3D Monster Maze cover

3D Monster Maze

First release
Feb 1982
Genres
Arcade · Action, Horror
Platforms
Sinclair ZX81

3D Monster Maze is a computer game developed from an idea by J.K.Greye and programmed by Malcolm Evans in 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81 platform with the 16 KB memory expansion. The game was initially released by J. K. Greye Software in early 1982 and re-released later the same year by Evans' own startup, New Generation Software. Rendered using low-resolution character block "graphics", it was one of the first 3D games for a home computer, and the first game incorporating typical elements of the genre that would later be termed survival horror. 3D Monster Maze puts the player in a maze with one exit and a hostile monster, the Tyrannosaurus rex. There, the player must traverse the maze, from the first-person perspective, and escape through the exit without being eaten.

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Release dates
Sinclair ZX81
Feb 1982
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Keywords
dinosaurs, maze, survival horror, tyrannosaurus rex

How it plays

Languages

  • Englishinterface
IGDB · recorded 4 Oct 2026

Language data: IGDB · recorded 4 Oct 2026