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Ultimate Last Minute Sent In Simulator
Author	Dr BEEP
Filename	sentsim.tap
Year	2008
Position	92
Format	ZX Spectrum 16K
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Description	And so we awoke to the final day of CSSCGC 2008, not knowing at all what the day had in store for us. (If anything at all). The first game of the last day provided by Dr BEEP appropriately examines the sheer panic that may be experienced by a last minute crap game entrant. Will my submission get there on time? I hope the Internet doesn't go down! What's that cable guy doing outside my house with all of those loose wires in his hand? Will the email system hold up? Oh no, not another bad block on my HDD, Oh Christ, I've left the iron on! So, you can now run a simulation of these anxieties without having to live them out directly (in case you are of a nervous disposition!).
Comments	Wikipedia has a policy of not mentioning itself in its own articles (apart from the Wikipedia article that is!). Should the CGC be the same? Of course not! Here we welcome games that revolve around the compo itself and many of them quite possibly only make sense to people who've had any involvement with the CGC. Step inside Dr BEEP's (text-only) vision of submitting an entry at the last minute. Something seems very real about a bounced email at the very moment you don't want it to. Whilst playing this, I managed to give my virtual game the name of various BASIC token keywords. I don't know if that is intentional or if my emulator was playing silly buggers at the time. The player flexibility has to be commended in that you can call your game whatever you like. I would have enjoyed seeing a change from the default speccy colours, perhaps even a BRIGHT 1 white background (nothing too ambitious) as we did get lots of games this year which just used the default INK/PAPER colour scheme. I should point out you can win this game like I did, if you exactly enter the correct submission address of CSSCGC 2008.