BBC Microcomputer System Games - LaunchBox Games Database

$wag

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 2.64
Total Votes: 7

2.6

Swag is a 1 or 2 player video game developed by Dave Herbert and published by Micro Power for the BBC Microcomputer...

@-Man

BBC Microcomputer System

Homebrew

2020

Community Rating: 4.08
Total Votes: 13

4.1

@-Man is a Pac-Man clone that uses symbols from the keyboard rather than actual graphics. It was developed by...

007: Licence to Kill

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.40
Total Votes: 20

3.4

007: Licence to Kill is a 1989 video game based on the James Bond film of the same name, developed by Quixel and...

10 Computer Hits 2

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1985

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A compilation of 10 previously released games for the BBC Micro, supplied on two cassettes. Circus (Digital...

10 Computer Hits 3

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

A compilation of 10 previously released games for the BBC Micro, supplied on two cassettes. Most of the games are...

10 Computer Hits 4

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1988

Community Rating: 2.20
Total Votes: 5

2.2

A 2 cassette compilation of 12 games (10 plus 2 bonus) all of which were originally released as stand-alone titles....

10 Minute Game

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1987

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 3

3.5

10 Minute Game is a simple "avoid all obstacles" game for the BBC Micro. You are in a car going down the...

180! Darts

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.94
Total Votes: 9

3.9

A darts simulation in which you can play standard games such as 301, 501 and so on. You can also play Round the...

18th Hole

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 3

3.8

A simple golf game coded in BASIC for the BBC Micro. The game was written by Tim Rogers, and published as a...

1984: A Game of Government Management

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 2.80
Total Votes: 15

2.8

A Game of Government Management is a financial management game which gives you the chance to be the Chancellor of...

2002

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.40
Total Votes: 5

4.4

2002 is a shuttle docking simulator. You have to control yaw, pitch, roll and forward engines to a high degree of...

2048

BBC Microcomputer System

Homebrew

2014

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

2048 for the BBC Micro was developed by Eben Upton and published by the Raspberry Pi Foundation (yes, that...

20-Four

BBC Microcomputer System

Homebrew

1995

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A simple dice game in which one must (luck permitting) throw a total of 24 points to receive an additional 100...

3 Deep Space

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.45
Total Votes: 10

3.5

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

3 in a Line

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1988

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A strategy game where the goal is to place your pawns three at a time horizontally, vertically and diagonally. The...

3-A-Line

BBC Microcomputer System

Homebrew

1991

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

3-A-Line is a strategical puzzle game for the BBc Micro. It was developed by A. Sattar Shakoor and published by BBC...

3D Asteroids

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 2

3.8

3D Asteroids is a 3D shoot 'em up game developed by Douglas Pirie and published in Micro User magazine, volume 7,...

3D Bomb Alley

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.09
Total Votes: 11

4.1

3D Bomb Alley is a video game created by Software Invasion for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. The graphics...

3D Bowling Alley

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A very simple bowling simulator.

3D Brainstorm

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Published in the book Brainteasers For The BBC And Electron Computers, published by Phoenix Publishing...

3D Convoy

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.32
Total Votes: 11

3.3

You have to launch torpedoes at the ships in an enemy convoy. Carriers which carry a helicopter give the most...

3D Dotty

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.04
Total Votes: 13

4.0

3D Dotty is a video game published by Blue Ribbon for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro home computers in 1987. The...

3D Grand Prix

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.65
Total Votes: 10

3.6

3D Grand Prix is a video game published by Software Invasion in 1984 for the BBC Microcomputer.

3D Invaders

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to eliminate incoming aliens. If at least one crosses level eight, the game will...

3D Maze

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1993

Community Rating: 3.62
Total Votes: 4

3.6

3D Maze is your typical 3D maze escape game that was popular in the late 70s to early 1980s. This version was...

3-D Maze

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1982

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 4

3.9

A simple maze game in which you have to find your way out of a 3D maze, having been told where the exit is and...

3D Maze Program

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A peculiar generator of playable mazes from which the player has to get out using a handy map. After finding the...

3D Munchy

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 7

5.0

3D Munchy is a PacMan style game using an isometric view. It was written by Mike Williams of MRM, and developed and...

3D O X O

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

An expanded version of the tic-tac-toe game in which the player must arrange four crosses vertically, horizontally...

3D Pentominoes

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1988

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

3D Pentominoes (also known as Polyominoes) is a puzzle game developed by David Lawrence and Don Scales. It was...

3D Pool

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.62
Total Votes: 8

4.6

3D Pool for the BBC Microcomputer was programmed by Nick Pelling (Orlando). It is known as 3D Pool on the box...

3-D Roller Ball

BBC Microcomputer System

Homebrew

1994

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 2

3.2

3-D Roller Ball is a freeware/public domain maze game developed by David Johnston. It was published in 1994 by PD...

3D Snooker

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1990

Community Rating: 4.20
Total Votes: 5

4.2

A classic, very well-made simulation of the game of snooker. First, the player hits a red ball into the arcade,...

