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| Build That Tower |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | BTT.SNA STTBTT.TAP |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Forget SIMTOWER, now you can build your own tower ON YOUR SPECCY! This game ACCURATELY SIMULATES a huge CRANE to within a CENTIMETRE accuracy! Swing the hook, grab the blocks - BUILD THAT TOWER! Fantastic gameplay, amazing game engine and NEVER ENDING FUN! Who'd have thought architecture could be so much fun?! Get building your creations and ANNOY PRINCE CHARLES! |
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| Cantona Football |
| Author | Ian Coates |  |
| Filename | CAN.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | You are Eric Cantona. Your mission is to be sent off the field as soon as possible after the game has started (it is considered bad taste in France to be sent off before the whistle). You control Eric as he moves around the field in search of his victims, but make sure your tackle is hard enough to cause hospitalisation and you'll lose points if the referee has his back to you ! |
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| Castle |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | CAS.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Who'd have thought that the simple text adventure and QUILL environment could be PUSHED SO FAR TO THE LIMITS?! This HUGE adventure (over 4 locations!) has you searching an Alchemist's castle for the hidden treasure! The text OOZES ATMOSPHERE and the vocabulary of over 20 MILLION WORDS will push your brain to the very limits! You'll never complete this one unless you're GOD! |
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| Cat + Mouse |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | CAT.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Another attempt at a keyboard tutor. Did I have education on the brain when I wrote these or what? |
| Comments | Who would have thought that learning to type could BLOW YOUR MIND?!?!? Take on the role of a wacky mouse sprite as you try to escape from the wacky cat sprite by pressing the keys shown on the screen! But be careful, that darned cat won't give up without a fight! FANTASTIC DISNEY-QUALITY CARTOON GRAPHICS make this one of the BEST LOOKING EDUTAINMENT packages in the WORLD! You'll want to play this one OVER AND OVER AGAIN, even when you can type at 2000 words per minute! |
| Chess |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | CHS.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Basically a direct translation of 1K ZX81 chess with slightly better graphics. Beware, you have to type the number first rather than the letter. |
| Comments | Would you ever have believed that a mere COMPUTER could PLAY CHESS at a level to match KASPAROV?! Well now it can with this ASTONISHING version of the age-old board game for your humble Spectrum! We guarantee that you will be TEARING YOUR HAIR OUT IN FRUSTRATION as the AI ENGINE thrashes you AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN! The AI is SO GOOD that experts predict the game will become self-aware and DESTROY THE WORLD if left running overnight! Don't say we didn't warn you! |
| Einstein |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | EIN.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | A solitaire puzzle. The answer to the first question is one of O, Y, G and B. The board contains coloured pegs surrounded by a coloured circle. The idea is to move the pegs so that in the final position the pegs and circles match. Each move consists of taking the top peg of one column and moving it to the top of another column. Note: do not start this game with BRIGHT 1 turned on or it won't work. |
| Comments | From the author of Chess comes another FANTASTIC strategy game, a game SO COMPLEX that it DEFIES DESCRIPTION! Even the author has a hard time working out what you have to do! Programmed using new MIND READING techniques, this game was WRENCHED FROM THE SUBCONSCIOUS of the author while he was watching NEIGHBOURS one night! Destroy ALL of your brain cells trying to beat this one! |
| Keys |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | KEY.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | OH NO! Your city is under attack from the A-BOMB! And the B-BOMB! And the C-BOMB! Yes, typing tutor master Ian Collier is back with another HIGH ACTION EDUTAINMENT PACKAGE! Save your city by DESTROYING the evil missiles which are falling towards it! Just hit the letter of the current bomb and you'll BLAST it into a MILLION PIECES in a FANTASTIC HIGH RESOLUTION GRAPHICAL DISPLAY! This is one game which is SIMPLE TO LEARN, HARD TO PLAY and IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN! Yikes! |
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| Maths Invaders |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | MAT.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Aid your MENSA application and HAVE FUN AT THE SAME TIME! Yes, you too could be joining Uncle Clive in the world's BRAINIEST society if you play MATHS INVADERS, an INTELLIGENCE ENHANCING yet MINDBLOWING experience! GASP at the OUTSTANDING GRAPHICS, GULP at the EXPLOSIVE sound effects and GRUNT at the REALLY HARD SUMS! You'll NEVER cease to increase your IQ with this one! |
