List of Acorn Electron games
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Following is a work-in-progress List of Acorn Electron
Acorn Electron
The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. It has 32 kilobytes of RAM, and its ROM includes BBC BASIC along with its operating system....

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  • 3D Bomb Alley
    3D Bomb Alley
    3D Bomb Alley is a video game created by Software Invasion for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. According to The Micro User magazine, the gameplay is "based on San Carlos Bay in the Falklands" and refers to the contemporary Falklands War....

     (Software Invasion)
  • 3D Dotty
    3D Dotty
    3D Dotty is a video game published by Blue Ribbon for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro home computers in 1987. The aim is to clear the dots on the three levels of each screen while avoiding the dreaded fungus. Any contact with the fungus will reduce energy, and a life is lost when the energy...

     (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • 3D Maze
    3D Maze
    3D Maze is a video game created by IJK Software for the BBC Micro in 1982 and ported to the Acorn Electron and Oric-1 in 1983. The computer sets up the logical mazes and then it shows the view of the maze in 3D....

     (IJK)
  • 3D Tankzone (Dynabyte)
  • 737 Flight Simulator (Salamander)
  • 747 (Doctorsoft)
  • 747 Flight Simulator (DACC Limited)
  • 767 Advanced Flight Simulator (Flightdeck)

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  • A Question of Sport (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Abyss (Cases
    Cases Computer Simulations
    Cases Computer Simulations was a software company which specialized in strategy and war games for the ZX Spectrum, a number of which were ported to the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC....

    )
  • Aces High (Oasis)
  • Acheton (Topologika
    Topologika
    Topologika Software Ltd is a still-independent British publisher of educational software. Based in Brighton, the company was founded in 1983.Many of its early products were interactive fiction adventure games taken on after Acornsoft was sold to Superior Software who only continued to release their...

    )
  • Adventure
    Adventure (Micro Power video game)
    Adventure is an 8-bit computer game published in the UK by Micro Power. It was released on the Acorn Atom sometime around 1982 and on the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro in 1983....

     (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Adventureland (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai; The (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Airline (Cases
    Cases Computer Simulations
    Cases Computer Simulations was a software company which specialized in strategy and war games for the ZX Spectrum, a number of which were ported to the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC....

    )
  • Alien Break In (Romik)
  • Alien Dropout (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Alphatron (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Anarchy Zone (Atlantis)
  • Arcade Soccer (4th Dimension)
  • Arcadians (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Arena 3000 (Microdeal
    Microdeal
    Microdeal was a British software company which operated during the 1980s and early 1990s from its base at Truro Road in the town of St Austell, Cornwall...

    )
  • Arrow of Death part 1 (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Arrow of Death part 2 (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Astro Plumber (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Atom Smasher (Romik)
  • Avon (Topologika
    Topologika
    Topologika Software Ltd is a still-independent British publisher of educational software. Based in Brighton, the company was founded in 1983.Many of its early products were interactive fiction adventure games taken on after Acornsoft was sold to Superior Software who only continued to release their...

    )
  • Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )

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  • Ballistix (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Balloon Buster
    Balloon buster
    Balloon busters were military pilots known for destroying enemy observation balloons. These pilots were noted for their fearlessness. Seventy-six fighter pilots in World War I were each credited with destroying five or more balloons, and thus were balloon aces....

     (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Bandits at 3 O'Clock (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax
    Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax
    Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax is a video game first published in 1988 for various home computers. It was also released as Axe of Rage in North America. The game is the sequel to Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior , which was published in 1987...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Bar Billiards
    Bar billiards
    Bar Billiards is a form of billiards which is often thought to be based on the traditional game of bagatelle. It is actually based on the French/Belgian Billard Russe game that preceded it....

     (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Baron (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Battle 1917 (Cases
    Cases Computer Simulations
    Cases Computer Simulations was a software company which specialized in strategy and war games for the ZX Spectrum, a number of which were ported to the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC....

    )
  • Battlefields (BBCSoft)
  • Battlezone 2000 (MC Lothlorien)
  • Battlezone Six (Kansas)
  • Beach-Head (U.S. Gold
    U.S. Gold
    U.S. Gold was a British video game publisher and developer from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s, producing numerous titles on a variety of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit platforms.-History:...

    )
  • Bed Bugs (Optima Software)
  • Beebtreck (Software For All)
  • Big KO; The (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Birdie Barrage (CDS Software
    CDS Software
    CDS Software was an independent publisher and developer of computer game software based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK.-History:...

    )
  • Birds of Prey (Romik)
  • Birdstrike (Firebird)
  • Blagger
    Blagger
    Blagger is a platform game created by Antony Crowther and released by Alligata for the Commodore 64 and BBC Micro computers in 1983, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and MSX in 1984 and Commodore 16/Commodore Plus/4 in 1985. In some countries this game was released under the name Gangster. The gameplay...

     (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Blast! (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Blitzkrieg (Software Invasion)
  • Blockbusters (Macsen)
  • Blockbusters Gold Run (Macsen)
  • Blockbusters Question Master (Macsen)
  • Bobby Charlton Soccer (DACC Limited)
  • Boffin (Addictive Games
    Addictive Games
    Addictive Games was a UK video game publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s. It is best known for the Football Manager series of games created by company founder Kevin Toms...

    )
  • Bomber Baron (Optyx)
  • Bonecruncher
    Bonecruncher
    Bonecruncher is a computer game published by Superior Software in 1987 for the BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and Acorn Electron.-Summary:thumb|left|In-game screenshot...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Boss; The (Peaksoft)
  • Boulder Dash
    Boulder Dash
    Boulder Dash, originally released in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers, is a series of computer games released for the Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision home computers, and later ported to the NES, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and many other platforms...

     (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Bouncing Bombs (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Boxer (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Bozo the Brave (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Braz (Livewire)
  • Brian Clough's Football Fortunes (CDS Software
    CDS Software
    CDS Software was an independent publisher and developer of computer game software based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK.-History:...

    )
  • Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge
    Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge
    Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge is a 1985 sports simulation game released for various home computers by Martech, licensed by British sportsman, Brian Jacks....

     (Martech
    Martech
    Martech Games Ltd was a video game publisher active between 1982 and 1989.Martech was formed by David Martin and brother-in-law John Barry, initially under the name Software Communications Ltd under partnership with a firm of exporters. They were initially based at Bay Terrace, Pevensey Bay, East...

    )
  • Breakthrough (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Bridge Challenge (Livewire)
  • Bridge Master (J Keyne)
  • Bruce's Play Your Cards Right (Britannia)
  • Buffalo Bill's Rodeo Games (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Bug Blaster (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Bug Eyes (Icon)
  • Bug Eyes 2 (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Bugs (Virgin Games)
  • Bullseye (Macsen)
  • Bumble Bee (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Bun Fun
    Bun Fun
    Bun Fun is a computer game, released for the BBC Micro home computer by Squirrel Software on cassette in . It was later ported to the Acorn Electron.-Gameplay:In the game, the player manages a production line...

