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December 1st 2011
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Kabuto Factory – Invasion 3D

People, this one is really cool! Kabuto Factury sends in a a true, working 3D game for your ZX Spectrum! So dust off your good ol’3D glasses from the drawer (those which came with some old magazine which come with a red/blue cellophane sheets, anaglyph I think they were called) ’cause you are going to need them in order to play this game. The mechanics are pretty simple: you have to be FAST and press 1, 2 or 3 depending on which alien is the nearest. If you fail or you take so long… BANG. Needless to say, if you are not wearing glasses you won’t see a shit. And chances are that you won’t either with them on. But this is a great effort. The only problem is that glasses are usually CYAN and RED, not blue and red. But hey, good effort! And possibly one of the most original entries this year.

Summary

Use 1, 2 or 3 to shoot the approaching aliens! And don’t forget your 3D anaglyph glasses!

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Posted at 11:25 am on December 1st, 2011. Comments Off on Kabuto Factory – Invasion 3D
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December 1st 2011
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Nitrofurano – Bacaball

I love when entries come in pairs. Actually, they weren’t submitted at once, but as I’m a lazy ass and it takes forever for me to update the site, it looks like those have came arrived at once. This is the magic of procrastinating! This time our friend Nitrofurano tries to fool the judges by creating a game about cows. And he has succeeded completely. You know the drill: cows = win. At least while the Mojon Twins are the hosts. More if the game is actually crap and innovative. This one features simultaneous 4-players action in the same keyboard. Each player controls his very own cow (sadly, the four cows look the same, which may cause some trouble) playing some kind of 4-way soccer. A player scores if he hits the ball and afterwards that ball goes to the edge of the screen. Each player has to defend his edge. Choosing which player you control is, therefore, very important: the left and right players have shorter edges to protect so they play with some kind of advantage. So go grab three friends and have hours of fun! If you can’t grab three friends, the only way would be to somehow mutate and develop two extra sets of arms and hands, so you better find people.

Summary

Well, WASD controls player 1, TGHF controls player 2, IKJL controls player 3 and cursors controls player 4. If you manage to play this in a 48K rubber keys Speccy please send us a picture.

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Posted at 10:57 am on December 1st, 2011. Comments Off on Nitrofurano – Bacaball
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December 1st 2011
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Nitrofurano – Solitario

Yet another entry by Nitrofurano – the best author when it comes to creating a game that is somewhat polished (albeit with bugs) but ends up being crap for the game itself. I mean, this is some kind of solitaire involving red balls in a cross-shaped board, and you supposedly have to clear it moving them around following a determined set of rules which you will forget as soon as you have finished reading them. And you have to win in less than 15 minutes – that shows that the author really expects you to last 15 minutes at his game, and that really amazes me. This is the typical game in a middle of a compilation back in the 80’s: that game you have absolutely no clue how to play and which get skipped all the time. But this time it comes with instructions, so there’s no excuse this time. A special prize for the first one to actually solve it!

Summary

Move around with WASD and use SPACE to switch the pellets… Or something like that. Read the instructions to know when you can actually switch a pellet.

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Posted at 10:37 am on December 1st, 2011. Comments Off on Nitrofurano – Solitario
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November 10th 2011
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Salvacam – First (and last) First-Person Hamster Wheel Simulator

Fellers, this has to be the most original simulator we have received this year! Salvacam announces this is the last game in his own one-key-only trilogy, and announces that, next year, he’ll try and make two-key games. Good for him, and good for us. And now, on to the game! This game simulates a big part of every hamster’s everyday routine: running the wheel. The game goes straight to the point, and starts with the above mentioned hamster already positioned in the running wheel, ready to get into action! No useless waits (and I’m looking at you, Mr. Apenao!), no neverending intros (like in nowadays games – when you finally get into action you have already spent the only two hours you had to play beforing getting back to house chores). Just sheer enjoyment. And from the very point of view of the hamster himself. Now you will know how it really feels. Have or ever had a hamster? This game will help you sympathise with every hamster in the world! This will make you a better person! Hopefully, with more games like this, wars and hunger will end for good. Unbelievable. This ain’t just a videogame… This is a complete digital, interactive experience. I’m quite sure that, in the future, this will be considered like a true masterpiece of our times! Ico and Shadow of the Colossus my ass.

