Boulder Dash |
Release Date | 1984 |
Original Publisher | Front Runner (UK) |
Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K |
Language | English |
Genre | Arcade Game: Maze |
Max. Players | 1 |
Original Price | £7.95 |
Mods | 4 title(s) |
Competitions | C&VG 1984 Golden Joystick Awards |
Controls | Cursor, Interface 2 (right), Kempston Joystick |
Tie-in Licences | Boulder Dash (Software) from First Star Software Inc (USA) |
Other Platforms | Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, MSX, NES |
Average mag. score | 81.80% (5 reviews) |
Martijn's WoS score | 82.8% (93 votes) |
#1 - Dro Soft (Spain) | (1984) | ||
#2 - EDOS (UK) | |||
#3 - Prism Leisure Corporation PLC (UK) | (1984) | ||
* Release price: £2.99 | |||
#4 - Zafiro Software Division (Spain) | (1984) |
Dalali Software Ltd (UK) | - ? | ||
Peter Liepa (USA) | - ? | ||
Chris Gray (UK) | - ? | ||
Steinar Lund (Norway) | - Inlay/Poster Art |
Runner-up in the C&VG 1984 Golden Joystick Awards - Best Arcade Style Game. |
"Crash Smash" | at Crash | issue v.1 #12 - 1985/Jan special "Christmas Special 1984/85" | page 74 |
SPOT: also published on B: side of Rockford's Riot |
This game was later converted to an arcade coin-op by Data East. |
1. | Boulder Dash | (1984) | by Front Runner (UK) | |
2. | Boulder Dash II: Rockford's Riot | by Monolith (UK) - within compilation "Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash" | ||
3. | Boulder Dash III | (1986) | by American Action AB (Sweden) | |
4. | Boulder Dash Construction Kit | (1988) | by Databyte (UK) |
Full version in | Pack of Aces | (1987) | by Paxman Promotions (UK) | ||
Full version in | Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash | (1985) | by Monolith (UK) |
Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
BoulderDash.tap.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | ||
BoulderDash.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (Power-Load) | English | ||
BoulderDash_2.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English | ||
BoulderDash(PrismLeisureCorporationPLC).tzx.zip | #3 | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (Power-Load) | English |
Filename | Size | Release | Type | Language | Comments | |
BoulderDash.scr | 6,912 | Original | Loading screen | |||
BoulderDash.gif | 5,695 | Original | Running screen | |||
BoulderDash.jpg | 29,908 | Original | Inlay - Front | |||
BoulderDash.txt | 8,338 | Original | Instructions | English | ||
BoulderDash.png | 126,083 | Original | Game map | |||
PCG13Poster.jpg | 1,535,229 | Original | Magazine poster | - Personal Computer Games magazine poster | ||
BoulderDash.jpg | 171,270 | Original | Advertisement | |||
BoulderDash_2.jpg | 210,815 | Original | Advertisement | |||
boulderdash.rzx | 0 | Original | RZX playback file | - Recorded by Rouslan Gordeyev (with rollback) | ||
Boulder Dash (1984)(Front Runner).pok | 561 | Original | POK pokes file | |||
BoulderDash(PrismLeisureCorporationPLC).scr | 6,912 | #3 | Loading screen | |||
BoulderDash(PrismLeisureCorporationPLC).jpg | 95,444 | #3 | Inlay - Front |
Big K | issue #11-1985/Feb | page 23 | - Review: 3/3 | |
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #40-1985/Feb | page 42 | - Review | |
Crash | issue v.1 #12-1985/Jan special "Christmas Special 1984/85" | page 74 | - Review: 93% | |
Crash | issue v.1 #38-1987/Mar | page 75 | - Review - Crash - Crashback | |
Home Computing Weekly | issue #99-1985/Feb/12 special "week#2" | page 14 | - Review | |
Sinclair User | issue #35-1985/Feb | page 23 | - Review: 5/10 | |
Your Sinclair | issue #22-1987/Oct | page 75 | - Review: 8/10 | |
Your Sinclair | issue #84-1992/Dec | page 11 | - Review: 86% |
Big K | issue #10-1985/Jan | page 7 | - Full-page ad | |
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #39-1985/Jan | page 57 | - Full-page ad | |
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #47-1985/Sep | page 10 | - Advert | |
Crash | issue v.1 #12-1985/Jan special "Christmas Special 1984/85" | page 73 | - Full-page ad | |
Home Computing Weekly | issue #128-1985/Sep/3 special "week#1" | page 7 | - Advert | |
Home Computing Weekly | issue #129-1985/Sep/10 special "week#2" | page 2 | - Advert | |
Home Computing Weekly | issue #130-1985/Sep/17 special "week#3" | page 2 | - Advert | |
Personal Computer Games | issue #14-1985/Jan | page 29 | - Full-page ad | |
Popular Computing Weekly | issue v.4 #36-1985/Sep/5 special "week#1" | page 7 | - Advert | |
Popular Computing Weekly | issue v.4 #39-1985/Sep/26 special "week#4" | page 8 | - Advert | |
Sinclair User | issue #34-1985/Jan | page 69 | - Full-page ad | |
TV Gamer | issue 1985/Jan | page 9 | - Full-page ad | |
Your Computer | issue v.5 #1-1985/Jan | page 35 | - Full-page ad | |
Your Computer | issue v.5 #2-1985/Feb | page 42 | - Full-page ad | |
Your Computer | issue v.5 #10-1985/Oct | page 28 | - Advert |
Crash | issue v.1 #21-1985/Oct | page 24 | - Review: 84% (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Sinclair User | issue #44-1985/Nov | page 26 | - Review: 3/5 (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) |
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #50-1985/Dec | page 44 | - Advert (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #51-1986/Jan | page 70 | - Advert (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Crash | issue v.1 #19-1985/Aug | page 43 | - Full-page ad (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Crash | issue v.1 #20-1985/Sep | page 53 | - Full-page ad (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Crash | issue v.1 #21-1985/Oct | page 83 | - Full-page ad (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Crash | issue v.1 #22-1985/Nov | page 91 | - Full-page ad (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Crash | issue v.1 #24-1986/Jan special "Christmas Special 1985/86" | page 143 | - Advert (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Sinclair User | issue 1986 special "Annual 1986" | page 58 | - Full-page ad (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Sinclair User | issue #41-1985/Aug | page 65 | - Full-page ad (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Sinclair User | issue #42-1985/Sep | page 51 | - Full-page ad (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Sinclair User | issue #43-1985/Oct | page 36 | - Full-page ad (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Sinclair User | issue #45-1985/Dec | page 108 | - Advert (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) | |
Sinclair User | issue #46-1986/Jan | page 68 | - Advert (Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash) |
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