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Advanced Lawnmower Simulator: The Adventure
Author	steve
Filename	mowadventure.tap
Year	2008
Position	83
Format	ZX Spectrum 48K
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Description	In the words of the author:- "You may have played the classic Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, but now the ultimate game is back as an adventure that will push your spectrum and your skills to the absolute limit! It's "Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator: The Adventure" and it's Absolutely Brilliant! Mow the lawn through hundreds of procedurally generated blades of grass with stunning realism, colour and sound! Immerse yourself in this alternative reality as you Mow to victory to discover the true secret of the lawn whilst trying to earn your 75p and packet of Rolos! Watch out for rocks and coathangers, suspense and adventure at every turn! Brilliant!"
Comments	Fresh from reviewing another few lawnmower entries, I now turn my attention to this game and I've seen that many lawnmower games in this compo that I'm just about ready to apply for a job at Homebase (Lawnmower section). Full screen green is employed here which is the one colour this game could only ever be. (Unless there's ever a sci-fi version where a magenta lichen lawn is mowed on a distant alien planet!) It's pretty obvious to the player that they could type "mow" to mow the lawn, but if you type "M" instead, you get a message telling that you can just type "m" to mow the lawn. This abbreviation is very useful since you need type it 384 times in order to complete the game, which for some reason amuses me. Was I expecting too much for the game to say something like "You push the mower forwards" or "You mow another strip of the lawn" after typing "m"? Probably, as I guess that'd make it too easy!