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# making a drastic move from turkey farming
(I helped save b3ta! pete, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 3:17, archived)
# ah ... amsoft
... possibly one of the poorest games publishers the market has ever seen.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 4:03, archived)
# Are
they anything to do with Amstrad?

(Esteban, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 4:07, archived)
# Yes. Amsoft were the software publishing dept.
of amstrad. They published the first round of games for the CPC. This was a smart move as it meant that there were numours titles available when the platform launched, however most of them were piss poor spectrum conversions - with some even being written in BASIC and not MACHINE CODE. Which was a sin. In 1984.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 4:20, archived)
# All time wierd 'win big money prize' game
'Pimania' was written in BASIC.
Me and a friend printed out the listing (on one of those Alu foil electrostatic ZX printers) so we could try and win the prize by reading the source.
All we got was a room full of ozone and a headache.
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 4:36, archived)
# Christ
it took 3 years before someone won it as well:
http://www.void.jump.org/hardware/piwin.html
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 4:48, archived)
# I've never heard
of that game before,
but it sounds like a very good idea!
Somebody should make a game where you eventually have to physically go somewhere,
again... I would play
(I helped save b3ta! pete, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 4:56, archived)
# ah
i remember having long talks with some people about a b3ta game which mixed the physical and the virtual... and then couldn't be arsed to actaully do it.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 5:01, archived)
# It's great as an idea
but then again, they had to turn up at the location once a year for 3 years, dressed as a 'pi-man'.
Can you imagine trying to explian why you are lurking in some bushes dressed up as an idiot?

For those totally bewildered by the game (I was 13 and didn't quite get it then), here's the answer to the game
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 5:02, archived)
# in the grand scheme of things
I guess that it wouldn't be too much of a hardship to go once a year,
even though you would look like an attacker
and stand a good chance of being arrested.

And couldn't the b3ta game invole some sort of cross-country drinking challenge?

Where all participants end up in a certain location, for example a remote zoo where the strangest animals in the world are kept?
I'm sure there must be one somwhere around here...
(I helped save b3ta! pete, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 5:25, archived)
# Reminds me
What was that book called where you had to look at each picture in the book to find the rabbit hidden on each page. This somehow was meant to lead you to a place in Britain where the author had hidden a golden rabbit brooch. Or something
(aneraseroflove excuse me...i have to go to space now, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 5:35, archived)
# Masquerade
It were called. Was ir really published in 1979. Feck I'm old!
(aneraseroflove excuse me...i have to go to space now, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 5:41, archived)
# I remember that
I spent ages looking at the book without the faintest idea what I supposed to do. Pretty pictures though.
(I helped save b3ta! PeterSeychelles, Mon 11 Feb 2002, 6:31, archived)