Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games - LaunchBox Games Database

"History in the Making": The First Three Years

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.60
Total Votes: 74

3.6

History in the Making is a collection of fifteen games from U.S. Gold's catalog of American imports: -...

¡Genial!

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1990

Community Rating: 3.84
Total Votes: 35

3.8

Genial is a Spanish compilation of four games for the ZX Spectrum: • Out Run • ThunderBlade • Vigilante •...

0parish

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

2019

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 3

3.8

0parish is a puzzle game for the ZX Spectrum. It was developed and published by lenin1st in 2019.

1 Line 3D Mazes

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

2008

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 5

3.0

1 Line 3D Mazes is an old school pseudo 3D maze game using pseudo vector graphics for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum...

1 Line Space Trader

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

2007

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

1 Line Space Trader is a text based space trading game coded in a single line of basic code (hence the name) for...

10 Computer Hits 2

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 3

3.0

10 Computer Hits 2 is a compilation including the following ten games: - Codename: MAT - Wizard's Lair -...

10 Juegos I

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.59
Total Votes: 11

4.6

Compilation of 10 Spanish games: • Guerra Galactica • Ataque a la Ciudad • Rana, La [Spectrum Cross] •...

10 Mega Hits

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.97
Total Votes: 15

4.0

10 Mega Hits is a compilation including the following ten games: TAPE A GAME 1: 3D Starstrike GAME 2: Blue...

10 Othello

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

2016

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

10 Othello (also stylized as 10 OTHELLO) is a 2016 Othello/Reversi game for 1 or 2 players. It was developed by...

100 Kilometri

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1986

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 9

4.5

A weird idea around bike racing, using 'Trashman' graphics on the first and last part. The keys are: Q-speed...

100% Dynamite

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1990

Community Rating: 3.85
Total Votes: 10

3.9

100% Dynamite is a collection of four games, including three arcade conversions: - After Burner - Double...

10th Frame

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1986

Community Rating: 4.31
Total Votes: 21

4.3

10th Frame is a ten-pin bowling simulation game created by Access Software in 1986, as a follow-up to the hugely...

12 Mysterious Books

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

1999

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 6

3.7

A Russian RPG developed by Alexey Shirokov and released in 1999.

15 OS

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

1998

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

15 OS is a freeware Hungarian language sliding number puzzle game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It was developed...

15's

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

1996

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 5

5.0

A Russian language homebrewed puzzle game. It was developed by Aleksey Vashin and released in 1996.

16k Superchess

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

December 1, 1982

Community Rating: 4.03
Total Votes: 20

4.0

An early chess game for the ZX Spectrum. Developed by legendary computer chess programmer/developer Chris...

180 (Charlie Charlie Sugar)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.44
Total Votes: 18

4.4

180 is a darts simulation game. It will appeal to both dart players and non-dart players as it is extremely...

180 (Mastertronic)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1986

Community Rating: 4.38
Total Votes: 21

4.4

The player competes in 501 darts against other darts players waiting in a championship tournament with normal darts...

1942

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1985

Community Rating: 4.05
Total Votes: 32

4.0

1942... you and daring fighter pilot "Super Ace" are engaged in realistic, thrilling and challenging high-flying...

1942 Mission

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.44
Total Votes: 17

4.4

You are a British agent in 1942, relaxing in the BRIEFING ROOM having received the instructions for your next...

1943: The Battle of Midway

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

October 1, 1988

Community Rating: 4.22
Total Votes: 20

4.2

It was over 40 years ago, at the height of World War II, that the Japanese main squadron tasted defeat off the west...

1984: A Game of Government Management

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

November 1, 1983

Community Rating: 4.68
Total Votes: 14

4.7

How many times have you seen politicians on TV and thought "I could do better myself!"? Well 1984, the new game...

1985: The Day After

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

December 1, 1985

Community Rating: 3.55
Total Votes: 19

3.6

It is the day after, big brother has been destroyed and the earth has to learn how to survive on its own. You...

