Sinclair User 35

Cite as: Sinclair User 35
Original: https://archive.org/details/Sinclair_User_035
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Accessed: 2026-11-06
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Notes: Pinned in stubs batch 24 for its Spectrum review of Lode Runner (Software Projects, John Gilbert).

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The ZX Spectrum version was out by February 1985: Crash reviewed it in its February 1985 issue, for the 48K Spectrum at £9.99. An Activision advertisement in Sinclair User that month had the game running on Commodore 64 cassette and disk and on the Spectrum, with other systems to come, and a retailer's list in the same issue had it in stock at £10.00.	`PDF p. 22, Activision advertisementPDF p. 27, retailer's list`	Magazine
The Commodore 64 version was second on Computer Entertainer's top ten computer programs in March 1985, and the Apple II version tenth; both the C64 and Atari versions were on the February 1985 list. In Britain, Sinclair User remarked in February 1985 that Personal Computer News's Spectrum chart had placed it fourth more than a fortnight before it was launched.	`PDF p. 17, news column`	Magazine
Software Projects' ZX Spectrum version, for the 48K machine at £5.95, has 150 screens, 75 on each side of the tape, lets the player start on any of them, and has an editor that saves screens to tape.	`p. 29, Lode Runner`	Magazine
Sinclair User's February 1985 review, by John Gilbert, gave the Spectrum version a Gilbert Factor of 6.	`p. 29, Lode Runner`	Magazine
John Gilbert found the edit mode the most exciting part of the Spectrum version and wrote that the rest of the game might as well be forgotten.	`p. 29, Lode Runnerp. 29, Lode Runnerp. 29, Lode Runner`	Magazine