---
title: "Blind Alley"
id: 51285
type: "computer_media"
slug: "blind-alley"
url: "http://localhost/computer_media/blind-alley/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/computer_media/blind-alley.md"
published_at: "2023-07-25T11:45:26+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-30T21:29:15+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SCR-20260330-mufn.png"
excerpt: "A light-cycle-style grid game set a millennium in the future, with directional spacecraft controls, persistent motion trails, and an increasing number of opponents across rounds."
category:
  - name: "Archived Media"
    slug: "archived-media"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/archived-media/"
post_tag:
  - name: "Downloadable"
    slug: "downloadable"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/downloadable/"
  - name: "Timex Computer Corporation"
    slug: "timex-computer-corporation"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/timex-computer-corporation/"
  - name: "TS 2068"
    slug: "ts2068"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
    slug: "ts-2068"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
indiv:
  - name: "Simon Lane"
    slug: "simon-lane"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/simon-lane/"
genre:
  - name: "Arcade"
    slug: "arcade"
    taxonomy: "genre"
    url: "http://localhost/type/arcade/"
media_type: "Program"
programmers:
  - name: "Simon Lane"
    slug: "simon-lane"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/simon-lane/"
download_url: "https://archive.org/download/World_of_Spectrum_June_2017_Mirror/World%20of%20Spectrum%20June%202017%20Mirror.zip/World%20of%20Spectrum%20June%202017%20Mirror/sinclair/timex/games/BlindAlley.tzx.zip"
mediadate: "1983"
producer_company:
  - id: 11401
    title: "Timex Computer Corporation"
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/timex-computer-corporation/"
images:
  - url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SCR-20260330-mufn.png"
  - url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SCR-20260330-mtwb.png"
  - url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blind-Alley-cassette-box.jpg"
  - url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blind-Alley-J-card.jpg"
  - url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blind-Alley-cassette.jpg"
related_products:
  - id: 26087
    title: "Blind Alley"
    type: "product"
    url: "http://localhost/product/blind-alley/"
media_type_tags: "Arcade"
---

Blind Alley is a light-cycle-style action game set nearly a thousand years in the future, in which the player controls a spacecraft competing against opposing craft on a grid. Each ship leaves a persistent motion trail on screen, and any ship that collides with a trail — its own or another’s — or the screen border loses the round. Control is directional rather than rotational, making any attempt to reverse course instantly fatal. The number of opposing ships increases as the game progresses.