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| Maze |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | MAZ.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | For GENERATIONS, the mysteries of the labyrinth have BAFFLED the human mind! Now experience all the terrors of the maze on your Speccy screen! You'll SCREAM IN TERROR as you become HOPELESSLY LOST in the INFINITE PASSAGES! Be warned that you may STARVE TO DEATH before you work your way out of some of these mazes! OUTSTANDING HI-RES GRAPHICS make this a MUST-HAVE for ANY budding games-freak! PHENOMENAL! |
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| Maze 2 |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | MZ2.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Master the 2D version of MAZE and you'll be just about ready for the ALL NEW HORRORS which await you in MAZE 2 - THIS TIME IT'S IN 3D! So realistic, YOU WILL DEVELOP CLAUSTROPHOBIA! You can almost feel the breath of EVIL WINGED DEMONS on the back of your neck as you hopelessly search for the exit, with only an INFINITE SUPPLY OF MAGENTA GUNGE to mark where you've already been...... Will you be able to SLEEP EASY AT NIGHT if you KNOW you haven't completed this? |
| Comments | No comments |
| Nim |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | NIM.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | The famous game, where the computer always wins unless you know what you are doing. This game might speak to you if you have a Currah uSpeech attached. |
| Comments | Other lower-quality compilations (such as Cascade's ABYSMAL Cassette 50) would give you any old version of NIM. NOT THE CSS CRAP 60! We proudly present the BEST VERSION OF NIM EVER MADE! Yes, this version BEATS THE PANTS off modern day classics such as Doom and Dark Forces in terms of PLAYABILITY, GRAPHICS, SOUND and EVERYTHING ELSE! Pit yourself against the RUTHLESS AI ROUTINES as you attempt to BEAT THE MACHINE! But beware! The penalty for failure MAY BE DEATH!!! |
| Overboard |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | OVR.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Forget Chess! Forget Draughts! Forget Monopoly! The ULTIMATE strategy-based board game is RIGHT HERE on your Speccy! Overboard takes a simple set of rules and TWISTS THEM BEYOND BELIEF to produce one of the most ADDICTIVE two player games EVER PRODUCED! AMAZING FULL COLOUR GRAPHICS, ON-LINE HELP and TWO PLAYER ACTION go to make this one of the best releases ever conceived by man! Your friends will be FIGHTING TO THE DEATH to see who plays next! |
| Comments | No comments |
| Poker |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | PKR.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Throw away your pack of cards FOREVER and grab your faithful Speccy for a game of POKER! You won't believe the care and attention which has been LAVISHED on this game in order to create the ULTIMATE cards simulation for your computer! FULLY DIGITISED playing cards, UNBELIEVABLE random number generation for shuffling the pack, and DEVASTATING GAMEPLAY! What is the best hand that YOU can make with only three chances to change your cards?! Try POKER and FIND OUT! |
| Comments | No comments |
| Reaction Time |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | REA.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | THE SUPREME TEST of your abilities - the REACTION TEST! Find out JUST HOW GOOD you are by playing Reaction Time! Programmed by a team of EXPERTS over 40 years, Reaction Time is the ONLY program on the market designed with the SOLE INTENTION of testing your reactions! Find out if you're FAST! Find out if you're SLOW! Find out if you're DEAD!!! This program will tell you the lot! A REMARKABLE piece of programming! |
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| Stuntman |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | STU.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | BREAK THE SOUND BARRIER on your motorcycle as you perform UNBELIEVABLE STUNTS in Stuntman - the first game to ACCURATELY SIMULATE what it's like to fall off a bike at 150mph and have to have your legs rebuilt with METAL PINS! Jump some obstacles, jump some more, jump some more, and then TRY TO SAVE YOUR CAREER BY MAKING CAMEO APPEARANCES ON KIDS TV PROGRAMMES! An UTTERLY ENGROSSING simulation, which cost over 80 MILLION POUNDS and the lives of SEVEN PEOPLE to develop! |
| Comments | No comments |
| TEWShips |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | TEW.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Tired of playing games? Play TEWShips and you hardly have to do a thing! Yes, this is the first game that THE COMPUTER PLAYS BY ITSELF! Try to beat the machine by placing twelve ships on the board, which the computer will then try to destroy using the UNBELIEVABLE AI ROUTINES at its disposal! FANTASTIC GRAPHICS mean your eyes won't get bored while you're watching the computer find those ships! An OUTSTANDINGLY IMPRESSIVE CONCEPT! |
| Comments | No comments |
| Wari |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | WAR.SNA |
| Year | 1996 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | A game for two players. A move consists of emptying a numbered receptacle and distributing the seeds. If the last seed lands in a receptacle on the opposing side containing one or two seeds then you capture them. You then also capture the adjacent ones if they contain two or three. There may be some special case rules at the end of the game which I can't remember. |
