Ranarama (1987)

Ranarama was released in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum 48K. The game was published by Hewson Consultants Ltd and created by Steve Turner, with inlay and poster art provided by Steve Weston and Peter Austin.

This maze-based arcade game supports a single player. It features in-game mini-games and a custom screen loader, with control options including Cursor keys, Kempston joystick, and Interface 2.

The original cassette version was priced at £7.95. The game was also made available on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and Atari ST platforms.

Ranarama achieved an average magazine score of 85.29%. It received several accolades, including the Crash Smash, Sinclair User Classic, Your Sinclair Megagame, and ZX Computing Monster Hit awards.

The game was well-known in the Soviet scene, appearing in magazines like On-Line and Spectrum Expert, and featured in various solution catalogs. It saw numerous TR-DOS adaptations from groups such as CZ'93 and BrokImSoft, alongside a cassette crack by Prospekt.