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Dan Dare for me. Beautiful, smooth, great fun to play - I lost days to that and still love a game even now.

Decathlon would've been my second choice - can't quite forgive it for breaking my keyboard membrane.

Is there a way to download this all in one go? Unusually for archive.org I only seem to be able to browse the files individually, there's no massive zip file. Or I didn't see one if there is. Very comprehensive collection, and a lot of effort put into naming and tagging everything properly, too. Edi...

Cyberun isn't great, but it's easily the best of the bunch. Pentagram is just dead boring, the other two are genuinely awful.

Cyberun's main problem is that it's just too damned hard, but I played a lot of it back in the day with a bunch of POKEs added.

I so wanted to love Sam Cruise like I did the Skool games, but I just found it impossibly difficult without a cheat and impossibly cryptic without a solution.

Voted for Chaos. Chuckie Egg is also blisteringly good, but Chaos has that old 'infinite replayability' bonus so I think it wins.

Chase HQ.... I realise it's really polished and an amazing conversion, but I never really found it much fun to play. Possibly because I'm crap at it.

1. Atic Atac
2. Jetpac
3. Cookie
4. Pssst
5. Alien 8

Controversial! Maybe.

Slimmer pickings for C and most of my ideas have already been listed, but I would like to suggest Cabal - a most excellent arcade port.

Not my choice, but a very worthy winner!

Do we vote for an overall winner once you have one for each letter?

I used Shiru's "BeepFX" to generate sound effects for my last couple of projects, it's great fun to play around with and makes some super beeps and farts. It even has a randomize button that you can keep hitting if you don't really know what you want. The assembly code it generates is pretty compact...

This is much harder than the 'a' vote was. I can see the love for Bomb Jack because I absolutely love it myself, but in terms of sheer time spent playing I think Back to Skool just nudges it for me, and has the added bonus of being a Speccy original.