     (Squirrel)
  • Business Games
    Business Games
    Business Games is a software package published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. It was released in the Acornsoft Education range and includes two business simulation games; Stokmark and Telemark....

     (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • By Fair Means or Foul
    By Fair Means or Foul
    By Fair Means or Foul is a boxing video game first published for a range of 8-bit home computers in 1988 by Superior Software. It was later reissued with the new title by Codemasters who also published conversions for 16-bit computers. The game offers a variety of boxing moves including fouls...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )

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  • Camelot
    Camelot (video game)
    Camelot is an 8-bit computer game written by Tony Oakden and published in the UK in 1989/90 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. The game was first published by Superior Software and Acornsoft as part of the Play it Again Sam 9 compilation in 1989 and was subsequently re-published as a standalone...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Castles & Clowns (Macmillian)
  • Castle Assault (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Castle of Riddles
    Castle of Riddles
    Castle of Riddles is a text adventure released by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron home computers. The game was written by Peter Killworth and was one of a series of text adventures written for, or ported to the BBC Micro by the same author . As with all such games, only text is used...

     (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Caterpillar (IJK)
  • Caterpillar (Romik)
  • Caveman (Kansas)
  • Caveman Capers (Icon)
  • Centibug (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Chess (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Chess (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Chess (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Chip Buster (Software Invasion)
  • Chuckie Egg
    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 Commodore 64, Acorn Electron, MSX, Tatung...

     (A&F Software)
  • Circus (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Circus Games (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Citadel (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • City Defence (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Clogger (Impact Software)
  • Codename: Droid (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Colossus Bridge 4 (CDS Software
    CDS Software
    CDS Software was an independent publisher and developer of computer game software based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK.-History:...

    )
  • Colossus Chess 4
    Colossus Chess
    Colossus Chess is a series of chess-playing computer programs developed by Martin Bryant, commercially available for various home computers in the 1980s.- Colossus Chess :...

     (CDS Software
    CDS Software
    CDS Software was an independent publisher and developer of computer game software based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK.-History:...

    )
  • Combat Lynx (Durell Software
    Durell Software
    Durell Software is a UK software developer based in Taunton, Somerset in the United Kingdom. The company is a provider of back office administration and accounting software to Independent Financial Advisers, Mortgage and General Insurance Brokers. Durell was formerly a leading video games...

    )
  • Commando (Elite
    Elite Systems
    Elite Systems is a UK video game developer and publisher established in 1984 as Richard Wilcox Software. They are best known for producing home computer conversions of popular arcade games...

    )
  • Commonwealth Games (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Condition Red (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Confuzion
    Confuzion
    Confuzion is a puzzle game developed and published by Incentive Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, and Acorn Electron. The object is to guide a spark along a fuse wire. It is similar to the later and more widely known Pipe Mania...

     (Incentive
    Incentive Software
    Incentive Software Ltd. was a British video game developer and publisher founded by Ian Andrew in 1983. Programmers included Sean Ellis, Stephen Northcott and Ian's brother Chris Andrew. Later games were based around the company's Freescape rendering engine...

    )
  • Contact Bridge (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Cops 'n' Robbers
    Cops 'n' Robbers
    Cops 'n' Robbers is a game for home computers published by Atlantis Software originally in 1985 for the Commodore VIC-20 and in virtually identical form on the Commodore 64. It was ported to the Commodore 16/Commodore Plus/4 , Acorn Electron and BBC Micro and the Atari 8-bit family of computers...

     (Atlantis)
  • Corn Cropper (Cases
    Cases Computer Simulations
    Cases Computer Simulations was a software company which specialized in strategy and war games for the ZX Spectrum, a number of which were ported to the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC....

    )
  • Corporate Climber (Dynabyte)
  • Cosmic Camouflage
    Cosmic Camouflage
    Cosmic Camouflage is a computer game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. It was released in 1988 as the sequel to Acornsoft's Meteors. The game idea is based on arcade game Asteroids...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Count; The
    The Count (video game)
    The Count is a text-based adventure program written by Scott Adams and published by Adventure International.-Gameplay:The player character has been sent to defeat the vampire Count Dracula by the local Transylvanian villagers, and must obtain and use items from around the vampire's castle in order...

     (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Countdown to Doom
    Countdown to Doom
    Countdown to Doom is a text adventure computer game, more recently termed interactive fiction, written in 1982 by Peter Killworth. Its setting is the planet Doomawangara, which is coyly said to be shortened to "Doom". There are two sequels, Return to Doom and Last Days of Doom.The game was first...

     (Topologika
    Topologika
    Topologika Software Ltd is a still-independent British publisher of educational software. Based in Brighton, the company was founded in 1983.Many of its early products were interactive fiction adventure games taken on after Acornsoft was sold to Superior Software who only continued to release their...

    )
  • Counter Attack (OIC)
  • Crack-Up (Atlantis
    Atlantis Software
    Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year...

    )
  • Crazee Rider (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Crazy Er*Bert (Alternative Software)
  • Crazy Tracer (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Creepy Cave (Atlantis
    Atlantis Software
    Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year...

    )
  • Cricket (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Croaker (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Crown Jewels (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Crystal Castles (US Gold)
  • Custard Pie Fight (Comsoft)
  • Cybertron Mission
    Cybertron Mission
    Cybertron Mission is a two-dimensional shooter game, released by Micro Power in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron and later ported to the Commodore 64 in the same year...

     (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Cyborg Warriors (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Cylon Attack (A&F Software)
  • Cylon Invasion (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )

D

  • Dallas (Cases
    Cases Computer Simulations
    Cases Computer Simulations was a software company which specialized in strategy and war games for the ZX Spectrum, a number of which were ported to the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC....

    )
  • Danger UXB (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Daredevil Dennis (Visions)
  • Darts (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Dead or Alive (Alternative Software)
  • Deathstar
    Deathstar (video game)
    Deathstar is an 8-bit computer game for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro developed by Peter Johnson and originally published in the UK by Superior Software in 1985...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Despatch Rider
    Despatch rider
    A despatch rider is a military messenger, mounted on horse or motorcycle.Despatch riders were used by armed forces to deliver urgent orders and messages between headquarters and military units...

     (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Diamond Mine
    Diamond Mine (video game)
    Diamond Mine is a video game first published by MRM Software for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro home computers in 1984. It was reissued by Blue Ribbon in 1985 and ported to other systems in 1985 and 1986...