3D Space Raiders

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.33
Total Votes: 3

4.3

Written in 1983 by Alligata Software, 3D Space Raiders (aka Space Ace) is in some ways a precursor to the...

3D Space Ranger

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.44
Total Votes: 9

4.4

3D Space Ranger is a video game published by Microbyte Software for the BBC Microcomputer in 1983. Bares some...

3-D Tank Zone

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.61
Total Votes: 9

4.6

3-D Tank Zone (3-D Tankzone on the title screen) is a 3D first person tank game heavily influenced by Atari's...

3D Tanx

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1982

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 6

5.0

3D Tanx is a simple shooting gallery game, released by DK'Tronics in 1982. You control a gun that moves along the...

3D Tennis

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 1

4.5

A 3D tennis simulation where the action is in to/out of the screen.

3D Wars

BBC Microcomputer System

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: 3.89
Total Votes: 9

3.9

This is a demo of a planned game called '3D Wars', written by Nick Pelling (aka Orlando) who produced some of the...

3D-Golf

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A classic game of golf. First, the player has to choose the type of club, and then set the direction of impact...

3D-Noughts And Crosses

BBC Microcomputer System

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The game is similar to the traditional game of tic-tac-toe, but is played on four 4×4 grids arranged vertically. To...

4-Site

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The game will be won by the one who arranges his four chips horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

5 Computer Hits

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1987

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A compilation of 5 games on cassette all of which were originally released as stand-alone titles. Most games are...

5-A-Side Soccer

BBC Microcomputer System

Homebrew

1991

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A very sophisticated but simple to use soccer manager. In addition to the matches played, you can earn money by...

737 Flight Simulator

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

November 24, 1983

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 5

4.1

737 Flight Simulator allows the player to sit at the controls of a Boeing 737 twin-engine jet airliner. The upper...

747

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 2.75
Total Votes: 6

2.8

747 is a flight simulator developed and published by Doctor Soft. When the game starts you are flying towards...

747 Flight Simulator

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.62
Total Votes: 4

3.6

747 Flight Simulator allows the player to sit at the controls of a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet airliner. The upper part...

767 Advanced Flight Simulator

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A flight simulator based off the Boeing 767.

8-Teen

BBC Microcomputer System

Homebrew

1995

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A strategy and logic game reminiscent of the famous Tetris. The player arranges cubes in five rows and columns,...

9 Classic card & board games: No. 1

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1986

Community Rating: 4.44
Total Votes: 8

4.4

This is the first of two complations released by Acorn User (later Micro User) magazine in 1986. Many of the games...

9 Classic card & board games: No. 2

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1986

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 5

5.0

This is the second of two complations released by Acorn User (later Micro User) magazine in 1986. Many of the games...

A Maze in Space

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

A Scramble type game. Your objective is to seek and destroy the alien command space station that lies hidden in a...

A Question of Sport

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1988

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

A Qusetion of Sport is a sports trivia game based on the long running BBC quiz show of the same name. It was...

Aabatron

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

In the year 2001, Earth is controlled by a massive computer complex called the Aabatron. Unfortunately, it has been...

ABM

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1982

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 4

5.0

Defend your seven cities against attack from wave after wave of random nuclear missiles. To destroy a missile you...

Abyss

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 6

4.2

In this game you play the role of an adventurer who must make his way across the perilous abyss which many others...

Accordion

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A solitaire card game whose goal is to collect all the cards into one stack. To build a stack, cards must be moved...

Aces High

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 4

5.0

A card playing game featuring Blackjack, Pontoon, Draw Poker and Stud Poker.

Acheton

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 2.94
Total Votes: 9

2.9

Acheton was written by Jon Thackray, David Seal and Jonathan Partington. The BBC Micro version was originally...

Acid Drops

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.45
Total Votes: 11

4.5

Acid Drops was programmed by Mike Granby. Acid Drops is a fixed screen shoot 'em up where the player can move...

Acorn Adventure

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 2

4.2

A strange text based adventure where you have to steal hardware from the offices of Acorn Computers.

Acorn Island

BBC Microcomputer System

Homebrew

2023

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Somewhere off the coast of Cambridgeshire, hidden in the mist, lies Acorn Island… You have travelled to the...

Acorn Welcome Disc

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1981

Community Rating: 3.80
Total Votes: 5

3.8

This was the piece of introductory software bundled with the BBC Microcomputer. There are various programs designed...

Action Replay! Vol. 2

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 2

3.2

This compilation cassette features 3 games. Fruities (aka Wild Fruities), a platformer by Mark Smiddy. Nim, a...

Action Replay! Vol. 3

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 0.50
Total Votes: 1

0.5

This compilation cassette features two shooter games: Air Strike Mk VII by John McFarlane, Robin And Marian by Mark...

Action Replay! Vol. 5

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

This compilation cassette features three games: Blackjack, a two player pontoon type card game by Andrew...

