My quest to play every game to have been #1 on the UK’s official games charts has taken me to the end of 1984. That didn’t take long, starting as it did at the mid-point of the year and taking in only five games. Charts I’ve found from before the Gallup ones start have Jet Set Willy at #1 for several months more before though, so maybe it isn’t so far off the whole picture.
All of 1984 in one place:
- Jet Set Willy (Software Projects, Spectrum)
- Mugsy (Melbourne House, Spectrum)
- Sabre Wulf (Ultimate Play the Game, Spectrum)
- Daley Thompson’s Decathlon (Ocean, Spectrum)
- Underwurlde (Ultimate Play the Game, Spectrum)
Coming up next: Compilations, new dimensions, and the imperial…