| Description | Now this is a wonderfully GENUINELY crap game. What's great about it is that the author has clearly spent ages creating it, and yet it's an absolute travesty of the highest order! What on earth is going on in THIS??? It's like The Great Space Race all over again, but worse (yes, really)! Philicorda explains it in a nutshell - "a kind of flight sim/text adventure/trading game, but not one as it does not really resemble anything. I started adding bits and it got worse. It's a bit like all those times where you had a tape to tape copy of a game, but no instructions..." - and by jove, he's not kidding! He also has such a terrible memory that he emailed me the game about three times, and he couldn't even remember the name of the game in the last email, saying it was titled "Novocon 8" - gah, make up your mind! The in-game instructions refer to keyboard overlays and a novella, which of course have helpfully not been provided. Attempting to play it, I have no idea what's going on at all - one minute I'm giving a soldier an apple or smashing a bowl or something, the next I'm in space doing things I can't even begin to understand. This game is totally hatstand and a strong contender for the CSSCGC trophy this year, methinks - absolutely bloody awful! (Note: The author recommends you use 128K mode on your Speccy). |
