Your Spectrum
Issue 3, May 1984 - The YS Top 20
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Well, here it is ... the YS Top Twenty! Obviously, there are any number of charts available to show the state of software sales and, if you look around, they all seem to be different. Funny, eh?
So what we've decided to do is to invite you the readers to tell us your current favourites; that way, in future issues we'll be able to publish a chart that really does go some way to reflecting your fave raves. At the bottom of the page you'll find a coupon for entering your top five tapes of the month. Either fill this in and send it to us, or pop off a postcard with your top five scrawled upon same.
As we collect your entries, every month they'll be punched into the nearest Speccy and out will come the YS Reader's own chart. That way, with any luck, we'll be able to see just how accurate all these competing charts are. And as just a weeny incentive to get you writing to us, each time we work out the chart, all the entries will be put in a large hat (belonging to our editor, of course) and the first out will receive three of the latest software releases for the Spectrum.
Don't miss out on our hopelessly inadequate prize. Send your selection today!

THIS
MONTH
1 HUNCHBACK
OCEAN
A FAST-MOVING ARCADE CONVERSION THAT HAS YOU JUMPING THE WALLS OF THE CASTLE TO SAVE ESMERELDA.
2 MANIC MINER
SOFTWARE PROJECTS
JOIN MINER WILLY IN HIS QUEST FOR THE MISSING KEYS IN 20 BIZARRE AND COLOURFUL CAVERNS.
3 ATIC ATAC
ULTIMATE
A FULL-GRAPHICAL ADVENTURE IN AN ARCADE FORMAT, BUT WATCH OUT FOR THE WANDERING GHOSTS!
4 STONKERS
IMAGINE
A COMPLEX GRAPHICAL WAR SIMULATION WHERE YOUR TASK IS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD - STRICTLY FOR MEGALOMANIACS ONLY.
5 DEATHCHASE
MICROMEGA
REMEMBER THE 'BIKE CHASE' SCENE FROM RETURN OF THE JEDI? ALL HAS BEEN RECREATED.
6 CHEQUERED FLAG
PSION
JOIN THE GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT AND RACE (SMASH UP?) SOME OF THE GREATEST TRACKS IN THE WORLD.
7 FLIGHT SIMULATION
PSION
A HARDY PERENNIAL. TAKE CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT IN THIS SUPERB 3D SIMULATION.
8 ANT ATTACK
QUICKSILVA
AN AMAZING 3D ADVENTURE IN THE CITY OF ANTESCHER THAT HAS YOU RESCUING YOUR DUMB MATE FROM THE KILLER ANTS.
9 MR WIMPY
OCEAN
A CHANCE TO DISCOVER THE HORRID TRUTH OF HOW BURGERS ARE MADE - AN ARCADE CONVERSION.
10 ALCHEMIST
IMAGINE
A WIZARD PROGRAM WHICH MANAGES TO BLUR THE BORDERS BETWEEN ADVENTURE AND ARCADE.
11 FIGHTER PILOT
DIGITAL SYSTEMS
A 3D FLIGHT SIMULATION PROGRAM THAT SITS YOU BEHIND THE CONTROLS OF A FIGHTER PLANE.
12 LUNAR JETMAN
ULTIMATE
A COMPLEX ARCADE/ADVENTURE THAT TAKES PLACE ON THE FROZEN WASTES OF THE MOON.
13 JETPAC
ULTIMATE
FIRST YOU BUILD A SPACESHIP, THEN YOU GO 'STAR-TREKKING' AROUND, COLLECTING GEMS FROM OTHER WORLDS.
14 HORACE GOES SKIING
PSION
A GAME THAT BUNDLES THE CLASSIC FROGGER AND SKI SLOPE PROGRAMS IN ONE.
15 PYRAMID
FANTASY
THERE ARE 120 COLOURFUL ROOMS, AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS COLLECT THE CRYSTALS - THE TROUBLE IS IT'S RAINING ALIENS!
16 POOL
CDS
A SIMULATION OF THE GAME OF POOL - FOR SPORT AND PUB FANATICS ONLY.
17 SPACE SHUTTLE
MICRODEAL
A 3D FLIGHT SIMULATION THAT HAS YOU CLAUSTROPHOBICALLY COSSETED IN DEEPEST, DARKEST SPACE.
18 BIRDS AND THE BEES
BUG-BYTE
AN ORIGINAL IDEA FOR AN ARCADE GAME THAT INVOLVES COLLECTING NECTAR WHILST KEEPING OUT OF THE WAY OF THE CENTIPEDES.
19 VALHALLA
LEGEND
A GRAPHICAL/TEXT GAME THAT HARKS BACK TO THE WORLD OF NORSE MYTHOLOGY FOR ITS INSPIRATION.
20 HARRIER ATTACK
MARTECH/DURREL
ATTACK THE OCCUPANTS OF A SMALL ISLAND WITH THE VALIANT LADS OF THE HARRIER DIVISION.
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