1994 (Ten Years After)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

January 10, 1984

Community Rating: 3.77
Total Votes: 20

3.8

Hi, my name is Smiffy (no relation to the other one), the trouble is, Mr Orwell got it all wrong, not the...

1999

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 17

4.5

You are the evil Dr. Vargon and it is your mission to destroy the Human Race so they will stop destroying innocent...

1K Othello

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

2008

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A game for two players, in which by jumping over the opponent's chips you must get as many chips of your own color...

1Kanoid

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

2002

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to eliminate all the blocks on the board with the help of the ball bounced with the palette....

1st Division Manager

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

July 6, 1991

Community Rating: 3.69
Total Votes: 21

3.7

You have a reputation for BEING THE BEST! So good, that any club in the FIRST DIVISION will take you on as their...

2 Player Soccer Squad

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1991

Community Rating: 3.89
Total Votes: 18

3.9

Most football management games written for 64K/48K computers concentrated their memory space on providing as many...

20 Tons

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

August 1, 1985

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 8

4.8

Interesting Boulder Dash style game that came free on Issue 16 of Spectrum Computing magazine (1985) and later...

2003: A Space Oddity

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.97
Total Votes: 15

4.0

The on-screen instructions are quite amusing in explaining that due to a strange combination of weeties, milk and...

20-20 Vision

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player finds himself in a large village full of bizarre creatures, robots and guards. Various items are...

2088

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

September 23, 1988

Community Rating: 4.28
Total Votes: 16

4.3

2088 is a 2D top-down shooter set in the future. The player controls the gunfighter, and starts in the centre of...

21

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

1995

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

21, also known as 21 "Ochko" is a Russian language public domain implementation of 21/Blackjack for the Sinclair ZX...

2112 AD

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1985

Community Rating: 4.31
Total Votes: 18

4.3

The old city of London in the year 2112 is now one giant complex containing a computer which now runs Britain,...

2D Game Maker

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.19
Total Votes: 13

4.2

2D Game Maker is a game making engine/construction kit for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum developed by Jonathan Small and...

2D Mini-Maze

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

1996

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to collect eight objects scattered in the maze, whose corridors are successively covered by...

2-Hot 2 Handle

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1991

Community Rating: 3.93
Total Votes: 7

3.9

2-Hot 2 Handle is a compilation containing the following 4 games: • Golden Axe • Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart's...

2K RGB Challenge

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

2011

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

2K RGB Challenge (also known as just 2KRGB) is a simple puzzle game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It was developed...

3 Deep Space

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

December 4, 1983

Community Rating: 3.78
Total Votes: 18

3.8

To return back to Earth if your ship is beyond the Starfields of Orion there is an avenue of beacons placed by the...

3 Defens

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player is tasked with protecting six cities from an alien invasion. Using the viewfinder, shoot down incoming...

3 Reyes Magos

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

2012

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The game follows the story of three kings who came to Bethlehem paying homage to Jesus Christ and giving gifts of...

3-2-1

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 16

3.9

3–2–1 was a popular (and successful) British game show that was made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It ran for...

3D

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 12

4.8

3D is an Spanish language action game with isometric graphics for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It was developed by...

3D Ball

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.58
Total Votes: 6

4.6

A simple maze game for the Spectrum in which you play as a ball trying to escape each maze.

3D Bat Attack

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.81
Total Votes: 16

3.8

3D Bat Attack takes place in Transylvania where the player has ended up inside the tower of Count Dracula's castle....

3D Chess

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

ROM Hack

1983

Community Rating: 4.20
Total Votes: 5

4.2

This is a modified version of the old Psion Chess program - I got bored with the "newspaper" style 2D...

3D Combat Zone

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.84
Total Votes: 16

3.8

3D Combat Zone is a 1st-person tank hunting game similar to Atari's BattleZone which takes place on a vast plain...

3D Construction Kit

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1991

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 10

4.8

3D Construction Kit is a utility for creating 3D worlds in Freescape. Developed by Incentive Software and published...

3D Defence

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.67
Total Votes: 12

4.7

3D Defence (or Defence, 3D) is a simple shooter from Empire Software. Rules are very simple - player controls...

