is a game produced by Argonaut Software in 1984 and released by Argus Press - it is based on the sci-fi movie of the same name directed by Ridley Scott. The game uses very simple black and green graphics, with a little extra color for some...
Chase H.Q.
Chase H.Q. (チェイスH.Q., "Chase Headquarters") is an arcade racing game, released in 1988 by Taito. In the game the player assumes the role of a police officer named Tony Gibson in a black Porsche 928 chasing after a fleeing criminal. Along with his...
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...
Starstrike II
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 pioneers of the platform...
Light Force
Super Hang-On
Super Hang-On (also known as Hang-On 2) is a 1987 motorcycle racing arcade game from Sega, and the sequel to the acclaimed Hang-On. A version of this game, in the full simulated-motorcycle cabinet used by the original Hang-On was released in 1991 as...
Deactivators
Deactivators is a computer game for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464, developed by Tigress Marketing and published by Ariolasoft's label, Reaktor, in late 1986. The music was written by Simon PC Frost. The programming was done by...
Nebulus
Nebulus, also known as Castelian, Kyorochan Land, Subline and Tower Toppler, is a computer game published by Hewson in the late 1980s for various home computer systems. The US version, which was published by U.S. Gold, was released under the title...
Lunar Jetman
Lunar Jetman is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983. The game is the second in the Jetman series, following on from his adventures in Jetpac. In the game, Jetman has to defend the Earth (and himself)...
Jet Set Willy
Jet Set Willy is a computer game originally written for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published in 1984 by Software Projects and ported to most home computers of the time.
The game is a sequel to Manic Miner (1983), and is the second game in...
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...
Deus Ex Machina
Deus Ex Machina was a computer game developed and published by Automata UK for the ZX Spectrum in 1984. After the collapse of the company it was subsequently republished by Electric Dreams in 1985, but only for the Commodore 64.
The game was...
Cybernoid
Cybernoid is a shoot 'em up published in 1987 by Hewson Consultants for several home computer formats. It was programmed by Raffaele Cecco. The Commodore C64 version featured a main theme by Jeroen Tel, whilst the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Amstrad...
Lode Runner
Lode Runner is a 1983 platform game, first published by Brøderbund. It is one of the first games to include a level editor, a feature that allows players to create their own levels for the game. This feature bolstered the game's popularity, as...
Gauntlet
Gauntlet is a 1985 arcade game by Atari Games. Gauntlet is a fantasy-themed hack and slash arcade game which can be played by one to four players simultaneously, unique for arcade games of its day. Released during the emergence of popularity of role...
Mercenary
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...
Highway Encounter
Highway Encounter is a computer game released on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 by Vortex Software in 1985. It was written by Costa Panayi who also coded Android, Android 2, TLL, Cyclone and Revolution.
Highway Encounter...
Fantasy World Dizzy
Fantasy World Dizzy is an arcade adventure video game released in October 1989 by Codemasters and designed by the Oliver twins.
The game is considered the third in the Dizzy series and was even developed under the name Dizzy 3', because the third...
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 Phillip Mitchell and Veronika Megler and published by Melbourne House for most home computers available at the...
Midnight Resistance
Midnight Resistance (ミッドナイトレジスタンス, Middonaito Rejisutansu) is a 1990 run and gun arcade game developed by Nihon Bussan and published by Data East. It used a 3D joystick (a normal 8 way joystick that could also be twisted as a dial) to allow the...
International Match Day
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Renegade
Renegade is a video game released in American and European arcades in 1986 by Taito. It is a westernized conversion (including changes to all of the sprites and backgrounds) of the Japanese arcade game Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun (熱血硬派くにおくん, which...
Enduro Racer
Enduro Racer is an arcade game from Sega. It was released in 1986 with either a stand up cabinet with handlebars or a full sized dirt bike on the cabinet itself. it is essentially the dirt version of hang on. hence using the same engine.
The player...
Robotron: 2084
Robotron: 2084 (also referred to as Robotron) is an arcade video game developed by Vid Kidz and released by Williams Electronics in 1982. It is a shooting game that features two-dimensional (2D) graphics. The game is set in the year 2084, in a...
Jumping Jack
Jumping Jack is a platform game created by Universal for arcades. The ZX Spectrum 16K version features a daring explorer named Jack who jumps up through the holes, avoiding large monsters. Each monster kicks him and he can fall down through the...
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...
Rastan Saga
Rastan Saga (ラスタンサーガ), released in North America simply as Rastan is a hack and slash platform arcade game developed and released by Taito in 1987.
The player controls the barbarian named Rastan, who has to cross a number of levels and defeat...
Saboteur
Saboteur literally means "one who sabotages". Saboteur! is an action game published in 1985 for several 8-bit home computer formats by Durell Software. It was programmed by Clive Townsend.
You try to get into a warehouse to get a floppy disk which...
Bounty Bob Strikes Back
Dun Darach
Dun Darach is an arcade adventure published in 1985 by Gargoyle Games for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC home computers. Although it was released the following year, it is a prequel to 1984's Tir Na Nog.
The background history is based on Celtic...
Operation Wolf
Operation Wolf is a one-player shooter arcade game made by Taito in 1987. It spawned three sequels: Operation Thunderbolt (1988), Operation Wolf 3 (1994) and Operation Tiger (1998).
The object of the game is to rescue the five hostages in the...
Hyper Sports
Hyper Sports 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 and one action button per player. This game is also...
Knot in 3D
Knot in 3D is a ZX Spectrum game by Malcolm Evans, originally published in 1983 by New Generation Software. It resembles a three-dimensional (i.e. with three degrees of freedom instead of only two) version of the Light Cycles game from the movie...
