My quest to play every game to have been #1 on the UK’s official games charts has taken me to the end of 1986. That year saw the 8-bit computers still dominant, with sports game fever extending to American sports, and a whole lot of arcade conversions. 1985′s fighting game trend continued over with some twists, and there were some new hints at what lies ahead in the appearance of Batman and a couple of military games.
All of 1986 in one place:
- Commando (Elite, Spectrum)
- Yie Ar Kung Fu (Imagine, Commodore 64)
- Uridium (Graftgold/Hewson, Commodore 64)
- Hardball (US Gold, Commodore 64)
- FA Cup Football (Virgin, Spectrum)
- Way of the Tiger (Gremlin Graphics, Spectrum)
- Super Bowl XX (Ocean, Commodore 64)
- Bomb Jack (Elite, Spectrum)
- Batman (Ocean, Spectrum)
- Thrust (Firebird, Spectrum)
- Green Beret (Imagine, Spectrum)
- Ghosts‘n Goblins (Elite, Spectrum)
- Speed King (Mastertronic, Commodore 64)
- ACE (Cascade, Spectrum)
- Dragon’s Lair (Software Projects, Spectrum)
- Paperboy (Elite, Spectrum)
Coming up next: Board games, wizards, bikes and more bikes…
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