     (MRM)
  • Diamond Mine II (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Diamond Pete (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Dominoes (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Dogfight - For Aces Only (Slogger Systems)
  • Drain Mania (Icon)
  • Draughts & Reversi (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Draughts (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Dunjunz
    Dunjunz
    Dunjunz is a video game made for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron home computers and released by Bug-Byte in 1987. It is essentially a clone of the popular video game Gauntlet where players controlled fantasy character from a top down view.-Gameplay:...

     (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )

E

  • Eddie Kidd Jump Challenge
    Eddie Kidd Jump Challenge
    Eddie Kidd Jump Challenge is a 1985 vehicle simulation game released for the Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron and BBC Micro, licensed by British stunt performer, Eddie Kidd....

     (Martech
    Martech
    Martech Games Ltd was a video game publisher active between 1982 and 1989.Martech was formed by David Martin and brother-in-law John Barry, initially under the name Software Communications Ltd under partnership with a firm of exporters. They were initially based at Bay Terrace, Pevensey Bay, East...

    )
  • Egghead In Space (Cronosoft
    Cronosoft
    Cronosoft is a UK-based software publishing house, which manufactures and markets games and utility software for a range of computers that are considered 'retro' or commercially obsolete. The company was established in 2002, with its first release Egghead in Space, written by Jonathan Cauldwell,...

    )
  • Electron Invaders (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Elite (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Elixir
    Elixir (computer game)
    Elixir is a computer game for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro released in 1987 by Superior Software. It was later included on the compilation Play it Again Sam 5.-Gameplay:...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Empire (Shards Software)
  • Enigma (Brainbox)
  • Er*Bert (Microbyte)
  • Escape from Moonbase Alpha (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Escape from Pulsar 7 (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • E-Type (4th Dimension)
  • Evening Star
    Evening Star (video game)
    Evening Star is a vector graphics Train Simulation type game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and Amstrad CPC. This game is the sequel to Southern Belle.-Gameplay:...

     (Hewson Consultants
    Hewson Consultants
    Hewson Consultants were one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers in the mid 1980s. They had a reputation for high quality games which continually pushed the boundaries of what the computers were capable of and can be compared favourably with other...

    )
  • Exile (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )

F

  • Fantasia Diamond (Hewson Consultants
    Hewson Consultants
    Hewson Consultants were one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers in the mid 1980s. They had a reputation for high quality games which continually pushed the boundaries of what the computers were capable of and can be compared favourably with other...

    )
  • Feasibility Experiment; The (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Felix and the Fruit Monsters
    Felix and the Fruit Monsters
    Felix and the Fruit Monsters is a video game released by Micro Power for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron in 1983. It is a sequel to the earlier game Felix in the Factory. The game is a sort of Pac-Man clone, in which the player moves around a maze collecting fruit and avoiding the fruit monsters....

     (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Felix in the Factory
    Felix in the Factory
    Felix in the Factory is a platform game for home computers published by Micro Power . The game was first released in 1982 for the BBC Micro. It was ported to the Acorn Electron , Commodore 64 and Memotech MTX...

     (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Felix Meets the Evil Weevils (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Firebug (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Fighter Pilot (Kansas)
  • Firetrack
    Firetrack
    Firetrack is a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up computer game programmed by Nick "Orlando" Pelling and released for the BBC Micro and Commodore 64 platforms in 1987 by Electric Dreams Software. It was also ported to the Acorn Electron by Superior Software in 1989 as part of the Play It Again Sam 7...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • First Moves Chess (Longman
    Longman
    Longman was a publishing company founded in London, England in 1724. It is now an imprint of Pearson Education.-Beginnings:The Longman company was founded by Thomas Longman , the son of Ezekiel Longman , a gentleman of Bristol. Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a London bookseller, and...

    )
  • Five-A-Side Socca (IJK)
  • Flight Path 737 (Anirog)
  • Footballer of the Year (Gremlin
    Gremlin Interactive
    Gremlin Interactive was a British software house based in Sheffield and working mostly in the home computer market.- History :...

    )
  • Football Manager (Addictive Games
    Addictive Games
    Addictive Games was a UK video game publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s. It is best known for the Football Manager series of games created by company founder Kevin Toms...

    )
  • Frak!
    Frak!
    Frak! is a 1980s computer game originally programmed by Orlando for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron and published by his own 'Aardvark' software label in 1984. The game was ported to the Commodore 64 the following year by 'The B Team'...

     (Aardvark)
  • Frankenstein 2000 (Icon)
  • Free Fall (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Frenzy
    Frenzy (Micro Power video game)
    Frenzy is an 8-bit computer game published in the UK by Micro Power in 1984.It is a version of the arcade game Qix.The game was released for the Acorn Electronand BBC Microin 1984 and for the Commodore 64 in 1985.-Description:...

     (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Froot Raid (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Fruit Catcher (Livewire)
  • Fruit Machine (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Fruit Machine (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Fruit Machine (Doctorsoft)
  • Fruit Machine Simulator (Codemasters
    Codemasters
    The Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...

    )
  • Future Shock (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )

G

  • Galactic Commander (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Galactic Patrol (Mastertronic
    Mastertronic
    Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was the dominant software publisher in the UK, a position achieved by selling cassette-based software at the £1.99...

    )
  • Galaforce (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Galaforce 2 (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Galaxy Wars (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Gatecrasher (Quicksilva
    Quicksilva
    Quicksilva was a British games software publisher active during the early 1980s.Amongst the company's successes were Jeff Minter's Gridrunner and Bugaboo , a title licenced from Spanish software house Indescomp S.A....

    )
  • Gauntlet (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Geoff Capes Strong Man (Martech
    Martech
    Martech Games Ltd was a video game publisher active between 1982 and 1989.Martech was formed by David Martin and brother-in-law John Barry, initially under the name Software Communications Ltd under partnership with a firm of exporters. They were initially based at Bay Terrace, Pevensey Bay, East...

    )
  • Ghost Town
    Ghost Town (video game)
    Ghost Town is a computer game developed by Adventure International and released in 1981.-Plot:The player searches a Western ghost town for treasure...

     (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Ghouls
    Ghouls (video game)
    Ghouls is an 8-bit computer game written by David Hoskins and published in the UK by Micro Power. It was released on the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC in 1984Ghouls is a platform game, set in a creepy mansion on top of a hill...

     (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Gisburne's Castle (Martech
    Martech
    Martech Games Ltd was a video game publisher active between 1982 and 1989.Martech was formed by David Martin and brother-in-law John Barry, initially under the name Software Communications Ltd under partnership with a firm of exporters. They were initially based at Bay Terrace, Pevensey Bay, East...

    )
  • Go
    Computer Go
    Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence dedicated to creating a computer program that plays Go, a traditional board game.-Performance:...

     (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Goal! (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Golden Baton; The (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Golden Figurine; The (Atlantis
    Atlantis Software
    Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year...