Summary

One just can’t summarize the experience you get from this game, so go and try it NOW.

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Posted at 1:08 pm on November 10th, 2011. Comments Off on Salvacam – First (and last) First-Person Hamster Wheel Simulator
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November 10th 2011
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He had such a big head that, if he were a *cat* he would have to toss the mice from under the bed with a brow, Part II

Apenao enters this awesome sequel (with a mistake in the title) to last year’s Mojon Twins’ entry, the infamous He had such a big head that, if he were a cat he would have to toss the mice from under the bed with a brow, which made us almost lose the compo. Apenao’s own He had such a big head that, if he were a cat he would have to toss the mice from under the bed with a brow, part II, which title is incorrectly written in the intro screen as He had such a big head that, if he were a mouse he would have to toss the mice from under the bed with a brow, part II uses a revolutionary concept of fast loading: in fact, after the loading screen, the load is 100% immediate! I really don’t know how Apenao achieved this, I hope he will tell us. The game comes complete with a great backstory, very reminiscent of the Mojon Twins style: After saving his girlfriend, our hero, Manolito Cabeza, goes to El Corte Inglés to buy her a present. The problem is, the square is full of people demanding a  more just distribution of prawns (digital or not) and, more important: the mall is closed for hollidays. Once there, Manolito discovers that a bunch of hippies are unknowingly being controlled by a group of ultra-center-wing fanatics and are being used to spread a plague of lice which will end up bringing the end of the world. Luckily, Manolito has three full packs of anti-lice liniment and is ready to save the world!.  After waiting for the title screen to get drawn (this has to be a feature in most Apenao‘s productions), you realize that the game has nothing to do with this. Great job, Apenao!

Summary

Just try not to lose your patience in the title screen.

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Posted at 12:55 pm on November 10th, 2011. Comments Off on He had such a big head that, if he were a *cat* he would have to toss the mice from under the bed with a brow, Part II
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November 10th 2011
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Chris Thomson – Robot Defence Corps

Yay – this is what I call a really good contender! It has everything: The visuals are crap, the controls are not responding, everything flashes and flickers and moves slowly, it’s unfairly überhard, is buggy and plays worse. And, to add even more points to the score, it comes with a complete, deep backstory which has actually little to do with how the game plays, just like the in good ol’ days of commercial crappery!  “Robots are invading your boss’s secret moon base. The robots are evil and will kill even the women and children. You must ensure that they don’t make it in to your boss’s base, even though your boss is slightly evil. Fortunately you can order some evil robot eradication turrets from your bosses company, unfortunately they use internal cost centres, you have been provided with $200 credit to get you started, but you must earn more money by selling any evil robots that you kill. The use of Sinclair basic ensures that this game is compatible with all spectrums and the amstrad phone thing.” So engage your controls and try to save the boss! If you can. I’m sure there’s some kind of strategy to follow, I just can’t fathom it. Will you? Can you help? Also: Pavero, we need you to map this ASAP.

Summary

OPQA to move your pointer. M to place a defence. Be wise!

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Posted at 12:35 pm on November 10th, 2011. Comments Off on Chris Thomson – Robot Defence Corps
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November 10th 2011
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Paul E. Collins – Lights Out!

