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Sinclair

History

Sinclair, like Commodore, Amsoft, Acorn and Dragon Data, had its own label for publishing software for their own machines, often working with other publishers to produce their own branded versions of existing software. Sinclair partnered with Artic Computing to publish their own versions of Artic's text adventures and with Melbourne House to release the Spectrum versions of their Horace games as well as a Sinclair version of The Hobbit.

Although The Hobbit is Melbourne House's best performing title, it is pushed into Sinclair's number two position by Flight Simulation. Released for the ZX81 as well as the Spectrum, Flight Simulation spent most of 1983 in the Top 10, taking the number one position on several occasions during the year replacing games like JetPac and Zzoom. Its success continued well into 1984 with sales exceeding 250,000.

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)Flight Simulation

SINCLAIR

9 < 1 12
Cover(s)The Hobbit

MELBOURNE HOUSE / SINCLAIR

6115
Cover(s)Chequered Flag

SINCLAIR

6142
Cover(s)Match Point

SINCLAIR / PSION

3 < 1 121
Cover(s)Horace and the Spiders

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

31149
Cover(s)Horace Goes Skiing

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

10214
Cover(s)Computer Scrabble

SINCLAIR / LEISURE GENIUS

00251
Cover(s)Hungry Horace

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0426
Cover(s)VU-3D

SINCLAIR

00479
Cover(s)Chess

SINCLAIR

00642
Cover(s)Cyrus IS Chess

SINCLAIR

00669
Cover(s)Space Raiders

SINCLAIR

00754
Cover(s)Adventure A: Planet of Death

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

00876
Cover(s)1K Chess

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

00898
Cover(s)Adventure D: Espionage Island

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

00942
Cover(s)Fantasy Games

SINCLAIR

00971
Cover(s)Mothership

SINCLAIR

00992
Cover(s)Stop the Express

SINCLAIR

< 1 01023
Cover(s)VU-File

SINCLAIR

001142
Cover(s)1K Games

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001164
Cover(s)Adventure C: Ship of Doom

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001488
Cover(s)Sabotage

SINCLAIR

001520
Cover(s)Geography I

SINCLAIR

001578
Cover(s)City Patrol

SINCLAIR

001588
Cover(s)History I

SINCLAIR

001648
Cover(s)Forth

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001713
Cover(s)Adventure B: Inca Curse

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001953
Cover(s)VU-Calc

SINCLAIR

001954
Cover(s)Mathematics I

SINCLAIR

002022
Cover(s)Toolkit

SINCLAIR

002066
Cover(s)Reversi

SINCLAIR

002099
Cover(s)English Literature I

SINCLAIR

002253
Cover(s)English Literature II

SINCLAIR

002293
Cover(s)Backgammon

SINCLAIR

002333