Spectrum Computing

Only one that came with my (newly reduced to £125) 48k beauty was Horizons, but I was allowed to pick two games the next day and walked out of Boots with Planetoids and Spectres (the latter of which was always my dad's favourite game).

1 Wizard's Lair
2 Factory Breakout
3 Starquake

5 minutes - Pheenix, decent bit of blasting 15 minutes - Vagan Attack, perfect time for a Trekker 1 hour - Quazatron, love the minigame and the graphics still look lush All Day - Grand Prix Simulator II, nearly 40 years on and I'm still addicted to this, it's the inertia effects that make it so much...

1. Bomb Jack
2. Wild West Hero
3. Tapper

I don't care how controversial it is, I'm voting for the Brum Tache. IIRC Sam Fox even managed to get the ranking of poker hands wrong (did it put a straight above a flush? That's the usual mistake).

Shmup: R Type
Car Racer: Grand Prix Simulator 2
Adventure: Sabre Wulf
Beat em up: Ghosts & Goblins
Puzzle: Mined Out
Platformer: Chuckie Egg
Strategy: Rebelstar
Simulation: Advanced Pinball Simulator

1 Zzoom
2 Arcadia
3 Jumping Jack

1 Hyper Sports
2 Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh
3 Ping Pong

The top two are in my all-time 10 most-played Speccy games

1 Manic Miner
2 Styx
3 Andre's Night Off (not in support of that, but as an earnest protest against JSW)

Dad used to play Spectres (or as he called it, Ernie the Electrician). Nothing else, just that one game. He did do a type-in once, but didn't realise he could save it, so just switched it off after playing for 5 minutes...

1 Rebelstar, the original and bestest
2 Chaos
3 Rebelstar 2

48K, May 1983, from Boots, a birthday present just after it came down from £175 to £125. Also got ABC's Lexicon of Love LP for £3.99 at the same time.

1 Star Trek - because this is the game that it turns out Atlantis' Vagan Attack (one of my most played games ever) was ripped off from wholesale...
2 Velnor's Lair
3 Codename Mat II

1 Juggernaut
2 Brain Storm
3 Urban Upstart

1 Vagan Attack - in my all-time top 5 most-played games and still one I go back to
2 Supercom
3 Timezone - just for K9

1 Revenge of Doh
2 Steve Davis
3 WEC

Grand Prix Simulator 2 is probably my favourite Speccy game, so erm, that

1 Grand Prix Simulator 2
2 Advanced Pinball Simulator
3 BMX Simulator 2

Getting a sequence of corners right in Grand Prix Simulator 2. You know the inertia will get you in the end, but while the flow lasts it is awesome.

1. Hypersports
2. Mikie
3. Supertest

1. Match Day II
2. Match Day
3. Batman

You know, this is starting to intrigue me - it is obviously the same game with just the title screen and alien name changed*, yet the Crash review in Issue 9 treats it as an original and credits John Green as the author, at a time when Derek Brewster himself was on their staff... the other magazine ...

Woah! I never knew this existed ! And until today I never realised it wasn't an original release from Atlantis - interesting that they not only changed the name and title screen, but also the author - now I realise it was actually written by the estimable Derek Brewster, its quality makes much more...

Only one I've played is the Mikro-Gen one, though I never knew it was originally from MG as I bought the budget re-release on Atlantis - one of my most-played games back in the 80s and one I still return to regularly now.

No-one mentioned Horace Goes Skiing yet? In that case, erm, Horace Goes Skiing - the skiing part is fun but the opening frogger section, oh dear me no, nine times out of ten I'm dead before ever reaching the slopes

Given there were only 10 votes, maybe the whole Centipede/Millipede vote could be re-run? Reading it now I was shocked that a) no-one voted for the amazingly good Spectipede (my first ever budget purchase, and from a petrol station at that) and b) that Gridrunner was admitted to the contest...