    )
  • Golden Voyage (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Golf (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Golf (Yes!)
  • Gorph (Doctorsoft)
  • Graham Gooch's Match Cricket (Alternative Software)
  • Graham Gooch's Test Cricket
    Graham Gooch's Test Cricket
    Graham Gooch's Test Cricket is a 1985 cricket game released for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum by Audiogenic. It was later reissued by budget label Alternative Software as Graham Gooch's Match Cricket.-Gameplay:...

     (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • The Great Wall (Artic Software
    Artic Software
    In the early 1980s, Artic Software, also known as Artic Computing, was a software development company based in Brandesburton. The company's first games were for the Sinclair ZX81 home computer, but they expanded and were also responsible for various ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn...

    )
  • Gremlins: The Adventure (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Grid Iron (Top Ten)
  • Grid Iron 2 (Alternative Software)
  • Gunfighter (Atlantis
    Atlantis Software
    Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year...

    )
  • Guardian (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Gunsmoke (Software Invasion)
  • Gyroscope
    Gyroscope (video game)
    Gyroscope is an action video game published by Melbourne House in 1985 for a number of home computers. It is based on the Atari arcade game Marble Madness.-Gameplay:...

     (Melbourne House
    Melbourne House
    Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Beam Software, was a video game development studio founded in 1980 and based in Melbourne, Australia. The studio operated independently from 1987 until 1999, when it was acquired by Infogrames, who changed the name to Melbourne House...

    )

H

  • The Hacker (Firebird)
  • Hampstead (Melbourne House
    Melbourne House
    Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Beam Software, was a video game development studio founded in 1980 and based in Melbourne, Australia. The studio operated independently from 1987 until 1999, when it was acquired by Infogrames, who changed the name to Melbourne House...

    )
  • Hard Hat Harry (Retro Software)
  • Hareraiser
    Hareraiser
    Hareraiser is a computer game, originally released in 1984 in the UK for most home computer platforms. It was released in two parts; Prelude and Finale. A prize worth £30,000 was on offer if the game could be solved.-Gameplay:...

     (Haresoft)
  • Harlequin (Kansas)
  • Heathrow ATC (Hewson Consultants
    Hewson Consultants
    Hewson Consultants were one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers in the mid 1980s. They had a reputation for high quality games which continually pushed the boundaries of what the computers were capable of and can be compared favourably with other...

    )
  • Hell Hole (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Helter Skelter (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Hercules
    Hercules (1984 video game)
    Hercules is a platforming video game first published for the Commodore 64 by Interdisc in 1984. It was later reissued by Alpha Omega/The Power House and ported to a number of other home computers.-Gameplay:...

     (The Power House)
  • Hezarin (Topologika
    Topologika
    Topologika Software Ltd is a still-independent British publisher of educational software. Based in Brighton, the company was founded in 1983.Many of its early products were interactive fiction adventure games taken on after Acornsoft was sold to Superior Software who only continued to release their...

    )
  • Hi Q Quiz (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Hobgoblin (Atlantis)
  • Hobgoblin 2 (Atlantis)
  • Holed Out (4th Dimension)
  • Hopper (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Horse Race (Dynabyte)
  • Hostages (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • House of Horrors (Kayess)
  • Hunchback
    Hunchback (video game)
    Hunchback is an arcade game developed by Century Electronics in 1983. The player controls Quasimodo from the Victor Hugo novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame....

     (Ocean
    Ocean Software
    The British company Ocean Software was one of the biggest European video game developers/publishers of the 1980s and 90s...

    )
  • Hunkidory (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Hyper Viper (Retro Software)
  • Hyperball (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Hyperdrive
    Hyperdrive (video game)
    Hyperdrive is a racing video game made by Midway Games in 1998 for the Arcade platform....

     (IJK)

I

  • Ian Botham's Test Match (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Icarus (Mandarin)
  • Ice Hockey (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Imogen
    Imogen (video game)
    Imogen is a computer game released in 1986, originally only for the BBC Micro. It was written by Michael St Aubyn and published by Micro Power. It was reissued as the lead game of Superior Software / Acornsoft's Play It Again Sam 5 compilation in 1988 when it was also converted for the Acorn Electron...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Impact (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Impossible Mission
    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.-Description:...

     (US Gold)
  • Indoor Soccer (Alternative Software)
  • Indoor Sports
    Indoor Sports
    Indoor Sports is a computer game developed by DesignStar's SportTime and first published in the US by Mindscape in 1987 for the Commodore 64. It was converted to many other platforms, particularly in Europe where it was published by Databyte, Advance Software and Tynesoft .-Gameplay:This game...

     (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Inertia (4th Dimension)
  • Intergalactic Trader (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Inu (MRJ)
  • Invaders (IJK)
  • Invaders (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )

J

  • Jack Attack (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Jet-Boot Jack
    Jet-Boot Jack
    Jet-Boot Jack is a platforming video game first published for the Atari 8-bit home computers by English Software in 1983. It was later ported to a number of other platforms and spawned a sequel, Legend of the Knucker-Hole.-Gameplay:...

     (English Software
    English Software
    English Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s based in Manchester, UK.- History :The company was set up in 1982 by Philip Morris, owner of Gemini Electronics computer store in Manchester, to release video games for the Atari 8-bit home computers...

    )
  • Jet Power Jack (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Jet Set Willy
    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....

     (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Jet Set Willy II
    Jet Set Willy II
    Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier was a platform game released in 1985 by Software Projects for a variety of 8-bit home computers. It was the only official sequel to Jet Set Willy, one of the most successful and popular home computer games ever released...

     (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Joe Blade
    Joe Blade
    Joe Blade is the title of a series of budget-price platform games written by Colin Swinbourne and published by Players.All three titles were flick-screen adventures, in which the player controls the titular character through a number of rooms, dispatching enemies and rescuing innocent people...

     (Players)
  • Joe Blade 2 (Players)
  • Joey (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Johnny Reb (MC Lothlorien)
  • Jump Jet (Anirog)
  • Jungle Jive (Virgin Games)

K

  • Kamakazi (A&F Software)
  • Kane
    Kane (video game)
    Kane is a multi-section action game published by Mastertronic, originally for the Commodore 64 in 1986. The game was then ported to a wide variety of other home computers. The game is set in the Wild West, and its name is a reference to the main character of the film High Noon...

     (Mastertronic
    Mastertronic
    Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was the dominant software publisher in the UK, a position achieved by selling cassette-based software at the £1.99...

    )
  • Karate Combat (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Kastle (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Kayleth (US Gold)
  • Ket Trilogy (Incentive
    Incentive Software
    Incentive Software Ltd. was a British video game developer and publisher founded by Ian Andrew in 1983. Programmers included Sean Ellis, Stephen Northcott and Ian's brother Chris Andrew. Later games were based around the company's Freescape rendering engine...

