Artic Computing Games - LaunchBox Games Database

3D Combat Zone

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.81
Total Votes: 18

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-Quadracube

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.56
Total Votes: 8

4.6

3D-Quadracube is a three dimensional Tic-tac-toe game that can be played by two players or one player against the...

ABC

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.56
Total Votes: 9

4.6

ABC is an educational game that aims to teach primary school children (5-8 years old) spelling. The game starts...

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...

Aladdin's Cave

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.72
Total Votes: 8

3.7

Aladdins Cave is an arcade maze game published by Artic Computing. Just when you thought it was safe to go back...

Aladdin's Cave

Amstrad CPC

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.91
Total Votes: 16

3.9

Aladdin's Cave is an arcade maze game published by Artic Computing. Just when you thought it was safe to go back...

Bear Bovver

Commodore 64

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

Bear Bovver stars Ted the Bear, proud owner of a new Sinclair electric truck, but not of a set of batteries for it....

Bear Bovver

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.88
Total Votes: 8

4.9

Bear Bovver stars Ted the Bear, proud owner of a new Sinclair electric truck, but not of a set of batteries for it....

Big Ben Strikes Again

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.58
Total Votes: 6

3.6

Big Ben Strikes Again is a traditional arcade platform game with puzzle solving elements. The main goal is to...

Cosmic Debris

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

Cosmic Debris is an archetypal clone of Asteroids. The player controls a spacecraft in the middle of an alien...

Death Chess 5000

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.33
Total Votes: 3

4.3

You thought chess was a civilized, relaxing game but 'what's this?' I hear your cry. 'Death Chess 5000' is nothing...

Discs of Death

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1985

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 3

2.0

Discs of Death is an action game similar to the arcade game Discs of Tron. The game takes place in the 25th century...

Earth Defence

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 3

2.5

Earth Defence takes its cue from the arcade game Missile Command. In this single screen shooter you are the...

Engineer Humpty

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Humpty has become an engineer, and his job is to guide the spanner into the "works". When the player starts a...

Engineer Humpty

Commodore 64

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Humpty has become an engineer, and his job is to guide the spanner into the "works". When the player starts a...

Espionage Island

Commodore 64

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.80
Total Votes: 10

4.8

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

Espionage Island

Amstrad CPC

Released

December 13, 1985

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 2

3.2

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

Eye of Bain

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.20
Total Votes: 4

3.2

In this adventure you take on the role of Tarl, a mighty warrior. Legend has it that in the land of Alvania is...

Flight Simulator

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

Galaxians

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1982

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 6

3.4

Galaxians is a clone of Galaxian. The player's goal is to destroy a matrix of enemy spaceships which is gradually...

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...

Gobbleman

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1983

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 1

2.0

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

Golden Apple

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.17
Total Votes: 12

4.2

This is the fifth game in Artic's Adventure Series . The player takes the role of an adventurer who is on a quest...

Ground Zero

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 1

3.0

This is the seventh game in Artic's Adventure Series. You play the role of a regular Joe living in the present,...

Humpty Dumpty in the Garden

Commodore 64

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Humpty Dumpty now has his own garden. His task is to make flowers grow before the weeds outgrow them. He does this...

Humpty Dumpty in the Garden

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

Humpty Dumpty now has his own garden. His task is to make flowers grow before the weeds outgrow them. He does this...

Humpty Dumpty Meets the Fuzzy Wuzzies

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 1

1.0

In this puzzle game, Humpty must make his way to the exit, to do this, you rotate the maze 90 degrees, causing him...

Humpty Dumpty meets the Fuzzy Wuzzies

Commodore 64

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

In this puzzle game, Humpty must make his way to the exit, to do this, you rotate the maze 90 degrees, causing him...

I'm in Shock

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 1

3.0

Having travelled the galaxy in an attempt to defeat an alien race, you return home to find that they have taken...

Inca Curse

Commodore 64

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.56
Total Votes: 8

4.6

Starting off in a South American Jungle, near an as yet undisturbed Inca temple, your aim is to enter the structure...

International Rugby

Amstrad CPC

Released

1986

Community Rating: 0.50
Total Votes: 1

0.5

The stage is set... you've just won the Triple Crown and only France stand in your way of the ultimate clean sweep:...

Invaders

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Invaders is a Space Invaders clone, that tries to be as accurate a colour version as is possible on the ZX...

Jigsaw

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 1

2.5

Krakit

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Find the Name of the Country, City & Number in 12 Clues Like This One Below: *Where it all began, Where the...

Millimon

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

You control your laser base and you must shoot the caterpillar and destroy the mushrooms. Beware of the spiders....

Monkey Bizness

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 1.50
Total Votes: 2

1.5

Donkey Kong provides the basic gameplay for this platforms-and-ladders game comprising 8 screens. You start at the...

Mothership

Commodore 64

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 1

3.0

Mothership is a shoot 'em up where the player has to defend his home planet from an enemy attack. The attack...

Mr. Wong's Loopy Laundry

Microsoft MSX

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

Mr. Wong's Loopy Laundry is a platform game with static scenarios. Each scenario corresponds to a different level...

Mr. Wong's Loopy Laundry

Amstrad CPC

Released

1984

Community Rating: 1.88
Total Votes: 4

1.9

Mr. Wong's Loopy Laundry is a platform game with static scenarios. Each scenario corresponds to a different level...