| Comments | A strategy game for two players which is SO COMPLEX, it DEFIES DESCRIPTION! You'll never believe a game of such complexity could be SQUEEZED into a humble Speccy! In fact, it's so complex that EVEN THE AUTHOR DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY IT PROPERLY!!!! I'm giving up now while I've still got my SANITY! |
| Breakout |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | BRE.SNA |
| Year | 1997 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | An amazing emulation of an old electronic game, but without the annoying battery consumption! Play the game of breakout by simply pressing a key when the ball reaches the bat in order to fire it off! The time at which you press the key determines the angle at which the ball bounces back - pressing it earlier makes it go more to the left! But watch out - press it too late and the ball is OUT! Infinitely addictive! |
| Comments | No comments |
| Bullseye |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | BUL.SNA |
| Year | 1997 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | A fantastically fun text-based hunting extravaganza! And then some! Name any square and it will reveal a letter. You can use this letter to cross off one of the letters in the animals listed below by pressing the animal number. Occasionally it will give you a star instead of a letter. This is a penalty. When you have revealed all four of the stars your time is up and your score is the number of animals you "bagged". You bag an animal by crossing off all its letters. |
| Comments | No comments |
| Countdown |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | CNT.SNA |
| Year | 1997 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Yes - there's no need to wait for the program to come on Channel 4 any more, you can now play from the safety of your own PC! A fantastic fun game for two players, including ALL of the rounds from the TV favourite! Press V or C to choose vowels or consonants, 1 to 4 to choose numbers for the number game, and then bend your mind on the conundrum! Fantastic! |
| Comments | No comments |
| Maze Chase |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | MCH.SNA |
| Year | 1997 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Another fantasic MACHINE CODE game converted over from the ZX81! You are the "+" in the lower right-hand corner. Your job is to get home to the "H" at the top of the maze. But there is also a bug, represented by a "*", and if it gets there before you then you have lost. You also lose if the bug catches you. If you find yourself trapped with no escape then it can help to drive straight at it because the program gives you a 50% chance of re-starting the level if you show such boldness. Use keys V, B, P and L to move, and press CAPS SHIFT to start each maze! |
| Comments | No comments |
| Number |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | NUM.SNA |
| Year | 1997 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | A fantastically addictive game based on that old chestnut you used to find on calculator watches (back when digital watches were still "cool")! As the numbers appear on the left-hand side use any key from H to ENTER to set the number on the right, then press any key A to G to eliminate any matching numbers! The better you get, the faster it goes! Beware, if the row fills up with numbers then you're dead - and you only get three lives! |
| Comments | No comments |
| Tennis |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | TEN.SNA |
| Year | 1997 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | It's back again! The old TV game spawns another classic conversion - this time it's Tennis! Rope in a friend and recreate the joys of Wimbledon in your own front room - try to get the ball past him more times than he gets it past you, it's that simple! But hugely addictive! Use those bottom two rows of keys once again to control your bats.... |
| Comments | No comments |
| Chemistry Test |
| Author | Ian Collier |  |
| Filename | chemitest.tap |
| Year | 1999 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Do dull things with chemicals, like heat them and stuff like that then try to guess what they are. |
| Comments | Alistair: Being a chemist I feelk that Ian was trying to stir up soem support from me, but little does he know that this is not the type of chemistry I like. Crap but just because so is most chemistry. Graham: This game sent me into a hypnotic state of boredom, and as such has a valuable future in the field of hypnotherapy, and is therefor anything but crap. However, should it ever be harnessed by Paul McKenna in the making of one of his dreadful TV shows, then it may be re-assessed. |
| Clifftop View |
| Author | Gonad The Barbarian |  |
| Filename | CLIFF.SNA |
| Year | 1999 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | You play a seagull trying to crap on peoples hats, keys are the cursor keys with 0 to fire. |
| Comments | Alistair: I like the idea of this game, it is a crap idea. Unfortunately the gameplay is there and the design is far to good to win. Graham: As an accurate simulation of a Seagull this game excelled, and indeed is better than many of the titles that regularly top the Spectrum sales charts. It also includes a strategic element in the way it forces the player to balance the pros and cons of flying low to increase accuracy. Far too good to win. |
