Acorn Electron Games - LaunchBox Games Database

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Acorn Electron

Released

February 1, 1985

Community Rating: 4.21
Total Votes: 19

4.2

You are out to steal £250,000 in diamonds before your rival. You accomplish this by collecting the heaps of...

2002: A Space Oddity

Acorn Electron

Released

December 1, 1984

Community Rating: 3.46
Total Votes: 13

3.5

A comedic text adventure satire of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 a A Space Odyssey.

3D Bomb Alley

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.58
Total Votes: 12

3.6

3D Bomb Alley is a video game created by Simon Vout and published by Software Invasion for the BBC Micro and Acorn...

3D Dotty

Acorn Electron

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.38
Total Votes: 13

4.4

The aim is to clear the dots on the three levels of each screen whilst avoiding the dreaded fungus. Any contact...

3D Maze

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.56
Total Votes: 9

3.6

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...

3-D Tank Zone

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.94
Total Votes: 8

3.9

As weapon commander, you must, with the aid of radar, scan the terrain surrounding the city and missile silos for...

747

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 2.80
Total Votes: 10

2.8

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

747 Flight Simulator

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: 2.91
Total Votes: 12

2.9

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

A Question of Sport

Acorn Electron

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 3

3.7

This is the game of the long running BBC quiz show of the same name. Two teams of three battle against each other...

A&B Computing 3.09

Acorn Electron

Released

September 1, 1986

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 4

5.0

Comprises: Assembly Example (A&B Computing), Card Trick (A&B Computing), Check Byte Source Code (A&B Computing),...

A&B Computing 3.11

Acorn Electron

Released

November 1, 1986

Community Rating: 3.68
Total Votes: 11

3.7

A 100% machine code high speed four way scrolling arcade game! Haven't we seen this somewhere before...? In a...

Acheton

Acorn Electron

Released

1987

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 9

3.5

Written by Jon Thackray, David Seal and Jonathan Partington. Acheton is a home computer conversion of the...

Adventure

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.38
Total Votes: 13

4.4

A text adventure game released by Micro Power (aka Program Power) for the Electron and BBC Micro home...

Adventureland

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

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

Adventures Collection #4

Acorn Electron

Homebrew

2008

Community Rating: 3.38
Total Votes: 8

3.4

Aladdin (Steve Lucas), Dinosaur Adventure (BBC PD), Dracula Adventure (BBC PD), Double Gold: The Alien From Outer...

Airline

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.80
Total Votes: 5

4.8

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

Alien Break In

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.56
Total Votes: 9

4.6

Alien Break In is a space shooter, sort of a cross between Space Invaders, Galaga, and Galaxians. The citizens...

Alien Dropout

Acorn Electron

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.14
Total Votes: 14

4.1

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

Alphatron

Acorn Electron

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 8

3.9

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

Amnesia and Xanadu

Acorn Electron

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 5

4.5

Amnesia and Xanadu is a compilation of two text adventures written by an adventure creation system AdventureScape.

Anarchy Zone

Acorn Electron

Released

September 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.10
Total Votes: 5

3.1

32 zones of increasing difficulty! The Galactic Government Dictatorship has divided the galaxy into zones, and has...

Answer Back: Junior Quiz: General Knowledge

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 2.75
Total Votes: 4

2.8

Answer Back Junior Quiz is a single player quiz program. This is the basic program and it allows the player to...

Answer Back: Sport

Acorn Electron

Released

December 1, 1985

Community Rating: 2.60
Total Votes: 5

2.6

Challenge the KOSMOS team at football or tennis. But be warned, we don't lose easily. Whatever your sport this...

Arcadians

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.80
Total Votes: 5

4.8

Arcadians is based on the arcade game Galaxian. You control a spacecraft at the bottom of the screen, moving left...

Arena 3000

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 3

5.0

Fight for your life (and highscore) against endless waves of killer robots cornering you on the futuristic Galactic...

Around the World in 40 Screens

Acorn Electron

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.12
Total Votes: 4

4.1

Around the World in 40 Screens is the first of three standalone expansion packs for Repton 3. As the title might...

