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Year search: 2004
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SPacman
AuthorPaul 'Dunny' Dunn and his son Eddie (aged 10 and a half)
FilenameSPacman.tap
Year2004
Position20
FormatSpectrum
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Description(Guest crap review by 'Fuzzbucket')

SPacman is apparently a faithful rendition of a game from the early 80s called Pac Man. Never heard of it myself but I gave it a try anyway.

The protagonist in this piece appears to be a pie chart constantly set upon by the ghosts of his past as a component in a Powerpoint presentation. I think the dots represent the people that were suckered into the pyramid scheme he was involved in and as he makes his way around apologising the dots disappear.

Playability wise the game's performance suffers due to the chosen development language and platform but employing the sort of trickery available with today's computing machines it is a quite enjoyable and frantic romp. I did a bit of a pee on level 3.

If you are committed to enjoying the piece on the original platform I suggest not playing past level 1 as the time taken to render each ghost of the past impinges on SPacman's ability to move smoothly - guilt I guess... Then again, the erratic and unpredictable motion of the ghosts of the past combined with SPacman's crippling guilt can lead to some very tense moments.

All in all an enjoyable offering with a crap factor that keeps you away but a storyline compelling enough to keep you coming back for more. Note SPacman's frustration as he fails to apologise to the last couple of people on screen and hints of his past as he misrepresents the number of lives remaining in later levels.

SPacman is issued under the L BREAK open source license.

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