curse demon!
I should be in Broadland by now... ho hum. This is my first piccy since giving up b3ta for lent... hello to everyone I met[1] at the b3ta bash in soho recently[2] I fell in love a few times that night but managed to conceal it I hope...

Anyway. Prolly done before (can't really play on work's temporary connection) and prolly too late for compo but I saw this on a recent trip to scarborough. THIS IS REAL!!!



[1] in a loose sense... I was rather peshed
[2] relative to Creation itself

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( Oscar Wildebeest, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:35, archived)

LAWN MOWER SIMULATOR!!!!
WOO AND FUCKING YAY!
( Dr Drink, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:37, archived)

Complete
with 2 buttons


yay!

Is that the Advanced version of the simulator?
( Reckless_Rik, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:39, archived)

Broadlands, Romsey?
home of Lord Mountbatten?
( munkt0n, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:38, archived)

Possibly,
Take a left off the information superringroad, go down a maze of twisty phone-support menus, all alike, double back behind the hash key, figure out your password and you're there apparently. This is hearsay, I still haven't actually been yet.
( Oscar Wildebeest, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:41, archived)

i would love to
play that.
( mike - kicking arse since 1983, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:39, archived)

i have that on my speccy
for real. no lie, came on a YS covertape i think.
(djboo, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:43, archived)

indeed
it was a YS game
( Dr Drink, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:45, archived)

Jeff Minter
made a game called Hover Bover for the C64. Maybe it was a clone of that.
( Lumpbucket says: Try Giddy 3! http://www.giddy3.co.uk, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:45, archived)

No
it almost certainly wasnt.

(clue: the arcade version has twice as many buttons as the original)
( Oscar Wildebeest, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:49, archived)

indeed
the only action you performed was "start"
( Dr Drink, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:52, archived)

yep
they reviewed it in one of their April editions and gave it the top rating

I think nearly everybody fell for it (then again, I was about 10 years old at the time!)
( Reckless_Rik, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:46, archived)

hahaha
i actually searched KLOV... *sigh*
( Lumpbucket says: Try Giddy 3! http://www.giddy3.co.uk, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:43, archived)

hey
thanks for telling me about scummVM last week, I've been in lucasarts heaven ever since!
( munkt0n, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:48, archived)

Anyone got the roms for it
So I can play it with mame?

Edit: Oooh! Look! They're available here!
( LP, Fri 25 Apr 2003, 12:46, archived)