The Greatest Spectrum Game
In October 1991 thru to February 1992 Your Sinclair ran a feature on the Top 100 ZX Spectrum games of all time. Following on from the this list in September 1993 Your Sinclair posted the readers Top 100 games. Both lists significantly differ in the ordering of the top 100 and while I personally don’t agree with either choice it is interesting to have a quick look.
Below then is the Top 20 games from both lists, I’ll let you have a look at this list before I give you my own personal Greatest Sinclair ZX Spectrum game of all time. It’s difficult to pick the best, the elite, the pinnacle, the greatest of anything but for me nailing my top one game on the ZX Spectrum was really easy as their was no question in my mind about my choice, it’s not just the greatest game on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum – it’s the greatest game of all time. Forget Skryim, Halo, Mass Effect and Wii Sports(!!) none of these games can come close to being as good as this game. Never, ever.
Your Sinclair |
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Readers |
| Deathchase | 1 | Chase H.Q. |
| Rebel Star | 2 | Rainbow Islands |
| All or Nothing | 3 | R-Type |
| Stop the Express | 4 | Sim City |
| Head Over Heels | 5 | Chaos |
| R-Type | 6 | Manic Miner |
| The Sentinel | 7 | Elite |
| Rainbow Islands | 8 | Back to Skool |
| Boulder Dash | 9 | Robocop |
| T.L.L. | 10 | Deathchase |
| Sim City | 11 | Midnight Resistance |
| Carrier Command | 12 | Myth: History in the Making |
| Chuckie Egg | 13 | Target; Renegade |
| Ant Attack | 14 | Head Over Heels |
| Lords of Midnight | 15 | Mercenary: Escape From Targ |
| Elite | 16 | Laser Squad |
| Starquake | 17 | Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge |
| Underwurlde | 18 | Spellbound Dizzy |
| Back to Skool | 19 | Quazatron |
| Spy vs. Spy | 20 | Lemmings |
So what exactly is my all time greatest ever number one best of the best ZX Spectrum game?
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My favorite Spectrum game ever is Laser Squad. Turn-based tactical strategy at its best, from the masters Julian and Nick Gollop who later went to program the all-time classics UFO Enemy Unknown and Terror From The Deep. Wide variety of scenarios and objects, different tactics to be employed and various levels of enemy AI make the game deep and always replayable in a different way.
On the other hand, I only played Elite on the Spectrum thanks to emulation – I remember trying it once on a mate’s ST – but never really got into it. Probably I should try it with more attention – provided I have time to play, that is!
After properly completing the first mission, The Assassins I enjoyed just loading up with Rocket Launchers and blasting the base and Sterner Regnix to high heaven! It was a great game, massively superior to Rebelstar and when I was pondering over my own Top 30 Laser Squad featured very very highly. A quality game.