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![[In-game screen]](/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/t/TauCeti.gif "In-game screen")
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| Full title | Tau Ceti |
| Also known as | Tau-Ceti |
| Year of release | 1985 |
| Publisher | CRL Group PLC (UK) |
| Re-released by | Ricochet (UK) |
| Author(s) | Pete Cooke, Ian Ellery |
| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K |
| Number of players | 1 |
| Controls | Kempston and Keyboard |
| Type | Arcade: Shoot-em-up |
| Message language | English |
| Original publication | Commercial |
| Original price | £9.95 |
| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX |
| Protection scheme | None |
| Additional info | Appeared on tape 2, side A of the compilation 20 Chart Busters (Beau-Jolly Ltd)
Appeared on tape 2, side A of the compilation 30 Red Hot Hits (Beau-Jolly Ltd) Appeared on side A of the compilation Five Star Games 3 (Beau-Jolly Ltd) Appeared on side B of covertape YS issue 58: Four Pack 1 (Your Sinclair) Participant in the Game of the Year Awards 1985 Part of the Flippy Flippy series Features Vector Graphics Features Multi-machine Medium Also listed on Wikipedia and Freebase |
| Remarks | 3rd place in the Game of the Year Awards 1985 - Best Arcade Game. 3rd place in the Game of the Year Awards 1985 - Best Spectrum Game. |
| SPOT comments | Your Sinclair cover game |
| Series | This game belongs in the following series:
1. Tau Ceti -- Tau Ceti - The Special Edition 2. Academy |
| Other systems | This title was also advertised for and/or published on the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 |
| Score |
8.29 (136 votes) 
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| Filename | Size | Type | Origin | Code | Barcode | D.L. | ||
|  | TauCeti.tzx.zip | 26,724 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | 9780854010141 | ||
|  | TauCeti.tap.zip | 26,873 | ((non-TZX) TAP tape image) | ||||
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| | TauCeti(Ricochet).tzx.zip | 26,090 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Re-release | RAS035 | 5012967400972 |
| Filename | Size | Type | |
 | TauCeti.gif | 3,719 | (Loading screen) |
| TauCeti.scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| TauCeti.gif | 4,381 | (In-game screen) | |
 | TauCeti.txt | 10,246 | (English instructions) |
| TauCeti.zip | 12,279 | (English instructions) |
| TauCeti.jpg | 30,564 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| TauCeti_Back.jpg | 65,094 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| TauCeti_Front.jpg | 50,096 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| TauCeti(Ricochet).jpg | 278,073 | (Re-release cassette inlay) | |
| TauCeti.jpg | 142,229 | (Advertisement) |
| The Tipshop has hints, cheats and/or POKEs for this game! |
| This title is available for sale at The Preservation Team Shop! |
| 1 player review [ View | Write one ] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Crash | 11.85 | page 44 | (Preview) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 11.85 | page 8 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 11.85 | page 217 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 12.85 | page 18 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 12.85 | page 86 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 12.85 | page 14 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 1.86 | page 74 | (Poster) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 1.86 | page 26 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Computer | 1.86 | page 38 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 1.86 | page 32 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 2.86 | page 55 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 2.86 | page 26 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 2.86 | page 40 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 3.86 | page 103 | (Feature) | [full page] |
| Crash Tips Special | 4.86 | page 11 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 5.86 | page 18 | (Feature) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 5.86 | page 18 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 5.86 | page 26 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 6.86 | page 35 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 7.86 | page 23 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 8.86 | page 14 | (Feature - The Spectrum Collection - Update) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 4.87 | page 90 | (Review) | [full page] |
| ACE | 1.88 | page 143 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ACE | 3.88 | page 108 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ACE | 4.88 | page 115 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ACE | 5.88 | page 107 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| YS Smash Tips | 8.88 | page 52 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 10.90 | page 6 | (CoverGame) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 1.91 | page 48 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 9.92 | page 18 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby | 1.86 | page 14 | (Nuevo) | [full page] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Popular Computing Weekly | 11.85 | page 116 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 12.85 | page 78 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| Crash | 1.86 | page 113 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 2.86 | page 53 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 3.86 | page 18 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 3.86 | page 28 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 3.86 | page 61 | (CompoResult) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 3.86 | page 76 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 5.86 | page 45 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 5.86 | page 416 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 7.86 | page 89 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 9.86 | page 84 | (CompoResult) | [full page] |
| ACE | 12.87 | page 67 | (Advert) | [full page] |
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