| War in Middle Earth |
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| Release Date | 1989 |
| Original Publisher | Melbourne House (Australia/UK) |
| Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K |
| Genre | Strategy Game: War |
| Max. Players | 1 |
| Original Price | £9.99 |
| Disk Price | £14.99 |
| Controls | Cursor, Interface 2 (right), Kempston Joystick, Redefineable keys |
| Tie-in Licences | War in Middle Earth (Software) from J.R.R. Tolkien (UK), Synergistic Software Inc (USA) |
| Other Platforms | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, PC/DOS |
| Average mag. score | 77.85% (6 reviews) |
| Martijn's WoS score | 73.3% (12 votes) |
Re-releases
| #1 - Dro Soft (Spain) | (1989) | ||
| * Release price: 1200.00 Ptas |
Authors/Contributors
| Mike Singleton (UK) | at Maelstrom Games Ltd | - Game Design/Concept | |
| Alan B. Clark | at Synergistic Software Inc | - Game Design/Concept | |
| Robert Clardy | at Synergistic Software Inc | - Game Design/Concept | |
| Chris Pink (UK) | at Maelstrom Games Ltd | - Code | |
| Paul Robotham (UK) | at Maelstrom Games Ltd | - In-game Graphics | |
| John Howe | - Inlay/Poster Art |
Authors according to SPOT/SPEX
| Alan Clark & Bob Clardy *** Data provided by SPOT/SPEX is unconfirmed. Please help us validate this information! |
Remarks
| The first game to make use of the Synergistic Software's engine World Builder, and the only one ported to the ZX Spectrum. Synergistic produced four other games based on the same concept for the 16-bits market. |
Main File Downloads
| Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
 | WarInMiddleEarth.tap.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | |
| WarInMiddleEarth.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English | |
| WarInMiddleEarth.dsk.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 128 +3 | (None) | English | ||
| WarInMiddleEarth(DroSoft).tzx.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | Spanish | |
| WarInMiddleEarth(DroSoft).dsk.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 128 +3 | (None) | Spanish |
Additional File Downloads
| Filename | Size | Release | Type | Language | Comments | |
| WarInMiddleEarth.scr | 6,912 | Original | Loading screen | |||
| WarInMiddleEarth.gif | 4,454 | Original | Running screen | |||
| WarInMiddleEarth.jpg | 1,706,270 | Original | Inlay - Front | |||
| WarInMiddleEarth_Front.jpg | 827,499 | Original | Inlay - Front | |||
| WarInMiddleEarth_Back.jpg | 893,424 | Original | Inlay - Back | |||
| WARINMID.TXT | 6,331 | Original | Instructions | - Docs (from games database) | ||
| WarInMiddleEarth.txt | 78,095 | Original | Instructions | English | ||
| WarInMiddleEarth(MULTI-LANG).pdf | 4,015,755 | Original | Instructions | Multi-language: English, French, German, Italian | ||
| WarInMiddleEarth.jpg | 216,848 | Original | Advertisement | |||
| WarInMiddleEarth_2.jpg | 331,245 | Original | Advertisement | |||
| WarInMiddleEarth_MapSheet.jpg | 253,028 | Original | ? | - Map sheet | ||
| WarInMiddleEarth(DroSoft)_Front.jpg | 75,196 | #1 | Inlay - Front | |||
| WarInMiddleEarth(DroSoft)_Back.jpg | 151,741 | #1 | Inlay - Back | |||
| WarInMiddleEarth(DroSoft).pdf | 219,844 | #1 | Instructions | Spanish |
Magazine Reviews
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #17-1989/Feb | page 38 | - Review - not a Spectrum article | |
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #20-1989/May | page 79 | - Review: 851/1000 | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #89-1989/Mar | page 70 | - Review: 88% | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #62-1989/Mar | page 73 | - Review: 70% | |
| MicroHobby | issue #187-1989/Apr | page 40 | - Review - Nuevo | |
| New Computer Express | issue #19-1989/Mar/18 | page 48 | - Review - not a Spectrum article | |
| Sinclair User | issue #83-1989/Feb | page 88 | - Review: 79% | |
| The Games Machine | issue #17-1989/Apr | page 54 | - Review: 65% | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #40-1989/Apr | page 46 | - Review: 8/10 | |
| ZX Magazín | issue 1994/May | page 8 | - Review |
Magazine References
Magazine Advertisements
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #12-1988/Sep | page 76 | - Full-page ad | |
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #17-1989/Feb | page 56 | - Full-page ad | |
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #18-1989/Mar | page 38 | - Full-page ad | |
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #22-1989/Jul | page 52 | - Full-page ad | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #83-1988/Sep | page 45 | - Full-page ad | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #85-1988/Nov | page 97 | - Full-page ad | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #86-1988/Dec | page 153 | - Full-page ad | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #88-1989/Feb | page 69 | - Full-page ad | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #90-1989/Apr | page 69 | - Full-page ad | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #91-1989/May | page 68 | - Full-page ad | |
| Sinclair User | issue #81-1988/Dec | page 36 | - Full-page ad | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #38-1989/Feb | page 89 | - Full-page ad |
Links
| Centre for Computing History | (Information - in English) | |
| MobyGames | (Information - in English) | |
| The Tipshop | (Information - in English) | |
| UVL | (Information - in English) | |
| Wikipedia | (Information - in English) | |
| ZX Spectrum Reviews | (Magazine Reviews) | |
| Spectrum 2.0 | (User Reviews) | |
| The TZX Vault | (Software Preservation) | |
| ZX-Art | (Spectrum Graphics) | |
| ZXInfo | (ZXDB Front End) | |
| Every Game Going | (Multi-Platform Archive) | |
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| Original World Of Spectrum | (Spectrum Archive) | |
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