| Curse of the sandwitch |
| Author | Gonad The Barbarian |  |
| Filename | CURSE.TAP |
| Year | 1999 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | You must overcome the curse of the Sandwitch, by playing through various levels. keys as per most adventure games. |
| Comments | Alistair: I feel that Graham is a bit harsh with this game, true it has some crapness in it but i once again feel that this is of far too high a standard to be truly classed as crap. Graham: This had many elements of crapness that places it high among my possible winners, from massively long beep tunes (which are unfortunately in-tune, which does detract from the game's crapness level) to the fact that it's an adventure game (and I loathe those buggers). This is a game to look out for in the possible winner's pen. If anything can seriously harm this game's chances it the excellent usage of graphics that easily rivals the best that the GAC ever created... |
| Enforcer, The |
| Author | Gonad The Barbarian |  |
| Filename | ENF1.SNA |
| Year | 1999 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Kill the bad guys, using the keyboard. Make sure you kill the right one. |
| Comments | Alistair: It has to be said that this game is definitely to good for this competition, form the graphics to the gameplay its all here. Graham: I would have happily paid ?7.99 for this game, such is my love of it's classic gameplay, and superb machine code music. I suggest that the author of this game immediately removes himself to the nearest software developer and uses this pinnacle of gaming excellence to get himself a job there. |
| Forgotten Village |
| Author | Gonad The Barbarian |  |
| Filename | Fgtn.tap |
| Year | 1999 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Something to do with a forgotten village i suspect :-) Its an adventure game. |
| Comments | Alistair: Far too good once again, Gonad you must try harder. a nice little adventure game, ifi could find out what i was supposed to be doing :-). Graham: Despite being truly scared by the grisly opening loading screen, I ventured deeper into this game to find that it was a worryingly competent looking text adventure with good descriptions and an adequate parser. How this didn't end up on a Crash cover tape I'll never know. The battle sections of the game where also as exciting as any WWF match, and for all these reasons this game cannot be classed as crap, merely misguided. |
| Honest Joe |
| Author | Gonad The Barbarian |  |
| Filename | Joe.tap |
| Year | 1999 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | You play Joe and have to guide him around the town. Some of the names might sound familiar. |
| Comments | Alistair: Another good game from the Gonad, but again too good to be classed as truly crap, as Graham says far too much fun to be crap. Graham: This game could have almost been a license of Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, a film that I immensely enjoyed. Unfortunately for the game, this mental association of mine means that I had nothing but fun in Joe's quest to gain ?100. Even when I was caught by the rozzers (ouch!). |
| Pod |
| Author | Gonad The Barbarian |  |
| Filename | POD.TAP |
| Year | 1999 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Get Pod to do all manner of things by typing in your instructions. |
| Comments | Alistair: I love this, its not really a game just a way of truly interacting with your computer, think tamagootchi only more advanced. Graham: Pod is a low-budget version of Little Computer People, and although in many ways crap it loses out by the amazing coincidence that it actually understood the first two words I typed in (those being "dance" and "jump") meaning that the programmer was far too thorough in his researching of the human experience and it's digital implementation. |
| Snow |
| Author | Gonad The Barbarian |  |
| Filename | SNOW.TAP |
| Year | 1999 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | 48K |
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| Description | Watch some snowmen play with their bells. |
| Comments | Alistair: Guess what this is another one that is not a game, also its a little out of season. Graham: This is a blatant rip-off of an old BBC-B program that was used at every opportunity every Christmas to annoy the hell out of the teachers. However this isn't Christmas, so this program simply served to remind me that the weather is far too hot and that I was pining for colder times. Grrr! |
| Spectrum Roulette |
| Author | Ian Gledhill |  |
| Filename | SpectrumRoulette.tzx SpectrumRoulette.z80 |
| Year | 2004 |
| Position | 13 |
| Format | Spectrum |
