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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 Formats 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

6111
Cover(s)The Way of the Exploding Fist

MELBOURNE HOUSE

6517
Cover(s)Penetrator

MELBOURNE HOUSE

4019
Cover(s)Double Dragon

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE / AMERICAN TECHNOS

3 < 1 122
Cover(s)Horace and the Spiders

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

31124
Cover(s)Horace Goes Skiing

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0183
Cover(s)Fist II: The Legend Continues

MELBOURNE HOUSE

3 < 1 210
Cover(s)Supremacy

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0228
Cover(s)Mugsy

MELBOURNE HOUSE

20240
Cover(s)Sherlock

MELBOURNE HOUSE

1 < 1 286
Cover(s)Rock 'n Wrestle

MELBOURNE HOUSE

1 < 1 287
Cover(s)Starion

MELBOURNE HOUSE

10291
Cover(s)Hungry Horace

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0319
Cover(s)Fighting Warrior

MELBOURNE HOUSE

10323
Cover(s)War in Middle Earth

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE

20444
Cover(s)Terror-Daktil 4D

MELBOURNE HOUSE

10514
Cover(s)The Wizard And The Princess

MELBOURNE HOUSE

00543
Cover(s)Zim Sala Bim

MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 01178
Cover(s)Lord of the Rings

MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 01306
Cover(s)Terrormolinos

MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 01391
Cover(s)Hampstead

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001477
Cover(s)Gyroscope

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001520
Cover(s)Classic Adventure

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001528
Cover(s)Obliterator

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE / PSYGNOSIS

001564
Cover(s)Asterix and the Magic Cauldron

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001683
Cover(s)Mordon’s Quest

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001797
Cover(s)Games Pack I

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001957
Cover(s)Roller Kong

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001958
Cover(s)Dark Tower

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001961
Cover(s)Star Trooper

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002380
Cover(s)Sports Hero

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002422
Cover(s)Dodgy Geezers

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002520
Cover(s)Judge Dredd

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002534
Cover(s)Bazooka Bill

MELBOURNE HOUSE / ARCADE MACHINE

002536
Cover(s)Shadows of Mordor

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002553