Disclaimer: I don’t know if the exclamation mark was part of the title or Mr. Collins was shouting in his email. Don’t check, Paul, I’m making this up. Well – now we have yet another Speccy version of a Crap concept.  Not so crap by itself (well, it surely does look like crap, but works as intended, the controls are somewhat responsive, and comes even with different skill levels!), but crap for what it represents. C’mon, man, gimme a break! Looking at the screenshot you should understand that I’m utter crap at this, so, buggers, this is crap! I tend to blame the game for my own incompetence, of course, but this is over the top. Besides, if someone can explain to me why the game is full of mathematical symbols, or whatever, I’d be glad. It just makes things worse. I can’t see shit and you try to puzzle me even more?!  Are the boards, actually, Brainfuck programs? Good contender! By the way, the game comes with full sources, so you can learn to make you rown Lights Out game. No need to pay royalties nor copyrights, of course.

Summary

Read the in-game instructions, for god’s sake, and leave me alone!

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Posted at 12:14 pm on November 10th, 2011. Comments Off on Paul E. Collins – Lights Out!
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November 10th 2011
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Chris Young – Say the Colour and not the Word (Adult version)

I have to cheat and post Chris’ own words (so I have to write less of a review): “Jamie Percival’s seminal 2007 hit “Say The Colour And Not The Word” has been *ahem* acquired legitimately *ahem* by Unsatisfactory Software, aka myself. The game was not disassembled, decompiled nor stolen (yes we’ve heard the rumours), we paid good money and we now own Jamie Percival, as soon as we find him. Erm, anyway, the surprise hit of 2007 (described by myself and partner-in-crime – NOT THAT THERE HAS BEEN ANY CRIMINAL ACTIVITY YOU UNDERSTAND – Mr Lake as “not as bad as Quest for The Golden Egg”) has been purchased legitimately and upgraded to an all new adults-only post-watershed Stephen Fry and Brian Blessed endorsed (probably) version“. So here you go. We are always eager to get new, refurbished, adult versions of hit games. I’m quite good at this, my top score was 843. Can you beat that?

Summary

Just say colour, and not the word! Remember to press A if you get it wrong. And don’t cheat to beat my score!

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Posted at 11:56 am on November 10th, 2011. Comments Off on Chris Young – Say the Colour and not the Word (Adult version)
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November 10th 2011
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Antonio Villena – Salen tan ricos

Sometimes one has to struggle with finding something crap-worthy, specially when somebody sends you an almost complete Tetris clone which takes just a quarter of a Kb. Yeah, it doesn’t have scoring, nor ending, nor “next piece“, but, heck, it’s written in a quarter of Kb! I bet my signature in the WOS forums takes more than that! But let’s try. ‘Cause I’ve found something really funny: if you load it in 128 mode using “Loader” in the menu, the black line over “Insert tape and press PLAY” counts as a line in the game. Not that it matters much, but I’ve found it quite amusing. Besides, the pieces rotate funny and… Heck, I just can’t find anything to complain of. This should be considered a full achievement, not a crap game! And I know that Antonio has cut the byte count even more in newer iterations, so… What are you doing here?!

Summary

Use OPQA if you fancy playing Tetris just for the heck of it. And without aids. For real hardcore tetrisers.

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Posted at 11:33 am on November 10th, 2011. Comments Off on Antonio Villena – Salen tan ricos
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November 10th 2011
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Paulo Silva – Memorama

Paulo Silva sends us a really nifty entry which should be considered Crap solely ’cause the game it implements is utter crap. I’ve never understood the appeal of those games where you have to find couples in a set of cards. No matter if they are the jewel of game coding in terms of technical complexity, they are always Crap. So good choice of game for a CSSCGC entry, Paulo! Graphics are colourful but they suffer quite a lot of the automatic conversion used. ‘Cause if you are suggesting that those are hand drawn I’d tell you that you need to seriously improve your skills as a graphics designer. Once you get past the opening screen, the game plays well. One may say “hey, this works flawlessly, where’s the crap in this game?” I already told you: in the game concept. Memory games = instant crap. So good one!

Summary

Use WASD (not WASP) or the cursor keys to control this.

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Posted at 11:19 am on November 10th, 2011. Comments Off on Paulo Silva – Memorama
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