    )
  • Killapede (Players)
  • Killer Gorilla (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Killer Gorilla 2 (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Kingdom of Hamil (Topologika
    Topologika
    Topologika Software Ltd is a still-independent British publisher of educational software. Based in Brighton, the company was founded in 1983.Many of its early products were interactive fiction adventure games taken on after Acornsoft was sold to Superior Software who only continued to release their...

    )
  • Kissin' Cousins (English Software
    English Software
    English Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s based in Manchester, UK.- History :The company was set up in 1982 by Philip Morris, owner of Gemini Electronics computer store in Manchester, to release video games for the Atari 8-bit home computers...

    )
  • Kourtyard (Go-Dax)

L

  • Last Days of Doom (Topologika
    Topologika
    Topologika Software Ltd is a still-independent British publisher of educational software. Based in Brighton, the company was founded in 1983.Many of its early products were interactive fiction adventure games taken on after Acornsoft was sold to Superior Software who only continued to release their...

    )
  • Last Ninja
    The Last Ninja
    The Last Ninja is an action-adventure game developed and published by System 3 in 1987 for the Commodore 64. As the first in the Last Ninja series, it set the standard for the unique look and feel for its sequels: Last Ninja 2 , Last Ninja Remix and Last Ninja 3...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Last Ninja 2
    Last Ninja 2
    Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance is an action-adventure computer game that was developed and published by System 3 in 1988 as a sequel to the 1987 game The Last Ninja. The NES version of the game was named simply The Last Ninja....

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Last of the Free (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Laser Reflex (Talent Computer Systems)
  • League Challenge (Atlantis
    Atlantis Software
    Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year...

    )
  • Lemming Syndrome (Dynabyte)
  • Licence to Kill (Alternative Software)
  • Locomotion (BBCSoft)
  • Loony Loco (Kansas)
  • Loopz
    Loopz
    Loopz is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed created by Ian Upton for the Atari ST in 1989. Ian Upton had previously worked as head game designer for Audiogenic, who acquired exclusive rights to the game, then in 1990 arranged for Mindscape to publish the computer game in North...

     (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Lunar Rescue
    Lunar Rescue
    Lunar Rescue is an arcade game released by Taito in 1979. It contains elements that resemble both Taito's own Space Invaders as well as Atari's Lunar Lander released that same year....

     (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )

M

  • Magic Mushrooms (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Mango (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Maniac Mower (Kansas)
  • Master Break (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Maze (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Megaforce (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Mendips Stone (Dee-Kay)
  • Merry Xmas Santa (Icon)
  • Meteors (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Mexico '86 (Qualsoft)
  • Microball (Alternative Software)
  • Micro Olympics (Database Software
    Database Software
    Database Software was a software publisher based in Cheshire, England. Software published by the company includes the Red Arrows game for the ZX Spectrum and the office suite Mini Office II, as well as games and educational software for children....

    )
  • Mikie
    Mikie
    Mikie, known in Japan as , is a arcade game by Konami where the player must guide a student called "Mikie" around the school, classroom, and locker room to collect hearts which make up a letter from his girlfriend Mandy while being chased by various members of the school staff...

     (Imagine
    Imagine Software
    Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20...

    )
  • Millionaire
    Millionaire (video game)
    Millionaire is a management game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by John Hunt and ported to the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro.- Gameplay :...

     (Incentive
    Incentive Software
    Incentive Software Ltd. was a British video game developer and publisher founded by Ian Andrew in 1983. Programmers included Sean Ellis, Stephen Northcott and Ian's brother Chris Andrew. Later games were based around the company's Freescape rendering engine...

    )
  • Mine; The (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Mined Out (Quicksilva
    Quicksilva
    Quicksilva was a British games software publisher active during the early 1980s.Amongst the company's successes were Jeff Minter's Gridrunner and Bugaboo , a title licenced from Spanish software house Indescomp S.A....

    )
  • Mineshaft (Durell Software
    Durell Software
    Durell Software is a UK software developer based in Taunton, Somerset in the United Kingdom. The company is a provider of back office administration and accounting software to Independent Financial Advisers, Mortgage and General Insurance Brokers. Durell was formerly a leading video games...

    )
  • Missile Control (Gemini)
  • Monkey Nuts (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Monsters (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Moon Buggy (Kansas)
  • Moon Raider (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Mouse Trap (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Mr Wiz (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Munchman (Kansas)
  • Murdac (Topologika
    Topologika
    Topologika Software Ltd is a still-independent British publisher of educational software. Based in Brighton, the company was founded in 1983.Many of its early products were interactive fiction adventure games taken on after Acornsoft was sold to Superior Software who only continued to release their...

    )
  • Mystery Fun House (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )

N

  • Network (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Night Strike (Alternative Software)
  • Night World (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Nightmare Maze (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )

O

  • Omega Orb (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Omega Probe (Optima Software)
  • One Last Game (Bevan Technology)
  • Orbital (Impact Software)
  • Osprey (Bourne)
  • Overdrive
    Overdrive (video game)
    Overdrive is an arcade-style motor racing game which was written by Peter Johnson for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro and released in 1984 by Superior Software....

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Oxbridge (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )

P

  • Palace of Magic
    Palace of Magic
    Palace of Magic is a computer game released in 1987 for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro by Superior Software. Combining platform elements with problem solving, it uses extremely similar gameplay principles to that of the earlier and better known game, Citadel.The game begins with your character in...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Pandemonium (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Paul Daniels Magic Show (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Panik! (Atlantis
    Atlantis Software
    Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year...

    )
  • Paperboy
    Paperboy (video game)
    Paperboy is a 1984 arcade game by Atari Games. The players take the role of a paperboy who delivers newspapers along a suburban street on his bicycle. This game was innovative for its theme and novel controls.-Gameplay:...

     (Elite
    Elite Systems
    Elite Systems is a UK video game developer and publisher established in 1984 as Richard Wilcox Software. They are best known for producing home computer conversions of popular arcade games...

    )
  • Paras (MC Lothlorien)
  • Pedro
    Pedro (video game)
    Pedro is a computer game developed by Frank Johnson, Aidan Rajswing, Andrew Impson, Brian Carpenter and Steve Cain for the ZX Spectrum and released by Imagine Software in 1984...

     (Imagine
    Imagine Software
    Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20...

    )
  • Peg Leg (IJK)
  • Pengi
    Pengi
    Pengi is a computer game for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro, released by Visions Software in 1984. It is based on the Sega arcade game Pengo....

     (Visions)
  • Pengywn (Postern
    Postern
    A postern is a secondary door or gate, particularly in a fortification such as a city wall or castle curtain wall. Posterns were often located in a concealed location, allowing the occupants to come and go inconspicuously. In the event of a siege, a postern could act as a sally port, allowing...

