Sinclair ZX-81 Games - LaunchBox Games Database

1 Karat

Sinclair ZX-81

Homebrew

July 25, 2019

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 1

1.0

1 Karat is a Bejeweled clone for the Sinclair ZX-81. it was developed by Dutch coder Johan "DR. BEEP" Koelman and...

1K Games

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: 1.75
Total Votes: 4

1.8

1K Games Pack is a collection of 11 games and programs on one tape. The collection consists of: Slot machine:...

1K ZX Chess

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

1K ZX Chess is a single-player chess game. Certain rules are omitted (castling, en passant capture, pawn...

3D 3D!

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: 1.67
Total Votes: 3

1.7

3D 3D! is a maze game where the player simply has to find his way out of the maze. The game is played from a first...

3D Defender

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: 3.30
Total Votes: 5

3.3

3D Defender is a 1st person shooter where you have to save your planet from alien invaders by blasting and...

3D Grand Prix

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 2

4.0

3D Grand Prix is a 1st person perspective driving game where you must race against various other drivers over five...

3D Highway Race

Sinclair ZX-81

1983

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

An early german first-person racing game.

3D Labyrinth

Sinclair ZX-81

Homebrew

1983

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 2

3.8

The goal is to get out of the first-person perspective "3D" maze, generated in the beginning of each gaming...

3D Monster Maze

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 3.60
Total Votes: 5

3.6

3D Monster Maze was one of the first computer games to use a first-person 3D perspective. After being introduced to...

3D Nought & Crosses

Sinclair ZX-81

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

Noughts and Crosses, or TicTacToe in 3D.

Admiral Graf Spee

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

In this early naval simulation, the player assumes the role of the captain of the Admiral Graf Spee, one of the...

Adventure

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 0.50
Total Votes: 2

0.5

In this text adventure you have been tasked by the Emperor to find the three pieces of his Sceptre and put it back...

Adventure A: Planet of Death

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 2

3.8

This game is the first in Artic's Adventure series. You play the role of a spaceship pilot in the future who has...

Adventure B: Inca Curse

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 2

3.2

Second game in Artic's Adventure Series, your aim is to enter the yet-undisturbed Inca temple and go treasure...

Adventure C: The Ship of Doom

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 2

3.0

While on a reconnaissance flight, your ship has been drawn by a Graviton Beam onto an Alien Cruiser. Fred, your pet...

Adventure D: Espionage Island

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

While on a recce mission to investigate a secret enemy location, your plane is shot down and you are sent hurtling...

Alien

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

Alien is a game inspired by the movie with the same name but without a license. The game takes place aboard the...

Alien-Dropout

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Alien-Dropout is a shoot 'em up based on the arcade game Astro Invader. Earth is once again threatened by aliens,...

Asteroids

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Asteroids is a loose interpretation of the arcade classic for the ZX-81. It was developed and published by The...

Asteroids (Silversoft)

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

Asteroids (also called Asteroid in-game) is yet another Asteroids game for the ZX-81. This version was developed...

Avenger

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 1

3.0

In this Scramble clone, your mission is to fly above the surface of a mountainous planet and destroy buildings on...

Backgammon

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 1

2.0

Backgammon is a computer version of the board game with the same name. It allows to play against the AI which can...

Backgammon (Keith Archer)

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Not to be confused with the game from Psion, Backgammon is a single-player interpretation of the popular board...

Black Crystal

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 3

5.0

Darkness has descended on the kingdom of Beroth. The evil Tobias has summoned the Black Crystal in an attempt to...

Black Star

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

After failure on your last mission and recovering in hospital growing a new arm and leg, you have had time to find...

Breakout

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Breakout is a clone of the arcade game and has you controlling a bat at the bottom of the screen, moving it left or...

Breakout 3

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.12
Total Votes: 4

4.1

Breakout 3 is based on the arcade game Breakout but instead of the bat on the bottom of the screen, the bat is on...

Brick-Stop

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 1.75
Total Votes: 2

1.8

Brick-Stop has you controlling a bat close to the middle of the screen, moving it left or right. Blocks fall from...

Byter

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Byter is a Pac-Man clone. You control a mouse, moving about a maze and attempting to eat all the dots while...

Can of Worms

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Can of Worms is a collection of eight small aand humorous games: Acne: You are Dr. Frankenstein and you have...

Centipede

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 2.75
Total Votes: 2

2.8

A very primitive clone of Centipede designed by Jeff Minter of Llamasoft fame for the Sinclair ZX-81. It's...

Champions

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Take control of a football team in a division below the top one, and try to lead them to glory in both league and...

Chess

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 4

3.0

The classic game of chess against the computer. The AI has six skill levels and can effectively play both sides as...

City Patrol

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 1

2.5

City Patrol: In this 1st person shooter, you are in command of a Laser-Cannon Platform and you must defend your...

Collectors Pack

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Cosmic Guerilla

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 2

4.2

Cosmic Guerilla is an unofficial conversion of Universal's arcade game with the same name. The basic gameplay is...

Dungeons of Doom

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Dungeons of Doom is a double games pack with both games playing the same for one to four players but having...

Fantasy Games

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: 2.75
Total Votes: 4

2.8

Fantasy Games is a double games pack containing the following adventure games: Perilous Swamp: Deep in a...

Flight Simulation

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 2

4.2

In an era when flight simulation for the masses was starting to become a reality, this program offered the chance...

Forty Niner

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

It's 1849 and the American gold rush has just started. The player in this game is one of the many that set off to...

Frogger

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 0.50
Total Votes: 1

0.5

Your task in this game is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of the...

Froggy

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

Your task in this arcade game is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of...

Galaxians

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

Ghost Hunt

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Ghost Hunt is a Pac-Man clone where you have to move around a maze viewed from above and eat all the dots to move...

