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Sim City: The Text Adventure
Author	Unsatisfactory Software
Filename	simcity.tzx
Year	2008
Position	54
Format	ZX Spectrum 16K
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Description	I previously stated that hosting CSSCGC 2008 was merely part of my punishment for inflicting The Quest For The Golden Egg on last years judges. Well here is the next installment of my punishment in the form of Sim City: The Text Adventure. You may also suffer as well if you so wish! It's that great rule of the Universe: "What goes around comes around", and Unsatisfactory Software have now thoughtfully repaid my crap game enthusiasm in kind! The fact that the game is also known as Pro Russell Brand Simulator does not bode well for those of us who are not the greatest admirers of the current crop of TV "entertainers". It is my duty to warn everyone that the game contains textual descriptions of civil disorder that some players may find distressing.
Comments	Billed as retaliation from last year's judges for my sins committed in CSSCGC 2007, this game whilst being pretty damn bad isn't the absolute torture it was designed to be. It comes pretty close though. Mention of anything to do with Russel Bland is enough to make some of us as nauseous as a first time space tourist, so it does succeed at least on that level! Nice use of dark blue on a black background and "scroll?" messages pervading during gameplay adds to the general feeling that some genuine effort was spent on trying to screw things up, perhaps it could have been screwed up even more! Of course, not as much as Russell Brand himself did after this was submitted. Uncanny that!