Bug-Byte
History
Bug-Byte's Spectral Invaders was reported to be the first commercial ZX Spectrum game and became the first number one ZX Spectrum game in the first ever chart, published by Popular Computing Weekly in late 1982. By this time, programmer by Lawson had already found another Liverpool-based software house: Imagine. A second number one for the company came just two weeks later on the ZX81 chart with Mazogs by Don Priestley, who became a director of DK'Tronics in early 1983
Manic Miner was Bug-Byte's biggest hit and is the third highest ranked game overall, although programmer Matthew Smith took the game with him to his new company Software Projects in November 1983.
The original Bug-Byte went into administration in 1985, but the name was soon revived for use as a budget label by Argus Press.
Note
The figures for Months in the Top 10 and Months at No. 1 are based on the All Formats chart only.
Columns are sortable, sorting by the cover column will sort by chart appearance date.
| Title | Top 10 | No. 1 | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Manic Miner | 14 | 0 | 4 |
 | Vic Panic | 1 | 0 | 507 |
 | American Football | 2 | 0 | 523 |
 | Twin Kingdom Valley | 0 | 0 | 618 |
 | Spectral Invaders | 0 | 0 | 645 |
 | Tennis | 0 | 0 | 829 |
 | Cosmiads | 0 | 0 | 882 |
 | Nick Faldo Plays the Open | 0 | 0 | 884 |
 | Alien | 1 | 0 | 898 |
 | Spectres | 0 | 0 | 987 |
 | Vic Asteroids | 0 | 0 | 1069 |
 | Rapscallion | 0 | 0 | 1131 |
 | Jack Attac | 0 | 0 | 1218 |
 | Cricket | 0 | 0 | 1292 |
 | Yabba Dabba Doo! | < 1 | 0 | 1297 |
 | Star Force Seven | 0 | 0 | 1407 |
 | Star Trader | 0 | 0 | 1434 |
 | Mazogs | 0 | 0 | 1547 |
 | Oblivion | 0 | 0 | 1554 |
 | ZX AS Assembler | 0 | 0 | 1743 |
 | Cloak of Death | 0 | 0 | 1862 |
 | Savage Pond | 0 | 0 | 1888 |
 | Monkey Nuts | 0 | 0 | 1906 |
 | ZXDB Disassembler | 0 | 0 | 1920 |
 | Automan | < 1 | 0 | 1931 |
 | Journey to the Centre of the Earth | 0 | 0 | 2054 |
 | Turmoil | 0 | 0 | 2113 |
 | Kung-Fu | 0 | 0 | 2115 |
 | Glider Rider | 0 | 0 | 2129 |
 | Golf | 0 | 0 | 2132 |
 | Chess | 0 | 0 | 2142 |
 | Invaders | 0 | 0 | 2199 |
 | ZXTK Toolkit | 0 | 0 | 2212 |
 | Leaper | 0 | 0 | 2217 |
 | Spacewarp | 0 | 0 | 2229 |
 | Chess | 0 | 0 | 2234 |
 | Fruit Machine | 0 | 0 | 2236 |
 | Adventure | 0 | 0 | 2296 |
 | Sea Lord | 0 | 0 | 2331 |
 | Galaxy Wars | 0 | 0 | 2340 |
 | The Birds and the Bees | 0 | 0 | 2347 |
 | Antics | 0 | 0 | 2395 |
 | The Computer Cook Book | 0 | 0 | 2402 |