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Silent Letter Shootout
Author	bigjon
Filename	sls.tzx
Year	2008
Position	31
Format	ZX Spectrum 16K
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Description	Ahh, the age old justification of buying that first family computer, education! Use keys N and M to select the correct letter (the one that is silent in the word) and then press B to fire it at the rapidly descending spaceship. The spaceship has a special kind of shield that is impervious to all but the correct silent letter. Shoot it down before it lands, or you'll lose a life. After the game has been played for a while a very important lesson will be learnt, simply that the English language is terribly illogical and that's why all young people use txtspk instead nowadays (no silent letters).
Comments	Good crapness here, reliving the days when all children feared any game title that was marketed as educational. Of course as soon as dad's back was turned, the speccy would be reset and Daley Thompson's Decathlon would instead be loaded up. Mercifully it is a quick game, and with a limited number of words. One extra crap point scored for the fact that the letters don't get deleted off the top row of the screen, and just stick there if they miss the spaceship target. A lot of people thought it was amusing that Jeff GoldBlum defeated the alien invaders with an Apple Mac - we all know he really should have been armed with a ZX Spectrum!