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Advanced Disappointment Simulator
Author	Andrew Owen
Filename	ads.tap
Year	2008
Position	101
Format	ZX Spectrum 16K
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Description	I now present: the final title in the compo - submitted merely one minute before the deadline! This one gives us one more quick gag before the curtain comes down on CSSCGC 2008. Again, I won't give it away by posting an in-game screenshot, so you'll have to load it up, perhaps in the crap game arcade to find out what it actually does. It is interesting to see how a BASIC program using the BORDER command can simulate the look and feel of the machine code ROM LOAD routine quite well (that is the stage before any data is actually loaded). If I'd have known how to do this when I was 15, then the potential for pranks at my friends house would have been amazing! This one is not exactly going to keep you occupied for hours, but perhaps if it was on a Cascade 50 type compilation tape, then more people would be induced into buying it and become ultimately dissappointed! So fire it up anyway and indulge just a few more moments with the last game of the compo!
Comments	This game is scored as follows: 2.33 for the game idea. 3.0 for the really cool BORDER statements that?make?it look as if something is about to load up!?Now the compo is over, it is no spoiler to say simply what this game does. Namely it?pretends to load up a?ZX Spectrum port of the latter-day popular game GTA 4 but immediately fails with a tape loading?error. Hence the?eponymous disappointment. But I was asking myself, would I really be that disappointed if it didn't load? What form could the game possibly take given the limited hardware of the speccy. I wouldn't want to think what the frame-rate would be like and even if there was a controversial hot coffee type mod available, would it be worth it? As punishment for this, aowen should write GTA 4 - the text adventure next year and increase the disappointment at least sevenfold! For the history books, it's probably worth a mention that this title was submitted merely one minute before the end of CSSCGC 2008. Verdict: Slightly disappointing it may be, but we crave disappointment by the bucketload!