Arrow of Death: Part I

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Brian Howarth's second Mysterious Adventure follows on from your success in retrieving the Golden Baton. Peace was...

Astro Plumber

Acorn Electron

Released

1985

Community Rating: 4.08
Total Votes: 6

4.1

You play the game as a repair man equipped with a jetpack and an upwards firing plasma laser. Your mission is to...

Atom Smash

Acorn Electron

Released

December 1, 1988

Community Rating: 4.30
Total Votes: 5

4.3

Atomsmash The nuclei of all elements with less than 17 electrons have become unstable. In an effort to save...

Atom Smasher

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 3

5.0

Atom Smasher is a single screen shoot 'em up with multi directional movement that takes place in a nuclear reactor...

Avon

Acorn Electron

Released

1990

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 6

3.8

A double-pack of games originally written for the Phoenix IBM System/370 mainframe at Cambridge University,...

Ballistix

Acorn Electron

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 7

4.0

Ballistix is an arcade game in which you have to manipulate a ball in order to score a goal with your opponent. To...

Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax

Acorn Electron

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.33
Total Votes: 9

3.3

Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax is a video game first published in 1988 for various home computers. It was also...

Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior

Acorn Electron

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 6

4.2

Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior is a video game first released for Commodore 64 personal computers in 1987; the...

Baron

Acorn Electron

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

Baron is a platform game with some puzzle solving elements.

Battle 1917

Acorn Electron

Released

January 1, 1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Battle 1917 is a turn-based strategy game for one or two players. The game background is World War I with its new...

Battlezone 2000

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

This is a wargame of the 21st Century in which you have control of the forces opposing the single enemy unit known...

Beach-Head

Acorn Electron

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.62
Total Votes: 4

3.6

A dictator took the control of a fortress on the island of Kuhn-Lin. The player's mission is to storm the island...

Bert Boot

Acorn Electron

Released

September 1, 1985

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 2

4.2

Even working out multiplication and division problems can be fun when you have Bert Boot, the intrepid insect...

Birdie Barrage

Acorn Electron

Released

October 1, 1985

Community Rating: 3.33
Total Votes: 3

3.3

Birds of Prey

Acorn Electron

Released

February 16, 1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 3

5.0

A Space Invaders variant in which you are attacked by Swoopers, Kamakazee Birds and Death Bombs. The birds start...

Blagger

Acorn Electron

Released

July 9, 1984

Community Rating: 4.62
Total Votes: 4

4.6

Follow the exploits of Roger the Dodger, master burglar, as he works his way through numerous buildings - searching...

Blast!

Acorn Electron

Released

1990

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 5

5.0

Your mission to the far side of the galaxy leads you to a strange, apparently uninhabited world. You prepare to...

Blitzkrieg

Acorn Electron

Released

July 1, 1985

Community Rating: 4.67
Total Votes: 3

4.7

Blockbusters

Acorn Electron

Released

August 1, 1986

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 6

3.5

Bob Holness hosted this fondly-remembered quiz show, in which students competed to answer enough questions...

Blockbusters: Gold Run

Acorn Electron

Released

June 1, 1986

Community Rating: 3.40
Total Votes: 5

3.4

Blockbusters: Gold Run from Macsen Software is based on the well-known television series Blockbusters. The TV game...

Blood of the Mutineers

Acorn Electron

Released

July 1, 1989

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

This superb text adventure from Robico is the first in a series of stories featuring that scourge of the seas,...

Blue Dragon

Acorn Electron

Released

November 17, 1984

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 3

4.5

According to legend, somewhere there lies a fabulous treasure guarded by a ferocious Blue Dragon. Your quest in...

Bobby Charlton Soccer

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 2.83
Total Votes: 3

2.8

A game designed to capture the imagination. Further modules to be added at regular intervals. From three minutes to...

Boffin

Acorn Electron

Released

November 1, 1985

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

Features of the game: Giant Puffer-Blimps, Trampolines, Huge Tarantulas and Manta-bats, Electrified Fencing/Barbed...

Bone Cruncher

Acorn Electron

Released

1987

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 4

5.0

Bone Cruncher was released by Superior Software in 1987, with a re-release on their budget Blue Ribbon label in...