Mr. Wong's Loopy Laundry

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 3

3.0

Mr. Wong's Loopy Laundry is a platform game with static scenarios. Each scenario corresponds to a different level...

Mutant Monty

Amstrad CPC

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 4

3.0

You are Monty and you are about to attempt to fulfill your life's ambitions, become rich and be a hero. You have...

Mutant Monty

Microsoft MSX

Released

1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

You are Monty and you are about to attempt to fulfill your life's ambitions, become rich and be a hero. You have...

Mutant Monty

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

You are Monty and you are about to attempt to fulfill your life's ambitions, become rich and be a hero. You have...

Mutant Monty

Commodore 64

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

You are Monty and you are about to attempt to fulfill your life's ambitions, become rich and be a hero. You have...

Mutant Monty and the Temple Of Doom

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Released on the compilation Assemblage.

Obsidian

Amstrad CPC

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 3

3.8

You play the part of a spaceman who has been sent on a mission to a distant space station to re-initialise the...

On the Oche

Amstrad CPC

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Have you the skill and concentration to play and defeat your opponent at one of the world's greatest indoor...

On the Oché (Darts)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Have you the skill and concentration to play and defeat your opponent at one of the world's greatest indoor...

Paws

Amstrad CPC

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.62
Total Votes: 4

3.6

In Paws you play a cat whose ten kittens have wandered off. With Bull Dog Billy and his Bully gang on the loose,...

Paws

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.12
Total Votes: 4

3.1

In Paws you play a cat whose ten kittens have wandered off. With Bull Dog Billy and his Bully gang on the loose,...

Planet of Death

Commodore 64

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.14
Total Votes: 11

4.1

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

Planet of Death

Amstrad CPC

Released

December 13, 1985

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

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

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...

Reflections

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Reflections presents one or two players with a 12x12 grid, with contains between 10 and 39 mirrors. They are angled...

Road Racers

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 2

2.0

Road Racers is a simple racing game, similar to Rally-X. There are just two keys to use in this game and they steer...

Santa

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 1.50
Total Votes: 1

1.5

A compendium of 7 Christmas themed mini-games

Ship of Doom

Commodore 64

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.67
Total Votes: 9

4.7

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

Ship of Doom

Amstrad CPC

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

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

Snooker (Artic Computing)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 1

2.0

The game of snooker was surging in popularity in the early 80s, and this was one of the first interpretations of...

Spectrum Chess II

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1982

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 2

4.0

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

Spectrum Micro Chess

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Spectrum Micro Chess is a 1-2 player chess game released in 1983 by Arctic Computing. It is the followup to...

Spectrum Voice Chess

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1982

Community Rating: 3.33
Total Votes: 3

3.3

Spectrum Voice Chess is a chess game using the Spectrum's sound hardware to say the moves after they have been...

The Great Wall

Acorn Electron

Released

December 1, 1987

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

As a Roman Army runner you have been ordered into training by your Commander. Your training could prove to be very...

Tut's Pyramid

Amstrad CPC

Released

1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Your name is Mohamed, and with your flying carpet, off you must venture, searching for six stone blocks. Placing...

Web War

Acorn Electron

Released

February 1, 1986

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 1

2.5

A fast-moving 3-D vector graphics space game over 256 increasingly faster and more difficult levels. Have you got...

Webwar

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1985

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 3

4.0

A 3-D vector graphics space shooter along the lines of Tempest. To complete each sector of the Web you must...

Woks

BBC Microcomputer System

Released

1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Woks is a platform game published by Artic Computing for the BBC Microcomputer. Many years ago the tyrant...

Woks

Acorn Electron

Released

September 1, 1986

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

Many years ago the tyrant emperor, Who Dun Pong, decided his subjects were getting too fat. To defeat the flabby...

World Cup

Commodore Plus 4

Released

1985

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

World Cup is a football game where you and seven friends can pick one of 10 teams and compete to get to the final...

World Cup (Artic Computing)

Amstrad CPC

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.33
Total Votes: 3

3.3

World Cup is a football game where you and seven friends can pick one of 10 teams and compete to get to the final...

World Cup Football

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.12
Total Votes: 4

3.1

World Cup Football is a football game allowing you to play in the World Cup. The game allows you and eight other...

World Cup Soccer (Arcade/ShareData)

Commodore 64

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 1

3.0

World Cup is a football game where you and seven friends can pick one of 10 teams and compete to get to the final...

Artic Computing

3D Combat Zone

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1983

3.8

3D-Quadracube

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1983

4.6

ABC

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1983

4.6

Adventure A: Planet of Death

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1981

3.8

Adventure B: Inca Curse

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1981

3.2

Adventure C: The Ship of Doom

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1983

3.0

Adventure D: Espionage Island

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1982

5.0

Aladdin's Cave

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1985

3.7

Aladdin's Cave

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1985

3.9

Bear Bovver

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1984

4.0

Bear Bovver

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1983

4.9

Big Ben Strikes Again

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1985

3.6

Cosmic Debris

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1983

3.5

Death Chess 5000

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1984

4.3

Discs of Death

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1985

2.0

Earth Defence

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1984

2.5

Engineer Humpty

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1984

Engineer Humpty

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1984

Espionage Island

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1984

4.8

Espionage Island

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December 13, 1985

3.2

Eye of Bain