CSSCGC2016

The CSSCGC is an annual competition to write deliberately poor quality games for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. I’ve sent 2 entries so far this year.

Text Golf Pro combines the thrills of golf with the excitement of a text adventure. It also allows players to save their score cards for analysis to help them improve their game. I haven’t heard from any professional golfers wishing to endorse the game yet, but it’s early days. Fore!

ERASE is an arcade style game about strange invaders from another dimension. It seems to be a good game: but if you’re playing on an emulator, you’ll be playing on a keyboard that won’t have the Spectrum Symbol Shift characters on it. So your only chance of winning is either to have a picture of a (non-+2 and non-+3) Spectrum nearby or to possess knowledge of Symbol shifted characters keyboard locations (probably gained by hours of Spectrum BASIC programming). Or, as it’s written in BASIC, its not too difficult to break into and cheat!