Your Spectrum
Issue 11, February 1985 - The YS Top 20
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Well, by the time you read this, lots of you will have received all sorts of software goodies from Santa - and we want to be first in line to hear all about it. Remember this is your chart - as long as you keep telling us what you think is the best software around! Letters from software houses containing personal cheques will not be accepted. (Unless they're for exceptional amounts of moolah! Ed.)
Of course, there's a chance you could be the lucky winner of three pieces of Spectrum software - all you have to do is to will your letter first out of the Editor's hat when we come to count up the votes. This month's winner is Mark Frankland of Theydon Bois, Essex - nice one, Mark!
As usual, you've to send us the coupon below, complete with your top five fave raves, as well as your top three turkeys (which will be used to throw together a Top Turkey chart for 1985!). (Er, excuse me, are you talking about the precise art of constructing an article for a future issue, tosh? Ed.)
Post off your entries to YS Charts, Your Spectrum, >14 Rathbone Place, London W1P 1DE.

THIS
MONTH
 LAST
MONTH
MONTHS
IN CHART
1 2 5 SABRE WULF
ULTIMATE
BACK IN THE POLE POSITION ONCE AGAIN, BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK OF UNDERWURLDE?
2 - 1 DALEY'S DECATHLON
OCEAN
'ARMCHAIR OLYMPICS' DEFINITELY SEEM TO BE THE FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH.
3 1 8 JET SET WILLY
SOFTWARE PROJECTS
WHERE WOULD THE CHARTS BE WITHOUT THIS ONE?
4 5 7 TRASHMAN
NEW GENERATION SOFTWARE
TRASHMAN'S STILL A FIRM FAVOURITE WITH THE FANS, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE TRAVEL WITH TRASHMAN'S DESTINED FOR THE TOP.
5 15 3 MATCH POINT
PSION
PSION SCORES AN ACE WITH THIS UNSEASONABLE WIMBLEDON TENNIS SIMULATION.
6 10 5 LORDS OF MIDNIGHT
BEYOND SOFTWARE
YOU VOTED THIS TOP ADVENTURE OF THE MONTH! C'MON ALL YOU HOBBIT AND VALHALLA FANS, DON'T LET THEM BRING YOU DOWN.
7 4 8 ATIC ATAC
ULTIMATE
LOSING GROUND FAST, ATIC ATAC LOOKS SET TO DROP OUT OF THE CHARTS - IT HASN'T GOT A CHANCE!
8 - 1 FIGHTER PILOT
DIGITAL INTEGRATION
HAVEN'T SEEN THIS ONE FOR A WHILE ... BUT IT'S BACK INTO THE TOP TEN LIKE A BULLET.
9 14 5 WORLD CUP
ARTIC
ALL IT TOOK WAS THE FOOTBALL SEASON TO START AND THIS ONE TOOK OFF WITH IT.
10 - 1 MONTY MOLE
GREMLIN GRAPHICS
'SUPPOSED' CONTROVERSIAL GAME, DUE TO ITS NON-EXISTENT REFERENCES TO THE MINER'S STRIKE.
11 11 5 MUGSY
MELBOURNE HOUSE
GANGSTER THRILLS FROM THE MELBOURNE HOUSE MOB!
12 19 2 TLL
VORTEX
DID YOU KNOW THE COMPANY'S JUST RELEASED A SIMILAR GAME BASED ON HELICOPTERS?
13 7 8 CHEQUERED FLAG
PSION
THE RACE IS STILL ON ... BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THIS ONE'S BLOWN ITS GEARBOX. CHEQUERED FLAG REVS UP ITS ENGINE ONLY TO FIND OUT IT'S IN REVERSE.
14 8 7 LUNAR JETMAN
ULTIMATE
LOOKS LIKE EVERYBODY'S PLAYING KNIGHT LORE AND NOT BOTHERING ABOUT THIS GAME ANY MORE.
15 - 1 KOKOTONI WILF
ELITE
WOW, WHERE'D THIS ONE SPRING FROM?
16 - 1 SHERLOCK
MELBOURNE HOUSE
WE HAD A SUSPICION THIS ONE WOULD HIT THE CHARTS! BUT WHAT ABOUT HAMPSTEAD?
17 - 1 FULL THROTTLE
MICROMEGA
MICROMEGA GETS ON ITS BIKE AND STARTS REVVING UP ITS ENGINE TO SPEED UP THE CHARTS.
18 9 7 WHEELIE
MICROSPHERE
WHAT'S ALL THIS NONSENSE ABOUT DOUBLE DECKER BUSES AND MANIC HEDGEHOGS? WELL, YOU LOT OBVIOUSLY DON'T CARE.
19 - 1 PSYTRON
BEYOND SOFTWARE
A NEWCOMER TO THE CHARTS - IT'S YOUR TASK TO BLAST THE ALIEN NASTIES FROM THE SPACE STATION.
20 13 3 THE HOBBIT
MELBOURNE HOUSE
THIS COULD BE THE LAST TIME YOU SEE THIS ADVENTURE IN THE CHARTS.
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