From one supposed classic yesterday to one real classic today! Arriving at Number #79 in the charts – rather criminally too – is Atic Atac from Ultimate. You may be instantly wondering – as I was – why this game is so low in the Your Sinclair Top 100. I have no idea and as soon as I have access to a time machine I intend on returning to 1991 to find out!
Ultimate released a number of excellent titles: Sabre Wulf, Lunar Jetman and Tranz-am to name but a few, with Atic Atac arriving in 1983. The game of Atic Atac was a simple affair – make you way through the many rooms filled with numerous enemies and retrieve the three broken parts of the Golden Key of ACG. Once you have these pieces you have completed the game. Simple! Not quite. With randomly spawning enemies, named mobs that can’t be taken down with a standard attack, but required a special item and the ability to only carry three items at once which includes three of the four standard door keys; you are in for a busy game.
Atic Atac recently made a return on the Xbox One via the Rare Replay, I’m a PS4 user but I’m truly glad that a new generation of gamers are being brought to the fantastic world of Atic Atac, as this is something that should never be forgotten.
Originally published June 10, 2016. Updated October 25, 2022.