Bouncing Bombs

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Battle through the depths of the Intergalactic Vortex to reach successive stellar warp zones which transport you...

Boxer

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.64
Total Votes: 7

4.6

Boxer is a platform game written by Wal Mansell. You and your computer controlled rival are competing for the...

Bozo the Brave

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 2

4.2

Direct Bozo through the three lands of Havoc collecting in each a piece of the Crown of Ultimate...

Breakthrough

Acorn Electron

Released

October 1, 1988

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

Trapped in a world of fire and energy, you must battle for the most valuable prize of all - your life. You can...

Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge

Acorn Electron

Released

August 1, 1985

Community Rating: 2.67
Total Votes: 3

2.7

The object of this game is to challenge and try and beat Brian Jacks in a series of eight physically demanding...

Bug Blaster

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

Shoot everything that moves to collect the points - centipedes, spiders, mushrooms, scorpions, dragonflies and...

Bug Eyes

Acorn Electron

Released

1985

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

You play Agent Starman, your job is to avoid the destruction of civilization and taking over the galaxy by the...

Bug Eyes 2: Starman to the Rescue

Acorn Electron

Released

June 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 3

3.8

Light years from Earth lies the rusting hulk of the Xxabanean flagship, disabled while on its mission to vaporize...

Bumble Bee

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

Guide Bumble around the maze swinging the red turnstiles and collecting the pollen, keeping clear of the toadstools...

Bumper Bundle

Acorn Electron

Released

September 1, 1985

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 3

4.5

Comprises: Bug Blaster (Alligata), Crown Jewels (Alligata), Hell Hole (Alligata) and Lunar Rescue (Alligata)

Business Games

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 5

4.1

Business Games contains two educational games. Although intended for use in business and economic studies, teaching...

By Fair Means or Foul

Acorn Electron

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

The objective of the game is to defeat each of the opposing boxers over 15 rounds or within five chances...

Calculus O Level

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

Camelot

Acorn Electron

Released

February 1, 1989

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 9

3.2

Camelot is an 8-bit computer game written by Tony Oakden and published in the UK in 1989/90 for the BBC Micro and...

Castle Assault

Acorn Electron

Released

February 1, 1985

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 3

5.0

A glittering reward awaits the intrepid atop the heavily defended towering turrets of this forbidding fortress. On...

Castle Frankenstein

Acorn Electron

Released

May 1, 1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

Castle Frankenstein is a full-scale adventure in which you have to explore the ruins and grounds of Castle...

Castle of Riddles

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 5

4.1

"The adventuring trade just isn't what it used to be," you reflect gloomily. "Nobody seems to need a trusty sword...

Castles and Clowns

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

Two great games of fun and skill for kids of 4-8. See your children's reading abilities grow as they play and...

Caterpillar

Acorn Electron

Released

April 1, 1984

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 3

3.5

A superb rendition of the popular arcade game. Features toadstools, spiders, fleas, scorpions, left/right and...

Caveman Capers

Acorn Electron

Released

1986

Community Rating: 4.60
Total Votes: 4

4.6

Ogg the Caveman has discovered a new form of transport - Kickstart the Turtle. All day long he tries to train...

Centibug

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 3

3.8

Released under the names Centibug and Centipede (same game), Superior's version allows shooting through the...

Chess

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 8

3.9

Chess allows you to play a game of chess against either the computer or another player. All the rules of chess are...

Children From Space

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 3

5.0

Chuckie Egg

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 8

3.9

This game was released on the Electron originally by AnF Software in 1984 and re-released in 1988 on the PnC (Pick...

Circus

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 2

4.8

The seventh in the Mysterious Adventure series of illustrated text adventures by Brian Howarth. Your car has broken...

Circus Games

Acorn Electron

Released

April 4, 1989

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 4

3.9

Step right up, see the main attraction. Tynesoft welcomes you to the greatest show on earth, Ringling Bros. and...

Citadel

Acorn Electron

Released

February 1, 1985

Community Rating: 4.35
Total Votes: 10

4.3

Citadel is a computer game developed for the BBC Micro and released by Superior Software in 1985. It was also...

