About this site

ComputerHits is an online database of every available UK 8-bit software chart published from 1982 to 1993.

Chart Types

ComputerHits uses these abbreviations and colours to indicate chart types:

ALL FORMATS ALL

MULTI-FORMAT M/F

EIGHT BIT 8BIT

ATARI 8-BIT A8

COMMODORE 16 C16

COMMODORE 64 C64

AMSTRAD CPC CPC

BBC/ELECTRON B/E

BBC BBC

ACORN ELECTRON ELK

DRAGON DR

MSX MSX

VIC-20 VIC

ZX81 81

ZX SPECTRUM ZX

All Formats - the most common chart - is the chart where the total sales of a title on every format result in a single chart position, while the Multi-Format (sometimes called the Individual Formats) chart counts sales separately for each format, so a single title could have several entries in the same chart.
Only charts based on sales are included, reader voted charts are excluded. Console games are also excluded, but 16-bit titles are listed where they appear in All Format and Multi-Format charts.

Display Layout

Data is displayed in the format:
CHART POSITION - CHART DATE - SOURCE - PAGE - SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE

This example is an extract from the chart history of Paperboy:

Chart history:


2	WEEK to c.87-01-10	PoCW p16 87-01-29
2	WEEK to c.87-01-17	( PoCW p19 87-02-12 )
3	WEEK to c.87-01-24	PoCW p19 87-02-12
4	WEEK to c.87-01-31	PoCW p17 87-02-19
		YComp p30 Apr 87

the exact dates of the charts are not known so an estimated date is used, this is indicated by the c. prefix ahead of the date in italics.
the issue of Popular Computing Weekly for February 5th is missing, so the chart place for that week is taken from the 'last week' position from the chart published on February 12th. Where 'last week' or 'last month' positions are listed, the source dates are displayed inside brackets.
the page number links to an archived copy of the source where possible.
the top 20 entries on the 19th February PoCW and the April issue of Your Computer are identical (disregarding some discrepancies on the 'last week' numbers) so they are listed under the same estimated date.

The following abbreviations are used for sources:

A&B - A&B Computing
AcU - Acorn User
AmCU - Amstrad Computer User
AtU - Atari User
BW - Bang Weekly
BigK - Big K
CFrc - Commodore Force
CFmat - Commodore Format
CU - Commodore User
CVG - Computer & Video Games
CGam - Computer Gamer
CGW - Computer Gamesweek
CSR - Computer Software Retailing
CTW - Computer Trade Weekly
CPC - CPC Attack
ElU - Electron User
GX - Games X
HCW - Home Computing Weekly
Mic - Microscope
NCE - New Computer Express
PeCG - Personal Computer Games
PeCN - Personal Computer News
PeCW - Personal Computer World
PoCW - Popular Computing Weekly
SU - Sinclair User
YComm - Your Commodore
YComp - Your Computer
YS - Your Sinclair
Zzap - Zzap!64

A complete list of all sources can be found on this page.