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Screenshot Game name and Author Platform Description
20Q.gif 20 Questions
by
Steve(spt)
13/04/08
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Jupiter ACE To load the program type "load 20Q go" in your ACE emulator (EightyOne for example works fine). 20 questions are all you have to logically deduce the secret hidden by the computer. All questions are answered with a simple yes or no. How the computer works out the answers, I am currently unsure. At a glance we can only assume that it is some advanced AI technique in natural language processing :) . My knowledge of FORTH is very limited so far, suffice it to say that my first line of attack in understanding the program by typing vlist resulted in the program being executed, rather than the dictionary being listed. So don't bother trying that one folks! But in any case, within the game you must type carefully as the delete key behaves differently than expected. Also, the program will helpfully append a question mark onto the end of your question, so no need to type that in. The downloadable zipfile contains tap, wav and ACE snapshot versions.
achtung-minen.gif Achtung Minen
by
Lucas Pelaez
15/04/08
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ZX Spectrum 48K A series of deadly missions await as you carefully navigate around a sequence of minefields behind enemy lines in Normandy, 1944. Your task is to rescue trapped paratroopers and you have to be careful as you do this. Your mine detection equipment will alert you to the proximity of mines, so don't move ahead until you can be sure as possible that it is safe to do so. An assortment of bonuses are available in the form of coloured disks. Also, be sure to watch out for enemy attacks! In-game instructions provided in Spanish. English translation currently available in Forum section. Keys are the familiar Q,A,O,P.
Cupcake_FINAL.gif Mrs Nibbs Cupcake Capers
by
Mulder
16/04/08
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ZX Spectrum 48K Use QAOP keys to move Mrs Nibbs around the screen collecting all cupcakes whilst avoiding the mutant vegeatables. Read the full backstory in the supplied cupcake.txt file. Mulder tells me that the game was made with Jonathan Cauldwell's AGD. Nicely drawn sprites and fast paced arcade action make this one truly worthy of the "Crap game arcade"! It's also a nice touch to restart the game on the level you previously died on. However, completing the level is no piece of cake! So, what's crap about it? Well on my system any sprite on the second row down of the play area flickers, but that of course could just be my emulator setup. Still this is the CGC, so fair play to Mulder if that flicker is actually a crafty "crapness" feature coded into the game.
harrypoker.gif Harry the Magical: Harry and the Orden
by
C.M. Gilles
09/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 48K Surely a treat for all fans of truly crap games and I'm sure it may pique the curiosity of Harry Potter fans and maybe even poker fans alike. The author tells me that part of this game in the "Harry the Magical" game series is in fact based on poker, but that he does not know how to write a poker algorithm. Hence it has been entered into the CGC. A colleague of mine managed to get into the poker sub-game after playing for a little while, by "talking to the dude in the top right". The game appears to have MIA status in the WoS archives. Some source code files included. Hint: Run the file harrypoker.sna. This game is completely free, but the author welcomes any donations - further details in the accompanying docs.
DeadlyWarriors.gif Deadly Warriors The Adventure 2008
by
Firelord
15/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 16K Firelord Writes:-

Description :

You've played Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken & all the Harry Potter games.
Now, its time for you to try the ULTIMATE FIGHTING game.
Now you don't just press random buttons!! You must think before you press a key. YES THINK !!!
Fighting have never been more realistic!!!
Using the money that you gain in each fight,you can buy better equipment and hire a better coach.
The experience from each fight can be used to raise your skills in one of the most advanced skill system ever created.
"Deadly Warriors The Adventure (TM)" is a family game that its main goal it to kill all your opponents until you become the "killing machine tournament (c)" champion of 2008!!
Have fun & Don't try this at home!!


