97. Wizball - Ocean, 1987
In a post on Twitter earlier, I teased that number 97 would be a big game, and while Wizball may be more renowned as a Commodore 64 game, Ocean did a fantastic job of recreating the colourific mayhem on the Spectrum.
A shoot-'em-up at heart, it’s a game I spent many hours with and is still charmingly wacky to this day, and the first of many Ocean games on this list.
Cover art by Bob Wakelin and loading screen by Mark Jones.
Images thanks to www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk