Dr Who Adventure
By Steve McCrea
Genre: Text Lords
Oh No! The tardis has spun after control after a
heavy session of Galiferian whistling angel juice, or something. Unlike Steve’s other games this one is
programmed in C and despite being probably impossible without reading the tips/walkthrough
it is rather good (I say probably
impossible, but that might just be because I’m rubbish at text adventures).
You don’t have to be a Dr
Who expert to recognise the chilling scream of the Dalek – “EXTERMINATE”,
superbly rendered using BEEPFX.
Have a bash & see how
far you get (clues are cunningly hidden
in the text), then read the tips and see if you can solve it. It has some crap qualities but at its heart
is a well designed puzzle with some depth to it.
Also put your hands
together to Steve’s entry number 21, equal to the record of most CGC entries in
one year.
Thankyou Steve!
Download TAP here.
Download tips here
(recommended!)
By Rebelstar without a
cause
Genre: Arcade: shatform
Quite a polished entry this
one, the main reason being that it was authored in A.G.D. In K.L.H.B.H you play the part of Karingal, a
moderator on the World of Spectrum forums and at the ripe old age of 45,
officially the world’s oldest ZX emulator author (Spud). Rebelstar provided the following
instructions:
****
Karingal
Loses His Ban Hammer.
Luckily
he has several more stashed about his mansion. Collect them all, in order to
banish the commode worshiping heathens who have invaded Wos.
****
The game is sadly silent,
and a few farty BEEP noises on jumping and collecting would have made a world
of difference. I love the game though,
it has an early 1980’s feel similar to that captured by Sid Spanners. The graphics are basic, but charming, apart
from poor Karingal - he looks like the pilsbury dough boy with a dicky leg! It also has the worst offender ever
in game design – a room with invisible platforms. Not only does Rebelstar deserve banning from
the competition for this malfeasance, he deserves disembowelling.
Thankyou Rebelstar!
Download game.
Download game map.
By Yoshiatom
Genre: Dogger
Here we have Yoshi’s second
entry to the CGC, this time authored with the powerful utility that is C.G.D.
As the title screen
suggests this is not any old frogger game, it has a story to tell. Toader shows a dystopian future, in which sea
levels have risen to the point that humans have evolved into some kind of
grotesque amphibious creature.
Technology has taken over, resulting in luxury flats* stalking the waterways
trying to devour you. To begin with they
are slow enough to deal with, but soon enough, they become self aware and turbo
loaded – resulting in an unplayable load of carp.
100 pounds** to anyone who
completes all 3 levels without cheating (I’ll
know..)
Thankyou Yoshi!
*there’s
an outside chance they might be cars.
**not really.
Download here.
By Lee Spoons
Genre: utility: bass und drums
Booyakabooyakjunglist Massif.
I remember spending a rather
splendid few weeks mapping the drift geology of that spot during the mid 90’s. I’m joking of course, because this is referencing
the parlance of the old school jungle, a subset of the ‘drum, and base’ musical genre.
On loading AJS jumps into
Lee’s demo, which is actually sounds exactly like the youtube vids I found
while researching, oops – I mean jiving, to jungle. Then you get the chance to record your own
version. There is a record and play
mode, and you have a choice of 8 sounds that epitomise jungle – “Wicked”, “Booyaka”, “Junglist” massive to
name a few. Why not have a bash
yourself?
Booyaka!
Great fun, and actually
very good at what it does! Thankyou Lee!
Download here.
I don’t think Lee quite
captured it in his demo, so I had a go (space to play)......yup, still got the magic.
HACK SACK: Timmy provided the following:
125 REM
135 GO TO 100
RUN
By ardentcrest
Genre: Strategy: dicaniator
Don’t know much about
footy, but even without the lofty position of hindsight Paulo di Canio seemed a bad choice of
manager (for posterity PDC was recently fired as the manager of Sunderland football
club, after a 3-0 loss to WBA (West Bromich Albion).
More of a loading screen
than a game, but thankyou ardentcrest!
Download here.
By Rebelstar without a
Cause
Genre: Crippleware
Ah yes, freemium. That wonderful combination of free and
premium, what could possibly be wrong with that? Well, anyone that’s used anything like Mediafire to host files will know
exactly what. Basically there’s the free
version that’s intentionally impaired in some way, and the ultra delux paid for version, that isn’t.
Good fun. Thankyou Rebelstar!
Download here.
