| Psi-5 Trading Company |
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| Release Date | 1987 |
| Original Publisher | U.S. Gold Ltd (UK) |
| Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Strategy Game: Management |
| Max. Players | 1 |
| Original Price | £7.95 |
| Original Price according to SPOT/SPEX | 7.99 *** Data provided by SPOT/SPEX is unconfirmed. Please help us validate this information! |
| Features | Dynamic Loading Screen |
| Other Platforms | Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 |
| Average mag. score | 62.67% (3 reviews) |
| Martijn's WoS score | 64% (10 votes) |
Authors/Contributors
| Chris Pink (UK) | at Accolade Inc | - ? | |
| Mimi Doggett (UK) | at Accolade Inc | - ? | |
| Ed Bogas (UK) | at Accolade Inc | - ? | |
| Simon Butler (UK) | at Accolade Inc | - ? | |
| Pete | - ? |
Authors according to SPOT/SPEX
| Mike Lorenzen & Mimi Doggett *** Data provided by SPOT/SPEX is unconfirmed. Please help us validate this information! |
Review Awards
| "Your Sinclair Megagame" | at Your Sinclair | issue #18 - 1987/Jun | page 56 | |
| "ZX Computing Globella" | at ZX Computing | issue #38 - 1987/Jun | page 49 |
Remarks
| Mike Lorenzen (original C64 version): "My favorite Psi-5 story... Accolade assigned a administrative assistant to off load non game design work so we could focus. I gave him (Mike Craven) the task of trying to come up with cool sounding parts of the ship that would break while under attack. He did not supply the list promptly or completely. To punish him I filled the named table entries of devices with "Craven, later"). Since there were many unnamed entries, the stub "Craven,later" was seen often during game testing as the most fragile device on the ship. Since we did not know part of the ship it was it really did not effect any part of the ship. To punish him further at game release, I took the comma out and made "Cravenlater" as the most fragile thing on the ship and it did absolutely nothing (sort of my opinion of any management position to help a single person game design.) There has been much speculation among players about what the Cravenlater was and how important it was... Now you know the real truth." |
Compilations
| Full version in | The Gold Collection III | (1987) | by U.S. Gold Ltd (UK) |
Main File Downloads
| Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
 | Psi-5TradingCompany.tap.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | |
| Psi-5TradingCompany.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (Alkatraz Protection System) | English |
Additional File Downloads
| Filename | Size | Release | Type | Language | Comments | |
| Psi-5TradingCompany.scr | 6,912 | Original | Loading screen | |||
| Psi-5TradingCompany.gif | 7,256 | Original | Running screen | |||
| Psi-5TradingCompany_Front.jpg | 899,110 | Original | Inlay - Front | |||
| Psi-5TradingCompany_Tape.jpg | 56,992 | Original | Media scan | |||
| Psi-5TradingCompany.txt | 768 | Original | Instructions | English | ||
| Psi-5TradingCompany(EN).pdf | 2,627,660 | Original | Instructions | English | ||
| Psi-5TradingCompany(EN)_2.pdf | 25,485 | Original | Instructions | English |
Magazine Reviews
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #67-1987/May | page 22 | - Review | |
| Computer Gamer | issue #14-1986/May | page 50 | - Review - not a Spectrum article | |
| Computer Gamer | issue #26-1987/May | page 70 | - Review | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #40-1987/May | page 31 | - Review: 58% | |
| Sinclair User | issue #62-1987/May | page 50 | - Review: 2/5 | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #18-1987/Jun | page 56 | - Review: 9/10 | |
| ZX Computing | issue #38-1987/Jun | page 49 | - Review: Great |
Magazine References
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #56-1986/Jun | page 12 | - News/Note | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #57-1986/Jul | page 92 | - Tips | |
| Computer Gamer | issue #10-1986/Jan | page 4 | - News/Note | |
| Popular Computing Weekly | issue v.5 #28-1986/Jul/10 special "week#2" | page 19 | - Tips | |
| Sinclair User | issue #55-1986/Oct | page 109 | - Preview | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #17-1987/May | page 9 | - Preview | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #19-1987/Jul | page 70 | - CompoEntry | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #21-1987/Sep | page 54 | - Tips |
Magazine Advertisements
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #53-1986/Mar | page 99 | - Full-page ad | |
| Computer Gamer | issue #12-1986/Mar | page 100 | - Full-page ad - not a Spectrum advert | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #26-1986/Mar | page 78 | - Advert | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #27-1986/Apr | page 2 | - Advert | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #31-1986/Aug | page 39 | - Advert | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #32-1986/Sep | page 79 | - Advert | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #33-1986/Oct | page 43 | - Full-page ad | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #35-1986/Dec | page 4 | - Advert | |
| Sinclair User | issue #48-1986/Mar | page 24 | - Advert | |
| Sinclair User | issue #53-1986/Aug | page 60 | - Advert | |
| Sinclair User | issue #57-1986/Dec | page 72 | - Advert | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #8-1986/Aug | page 60 | - Advert | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #9-1986/Sep | page 98 | - Advert | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #12-1986/Dec | page 40 | - Advert |
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