What people have to say about this game :
-Sir Bill Sinclair : "I haven't played anything that realistic before !!!"
-Linus Gates : "That game was the real reason that computers were invented!!"
-Clive Torvald : "In my next version of my operating system I'm planning to put this game in the main Kernel!"
UltimateJetpackSim08.gif Ultimate Jetpack Simulator 2008
by
Mulder
15/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 48K Press SPACE to activate the jetpack as you travel through the sideways scrolling cave. You have a limited amount of energy available which will start to decrease if you happen to encroach outside the cave boundaries. Mulder tells me that the game gets silly by about level 21. Can you last that long? Features a full high-res UDG player character! Now you know how difficult it must be to perform repairs on the channel tunnel.
ufo.gif UFO: UK
by
Chris Young
16/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 16K Those sleepless nights and the flashing lights. Those nightmares and the missing time. Those continuous headaches and recurring sore spots. Why did these unexplained things happen to you? Well fortunately, by playing this game you may well be able to finally put your mind at ease and regain some semblance of normality in your life. Did you know that there is a (sort of) innocent explanation for most UFO phenomena? It could be as simple as some heady New Year's celebrations. The truth is in this game - somewhere. On another level, it serves as a subversive commentary on the chronic underfunding and endemic apathy that has become entrenched in many government departments. Or something.
ZXRedefineKeysTheAdventure2008.gif Redefine Keys The Adventure 2008
by
Firelord
18/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 16K Have you ever played any speccy titles where redefining the keys is the best part of the game? I know I certainly have. Here, this great tradition is taken to its logical conclusion. Pay homage to those great "redefine keys" sections that we know and love (and of course are typically insanely overcomplicated). Play this for half an hour and you are guaranteed to start believing that your keyboard is broken or else you be sorely tempted to smash it up anyway. If we learn anything from this game it is surely that those poeple who went out and bought a kempston interface where missing all the fun. Download the supplied archive to read the author's accompanying doc file and supplied image. Those files could somehow be put together to make a cassette inlay for this title, but I don't believe for one minute that anyone out there is sad enough to do that!

*Updated 18/05/08* - v2 of this game has been released.

CGCTheAdventure2008.gif Crap Games Competition - The Adventure 2008
by
Firelord
20/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 16K Firelord's Description:-

Crap Games Competition 2008 - The Adventure

Introduction.
Have you ever wondered how it feels to be a judge in the CSSCGC? Now live the thrills of being a judge in the CSSCGC from the safety of your home without being scared of being lynched by the agry fans. This is a RPG game where you control different characters in order to judge entries of different years.

Instructions:
By selecting a year/judge you select different types of gameplay. Each different judge have different skills (Inteligence, Charm, Strength ,Agility, Charisma & Crap awareness).

c64.gif Commodore 64 Emulator
by
Steve 'sparkes' Parkes
20/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 48K C64 vs Speccy, which is best? The playground fight which still rages on in the minds of many adults will probably never be laid to rest. As expected, this very argument is currently ongoing in the WoS forums and has even spilt over into the Lemon64 forums, ouch! However, now you can make your own informed evaluation of each platform by trying out both systems within the same emulator session thanks to this C64 emulator entry. Furthermore, you can "emulate" a speccy within the emulated C64 and from within that again re-load the C64 emu ad-infinitum! So have plenty of fun as you flick back and forth between the two environments whilst making a thorough assessment and comparison of each. As for me, well I was always one computing generation behind everyone else so only had a ZX81 and VIC20 back in the day before upgrading to a rather funky Acorn Electron (nice!) By the time in the '90s I finally got my hands on a second hand Spectrum +2 and a second hand C64, nobody cared about 8-bit systems any more. But thankfully, they do again now, and clearly with more passion, dedication and loyalty than ever before!
als-petrol.gif Advanced Lawnmower Starter Simulator - The petrol edition
by
Steve 'sparkes' Parkes
22/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 48K The great tradition of lawnmower themed games in the CGC rages on unabated. The author having found yet another previously unexplored angle within the arena of lamwnmower simulation. Specifically this game simulates the mechanics of starting a petrol driven engine on a typical spring morning, or at least I'm guessing it does. Keep trying and don't dare give up as on each attempt you truly have a 1:1000 chance of succeeding. The reward may not be great, but you will eventually enjoy that warm fuzzy feeling of success. Features realistic sound routines written in machine code.
lawnmower2.gif Advanced Lawnmower Starter Simulator 2
by
Steve 'sparkes' Parkes
22/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 48K OK, now this is getting kinda funky! Did you enjoy the above game? Well we now have a touch of class added to the burgeoning ALSS franchise. Be prepared for the luxurious and hi-tech addition of an electric starter. This somewhat tilts the odds in favour of the player. Isn't it amazing what can be done with the humble 1-bit beeper of the speccy? Naturally, Steve informs us that David Darling describes this game as "the best thing since sliced bread". Congrats also to Steve for being the first entrant of CSSCGC 2008 to score what is technically known as a "perfect hat-trick". That's when you submit three crap games in a row with no other entrant submitting a game in-between.
Lost_TheAdventure2008_v03.gif LOST 2008 - The Adventure
by
Firelord
22/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 48K Description by Firelord:-

