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This list of Ultimate Play The Game games shows all games by Ultimate Play The Game, one of the most successful British video game developers of the 1980s.^{[citation needed]} Many of these titles were great critical and commercial successes, with CRASH magazine awarding Ultimate games an average review score of 93%^[1] over the period of 1983 to 1986. Among the most successful of these were the Jetman and Sabreman series, which to date have spawned four and five installments respectively, with the latest of each coming from Rare, Ultimate's sucessor company (see Ultimate Play The Game#History for more information). One of the early titles, Knight Lore, is still seen as one of the most important and influential games of all time, ^{[citation needed]}

All games were developed by Tim and Chris Stamper[citation needed] and published by Ultimate Play The Game[2] until the company was partly purchased by U.S. Gold, when the new owner took over both roles.

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Contents 1 Games 1.1 Related releases 2 See also 3 Notes/references

[edit] Games

Many of Ultimate's games were great critical and commercial successes, with CRASH magazine awarding Ultimate titles an average review score of 93%^[3] over the period of 1983 to 1986. Among the most successful of these were the Jetman and Sabreman series, which to date have spawned four and five installments respectively, with the latest of each coming from Rare, Ultimate's sucessor company. One of Ultimate's best-known titles, Knight Lore, is still seen today as among the most important and influential games of all time,^[4][5][6] and the genesis of the isometric adventure genre.^[7]

All titles were released for 8-bit home computer platforms popular in Europe at the time, with a few seeing a Japanese release for the MSX platform. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was the company's platform of choice^[8] due to its immense popularity providing the largest market,^{[citation needed]} though most games were also ported to the Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro computers. The other major 8-bit computer, the Commodore 64, received few of these ports but was supported by Ultimate with unique titles of its own.

Title	Date	Publisher	ZX	CPC	BBC	C64	MSX	Region(s)
Jetpac[9]	01983 1983(1)	Ultimate Play The Game	Y		Y(1984)[10]
Pssst	01983 1983(2)	Ultimate Play The Game	Y
Tranz Am	01983 1983(3)	Ultimate Play The Game	Y
Cookie	01983 1983(4)	Ultimate Play The Game	Y		unreleased[11]
Lunar Jetman	01983 1983(5)	Ultimate Play The Game	Y		Y
Atic Atac	01983 1983(6)	Ultimate Play The Game	Y		Y
Sabre Wulf	01984 1984(1)	Ultimate Play The Game	Y	Y(1985)[12]	Y	Y(1985)[13]
Underwurlde	01984 1984(2)	Ultimate Play The Game	Y			Y
Knight Lore	01984 1984(3)	Ultimate Play The Game	Y	Y(1985)	Y		Y(1985)[14]	[15]
The Staff of Karnath	01984 1984	Ultimate Play The Game				Y
Entombed	01984 1984	Ultimate Play The Game				Y
Alien 8	01985 1985	Ultimate Play The Game	Y	Y	Y		Y	[15]
Nightshade	01985 1985	Ultimate Play The Game	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	[15]
Gunfright	01985 1985	Ultimate Play The Game/U.S. Gold	Y	Y			Y	[15]
Blackwyche	01985 1985	Ultimate Play The Game/U.S. Gold				Y
Imhotep	01985 1985	Ultimate Play The Game/U.S. Gold				Y
Outlaws	01985 1985	Ultimate Play The Game/U.S. Gold				Y
Dragon Skulle	01985 1985	Ultimate Play The Game/U.S. Gold				Y
Cyberun	01986 1986	Ultimate Play The Game/U.S. Gold	Y	Y			Y
Pentagram	01986 1986	Ultimate Play The Game/U.S. Gold	Y				Y
Martianoids	01987 1987	Ultimate Play The Game/U.S. Gold	Y	Y
Bubbler	01987 1987	Ultimate Play The Game/U.S. Gold	Y	Y			Y

[edit] Related releases

Title	Date	Publisher	System	Region(s)	Notes
Knight Lore	19 December 1986[16]	Jaleco	Famicom Disk System		Not a conversion of the home computer version of Knight Lore, but a completely new game. See Knight Lore for more details.
Sabre Wulf	18 May 2004[17]	THQ	Game Boy Advance		A continuation by Rare of Ultimate's Sabreman franchise, the GBA version of Sabre Wulf is not a remake of the original, but an all-new platform game.
Jetpac Refuelled	28 March 2007[18]	Rare	Xbox Live Arcade		A continuation by Rare of Ultimate's Jetman franchise, Jetpac Refuelled is an enhanced remake of Jetpac.

[edit] See also

• List of Rare games

[edit] Notes/references