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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Beebmunch	IJK Software	1982
Snapper	Acornsoft	1982	Guide the Snapper through the maze eating dots and fruit while trying to avoid being eaten by the creatures that chase you. If you eat a flashing dot the creatures become edible - eat them quickly before they revert to snapper-hunting mode. The game gets progressively faster, and with higher scores as the fruit increase in value. You must survive thirteen screenfuls before catching a glimpse of the ultimate prize - the Acorn, worth 5000 points! This game is fully compatible with either keyboard or joysticks, and includes score and ladder of high scores, magnificent colour graphics and full sound effects. (Also suitable for black and white television).* [4]First released with sprites that looked like the original Pac-Man and the ghosts. Subsequent releases changed the sprites.** [4]
3D Munchy	MRM	1983
Bouncing Bug	Usborne Publishing	1983	Bouncing Bug may be found as a type-in listing in Understanding Computer Graphics. A free PDF of the book is available for download from Usborne Publishing (scroll to near the bottom of the page).
Bumble Bee	Micro Power	1983
Chuckie Egg	A&F Software	1983	There exist a ROM image of a Chuckie Egg 2 for the BBC Micro. But thats just a Chuckie Egg mod and not a port of the official sequel.
Maze Eater	Cascade Games	1983	Only released as part of the "Cassette 50" compilation by Cascade Games.
Road Runner	Superior Software	1983
Manic Miner	Software Projects	1984	Miner Willy, while prospecting down Surbiton way, stumbles upon an ancient, long forgotten mine-shaft. On further exploration, he finds evidence of a lost civilisation far superior to our own, which used automatons to dig beep into the Earth's core to supply the essential raw materials for their advanced industry. After centuries of peace and prosperity, the civilisation was torn apart by war, and lapsed into a long dark age, abandoning their industry and machines. Nobody, however, thought to tell the mine robots to stop working, and through countless aeons they had steadily accumulated a huge stockpile of valuable metals and minerals, and Miner Willy realises that he now has the opportunity to make his fortune by finding the underground store. In order to move to the next chamber, you must collect all the flashing keys in the room while avoiding nasties like POISONOUS PANSIES and SPIDERS and SLIME and worst of all, MANIC MINING ROBOTS. When you have all the keys, you can enter the portal which will now be flashing. The game ends when you have been 'got' or fallen heavily three times.*** [192]
Mineshaft	Durell	1984
Nifty Lifty	Visions Software Factory	1984
Smash & Grab	Superior Software	1984
The Sting	Gemini	1984
Wallaby	Superior	1984
Bruce Lee	U.S. Gold	1985
Jet Set Willy	Tynesoft	1985	Miner Willy, intrepid explorer and nouveau-riche socialite, has been reaping the benefits of his fortunate discovery in Surbiton. He has a yacht, a cliff-top mansion, an Italian housekeeper and a French cook, and hundreds of new found friends who REALLY know how to enjoy themselves at a party. His housekeeper, Maria, however, takes a very dim view of all his revelry, and finally after a particularly boisterous thrash she puts her foot down. When the last of the louts disappears down the drive in his Aston Martin, all Willy can think about is crashing out in his four-poster. But Maria won't let him into his room until ALL the discarded glasses and bottles have been cleared away. Can you help Willy out of his dilemma? He hasn't explored his mansion properly yet (it IS a large place and he HAS been VERY busy) and there are some very strange things going on in the further recesses of the house (I wonder what the last owner WAS doing in his laboratory the night he disappeared). You should manage O.K though you will probably find some loonies have been up on the roof and I would check down the road and on the beach if I was you. Good luck and don't worry, all you can lose in this game is sleep.
Lode Runner	Software Projects	1985
Bounty Bob Strikes Back!	U.S. Gold (Micro Power)	1986	[4]***You play Bounty Bob and the idea of the game is to change all the platform colors to progress to the next level.
Crystal Castles	U.S. Gold	1986
Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier	Tynesoft	1986	Can you help Willy, our intrepid explorer and nouveau-rich socialite, to clean up the mess in his huge mansion? But beware, there are some strange things going on in the further recesses of the house!
Mikie	Imagine	1986
Mouse Trap	Tynesoft	1986
3D Dotty	Blue Ribbon	1987	3D Dotty is a pacman clone on 3 levels.
Bio-Chip	Fast Access;Argus Specialist Publications	1988
Boulder Dash	Tynesoft	1988	Boulderdash is one of the classic games of the 1980s. Guide your man around the cave collecting diamonds, once you collect enough diamonds you can proceed to the next level.

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