LOST 2008 - The Adventure

LOST 2008 - The Adventure is the first spectrum game that features REAL COLOR photos. Implementing the Advanced InterPC Spectrum Graphics System(TM) or AISGS, this game can impress even the Amstrad & commodore users.
Featuring more than 7000 exotic locations it put you as the leader of a group of people that was lost after a plain crash.

At various points of the game you will be asked to open a specific image from the /images_/ folder of the game. We suggest you keep an image viewer open in your PC.

GOD_Simulator2008v01.gif GOD Simulator 2008
by
Firelord
23/05/08
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ZX Spectrum 16K Description by Firelord:-

GOD Simulator 2008

'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...' Have you ever wanted to know what would happen if GOD didn't design the world as it is now? How would the sky look if it was different? Now you can relive all the EPIC CREATION playing the role of GOD After this game , nothing will EVER be the same !!!
fluke.gif Fluke
by
Chris Young
15/06/08
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ZX Spectrum 16K Here you can relive your enjoyment of anodyne TV gameshows by playing the part of a contestant. You know, those sort of shows that were demoted from Saturday evening slots to weekday daytime TV with horrendous budget cuts, no audience and an ill-suited minor celebrity. The beginning of this game reminds me of a famous Bullseye episode - Bowen: "And what do you do for a living?". Contestant: "I'm currently unemployed, Jim". Bowen: "Super, Smashing, Great!". You may find the "spin the pointer" sub-game a little on the slow side. To maximise your enjoyment of this, convert the game to .SNA format and play it under the old JPP emulator at approx %10000 speed on a modern PC. This will also provide a nice rounded TV screen border, which seems somehow appropriate to the game.
UK101-More.gif UK101 emulator & MTV - 70's style
by
James Smith
09/07/08
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(Also contains More Tea Vicar for the UK101 by Gavin Callard & hectic by Bryan D Ungard)

Timex TC2048, ZX Spectrum 128K, ZX Spectrum 48K Again, the CGC is blessed with another true emulator from James Smith, aka Jimmy. This one emulates the Compukit UK101, a 6502 based kit computer dating from 1979. Gavin Callard has kindly provided yet another port of his previously entered More Tea Vicar game, specifically for this platform. The zipfile contains the emulator in tape format (which includes a game called "hectic") and also in snapshot format (which includes the "More Tea Vicar" game).

It is strongly recommended that you read the file "instructions.txt" also included in the zipfile, which contains interesting info about this system and crucial instructions on running the emulator.

You can run this on a standard 48K or 128K spectrum. It takes advantage of the extra RAM on a 128K system. However, to display all of the UK101's text columns, you should ideally run it on a Timex TC2048 e.g. in the EightyOne emulator.

You can play this entry online via the "Golden Goose Arcade" section. The version with the game "MTV" just works automatically.

To play the version with the "hectic" game, load "UK 101 emulator (with hectic game)" in the ZZ Spectrum Java emulator. When loaded, press 'C' for a (C)old start. For "MEMORY SIZE?" and "TERMINAL WIDTH?" you can just press ENTER for the defaults. At the OK prompt, slowly type LOAD <ENTER>. At the next OK prompt, press symshift-SPACE. (CTRL-SPACE on most PC keyboards). In the machine hypervisor, press 'P' to 'P'lay the tape. Allow the game to slowly load, and eventually it will autorun, and you will get an "INSTRUCTIONS?" prompt. Have fun playing 'hectic'!

vic20.gif Twenty Commodes
by
James Smith
11/07/08
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ZX Spectrum 128K & ZX Spectrum 48K Hot on the heels of the 6502 based UK101 emulator, Jimmy has now thrown down the gauntlet and taken emulation of 6502 systems to the next logical level on the Speccy. Now I announce his "Twenty Commodes" real VIC-20 emulator.

