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Cassette 50 Millennium edition

chaosmongerschaosmongers
edited December 2004 in Games
I've been thinking about this for a while, after several people have suggested it to me...

How about a new edition of CASSETTE 50?

Send me in your crappest games to stick on a C90. I might even find a source of cheap digital watches to bung in with it.

All profits to a suitable charity (possibly a benevolent fund for crap programmers to buy them assemblers and manuals)


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  • psj3809psj3809
    edited December 2004
    You should also place a small free advert in Retro Gamer advertising it and see how much response you get !

    Another idea could be to collate some older Cronosoft games and maybe some from other publishers and create 'Soft Aid II' !
  • NickHNickH
    edited December 2004
    It needs a "free gift" too!
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited December 2004
    We've had this debate before I believe. The original Cassette 50 was never released with the intent of providing 50 crap games. They were "serious" attempts believe it or not.

    So if you were to release another Cassette 50, may I suggest you ask for people's very best Basic programming efforts, and leave the crap games for the Crap game compo?
  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited December 2004
    OK - though getting 50 games for one format to put on one tape is going to hard enough...whether they are crap or great!!

    I like the idea of SOFTAID II also.... :)
  • Lee TonksLee Tonks
    edited December 2004
    You could do a 'proper' compilation tape of all the best games from the previous Crap Game Compos. It's been going since 1997, there should be plenty to choose from.
  • ArjunArjun
    edited December 2004
    Incidentally, where in the world is Jil? I hope he is secretly working on the CCG to pick a worthy winner. :)
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  • ZX BeccyZX Beccy
    edited December 2004
    Cassette 50 millennium?

    GENIUS!

    What a fantastic idea!

    I think you should go for the best basic games though, and make a crap game compendium.
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited December 2004
    Aye, someone made a good point. You always find good Basic games being entered for the Crap game compo, year in year out. It's generally just people showing off, but they'd make a good contribution to a new Cassette 50 tape.
  • DunnyDunny
    edited December 2004
    On 2004-12-07 20:08, MattLamb wrote:
    Aye, someone made a good point. You always find good Basic games being entered for the Crap game compo, year in year out. It's generally just people showing off, but they'd make a good contribution to a new Cassette 50 tape.

    Isn't that kind of the point? There's two categories of entries:

    1. Someone has a blinding idea, an excellent knowledge of BASIC, but the game's a turkey anyway. But they themselves believe it's ace. This is the most difficult type to write.

    2. Someone can't be arsed, and makes a small "game" out of an in-joke, or a game that's got no game in it, or just tries to be clever. Crap Castle Master springs to mind (!) as having started off knowingly bad, and knowing that it ain't gonna work. A feat of programming yes (oh, definitely), but not a Cascade-style crap game.

    There's more 2 than 1, IMO, but that's how it's been for years. The magic of Casette 50 was that they published the tape of people's submissions, those people who genuinely believed that they had written a good game and were getting it professionally distributed.

    Getting people to submit those games - that's the hard part.

    D.
  • monty.molemonty.mole
    edited December 2004
    Ah well. :( Better not give up the day job then...

    Fame (imfamy) will one day be in my grasp though! :evil:
  • VoidoidVoidoid
    edited December 2004
    I love the idea of a new games compilation... Whether they're supposed to be bad or good, I'll buy it.

    Don't Buy This might be a more appropriate comparison? (I always wondered if the creators of those games knew how they were going to be used...)
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