1983

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Game Releases

• Jetpac
  • VIC-20 port
• Pssst
• Tranz Am
• Cookie
• Lunar Jetman
  • BBC Micro port
• Atic Atac
  • BBC Micro port

Events

Ashby Computers and Graphics starts using the trading name Ultimate Play the Game, with Jetpac being the first game to be released under it.

Computer and Video Games published their first sales chart that ranged fromSeptember to December of the year. Jetpac was the chart topper of ZX Spectrum games. "Computer and Video Games" creates the Golden Joystick Awards. The ceremony nominated Psst for "Best Original Game of the Year", Jetpac for "Game of the Year" and Ultimate Play The Game for "Software House of the Year". Psst lost to Ah Diddums; both Jetpac and Ultimate Play The Game won their respective awards. ACG was represented by Tim Stamper and Carol Ward.

The Nintendo Family Computer is released in July 15 in Japan. The Stamper Brothers manage to get one shortly after it's release. Realising it's potential, they set up a specialised subdivision of ACG titled Rare: Designs on the Future with the task of reverse engineering the new hardware, basing themselves on previous experience with coin-op circuitries.