    )
  • Percy Penguin (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Perplexity (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Perseus and Andromeda
    Perseus and Andromeda
    Perseus and Andromeda is a text adventure game released in 1983 by Digital Fantasia on the Mysterious Adventures label.Perseus and Andromeda was written by Brian Howarth in Scott Adams database. The story is an adaptation of the Greek myth of Perseus and includes characters and artifacts such as...

     (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Pettigrew's Diary (Shards Software)
  • Phantom (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Phantom Combat (Doctorsoft)
  • Pharaoh's Tomb (A&F Software)
  • Philosopher's Quest (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Pinball (Microbyte)
  • Pinball Arcade (Kansas)
  • Pipeline (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Pipemania (Empire
    Empire Interactive
    Empire Interactive was a UK based video game developer and publisher founded in 1987. It was closed under administration on 4 May 2009.-About Empire Interactive:...

    )
  • Pirate Adventure (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Plan B (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Plan B2 (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Planetoid (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Playbox (Comsoft)
  • Plunder (Cases
    Cases Computer Simulations
    Cases Computer Simulations was a software company which specialized in strategy and war games for the ZX Spectrum, a number of which were ported to the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and IBM PC....

    )
  • Podd
    Podd
    Podd is an educational game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, published by Acornsoft in 1984.The eponymous main character teaches young users various verbs, performing an appropriate animation when a recognised word is typed in....

     (ASK/Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Poker (Duckworth
    Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd
    -History:Founded in 1898 by Gerald Duckworth, Duckworth is an independent British publisher. It was important in the development of English literature in the first half of the twentieth century, being the publisher of figures such as Virginia Woolf , W. H. Davies, Anthony Powell, John Galsworthy...

    )
  • Pool (Dynabyte)
  • Positron
    Positron (video game)
    Positron is a video game which was published for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers by Micro Power in 1983. It was developed on a pre-release Electron and was one of the few games available for the machine on its launch.-Gameplay:The player controls a laser base which can move left and...

     (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Predator (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Pro Boxing Simulator (Codemasters
    Codemasters
    The Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...

    )
  • Pro Golf (Atlantis
    Atlantis Software
    Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year...

    )
  • Psycastria (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Psycastria 2 (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Pyramid of Doom
    Pyramid of Doom
    Pyramid of Doom is a text-based adventure program written by Scott Adams.- Description :Published by Adventure International, this text-based adventure game was one of many from Scott Adams, co-written by Alvin Files....

     (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )

Q

  • Qbix (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Quest (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Quest for Freedom (IJK)
  • Questprobe: The Incredible Hulk
    Questprobe
    Questprobe is a trilogy of graphical adventure computer games featuring Marvel Comics characters. The three games are Questprobe featuring The Hulk, Questprobe featuring Spider-Man and Questprobe featuring The Human Torch and The Thing....

     (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Questprobe: Spiderman
    Questprobe
    Questprobe is a trilogy of graphical adventure computer games featuring Marvel Comics characters. The three games are Questprobe featuring The Hulk, Questprobe featuring Spider-Man and Questprobe featuring The Human Torch and The Thing....

     (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Questprobe: The Human Torch and The Thing
    Questprobe
    Questprobe is a trilogy of graphical adventure computer games featuring Marvel Comics characters. The three games are Questprobe featuring The Hulk, Questprobe featuring Spider-Man and Questprobe featuring The Human Torch and The Thing....

     (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Qwak
    Qwak
    Qwak is a 2D platform/puzzle game developed by Jamie Woodhouse. It was initially released for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron in 1989 as part of Superior/Acornsoft's Play It Again Sam 10 compilation. An updated and enhanced Amiga version was given a budget release by Team17 in 1993. This update...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )

R

  • Ransack (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Ravage (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Ravenskull (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Rebel Planet (US Gold)
  • Red Coats (MC Lothlorien)
  • Repton (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Repton 2 (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Repton 3 (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Repton Around the World (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • The Life of Repton (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Repton Thru Time (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Repton Infinity (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Repton: The Lost Realms (Retro Software)
  • Return of R2 (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Return to Doom (Topologika
    Topologika
    Topologika Software Ltd is a still-independent British publisher of educational software. Based in Brighton, the company was founded in 1983.Many of its early products were interactive fiction adventure games taken on after Acornsoft was sold to Superior Software who only continued to release their...

    )
  • Revenge of Zor (Kansas)
  • Reversi (Microbyte)
  • Reversi (Kansas)
  • Reversi (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Ricochet (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Rig Attack (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Rik the Roadie (Alternative Software)
  • Robin of Sherwood (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Roboto (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Robotron: 2084
    Robotron: 2084
    Robotron: 2084 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 graphics. The game is set in the year 2084, in a fictional world where robots have turned against humans...

     (Atarisoft
    Atarisoft
    Atarisoft was a brand name used by Atari, Inc in 1983 and 1984 to market video games they published for home systems made by their competitors. Each platform had a specific color attributed by Atarisoft for its game packages...

    )
  • Roman Empire (MC Lothlorien)
  • Round Ones (Alternative Software)
  • Row of Four (Software For All)
  • RTC Birmingham (Dee-Kay)
  • RTC Crewe (Dee-Kay)
  • RTC Doncaster (Dee-Kay)
  • Rubble Trouble (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )

S

  • Saigon (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Santa's Delivery (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Saracoid (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • SAS Commander (Comsoft)
  • Savage Island part 1 (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Savage Island part 2 (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Savage Pond
    Savage Pond
    Savage Pond is an arcade-style pond simulation game which was written by Peter Judd for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro and Gwyll Jones for the 16k versions of the Atari 8-bit family of home computers in 1983 and the Commodore 64 in 1984...

     (Starcade)
  • Screwball (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Sea Wolf (Optima Software)
  • Secret Mission (video game) (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Serpent's Lair (Comsoft)
  • Shanghai Warriors (Players)
  • Shark (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Shark Attack (Romik)
  • Shedmaster Bounds Green (Dee-Kay)
  • Shedmaster Finsbury Park (Dee-Kay)
  • Shuffle (Budgie)
  • Sim (CSM / Viper)
  • SimCity
    SimCity
    SimCity is a critically acclaimed city-building simulation video 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 SimCity 2000 in 1994,...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Skirmish (Go-Dax)
  • Sky Hawk (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Smash & Grab (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Snake (Kansas)
  • Snapper (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Snapple Hopper (Macmillian)
  • Snooker (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Snooker
    Snooker (video game)
    Snooker is a 1983 sports simulation video game published by Visions Software Factory.-Summary:This video game simulates the game of snooker on the major home computers of that era, including Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron, and BBC Micro.The players take turns to hit a...

