Misplaced Childhood – AAA in review 1985

My quest to play every game to have been #1 on the UK’s official games charts has taken me to the end of 1985. Kicking off with Knight Lore, the isometric 3D game trend joined the ever present sports games to make up more than half the year’s entries between them.

 All of 1985 in one place:

• Knight Lore (Ultimate Play the Game, Spectrum)
• Ghostbusters (Activision, Spectrum)
• Alien 8 (Ultimate Play the Game, Spectrum)
• Soft Aid (Soft Aid, Spectrum)
• Way of the Exploding Fist (Melbourne House, Commodore 64)
• Hyper Sports (Imagine, Spectrum)
• Frank Bruno’s Boxing (Elite, Spectrum)
• Daley Thompson’s Super Test (Ocean, Spectrum)
• Fairlight (The Edge, Spectrum)
• Impossible Mission (Epyx/US Gold, Spectrum)
• Monty on the Run (Gremlin Graphics, Spectrum)
• Elite (Firebird, Spectrum)

Previously: 1984

Coming up next year: Kung Fu, war, superheroes, and more…