3D Defenda

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.65
Total Votes: 13

4.7

A one player "cockpit" style space shooter game published by Contrast Software in 1983, developed by Michael J....

3D Desert Patrol

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.45
Total Votes: 11

4.5

The object of 3D Desert Patrol is to reach the safety of a road some distance ahead (depending on difficulty...

3D Escape

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1982

Community Rating: 1.50
Total Votes: 1

1.5

Somewhere in a certain place, far from civilization, there is a mysterious maze. Many have entered it, but no one...

3D Game Maker

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.21
Total Votes: 7

4.2

A construction kit for developing isometric games. It was developed by Iaine Hayward and originally published by...

3D Grand Prix

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1991

Community Rating: 4.45
Total Votes: 10

4.5

Have you got what it takes to be a number one racing driver? Fast acceleration and accurate cornering are what...

3D Graphics

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 4

4.2

3D Irrgarten

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

1984

Community Rating: 4.95
Total Votes: 11

5.0

A first-person maze game in which at the beginning the player chooses the size of the grid. Once the maze is...

3-D Labyrint

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.71
Total Votes: 7

4.7

3D Labyrinth

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.71
Total Votes: 7

4.7

A first-person maze game in which at the beginning the player chooses the size of the grid. Once the maze is...

3D Lunattack

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.26
Total Votes: 17

4.3

The war on the Seiddab rages on, and you now take part in an attack on their moon base. You fly a hovercraft a bit...

3D Master Game

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.55
Total Votes: 10

4.5

3D Master Game (also called 3D Noughts and Crosses) is a 3D computerized version of the popular pen and paper game...

3D Maze

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

3D Maze (also known as 4D Maze) is a Portuguese pseudo 3D maze escape game for the ZX Spectrum. It was developed by...

3D Maze (-)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to find the exit from the maze, the layout of whose exits is constantly changing. If the...

3-D Maze (Impact Software)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.38
Total Votes: 12

4.4

3-D Maze is a simple maze game played from a first person perspective. Similar to other maze game of its time the...

3-D Maze (J.A. Steele)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

1986

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

3-D Maze (also known by the simple name, Maze) is a typical pseudo three-dimensional timed maze escape game for the...

3D Maze (Phipps Associates)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to get out of the multi-story maze. At the bottom of the screen you can see the number of the...

3D Maze of Gold

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.73
Total Votes: 11

4.7

This is your very typical pseudo-3D maze escape game that was pretty common in the late 70s and early 1980s. This...

3D Mazeman

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 2

3.8

3D Mazeman is yet another in a long line of early 80s style 3D maze escape games released on the ZX Spectrum. This...

3D Monster Chase

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.71
Total Votes: 17

4.7

You are trapped within the three floors of a subterranean maze. Your task is to search for the missing keys whilst...

3D Monstruos

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 3

3.2

3D Monstruos is a simple maze escape game in Spanish for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Escape the maze before the...

3D Mover

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.30
Total Votes: 5

4.3

3D Mover is a French language CAD utility for the ZX Spectrum. It was developed by Jean Michel Cohen and Olivier...

3D Naslov

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 3

4.0

Utility: Visual/Screen

3-D Noughts and Crosses

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A logical game of three-dimensional tic-tac-toe but with slightly different rules. In this version, the game does...

3D OXO

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.55
Total Votes: 11

4.5

A version of Noughts and Crosses/Tic-Tac-Toe played on a 3 Dimensional board. Much akin to the old 3D Tic-Tac-Toe...

3D Pacman

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 18

4.1

3D Pac-Man is a self-published action game that was released on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1983, only in Denmark;...

3D Painter

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.05
Total Votes: 20

4.0

3D Painter is a maze game similar to the arcades respectively either aesthetically or gameplay-wise to Make Trax...

3-D Pinball

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.56
Total Votes: 18

4.6

3-D Pinball is a pinball game published by Mastertronic for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64...