Classic Adventure

Acorn Electron

Released

February 1, 1985

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

Classic Adventure is a reworking of the 1978 Will Crowther and Don Woods text adventure game Colossal Cave...

Codename Droid

Acorn Electron

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 6

4.0

Codename Droid: Stryker's Run - Part 2 is a multi-directional scrolling platform game where only a small part of...

Commando

Acorn Electron

Released

June 1, 1986

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 5

4.1

You are Super Joe the crack combat soldier of the eighties battling against all odds to defeat the advancing rebel...

Compendium of Classic Arcade Games

Acorn Electron

Released

May 17, 1986

Community Rating: 4.88
Total Votes: 4

4.9

Compilation of the following games: Snapman Alien Intruders Panzer Assault Mayday

Computer Knowhow

Acorn Electron

Released

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 3

4.5

Active Computer Learning is the starting point for You and Your Family! This course consists of four programs....

Confusion

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 3

4.5

A huge 64 storey automated industrial plant used for the production and storage of deadly Confuzion Bombs versus a...

Contract Bridge

Acorn Electron

Released

July 1, 1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 4

5.0

Contract Bridge is a sophisticated bridge game for the single player, where all other three hands are bid and...

Cops

Acorn Electron

Released

March 1, 1990

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 4

3.5

This is an adventure game based very loosely on the cult American show Hill Street Blues. In the briefing room at...

Cops n' Robbers

Acorn Electron

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.88
Total Votes: 4

4.9

Light Fingers Lonegan is robbing the Acme Diamond Company, the world's largest supplier of uncut gems. The police...

Corn Cropper

Acorn Electron

Released

May 1, 1984

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 2

4.8

Corn Cropper is a simulation of a commercial wheat farm. You start with cash resources of £50,000, 30 acres of rich...

Corporate Climber

Acorn Electron

Released

September 14, 1984

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 3

3.7

This fast action game is only for the most keen minded of entrepreneurs. Caught in the capitalistic pursuit of...

Countdown to Doom

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 3

5.0

While orbiting the treasure-laden, but inhospitable, planet Doomawangara (Doom for short) your ship suffers a...

Crack-Up

Acorn Electron

Released

1990

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 4

3.0

Joystick or Keyboard. 100% Arcade Action. 100 years from now, when war is a distant memory and mindless violence is...

Cranky

Acorn Electron

Released

Community Rating: 4.67
Total Votes: 3

4.7

Crazee Rider

Acorn Electron

Released

1987

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 3

5.0

A behind-the-bike rally driving game with a variety of tracks and which allows you to knock other riders off their...

CRAZY ERBERT

Acorn Electron

October 1, 1987

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Crazy Tracer

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.67
Total Votes: 3

4.7

You are in charge of a paint roller which you must guide around the edges of a maze of rectangles. Trying to...

Creepy Cave

Acorn Electron

Released

April 1, 1988

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

Arcade/Adventure. Vampire bats, ectoplasm bolts, slime covered ledges and acid pools. All these and more must be...

Crime & Detection Quiz

Acorn Electron

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.17
Total Votes: 3

4.2

How does your knowledge of Crime fiction rate against a Grandmaster of the genre? This rewarding and compelling...

Croaker

Acorn Electron

Released

July 1, 1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

The objective in Croaker is to get your family of frogs safely across the busy motorway and over a polluted river...

Crystal Castles: Diamond Plateaus in Space

Acorn Electron

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.86
Total Votes: 7

3.9

Bentley Bear is trapped in the Crystal Castles. To get out, he will need to collect all of the gems located...

Cybertron Mission

Acorn Electron

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 3

3.7

Cybertron Mission is a top down game in which the player explores a maze of rooms to find various randomly placed...

Acorn Electron

August 25, 1983

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2002: A Space Oddity

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3D Bomb Alley

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1984

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3D Maze

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1983

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747

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1984

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747 Flight Simulator

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A Question of Sport

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1988

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A&B Computing 3.09

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A&B Computing 3.11

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Acheton

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1987

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Adventure

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1984

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Adventureland

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1984

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Adventures Collection #4

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Airline

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Alien Break In

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1983

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Alien Dropout

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1982

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Alphatron

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Amnesia and Xanadu