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Advanced Betting Simulator 2008
Author	Gavin Callard
Filename	HRS.Z80
Year	2008
Position	37
Format	ZX Spectrum 16K
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Description	Press 'J' to continue into this all too realistic betting simulation where you may or may not learn an important lesson about the futility of gambling. I certainly did after I lost my remaining ?5.8 on Jumping Sprout at Campston. Nicely done horse graphics, and impressively all of the letters you have to press to proceed in the game happen to be high scoring in scrabble.
Comments	A considerable effort must've gone into generating the large number of comical horse and race names. However the fact that the horse graphics are just too professional and the correct racing colour of green was used make the game too good. Perhaps if the official crap game colour of magenta were employed, the score could've been increased by half a point. Thankfully though, the score was boosted by incorrectly rounding pounds and pence and by requiring awkward key presses to advance the game. Of course there are also the instructions, which have the gall to refer to the player as You sad git. How did he know, is there a webcam in here or something?