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You play as the disembodied head of Sir Clive as he goes about his daily tasks. It's a novel idea but it doesn't quite have the legs to run with it.

Nice old style action game, starring Sir Clive.

1985 Micromega (UK)
by Stephen Redman

A Day in the Life takes you from your everyday life into the life of the Speccy creator, Sir Clive Sinclair.
The main purpose is to guide Sir Clive screen by screen, to Buckingham Palace, where he will be made a Knight Bachelor of the British Empire. This event actually happen in the Queen's 1983 Birthday Honours, as you all know. So this was not an everyday day for Sir Clive, but a very special one, that you, dear player, will revive.

The game itself is an excellent maze game, filled with color, with lots of characters and different places.
It starts with a first screen where you take Sir Clive out of bed, dress him up, get the house keys from the attic and move onto the street. He will then buy flowers from a shop, eat his breakfast meal, and again move to the next stage.
In every screen he'll have to perform specific tasks, which are comprised of simply picking up flashing objects (the tasks) while they appear each in is own time and order.
What I love about this game, is how every scene is easily recognizable, the train stations with it's employees and the moving train, the bank with it's alarm system or the barbershop where Sir Clive will have is... ahem, haircut.
This isn't just a maze with weird monsters without meaning in a meaningless maze, there is a sequence and a purpose to every task and scene.
And because each task is quite simple the game gets very addictive.

I wonder if this game was written as a tribute around the already popular Sir Clive character, but if there is a game to pay tribute to Sir Clive, this is it.

This game was written in tribute to the great Sir Clive Sinclair, and I write this review on the sad day of his death.
Like Clive, this game is full of character and unique.
It plays well, tells a story and has enough about it to hook you in. In many ways it is similar to many other games of the time (Manic Miner ripoffs), but it goes about it in a slightly different way, as you guide Clive's disembodied head through the levels to receive your knighthood.
Unlike Clive, this game will never change the world, but it is a lovely little dose of nostalgia.

Thank you Sir Clive! Gone you may be but your legacy and influence will long on.

Always was a nice little game this, simple look and simple concept and overall it is neat and enjoyable.

There's not much really I can say about this game except when one thinks of Sir Clive Sinclair in a Spectrum game, this is the game that springs to mind for some reason. For this was the one game I thought of reviewing in his honour and others have done exactly that before me. It's a lovely little game with nice colourful graphics and simple yet challenging and frustrating gameplay. Good timing and patience is required in which my lack of the latter should be well known here by now. But it's one that you will find yourself getting better at with each attempt, or maybe you'll have my luck and get to the fourth screen in your first attempt and then not get off the first screen in the next three attempts, bah. And now all that's left to do is to raise a glass to Sir Clive, the innovator, the genius, the legend, thank you and God bless you. You will be missed.