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.
| Title | Top 10 | No. 1 | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The Hobbit | 6 | 1 | 15 |
 | The Way of the Exploding Fist | 7 | 5 | 20 |
 | Penetrator | 5 | 0 | 25 |
 | Double Dragon MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE / AMERICAN TECHNOS | 4 | < 1 | 108 |
 | Horace and the Spiders | 3 | 1 | 149 |
 | Mugsy | 3 | 0 | 205 |
 | Horace Goes Skiing | 1 | 0 | 216 |
 | Fist II: The Legend Continues | 3 | < 1 | 220 |
 | Rock 'n Wrestle | 2 | < 1 | 256 |
 | Fighting Warrior | 3 | 0 | 258 |
 | Sherlock | 1 | < 1 | 273 |
 | Starion | 3 | 0 | 314 |
 | War in Middle Earth | 2 | 0 | 342 |
 | Supremacy | 1 | 0 | 380 |
 | Hungry Horace | < 1 | 0 | 429 |
 | Terror-Daktil 4D | 1 | 0 | 540 |
 | Lord of the Rings | < 1 | 0 | 732 |
 | The Wizard And The Princess | 0 | 0 | 756 |
 | Terrormolinos | < 1 | 0 | 1252 |
 | Obliterator MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE / PSYGNOSIS | 0 | 0 | 1329 |
 | Zim Sala Bim | < 1 | 0 | 1389 |
 | Gyroscope | 0 | 0 | 1452 |
 | Asterix and the Magic Cauldron | 0 | 0 | 1560 |
 | Classic Adventure | 0 | 0 | 1687 |
 | Hampstead | 0 | 0 | 1762 |
 | Mordon’s Quest | 0 | 0 | 1901 |
 | Games Pack I | 0 | 0 | 1935 |
 | Roller Kong | 0 | 0 | 1936 |
 | Dark Tower | 0 | 0 | 1938 |
 | Star Trooper | 0 | 0 | 2421 |
 | Sports Hero | 0 | 0 | 2462 |
 | Dodgy Geezers | 0 | 0 | 2556 |
 | Judge Dredd | 0 | 0 | 2569 |
 | Bazooka Bill MELBOURNE HOUSE / ARCADE MACHINE | 0 | 0 | 2571 |
 | Shadows of Mordor | 0 | 0 | 2588 |