I found this interesting.
SIM City: The Text Adventure sounds like fun to me!
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That is absolutely brilliant! Thanks for the heads up.
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Fantastic! This is incredibly nostalgic for me as I was reading Your Sinclair at the very period of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator and I did own a copy of Cassette 50 (ā50 Fantastic Games On One Cassetteā [all of them complete bollocks]). And who knew Rich Pelley now writes for The Guardian?
Lovely to hear that the ZX Spectrum community is alive and well, and continuing to play to the machineās strengths in creating games that are (quite often, and with the warmest affection) just a little bit crapā¦
Thanks for posting!
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Sim City Text isnāt crap. They actually implemented The Sims in text, which is mostly grind, and they found out that the grind is fun!
And the line between good and crap is a thin one. I remember coding Snake and Ladder game. All text, but thatās all you need. It only took me less than 10 minutes all told, done in 1 pass. No bug!
Then I run it, and the program asked for number of players. I typed in ā4ā. Then the program ran through the game and announced the winner āPlayer 2 wins!ā, in a flash because I forgot to pause during the dice rolling sequence.
Thatās obviously no good, but it became good once I put in the prompt for each players to roll the dice manually. 
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Not necessarily that off topicā¦ there are plenty of text adventures that have been entered in to past competitions. 
I wrote one for a past competition. It was called Mirror Mirrorā¦ the ācrapnessā was in the key game mechanicā¦ something that I thought would be incredibly irritating and annoyingā¦ Then the challenge was trying to implement it in an interesting way in a game that was just the right length that it wouldnāt outstay its welcome. I almost went too far and was in danger of making the least crap gameā¦ nobody wants to do that and then have to host the next yearās competition.
Itās playable using the āplay onlineā link on this pageā¦
http://8bitag.com/games/mirror.html
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That was quite fun. If you donāt mind, a small bug report:
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