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Complete list of Ultimate Play the Game releases

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A list of all the official Ultimate Play the Game releases, plus known, completed homebrew conversions, remakes, and unreleased titles.

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Homebrew, PC, Retrospec, Ultimate Play The Game, Windows

Tranz Am Retrospec Remake, PC

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This PC remake of the classic ZX Spectrum game, Tranz Am, was first released in 2008 by Retrospec. It is a reasonably faithful, “enhanced” conversion of the overhead racing game originally published by Ultimate Play the Game in 1983.

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Ashby Computers and Graphics, Ultimate Play The Game, ZX Spectrum

Tranz Am, ZX Spectrum

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Set in a post-apocalypse USA (in the year 3472, no less), Tranz Am is an overhead racing game where the aim is to collect eight cups (The Great Cups of Ultimate), which have been randomly dispersed around the continent.

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Ashby Computers and Graphics, Loading Screens, Ultimate Play The Game, ZX Spectrum

Ultimate Play The Game Loading Screens, ZX Spectrum

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The ZX Spectrum Loading Screens on all the early Ultimate Play The Games titles are so beautiful that I can’t resist running them again. Any excuse. They are wonderful pixel art from a bygone age of game-making.

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