     (Visions)
  • Soccer Boss (Alternative Software)
  • Soccer Supremo (Qualsoft)
  • Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • South Devon Hyrdraulics (Dee-Kay)
  • Southern Belle (Hewson Consultants
    Hewson Consultants
    Hewson Consultants were one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers in the mid 1980s. They had a reputation for high quality games which continually pushed the boundaries of what the computers were capable of and can be compared favourably with other...

    )
  • Space Agent Zelda (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Space Caverns (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Space Ranger (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Space Shuttle (Microdeal
    Microdeal
    Microdeal was a British software company which operated during the 1980s and early 1990s from its base at Truro Road in the town of St Austell, Cornwall...

    )
  • Space Station Alpha (Icon)
  • Space Trek (Dimax)
  • Spaceman Sid (English Software
    English Software
    English Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s based in Manchester, UK.- History :The company was set up in 1982 by Philip Morris, owner of Gemini Electronics computer store in Manchester, to release video games for the Atari 8-bit home computers...

    )
  • Special Operations (MC Lothlorien)
  • Spectipede (Mastertronic
    Mastertronic
    Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was the dominant software publisher in the UK, a position achieved by selling cassette-based software at the £1.99...

    )
  • Spellbinder (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Sphere of Destiny (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Sphere of Destiny 2 (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Sphinx Adventure (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Spitfire 40 (Mirrorsoft
    Mirrorsoft
    Mirrorsoft was a computer game software publisher in the United Kingdom, owned by Mirror Group Newspapers. It was founded as a publisher of educational software before moving into games. One offshoot of its printing roots was Fleet Street Publisher on several platforms...

    )
  • Spooksville (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Sporting Triangles (CDS Software
    CDS Software
    CDS Software was an independent publisher and developer of computer game software based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK.-History:...

    )
  • Spy Cat (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Spy Snatcher
    Spy Snatcher
    Spy Snatcher is a floppy disk-based text adventure released by Topologika Software in . It was the last professional text adventure to be released on the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. It was also released for ZX Spectrum , RISC OS, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari ST and Nimbus....

     (Topologika
    Topologika
    Topologika Software Ltd is a still-independent British publisher of educational software. Based in Brighton, the company was founded in 1983.Many of its early products were interactive fiction adventure games taken on after Acornsoft was sold to Superior Software who only continued to release their...

    )
  • Spy vs. Spy (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Squeekaliser (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Stairway to Hell (Software Invasion)
  • Star Drifter (Firebird)
  • Star Force Seven (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Star Maze 2 (Mastertronic
    Mastertronic
    Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was the dominant software publisher in the UK, a position achieved by selling cassette-based software at the £1.99...

    )
  • Star Wars (Domark
    Domark
    Domark Software was a video games software house based in the United Kingdom. The name was derived from the given names of its founders, Dominic Wheatley and Mark Strachan...

    )
  • Starport (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Starship Command
    Starship Command
    Acornsoft's Starship Command is a computer game released in 1983 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. It was available on cassette as well as 5.25" disc for the BBC and ROM cartridge for the Acorn Electron Plus 1 expansion module.-Gameplay:...

     (Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Steve Davis Snooker (CDS Software
    CDS Software
    CDS Software was an independent publisher and developer of computer game software based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK.-History:...

    )
  • Stix (Supersoft
    Supersoft
    Supersoft is a software and computer game developer and publisher founded in England in 1978. It was founded by Peter Calver and Pearl Wellard to develop and publish software primarily for the Commodore PET.-Hardware:...

    )
  • Stock Car
    Stock Car (video game)
    Stock Car is an 8-bit computer game written by A. W. Halse and published in the UK by Micro Power. The game was released in 1984 for the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and Commodore 64 computers....

     (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Stolen Lamp; The (MC Lothlorien)
  • Storm Cycle (Atlantis
    Atlantis Software
    Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year...

    )
  • Stranded (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Strange Odyssey
    Strange Odyssey
    Strange Odyssey was a text-based adventure program written by Scott Adams and Neil Broome .- Description :Published by Adventure International, this text-based adventure game was one of many from Scott Adams....

     (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Stratobomber (IJK)
  • Strike Force Harrier (Mirrorsoft
    Mirrorsoft
    Mirrorsoft was a computer game software publisher in the United Kingdom, owned by Mirror Group Newspapers. It was founded as a publisher of educational software before moving into games. One offshoot of its printing roots was Fleet Street Publisher on several platforms...

    )
  • Strip Poker II Plus (Anco)
  • Stryker's Run (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Subway Vigilante (Players)
  • Summer Olympiad (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Super Hangman (IJK)
  • Superior Soccer (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Super Gran: The Adventure (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Superman: The Game
    Superman: The Game
    Superman: The Game is a 1985 game designed by Fernando Herrera and first published in the US by First Star Software for the Commodore 64. The title was ported to a number of other home computers in Europe.-Gameplay:...

     (First Star/Prism Leisure
    Prism Leisure Corporation
    Prism Leisure Corporation was a distribution and publishing company which primarily focused on reissues and compilations, often at low prices. The company was located in Enfield, Middlesex, United Kingdom, and founded in the 1980s....

    )
  • Superman: The Man of Steel
    Superman: The Man of Steel (1989 video game)
    Superman: The Man of Steel is a 1989 computer game, based on DC Comics' flagship character Superman. It was developed and published by UK software company Tynesoft under license from First Star Software.-Gameplay:...

     (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Super Pool (Software Invasion)
  • Super Golf (Squirrel)
  • Survivors
    Survivors (video game)
    Survivors is a game for home computers published by Atlantis Software originally in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum. It was ported to the MSX, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 16/Commodore Plus/4, Commodore 64, Acorn Electron and BBC Micro and the Amstrad CPC...

     (Atlantis
    Atlantis Software
    Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year...

    )
  • Swag (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Swoop
    Swoop (8-bit computer game)
    Swoop is an 8-bit computer game written by David Elliot and published in the UK by Micro Power. It was first released on the BBC Micro in 1982 and ported to the Acorn Electron for its launch in 1983 and the Commodore 64 in 1984.-Summary:...

     (Micro Power
    Micro Power
    Micro Power was a British company established in the early 1980s, best known as a video game publisher but they also produced and sold many types of computer hardware and software through their Leeds...

    )
  • Syncron
    Syncron
    Syncron is a shooter-type game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, written by Gary Partis. It was first released in 1987 as the lead game on The Superior Collection compilations...

     (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )

T

  • Tales of the Arabian Nights (Interceptor Micros)
  • Tank Attack (CDS Software
    CDS Software
    CDS Software was an independent publisher and developer of computer game software based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK.-History:...

    )
  • Tarzan (Martech
    Martech
    Martech Games Ltd was a video game publisher active between 1982 and 1989.Martech was formed by David Martin and brother-in-law John Barry, initially under the name Software Communications Ltd under partnership with a firm of exporters. They were initially based at Bay Terrace, Pevensey Bay, East...

