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Daily Mail
Author	Steve K
Filename	DailyMail.zip
Year	2008
Position	75
Format	ZX Spectrum 128K/+2
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Description	For those who thought the big event of today was the official opening of the Beijing Olympics 2008, you are sadly mistaken. That's just a schoolyard pea shooting contest compared with today's REAL big event. CSSCGC 2008 is proud to announce Steve K's epic game - Daily Mail. Live out the life of Fleet Street's finest (alcohol not included). Ooh the pressure, the deadlines. Will you get the crucial headline out on time for the first edition? The nation MUST know the truth and only you as self-appointed moral arbiter of this great nation are qualified to tell it to the people, like it REALLY is.
Comments	Quality Daily Mail header graphic and nice usage of the 128K only PLAY command. I wonder if there'll ever be a port to the 48K BEEP command, as it appears that may be the only line in the program which prevents it from running on a 48K system? Technical concerns aside, the author assures me he'd had a few drinks whilst making this game, well that's really what I call dedication of getting into the role of the game. For you play a drink happy journalist, although in this one the drink appears to be a cuppa. I can't help think it's a cuppa gin though. Playing this for the second time round I can't help but see how topical the generated pseudo-headlines are for 2008. Which nicely dates it. I can imagine it'd be really bizarre to play this one in about twenty years time!