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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 Formats chart only.
Columns are sortable, sorting by the cover column will sort by chart appearance date.

TitleTop 10No. 1Rank
Cover(s)Flight Simulation

SINCLAIR

7 < 1 9
Cover(s)The Hobbit

MELBOURNE HOUSE / SINCLAIR

6111
Cover(s)Chequered Flag

SINCLAIR

6140
Cover(s)Horace and the Spiders

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

31124
Cover(s)Match Point

SINCLAIR / PSION

2 < 1 138
Cover(s)Computer Scrabble

SINCLAIR / LEISURE GENIUS

00144
Cover(s)Horace Goes Skiing

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0183
Cover(s)Hungry Horace

SINCLAIR / MELBOURNE HOUSE

< 1 0319
Cover(s)VU-3D

SINCLAIR

00437
Cover(s)Chess

SINCLAIR

00656
Cover(s)Space Raiders

SINCLAIR

00822
Cover(s)Cyrus IS Chess

SINCLAIR

00846
Cover(s)Adventure D: Espionage Island

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

00862
Cover(s)Adventure A: Planet of Death

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

00952
Cover(s)1K Chess

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001011
Cover(s)Fantasy Games

SINCLAIR

001112
Cover(s)Mothership

SINCLAIR

001139
Cover(s)VU-File

SINCLAIR

001273
Cover(s)1K Games

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001338
Cover(s)Stop the Express

SINCLAIR

< 1 01496
Cover(s)Adventure C: Ship of Doom

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001726
Cover(s)Sabotage

SINCLAIR

001782
Cover(s)Geography I

SINCLAIR

001823
Cover(s)City Patrol

SINCLAIR

001835
Cover(s)History I

SINCLAIR

001899
Cover(s)Forth

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

001950
Cover(s)Adventure B: Inca Curse

SINCLAIR / ARTIC COMPUTING

002116
Cover(s)VU-Calc

SINCLAIR

002121
Cover(s)Mathematics I

SINCLAIR

002167
Cover(s)Toolkit

SINCLAIR

002192
Cover(s)Reversi

SINCLAIR

002202
Cover(s)English Literature I

SINCLAIR

002268
Cover(s)English Literature II

SINCLAIR

002278
Cover(s)Backgammon

SINCLAIR

002298