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Celebrity Credit Card Fraud Simulator
AuthorBen Rapier
FilenameCelebrityCreditCardFraudSimulator.z80
Year2005
PositionNo ranking
FormatSpectrum
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DescriptionWhat can be more fun than lifting the bloated credit card from a top celebrity's handbag and making off for some materialistic purchases using someone else's bank account?

That's what this game offers, and it offers it well. At the outset, it oozes machine code quality, with varying font sizes depicting your current state. The input system involves a constantly counting "choice" from the options listed. Hitting any key selects the option currently chosen for you.

For your first few purchases, you'll be laughing all the way to bank as you rack up yachts, security guards and expensive trinkets. Unfortunately those in the fraud detection services are hot on your tail, and will catch up eventually. You need to rack up as many pounds worth of purchases as possible before they get to you.

And that usually happens within about 5 turns. There's no explanation as to the types of fraud you can safely commit, and as such you are left with a feeling that maybe the author didn't actually include any.

This game gets a crap score of 5/10, as there is a game and the author has obviously worked hard on it, but the lack of any discernible structure hampers playability somewhat.

CommentsThere's not much to say about this one at all. By saying that, it should score highly as a crap game, but there's the nagging feeling that too much effort has been made in presentation of the text onscreen, and that harms it badly.

The game itself is fairly straight forward. Choose a celebrity's credit card, and then spend as much as you can before getting arrested.

I cannot really see it as a crap game, nor good. I mean, I had more than one go, so it can't be that bad! 5/10


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