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Martin Kelner's Scissors Paper Stone
Author	Guesser
Filename	MKSPS.zip
Year	2008
Position	13
Format	ZX Spectrum +2A/+3
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Description	Clearly the Rock, Paper, Scissors season has returned with a vengence, and I've been caught napping. Everyone out there has been playing the game except me. Companies have been set up advertising various clothing and merchandise, international "RPS" organisations rivalling UNESCO in manpower are vying for my attention via Google ads. I can only think it's some part of a massive, sinister global conspiracy. But as for this game, it wallows deeply in the murky depths of defunct Local Radio fun and games. You'll no doubt chuckle with glee at a transcription that was once amusing to someone at some time in the past, as they sat in their Yorkshire home, drinking a nice cup of cocoa on a Friday night, wearing one of those large slippers that fits snugly over both feet at once. Can this level of entertainment survive the format transition to an eight-bit game with all the humourous nuances intact? Well, there certainly is something "funny" in there, but I think I need time for the finer elements of this game's cerebral gags to infiltrate my mind, and then no doubt I will be converted to the "Scissors, Paper, Stone" cause forever! Nice intro animation makes use of the ramdisk. Guesser has thoughtfully provided a downloadable cassette inlay. Have your inkjet printers at the ready, and topped up with black ink.
Comments	This game is crap on so many levels, it's frightening. First of all, the spectre of local radio late night shenanigans is let loose into the CSSCGC which is bound to "hit the ground running" when it comes to crap achievements. It's an almost surreal translation of something that was perhaps lost in translation even in the original format and a seriously stale joke to boot. The hand animation at the beginning (presumably the element which requires the +2A/+3 hardware) is just awesome, being even too funky for Gaz Top. A well deserved high crapness score, and a Radio Leeds car sticker and balloon to Guesser!