comp.sys.sinclair SpeccyGame 2002

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Background

For many years, the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup has held an annual CSS crap games competition, where participants entered programs (usually written in Sinclair BASIC) that attempt to capture the essence of some of the poorly written, badly designed games that were released for the Spectrum over the years.

This year, inspired by some of the CSSCGC2001 entries which, frankly, failed to be suitably crap, I decided to hold the first CSS Non-Crap Games Competition. With participants actually trying to produce some simple, but reasonable-quality new games for the Speccy. There are even some fantastic prizes up for grabs!

To keep the competition open to as many people as possible, there are two distinct categories:-

• Pure BASIC Games: To qualify for this category a submission must be written purely in Sinclair BASIC with no machine code routines used at all. The possibilities for innovation and clever use of the limited resources available make this the most challenging category.
   
• Machine Code Games: Games that don't fit into the BASIC category. This encompasses 100% machine code games, BASIC games that use machine code routines, and compiled BASIC games.