3D Plot

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 4

4.5

3D Plotter

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.62
Total Votes: 4

4.6

Utility: Maths/Science

3D Pool

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.60
Total Votes: 15

4.6

Sharkey's 3D Pool is one of the earliest 3D cue-sports games, featuring a fully-rotating table and variable...

3D Sector

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 5

5.0

3D Seiddab Attack

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.29
Total Votes: 17

4.3

The Seiddab (look at it twice and you'll get the joke) are on the rampage on the planet, and you have been sent out...

3D Smooth

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

1986

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

Utility: Visual/Screen

3D Snooker

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1990

Community Rating: 4.45
Total Votes: 11

4.5

Snooker pool game simulator in 3D. At the beginning, the player selects the game against the computer or a human...

3D Space-Wars

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

February 9, 1983

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 14

4.5

The first game to star the evil Seiddab, 3D Space Wars gives exactly what the title promises. As soon as you warp...

3D Speed Duel

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 2.25
Total Votes: 14

2.2

3D Speed Duel is a driving game where you must try to score more points than your computer opponent. To do this you...

3D Star Wars

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.27
Total Votes: 13

4.3

This truly 3 dimensional game was written with the film "Return of the Jedi" in mind. You become LUKE...

3D Starfighter

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: 3.92
Total Votes: 13

3.9

3D Starfighter is a 3D shoot-'em-up where you must use a set of cross-hairs to shoot the rapidly approaching enemy...

3D Starstrike

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.30
Total Votes: 23

4.3

The player's task is to destroy Death Stars with the help of a fighter jet. To do this, you need to complete four...

3D Stock Car Championship

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 13

4.0

Up to four players can compete (Interface II only) in the championship, racing cars around 24 different circuits....

3D Stock Cars II

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1992

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 12

4.5

Sequel to 3D Stock Car Championship, similar gameplay with an overhauled presentation.

3D Strategy

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.73
Total Votes: 11

4.7

A variation of the old computer game 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe/Noughts & Crosses. This version was developed by Freddy A....

3-D Tank Duel

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

February 9, 1984

Community Rating: 4.19
Total Votes: 16

4.2

3D Tank Duel is an early first-person shooter similar to Battlezone. The player controls a tank on a battlefield...

3D Tanx

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.16
Total Votes: 19

4.2

3D Tanx is a shoot 'em up video game written by Don Priestley and published by DK'Tronics in 1982 for the ZX...

3D Tic-Tac-Toe

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.83
Total Votes: 6

4.8

German version of 3D Tic-Tac-Toe/Noughts and Crosses developed by D. Boettcher and published by Orwin Software in...

3D Tunnel

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

February 9, 1983

Community Rating: 3.53
Total Votes: 16

3.5

3D Tunnel is a first-person shooter where you must move down a constantly moving tunnel, which moves in multiple...

3D Vortex

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.36
Total Votes: 11

4.4

This is very similar to 3D Tunnel, except that the tunnel (or vortex) is defined in multitudes of coloured dots...

3D.Pyramid

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to find the tomb of ancient kings in the great pyramid. The player moves through the corridors...

3DC

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.24
Total Votes: 17

4.2

3DC is an isometric action adventure where the player is stranded on the bottom of the ocean with the objective of...

3D-Dotty

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 2

4.2

3D-Dotty is a pseudo 3D Pac-Man clone released by Dollarsoft in 1984.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

April 21, 1982

Cassette tape (some latter models had external floppy support)

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"History in the Making": The First Three Years

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1988

3.6

¡Genial!

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1990

3.8

0parish

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2019

3.8

1 Line 3D Mazes

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2008

3.0

1 Line Space Trader

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2007

5.0

10 Computer Hits 2

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1986

3.0

10 Juegos I

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1984

4.6

10 Mega Hits

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1985

4.0

10 Othello

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3.5

100 Kilometri

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1986

4.5

100% Dynamite

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3.9

10th Frame

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1986

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12 Mysterious Books

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3.7

15 OS

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15's

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16k Superchess

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180 (Charlie Charlie Sugar)

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180 (Mastertronic)

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1942

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