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| Description | An extremely dull fast-reaction game for people who like squinting. Simply wait for the pixel (bomb) to appear on the screen, then hit a key as fast as possible to diffuse it. As you progress through the rounds, you are given less time to react. But if you fail to diffuse a bomb, then *BOOM* - your Speccy resets itself (a nice touch as this saves the player having to reach for the reset button themselves). Somehow, I didn't get the feeling I was playing real Russian Roulette. Having the Speccy reset itself is not really a terrible forfeit, compared to playing for real and risking having your brains blown out. In order to improve things, the author has created a peripheral device - the 'Specgun' - which fires real bullets and thus makes gameplay much more realistic. Unfortunately, Ian is unable to release the Specgun for sale to the public at the moment, as he's currently locked away awaiting trial for the manslaughter of 14 beta-testers. (Fib.) |
| Comments | No comments |
| Cannonball, The |
| Author | Grecu Cristian |  |
| Filename | Cannonball.tap |
| Year | 2005 |
| Position | No ranking |
| Format | Spectrum |
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| Description | No description |
| Comments | Made In Romania says the first screen, to a tune of what sounds like completely random notes. Since I know of no other romanian Spectrum programmers, I cannot judge whether this is from the cream of programming talent, or the worst. Still, it crashed the moment the game started in 128k mode. But once I did get the game running, it's actually a quite playable game, with nice simple images and animation. If it was released in 1982, and for the the educational market, I wouldn't be surprised if I had seen it in schools. So for that, it scores an incredibly low 1/10 |
| attack of the flying saucer! |
| Author | Ian |  |
| Filename | AOTFS.z80 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Position | 120 |
| Format | ZX Spectrum 48K |
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| Description | This game looks like it is straight out one of those multi-platform type-in listings books. By multi-platform I mean the BASIC program in question is deviod of any user defined graphics, colour or sound such that the same listing can run with only minor modifications on anything from a TRS-80 to a VIC-20 and of course a ZX Spectrum too. This restriction also guarantees that most multi-platform listing games are cack, with the notable exception of text adventures. Of course that really isn't the point because the whole idea of these listings is to study them, using them as a learning aid. I know the author has realised the educational value of the listing because all of his variables are very sensibly named. Want to change the message displayed when you die? That's line 45 my codeguru friend! And so on... Actually play the game if you dare, but be warned that the player and enemy bullets are suitably flickery for this BASIC affair. Again studying the code will show you that they are erased just after they are drawn - hey it's a nice touch and here in the CGC batcave we really appreciate it! Oh yes and you have to press SPACE to start playing. |
| Comments | Use of the word cack by me in the game's initial review was arguably a little harsh, yet undoubtedly?scientifically accurate. Furthermore cack is quite a complement to be bestowed on a game of this competition.?This one is without a shadow of a doubt cascade tape filler material. In fact I had to play every game in the original cascade tape, just to make sure that this wasn't one?of them. The low score reflects the fact that this one is?one of those quickly knocked up efforts that keeps the compo rolling on through dark winter nights. I hope the low score does not dissuade the author from potential future crap game efforts, because if Cascade 50 Volume Two ever hits the shelves then a place on it must be reserved today for this one! Low ranking just reflects the simplicity of the listing and the number of games in the compo. Otherwise, job well done! |
| Brainf*ck Interpreter |
| Author | Gianfranco Zuliani |  |
| Filename | bf.tap |
| Year | 2008 |
| Position | 91 |
| Format | ZX Spectrum 48K |
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| Description | This is another interesting addition to the new development environments now available in this year's competition. Read this Wikipedia page to learn more about the fascinating Brainf*ck language. I have purposely screen grabbed the beginning of the BASIC listing of this entry because as can clearly be seen, the Brainf*ck source is embedded in a REM statement in line 10. This means that theoretically, someone could use this entry to actually submit a game written in Brainf*ck to the CSSCGC competition. Again, I won't spoil the fun of showing what the program does, so again you can download it or run it from the arcade. Of course this assumes that you aren't a Brainf*uck guru who can work it out just by looking at the source! |
| Comments | I like this title and I have to say that the score could have been much higher had the author written a crap game in brainf*ck and submitted that. This - I would have really liked to see! I've long had a passing interest in Brainf*ck and similar esoteric computer languages whose only purpose is intellectual mischief and basically wasting time and resources. It would have been great to see someone take up the challenge of entering further BF programs into the CGC and this is also what I really hoped for. However, since I get a migraine attack anytime I try to author/debug BF code, I can quite understand why no-one else tried it either. Was glad to have this in the compo though! |
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