    )
  • Tarzan Boy (Alligata
    Alligata
    Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.The company was founded by Mike Mahoney and Dave Palmer around 1982. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum...

    )
  • Tempest (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Templeton (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Ten Little Indians (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Tennis (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • Terrormolinos
    Terrormolinos
    Terrormolinos is a text adventure released by Melbourne House in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, all retailing for £7.95.-Summary:...

     (Melbourne House
    Melbourne House
    Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Beam Software, was a video game development studio founded in 1980 and based in Melbourne, Australia. The studio operated independently from 1987 until 1999, when it was acquired by Infogrames, who changed the name to Melbourne House...

    )
  • Test Match (CRL)
  • Tetris
    Tetris
    Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...

     (Mirrorsoft
    Mirrorsoft
    Mirrorsoft was a computer game software publisher in the United Kingdom, owned by Mirror Group Newspapers. It was founded as a publisher of educational software before moving into games. One offshoot of its printing roots was Fleet Street Publisher on several platforms...

    )
  • Thai Boxing (Anco)
  • Thrust (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Thunderstruck (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Thunderstruck 2 (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Time Machine; The (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Tomcat
    Tomcat (video game)
    Tomcat is a 1989 computer game published in the UK by Players Software for a range of 8-bit home computers. The game was released on the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Commodore Plus/4, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum ranges of computers...

     (Players)
  • Tops and Tails (Macmillian)
  • Traditional Games (Gemini)
  • Trafalgar (Squirrel)
  • Trapper (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Treasure Hunt (Macsen)
  • Trek II (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Twin Kingdom Valley
    Twin Kingdom Valley
    Twin Kingdom Valley was a text adventure game with animated pictures for the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Commodore 16 and ZX Spectrum...

     (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )

U

  • UKPM (IJK)
  • Ultron (Icon)
  • Uranians (Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte
    Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the Spectrum...

    )
  • US Drag Racing (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )

V

  • Vegas Jackpot (Mastertronic
    Mastertronic
    Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was the dominant software publisher in the UK, a position achieved by selling cassette-based software at the £1.99...

    )
  • Vertigo (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    /Acornsoft
    Acornsoft
    Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages - these included ROM-based word...

    )
  • Video Card Arcade (Blue Ribbon
    Blue Ribbon (software house)
    Blue Ribbon was the budget computer software publishing label of CDS Micro Systems.The label launched in 1985 mostly made up of games from the MRM Software back catalogue. MRM had been a label producing games for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Blue Ribbon reissued these and also converted them...

    )
  • Video Classics (Firebird)
  • Video Pinball (Alternative Software)
  • Video's Revenge (Budgie)
  • Vindaloo (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Voodoo Castle (Adventure International
    Adventure International
    Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...

    )
  • Vortex (Software Invasion)

W

  • Walk the Plank (Mastertronic
    Mastertronic
    Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was the dominant software publisher in the UK, a position achieved by selling cassette-based software at the £1.99...

    )
  • Warehouse (Top Ten)
  • Warp 1 (Icon)
  • War at Sea (Betasoft)
  • Waterloo (MC Lothlorien)
  • Waxworks
    Waxworks (1983 video game)
    Waxworks is a text adventure game by Brian Howarth and Cliff J. Ogden. It was originally published by Digital Fantasia in 1983 for the Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro....

     (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Way of the Exploding Fist; The
    The Way of the Exploding Fist
    The Way of the Exploding Fist is a 1985 fighting game by Gregg Barnett of Beam Software. Originally developed on the Commodore 64 and published in June 1985 by Melbourne House, ports were made for Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and Commodore 16...

     (Melbourne House
    Melbourne House
    Krome Studios Melbourne, originally Beam Software, was a video game development studio founded in 1980 and based in Melbourne, Australia. The studio operated independently from 1987 until 1999, when it was acquired by Infogrames, who changed the name to Melbourne House...

    )
  • Web War (Artic Software
    Artic Software
    In the early 1980s, Artic Software, also known as Artic Computing, was a software development company based in Brandesburton. The company's first games were for the Sinclair ZX81 home computer, but they expanded and were also responsible for various ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn...

    )
  • Weetabix vs the Titchies (Romik)
  • Weenies (Cronosoft
    Cronosoft
    Cronosoft is a UK-based software publishing house, which manufactures and markets games and utility software for a range of computers that are considered 'retro' or commercially obsolete. The company was established in 2002, with its first release Egghead in Space, written by Jonathan Cauldwell,...

    )
  • West  (Talent Computer Systems)
  • Wet Zone (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Whist Challenge (Livewire)
  • White Knight Mk 11 (BBCSoft)
  • White Magic (4th Dimension)
  • White Magic 2 (4th Dimension)
  • Whoopsy (Shards Software)
  • Winter Olympiad '88 (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Winter Olympics (Tynesoft
    Tynesoft
    Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s.- History :The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time...

    )
  • Wizard of Akyrz; The (Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft
    Adventure Soft is a UK-based video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the Simon the Sorcerer series of games....

    )
  • Wizzy's Mansion (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Woks
    WOKS
    WOKS is a radio station broadcasting a Rhythmic Oldies format. Licensed to Columbus, Georgia, USA, the station serves the Columbus GA area. The station is currently owned by Davis Broadcasting, Inc. of Columbus....

     (Artic Software
    Artic Software
    In the early 1980s, Artic Software, also known as Artic Computing, was a software development company based in Brandesburton. The company's first games were for the Sinclair ZX81 home computer, but they expanded and were also responsible for various ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn...

    )
  • Wongo (Icon)

X

  • XOR (Logotron)
  • Xadomy (Brassington)
  • Xanagrams (Postern
    Postern
    A postern is a secondary door or gate, particularly in a fortification such as a city wall or castle curtain wall. Posterns were often located in a concealed location, allowing the occupants to come and go inconspicuously. In the event of a siege, a postern could act as a sally port, allowing...

    )

Y

  • Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Imagine
    Imagine Software
    Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20...

    )
  • Yie Ar Kung-Fu II
    Yie Ar Kung-Fu II
    is a computer game where the main character fights martial arts masters and is a sequel to Yie Ar Kung-Fu. This sequel was released for the Commodore 64, MSX, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and Thomson TO7-70 home computer systems and featured a different approach to the game...

     (Imagine
    Imagine Software
    Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20...

    )

Z

  • Zalaga (Aardvark)
  • Zany Kong Junior (Superior Software
    Superior Software
    Superior Software is a video game publisher. It was established in 1982 by Richard Hanson and John Dyson, two graduates of the University of Leeds, England...

    )
  • Zenon (Impact Software)
  • Ziggy (Audiogenic
    Audiogenic
    Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

    )
  • Zorakk the Conqueror (Icon)
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