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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 < 1 252
Cover(s)Fighting Warrior

MELBOURNE HOUSE

30255
Cover(s)Sherlock

MELBOURNE HOUSE

1 < 1 272
Cover(s)Starion

MELBOURNE HOUSE

30314
Cover(s)War in Middle Earth

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE

20341
Cover(s)Supremacy

MASTERTRONIC / MELBOURNE HOUSE

10377
Cover(s)Hungry Horace

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0427
Cover(s)Terror-Daktil 4D

MELBOURNE HOUSE

10537
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 01389
Cover(s)Gyroscope

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001451
Cover(s)Asterix and the Magic Cauldron

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001559
Cover(s)Classic Adventure

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001686
Cover(s)Hampstead

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001761
Cover(s)Mordon’s Quest

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001900
Cover(s)Games Pack I

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001934
Cover(s)Roller Kong

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001935
Cover(s)Dark Tower

MELBOURNE HOUSE

001937
Cover(s)Star Trooper

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002420
Cover(s)Sports Hero

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002461
Cover(s)Dodgy Geezers

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002554
Cover(s)Judge Dredd

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002567
Cover(s)Bazooka Bill

MELBOURNE HOUSE / ARCADE MACHINE

002569
Cover(s)Shadows of Mordor

MELBOURNE HOUSE

002586