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Phrase search: Randventure.z80

Year search: 2004
Judge: Jim Langmead [Official Site]

Randventure
AuthorCrackfiend
FilenameRandventure.z80
Year2004
Position2
FormatSpectrum
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DescriptionYou can guess what this game does from a glance at the title. Yep, a text adventure that completely ignores what you tell it to do. The responses are random! Ho-ho! I've not seen anything quite like this before! Oh hang on, yes I have...

The game makes excellent use of terrible choice of colour (Dragon 32 style), text that is too yellow and tiny to read, lazy layout and all in all, a gloriously wasted opportunity. There is little variation in the random responses from the computer, it makes no difference what you type (even swear words get no witty responses), so the game rapidly becomes an exercise in hammering the ENTER key as fast as possible and hoping to chance upon the winning message (which probably doesn't exist). More likely to get stuck in a featureless maze though, with no hope of escape except by using the now all-too-familiar reset button.

Bonus marks to Crackfiend for demonstrating that a game doesn't have to be written in BASIC to be crap, and for recycling code and ideas from his previous crap game entries. Bravo!

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