Adventure

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 6

4.2

A text adventure by Micro Power, aka Program Power. The object of the game is to rescue the Princess from the...

Adventure Quest

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.62
Total Votes: 8

3.6

The sequel to Colossal Adventure is an interactive fiction game with a VERB NOUN interface. The fantasy setting...

Adventureland

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 5

4.1

Adventureland is the first of Scott Adams' text adventures. Using simple two word commands you explore an enchanted...

Aerial

BBC Microcomputer System

Homebrew

2022

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

A simple shooter in which the player pilots a combat aircraft equipped with weapons that destroy air and ground...

Air Attack

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A very simple shooter in which the player's task is to eliminate landing aliens.

Air Strike!

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

A horizontally scrolling shooter game. Also published as part of the Micro User's Action Replay Vol. 3...

Air Traffic Control

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.88
Total Votes: 4

4.9

Air Traffic Control (aka Air Traffic Control Simulator) is a video game released by Microdeal; not to be confused...

Airblock

BBC Microcomputer System

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to fly to the end of the screen while avoiding collisions with obstacles. During the flight,...

Airlift

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.68
Total Votes: 11

3.7

In this game similar to ChopLifter, you control a helicopter, and have to rescue innocent civilians from a war...

Airline

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 6

4.0

Airline is an economic strategy game, with the player taking the role of a Chairman for L-AIR, an air company whose...

Airwolf

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.92
Total Votes: 12

3.9

Airwolf is a video game based on the TV series of the same name, it was released for a range of home computers...

Alien 8

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.05
Total Votes: 11

3.0

Alien 8 is an isometric action-adventure video game developed and published by Ultimate Play The Game. It was...

Alien Break In

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.71
Total Votes: 7

4.7

A shoot-em-up, with a touch of Space Invaders, a dab of Galaga and just a pinch of Galaxians. Shoot down the...

Alien Destroyer

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

A Space Invaders variant. Your laser base must destroy aliens dropping bombs as they advance down the screen from...

Alien Destroyers

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1982

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 6

5.0

An early Basic version of Space Invaders by Micro Power (aka Program Power) and featuring diagonally-falling...

Alien Destroyers II

BBC Microcomputer System

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A classic shooter in which the player's task is to exterminate all the aliens on the screen.

Alien Dropout

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.57
Total Votes: 7

4.6

Alien Dropout is a fixed screen shoot 'em up based on the arcade game Astro Invader. The objective of the game is...

Alien Intruders

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A classic shooter in which the player's task is to exterminate all the aliens on the screen.

Alien Invasion

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A Space Invaders style fixed-screen space shooter published in Micro User magazine vol.1 issue 12 in February 1984.

Alien Swirl

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 6

4.8

Alien Swirl is a fixed screen shoot 'em up in the style of Moon Cresta and Phoenix. The object of the game is to...

Alphatron

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1986

Community Rating: 4.67
Total Votes: 3

4.7

Your mission is to protect the Trilithium Refineries on the planet Karthos. You pilot a Megan Class Scout Ship...

Amidar

BBC Microcomputer System

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 1

4.5

The player takes on the role of a monkey whose task is to paint rectangular areas while collecting dots. The task...

Anarchy Zone

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 4

4.8

Anarchy Zone was written by Rob Dulstone and released for the BBC Microcomputer by Atlantis Software. In Anarchy...

Android Attack

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 8

3.9

The object of the game is to defend yourself from the attacking androids. You can move around the maze using the...

Androidz

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1993

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player takes on the role of an agent fighting rebellious robots. In twenty factories the enemy robots have...

Annabel Gray

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1988

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

You take on the role of Annabel Gray, a nurse during the time of the American Civil War. During the spring of...

Antix

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 6

4.8

Born a honey ant and brought up in an ant hill made of neapolitan ice cream your life is sweet, until one fatal day...

Antkiller

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to eliminate all the ants on the board. The task would be easy if it weren't for the fact that...

Apollo

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A Lunar Lander type game where your mission is to make as many soft landings on the Moon as possible. Your Lunar...

Apple Pie

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 5

5.0

Apple Pie was developed by Tim Chown and published for the BBC Microcomputer by Visions in 1984. It is a single...

April Fool Island

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Combination of adventure game with puzzle solving, perceptiveness, speed and logical thinking.

April Showers

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1985

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

In April Showers you play as a cloud (with eyes) who has to help a flower to stay alive by keeping it...

Aqua Attack

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to eliminate all parts of the caterpillar going down the screen from the top. On its way there...

Aquaman

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1987

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The player's task is to eliminate all the water creatures and take the falling crystal.

BBC Microcomputer System

December 1, 1981

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$wag

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1983

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@-Man

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007: Licence to Kill

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10 Computer Hits 2

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10 Computer Hits 4

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10 Minute Game

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1987

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180! Darts

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18th Hole

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1984: A Game of Government Management

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2002

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2048

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20-Four

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3 in a Line

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3-A-Line

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3D Asteroids

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3D Bomb Alley

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3D Bowling Alley

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3D Brainstorm

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