Again it's crucial to download and read the accompanying "instructions.txt" file if you want to learn how to do further useful things with this emulator, like downloading and playing games on it for example. Also a "Spectrum --> Commodore" specific key reference is included in the comprehensive documentation.

Run it on a 128K system if you want sound. The emulator also works on 48K systems but will be silent.

Be amazed at this impressive technical feat! I'm sure this software would have caused a few ripples in the teacup if it was released back in 1983.

*Updated 18/07/08* - Jimmy has released a newer version of the emulator, now available for download (and in the arcade). This one fixes a paging table bug and adds a minor speedup. Source code has also been updated for clarity. Jimmy has also provided a snapshot of the VIC-20 game "Blitzkrieg" running under the emulator.

*Updated 18/07/08* - A bug was quickly noticed by Jimmy in the above version and so he has now sent me a newer fixed version of the emulator (v1.68). This is now available for download, along with another VIC-20 game, "GridRunner".

*Updated 23/07/08* - Version 1.73 of the emulator now available. (around 4% speed up)

*Updated 12/08/08* - Version 1.76 now available. (further 1% speed up)

*Updated 04/09/08* - Version 1.77 released. Speed optimisation applied to keyboard cheking routine making the emulator generally run faster. Benchmark program has been reduced from 192 to 167 seconds.

*Updated 11/01/09* - In preperation for submission of all CSSCGC 2008 games into the WoS archive, the zipfile for this game has been reduced to just version 1.77 of the "Twenty Commodes" emulator and instructions. In other words, the game snapshot demos have been removed. Thanks to Jimmy for reminding me to do this. For a demo of VIC-20 software running under Twenty Commodes , please instead download Crapendium from the WoS archive which contains three VIC-20 games.

Elfen.gif Elfen
by
Garry Wishart
13/07/08
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ZX Spectrum 128K/+2 This game is a take on Conway's famous "Game of Life", but with a crucial difference - you the player influence how successive generations develop by controlling the "elemental forces" of the game universe. Although I've added this one to the online arcade as a snapshot, I strongly recommend that you download the original tapefile version from this page. You'll then see the loading screen and wonder at the marvellous speccy rendering of the Clifton Suspension Bridge - very nice! Be sure to absorb the instructions as much as practically possible before playing. Ultimately you'll be able to develop a taste for some real power.
DailyMail.gif Daily Mail
by
Steve K
08/08/08
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ZX Spectrum 128K/+2 For those who thought the big event of today was the official opening of the Beijing Olympics 2008, you are sadly mistaken. That's just a schoolyard pea shooting contest compared with today's REAL big event. CSSCGC 2008 is proud to announce Steve K's epic game - "Daily Mail". Live out the life of Fleet Street's finest (alcohol not included). Ooh the pressure, the deadlines. Will you get the crucial headline out on time for the first edition? The nation MUST know the truth and only you as self-appointed moral arbiter of this great nation are qualified to tell it to the people, like it REALLY is.
Binduko.gif Bindoku!
by
Shaun Bebbington
31/08/08
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ZX Spectrum 128K/+2 It's so easy for us Homo Sapiens to sit here with our ten fingers and our decimal numbering system to forget about the infinite number of alternative possibilites. Think of the truly fun games we could play if we just take our "base-10 blinkers" off for a minute and expand our thinking a little. This is a nice one for hackers, machine code purists and people who insist on using the BIN command in their speccy programs. Yes, the true language of computing - binary is employed in this variant of the much loved Sudoku game. But the question is, can you solve the puzzle faster than a ZX80? Also, did you know there are actually 10 types of people in the world? Those who understand ternary, those who don't and those who confuse it with binary. Make sure you aren't one of them if you want to master this title.

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