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Melbourne House

History

Melbourne House was the UK based publisher of Australian development studio Beam Software and responsible for two of the biggest chart hits of the decade, The Way of the Exploding Fist and The Hobbit. They also the created the three Horace games that were published on the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair.

In 1987, the publisher was sold to Mastertronic, who themselves were soon taken over by Virgin.

Note

The figures for Months in the Top 10 and Months at No. 1 are based on the All Format and Multi Format chart only.
Columns are sortable, sorting by the cover column will sort by chart appearance date.

TitleTop 10No. 1Rank
Cover(s)The Hobbit

MELBOURNE HOUSE / SINCLAIR

6115
Cover(s)The Way of the Exploding Fist

MELBOURNE HOUSE

7519
Cover(s)Penetrator

MELBOURNE HOUSE

5024
Cover(s)Double Dragon

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE / AMERICAN TECHNOS

4 < 1 105
Cover(s)Horace and the Spiders

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

31149
Cover(s)Mugsy

MELBOURNE HOUSE

30205
Cover(s)Horace Goes Skiing

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

10214
Cover(s)Fist II: The Legend Continues

MELBOURNE HOUSE

3 < 1 218
Cover(s)Rock 'n Wrestle

MELBOURNE HOUSE

2 < 1 253
Cover(s)Fighting Warrior

MELBOURNE HOUSE

30255
Cover(s)Sherlock

MELBOURNE HOUSE

1 < 1 272
Cover(s)Starion

MELBOURNE HOUSE

30313
Cover(s)War in Middle Earth

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE

20341
Cover(s)Supremacy

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE

10378
Cover(s)Hungry Horace

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0426
Cover(s)Terror-Daktil 4D

MELBOURNE HOUSE

10536
Cover(s)Lord of the Rings

MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0731
Cover(s)The Wizard And The Princess

MELBOURNE HOUSE

00755
Cover(s)Terrormolinos

MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 01253
Cover(s)Obliterator

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE / PSYGNOSIS

001329
Cover(s)Zim Sala Bim

MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 01388
Cover(s)Gyroscope

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001450
Cover(s)Asterix and the Magic Cauldron

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001559
Cover(s)Classic Adventure

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001686
Cover(s)Hampstead

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001759
Cover(s)Mordon’s Quest

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001896
Cover(s)Games Pack I

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001930
Cover(s)Roller Kong

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001931
Cover(s)Dark Tower

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001933
Cover(s)Star Trooper

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002413
Cover(s)Sports Hero

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002454
Cover(s)Dodgy Geezers

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002547
Cover(s)Judge Dredd

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002560
Cover(s)Bazooka Bill

MELBOURNE HOUSE / ARCADE MACHINE

002562
Cover(s)Shadows of Mordor

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002579