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| Full title | Boulder Dash |
| Year of release | 1984 |
| Publisher | Front Runner (UK) |
| Re-released by | Dro Soft (Spain) EDOS (UK) Prism Leisure Corporation PLC (UK) Zafiro Software Division (Spain) |
| Author(s) | Dalali Software Ltd, Peter Liepa, Chris Gray |
| Tie-in licence | First Star Software Inc (USA) (original game: Boulder Dash) |
| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K |
| Number of players | 1 |
| Controls | Kempston, Interface 2, Cursor and Keyboard |
| Type | Arcade: Maze |
| Message language | English |
| Original publication | Commercial |
| Original price | £7.95 |
| Budget price | £2.99 |
| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX |
| Protection scheme | Multiple schemes (see individual downloads) |
| Additional info | Appeared on side A of the compilation Pack of Aces (Paxman Promotions)
Appeared on side B of the compilation Rockford's Riot + Boulder Dash (Monolith) Participant in the C&VG 1984 Golden Joystick Awards Features a Boulder Dash clone Also listed on Wikipedia and Freebase |
| Remarks | Runner-up in the C&VG 1984 Golden Joystick Awards - Best Arcade Style Game. This game was later converted to an arcade coin-op by Data East. |
| SPOT comments | also published on B: side of Rockford's Riot |
| Series | This game belongs in the following series:
1. Boulder Dash 2. Boulder Dash II: Rockford's Riot 3. Boulder Dash III 4. Boulder Dash Construction Kit |
| Other systems | This title was also advertised for and/or published on the Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, MSX and NES |
| Score |
8.47 (83 votes) 
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| Filename | Size | Type | Origin | Code | Barcode | D.L. | Encoding scheme | ||
 | BoulderDash.tzx.zip | 12,373 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | 5012206061070 | Power-Load | |||
| | BoulderDash_2.tzx.zip | 12,692 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | 5012206061070 | None | ||
|  | BoulderDash.tap.zip | 12,500 | ((non-TZX) TAP tape image) | |||||
| BoulderDash(PrismLeisureCorporationPLC).tzx.zip | 12,227 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Re-release | 5014293017909 | Power-Load |
| Filename | Size | Type | |
 | BoulderDash.gif | 2,921 | (Loading screen) |
| BoulderDash.scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| BoulderDash(PrismLeisureCorporationPLC).gif | 1,011 | (Loading screen) |
| BoulderDash(PrismLeisureCorporationPLC).scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| BoulderDash.gif | 5,695 | (In-game screen) | |
 | BoulderDash.txt | 8,338 | (English instructions) |
| BoulderDash.png | 126,083 | (Game map) |
| BoulderDash.jpg | 29,908 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| BoulderDash(PrismLeisureCorporationPLC).jpg | 95,444 | (Re-release cassette inlay) | |
| BoulderDash.jpg | 171,270 | (Advertisement) | |
| BoulderDash_2.jpg | 210,815 | (Advertisement) | |
| BoulderDash_Poster.jpg | 1,535,229 | (Personal Computer Games magazine poster) |
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| Title | Author | Year | Platform | Status |
| Diamonds Mine | RDST | 1995 | Amiga, PC in future | available |
| Boulder Dash 2000 | Petr Simon | 2000 | PC/DOS | available (link dead?) |
| Rock Rush | Ian Price | ? | PC/DOS | available (link dead?) |
| XmasRush | Ian Price | 2001 | PC/Windows | available (link dead?) |
| Boulder Dash 2004 | Kopromaster Veliky | 2004 | PC/DOS, PC/Windows, Linux | available (link dead?) |
| Boulder Dash | ZX Games | 2006 | PC/Windows | available (English) |
| Boulder Dash | ZX Games | 2006 | PC/Windows | available (German) |
| Boulder Dash | ZX Games | 2006 | PC/Windows | available (Russian) |
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