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.
Title | Top 10 | No. 1 | Rank | |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Flight Simulation | 7 | < 1 | 9 |
![]() | The Hobbit | 6 | 1 | 11 |
![]() | Chequered Flag | 6 | 1 | 40 |
![]() | Horace and the Spiders | 3 | 1 | 124 |
![]() | Match Point | 2 | < 1 | 138 |
![]() | Computer Scrabble | 0 | 0 | 144 |
![]() | Horace Goes Skiing | < 1 | 0 | 183 |
![]() | Hungry Horace | < 1 | 0 | 319 |
![]() | VU-3D | 0 | 0 | 437 |
![]() | Chess | 0 | 0 | 656 |
![]() | Space Raiders | 0 | 0 | 822 |
![]() | Cyrus IS Chess | 0 | 0 | 846 |
![]() | Adventure D: Espionage Island | 0 | 0 | 862 |
![]() | Adventure A: Planet of Death | 0 | 0 | 952 |
![]() | 1K Chess | 0 | 0 | 1011 |
![]() | Fantasy Games | 0 | 0 | 1112 |
![]() | Mothership | 0 | 0 | 1139 |
![]() | VU-File | 0 | 0 | 1273 |
![]() | 1K Games | 0 | 0 | 1338 |
![]() | Stop the Express | < 1 | 0 | 1496 |
![]() | Adventure C: Ship of Doom | 0 | 0 | 1726 |
![]() | Sabotage | 0 | 0 | 1782 |
![]() | Geography I | 0 | 0 | 1823 |
![]() | City Patrol | 0 | 0 | 1835 |
![]() | History I | 0 | 0 | 1899 |
![]() | Forth | 0 | 0 | 1950 |
![]() | Adventure B: Inca Curse | 0 | 0 | 2116 |
![]() | VU-Calc | 0 | 0 | 2121 |
![]() | Mathematics I | 0 | 0 | 2167 |
![]() | Toolkit | 0 | 0 | 2192 |
![]() | Reversi | 0 | 0 | 2202 |
![]() | English Literature I | 0 | 0 | 2268 |
![]() | English Literature II | 0 | 0 | 2278 |
![]() | Backgammon | 0 | 0 | 2298 |