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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 11
Cover(s)The Hobbit

MELBOURNE HOUSE / SINCLAIR

6113
Cover(s)Chequered Flag

SINCLAIR

6150
Cover(s)Match Point

SINCLAIR / PSION

3 < 1 139
Cover(s)Horace and the Spiders

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

31143
Cover(s)Computer Scrabble

SINCLAIR / LEISURE GENIUS

00165
Cover(s)Horace Goes Skiing

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

10204
Cover(s)Hungry Horace

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0366
Cover(s)VU-3D

SINCLAIR

00497
Cover(s)Chess

SINCLAIR

00718
Cover(s)Space Raiders

SINCLAIR

00880
Cover(s)Cyrus IS Chess

SINCLAIR

00902
Cover(s)Adventure D: Espionage Island

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

00925
Cover(s)Adventure A: Planet of Death

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001008
Cover(s)1K Chess

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001064
Cover(s)Fantasy Games

SINCLAIR

001171
Cover(s)Mothership

SINCLAIR

001195
Cover(s)Stop the Express

SINCLAIR

< 1 01230
Cover(s)VU-File

SINCLAIR

001329
Cover(s)1K Games

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001399
Cover(s)Adventure C: Ship of Doom

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001761
Cover(s)Sabotage

SINCLAIR

001815
Cover(s)Geography I

SINCLAIR

001854
Cover(s)City Patrol

SINCLAIR

001865
Cover(s)History I

SINCLAIR

001927
Cover(s)Forth

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001978
Cover(s)Adventure B: Inca Curse

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

002141
Cover(s)VU-Calc

SINCLAIR

002146
Cover(s)Mathematics I

SINCLAIR

002189
Cover(s)Toolkit

SINCLAIR

002213
Cover(s)Reversi

SINCLAIR

002222
Cover(s)English Literature I

SINCLAIR

002285
Cover(s)English Literature II

SINCLAIR

002295
Cover(s)Backgammon

SINCLAIR

002315