Popular games for platform Sinclair ZX81

Piramide Inca is a game for the ZX81 where your mission is to explore one of the sacred pyramids of the Incas where, according to an ancient legend, one of their greatest chiefs was buried along with all their fabulous treasure.

Pac Rabbit is a Pac-Man clone where you take the role of a rabbit and you move about a maze eating all the dots to clear the maze. As you eat the dots you must avoid the hounds that are hunting you but you can eat magic carrots which enable you to eat the hounds for a short time. If you touch a hound then you lose one of ten lives. There are six mazes split into two parts, Rabbits Revenge and Run Rabbit Run and you can choose the speed of the game (0-9) with zero being the fastest.

Kids TV favourite Postman Pat aims to stamp his authority on the games scene by delivering a first-class licensed game. Your job is to guide Pat and his van around a particularly busy day of work.First you go to the post office where Mrs Goggins will give you the letters or parcel to be delivered.You will also have to help herding Peter Fogg's sheep, and do all this against a time limit. The game includes a rendition of the show's music, as well as two difficultly levels - according to the inlay the easy version is for children, and the harder one for 'the serious gamer'.

An unofficial port of Atari's Centipede made by Jeff Minter in the early years of Llamasoft.

Alerta Vermelho is a game where you need attack the enemy planet using the lasers and bombs you have and, at the same time, defend yourself.

Gunfight is an unofficial port of the classic Atari VCS game where a cowboy at either side of the screen, moving up and down for the Sinclair ZX81.

Aventuras na Selva is a text-based adventure developed by Renato Degiovani and published by the magazine Micro Sistemas.

Stinger is a tank-shooter with several enemies, levels, power-ups and items to pick.

3D Monster Maze is a computer game developed from an idea by J.K.Greye and programmed by Malcolm Evans in 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81 platform with the 16 KB memory expansion. The game was initially released by J. K. Greye Software in early 1982 and re-released later the same year by Evans' own startup, New Generation Software. Rendered using low-resolution character block "graphics", it was one of the first 3D games for a home computer, and the first game incorporating typical elements of the genre that would later be termed survival horror. 3D Monster Maze puts the player in a maze with one exit and a hostile monster, the Tyrannosaurus rex. There, the player must traverse the maze, from the first-person perspective, and escape through the exit without being eaten.

Blow up as many boxes as you can before the guard sees you. Or play as the guard and try to find the saboteur.

O Aventureiro is a text-adventure where in search of an adventure, you clandestinely teleport aboard a cargo ship whose crew is made up of exotic beings from various planets. Your objective is to accumulate all the money you can by searching the ship's rooms.

Program Pack 4 is a double games pack that contains: Breakout: Based on the arcade game where the aim is to remove all the bricks at the top of the screen by moving a bat left or right below and bouncing a ball upwards. If you let the ball pass your bat then you lose one of three lives. Brikthru: Moving a bat left or right and bouncing a ball upwards, you clear the screen with a ball going through a shaded area and bouncing off the top and sides of the screen. If you let the ball pass your bat you lose one of thee lives.

In this surreal platformer, released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, you have been transformed into a bird, and must fight to save the human race from the invading Kremins by exploring an expansive world and collecting useful items.

A collection of 8 games for the Sinclair ZX81 with an a 16K memory expansion module. Invaders A Space Invaders clone with an extra shield that can be activated for a brief moment in time. Life A simulation of cell growth. The player can set a patern and see if/how it grows. 3D Tick-Tac-Toe A 3D Tic-Tac-Toe game. The aim is to make a straight line of 4 dots. You play against the computer. Galaxy Invaders A shoot em up where the player is at the bottom trying to shoot alien crafts moving around the screen. Gun Fight An Outlaw clone. You try to shoot a cowboy on the other side of the screen and you can take cover behind a carriage. ZX Scramble A Scramble clone where the player flies through a tunnel from left to right which bombing installations on the gound. Snakebite A Snake clone. Fungaloids The player flies at the top of the screen bombing funguses growing into the air. When a funcgus is destroid it can throw spores into the air which must be dodges. Be aware not to bomb installations on the ground. Fuel can be collected at the side of the screen.

You're being attacked by giant birds! You must shoot the bird right between the eyes in order to defend yourself and score points.

A collection of 8 games for the ZX81 with 16K memory expansion module. Planetoids A clone of the Arcade classic Asteroids. Breakout A clone of the Arcade classic Breakout. Space Rescue You have to rescue 6 astronauts on the ground by steering a dropship through an asteroid field towards landing platforms. After landing and picking up one astronout you have to fly up through a field of enemy ships and dock with the mother ship. Draughts Play draughts against a computer opponent. Byte-man A Pac-man clone with three different mazes to complete. Dodgems Like pac-man you must eat all the dots. Dodgems is however made up of lanes (from outside to inside) and you can switch lane on the left, right, top or down side of the screen while always moving forward. Blitz You fly over a city and you have to bomb the building to clear a path for landing. You can go up and down and drop bomb. Buildings are rebuild and get higher as time progresses, make sure not to crash into one. Merchant You are a sea trader sailing from city to city buing and selling items. While sailing from one city to another you can encounter danger which make you loose cargo. You can buy more ships. The goals is to reach a capital of 1000000 florins.

Scram - 81 is a clone of the arcade game Scramble which is viewed from the side with the screen scrolling left to right constantly. You have to fly a spaceship above the surface of a planet bombing ground targets while shooting or bombing missiles with your laser. As you fly, your fuel level decreases but you can bomb fuel dumps to increase it. If you hit a missile or the surface then you lose one of three lives.

A compilation of 6 games for a ZX81 with a 16K memory expansion module. Lunar Landing The lunar excursion module starts in a atable lunar orbit. You can control it to bring it a soft landing on the moon. Twenty One The card game of Twenty One Combat You are in a spacecraft equiped with 12 missiles with which you have to fight of aliens. Substrike Within a grid you have to fight of submarines using depth charges. Codebreaker A Mastermind like game Mayday You have to find a person lost in space (7x7x7 grid).

Text adventure with an overview of surrounding rooms for the ZX81 with a 16K memory expansion module. The game allows you to set some parameters (like amount of food and arrows, but also the dungeon layout) before starting.

A Space Invaders clone where you control a craft at the bottom of the screen moving left or right, to destroy aliens in formation above dropping bombs on you.

Subespaço is a bundle that includes three space-related games developed by Ciberne Software

You have to take the keys and go to the exit, avoiding enemies.

Chase is somehow similar to Gnome Robots but in real-time game and with several items and power-ups.

A reboot of the Game and Watch title Helmet, with Palo T as the protagonist.