Gobbleman

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 1.50
Total Votes: 2

1.5

Gobbleman is a clone of the arcade game Pac-Man and has you attempting to clear a maze by eating all the dots while...

Gulpman

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Gulp 2 is a sequel to the game Gulp! where once again you have to move around various mazes eating all the dots to...

Hopper

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Croaka-Crawla is a clone of the arcade game Frogger where the player must control a frog and get him to the other...

Krazy Kong

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Krazy Kong is based on the arcade game Donkey Kong where you have to move from the bottom of the screen to the top...

Lunar rescue

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.33
Total Votes: 3

4.3

Lunar Rescue is a clone of Taito's arcade game of the same name. The aim of the game is to evacuate humanoids from...

Marine Rescue

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Your mission is to move to the bottom of the sea to rescue sailors trapped in a stricken sub. You start at the top...

Maze Death Race

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Maze Death Race is a Rally-X variant. The player controls a car and has to drive around a maze and collect a...

Mazeman

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 1

4.5

Mazeman is a Pac-Man clone. Like in the original arcade game the player has to make his way through a maze, collect...

Mazogs

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

Your quest is to enter a maze to explore it and find the treasure before returning back to your start position. The...

Merchant of Venus

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Twenty years after the extremists have unleashed their weapon of mass destruction the life on Venus is returning to...

Monster Mine

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Monster Mine is a maze game viewed from above with the whole maze on the screen and you have to move about the maze...

Munchees

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Munchees is a Pac-Man clone where you must move around a maze to clear it by eating all the dots. As you eat the...

Muncher!

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Muncher! is a Pac Man variant. The main change here is that the booth in the center contains bonus fruit, instead...

Pengy

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1984

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 1

2.5

Pengy is based on the arcade game Pengo where you have to move about a maze and move the walls made up of ice...

Phoenix Adventure

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Phoenix Adventure is an arcade adventure where you must find and kill a Black Phoenix over four parts with an...

Pioneer Trail

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

As a covered wagon party of pioneers, you head out west from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette River and...

QS Asteroids

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

QS Asteroids is a fairly basic conversion of the original arcade game. The action starts immediately after loading...

QS Defenda

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

QS Defenda is a side scrolling shooter that, although it is inspired by it, lacks many features of the arcade game...

QS Invaders

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

QS Invaders is a clone of Space Invaders and plays the same as the original. The player controls his laser cannon...

QS Scramble

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

QS Scramble is a clone of the arcade game Scramble. It's a side-scrolling shooter where the player controls a...

Raider

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Raider is a Scramble clone with ASCII graphics that has you flying over the surface of a planet before flying...

Reversi

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

This is a computer conversion of the popular board game. You can play against the computer with a choice of nine...

Rocket Man

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Rocket Man is a platformer where the player has to collect diamonds. The diamonds are located on the far left side...

Rubik Cube

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Rubik's Cube is a simulation of the popular puzzle game. You are given a cube where each side is broken up into...

Snake Kink

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Space Invaders (dk'tronics)

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Space Invaders is a clone of the arcade game where you move a craft, left or right at the bottom of the screen...

Space Invaders (Mikro-Gen)

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 2

4.0

Another Space Invaders clone: move your gun left/right to hide behind shields, then shoot at the advancing ranks of...

Super Wumpus

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1981

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Super Wumpus is an advanced version of Wumpus. The player is hunting a fictional Wumpus creature in a cave system....

The Gauntlet

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: 0.50
Total Votes: 1

0.5

The Gauntlet is a clone of the arcade game Scramble which is viewed from the side with the screen scrolling...

The Invaders

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 1

1.0

Invaders is a Space Invaders clone not to be confused with the other game called Invaders for the ZX81. The game...

The Tomb of Dracula!

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The Tomb of Dracula is an arcade adventure where the aim is to explore vaults over various levels of Dracula's Tomb...

U.F.O.

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

U.F.O. is a single player variation on the Space Invaders genre. The player controls a fighter aircraft, a...

Venture

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

"Seven exciting games to let you make a fortune - or end up in debtors' prison. Test your superman qualities...

Volcanic Dungeon

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

After a terrible confrontation between forces of evil from another universe and the elves, dwarves, and animals,...

Walk the Plank

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Walk the Plank is a word game based on the classic game of Hangman, but instead of stopping yourself from being...

Warlord

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

It is the year 1201, the onset of Kamakura period. The player starts as a ruler of a small village on the coast of...

Z8048

Sinclair ZX-81

Homebrew

2015

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Z8048 (or Z80-48) is 2048 clone for the ZX-81 (equipped with the ZX81 Chroma Interface, which adds color to the...

Zaraks

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

Zaraks is an action game where the player has to make his way through a maze of passageways and reach his home...

Zuckman

Sinclair ZX-81

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Zuckman is based on the arcade game Pac-Man and has you moving about a maze attempting to clear it by eating all...

Sinclair ZX-81

March 5, 1981

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1 Karat

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1K Games

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1981

1.8

1K ZX Chess

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1982

4.5

3D 3D!

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1981

1.7

3D Defender

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1981

3.3

3D Grand Prix

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1983

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3D Highway Race

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1983

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3D Labyrinth

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1983

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3D Monster Maze

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1982

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3D Nought & Crosses

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Admiral Graf Spee

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1982

Adventure

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1982

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Adventure A: Planet of Death

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1981

3.8

Adventure B: Inca Curse

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1981

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Adventure C: The Ship of Doom

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1983

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Adventure D: Espionage Island

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1982

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Alien

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1982

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Alien-Dropout

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1982

Asteroids

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Asteroids (Silversoft)

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1982

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Avenger