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Mini Game Compo Simulator
Author	Dr BEEP
Filename	MGC.TAP
Year	2008
Position	86
Format	ZX Spectrum 48K
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Description	*Updated 28/09/08* - Dr BEEP provided instructions on how to access the Easter Egg in his game, found in this forum post, in SPOILER tags. *Updated 26/09/08* - B-key added (BIASED VOTING) I also noticed that this game had to be released during Easter 2008 since I found an easteregg in it. When the results are shown on 1 certain game you can activate a competition. The release of the game was overdue and the programmers forgot to take out the competition. You get the competition, but the competition has ended before the game was released on the market. Here we have the first public version of Dr BEEP's realistic simulation of the Minigame Compo. Dr BEEP says Everything is in it, submitting games with S-key and voting with the V-key. I am still working on the B-key (Biased voting settings). (B-key=Biased Voting) You can have a good laugh at the all-too realistic sounding game names. In this real time simulator (partially real time that is), the entire annual compo can be played out before you in a matter of minutes. During the game your role will switch from hopeful entrant to compo judge. Will you award all of your points to certain select entrants and game genres or will you attempt to be noble and truly impartial? Even if you are impartial, could there possibly be other random hidden forces at work which may sway things in favour of certain entrants and games anyway? I couldn't possibly comment. So I'll just say, play this game a few times and you can find out for yourself.
Comments	You know when Dr. BEEP has an axe to grind - he starts emitting small games at an alarming rate. This one really shook the foundations of the minigame compo community, or at least it would have done had any minigame judges ever played it which I suspect they didn't. I only say this because there seems to be some sort of communication barriers between various sections of the home-brew retro-gaming community. For example I don't think the mini-game judges have ever seen any of my CGC postings around the Internet and I have never seen any of theirs either. So, the competitions go on as two isolated bubbles in a vast retro-gaming ocean. In this game, I personally enjoy looking at such great mock usernames as C64 lover and also the game names such as Lightbulb Factory, whilst keeping out of the politics! In that respect, I found it to be an amusing enough diversion.