Cassette 50

Cassette 50 is a package game consisting of 50 minigames on one cassette, released in 1983 on systems such as the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The game remains infamous from its poor quality. The games varied depending on which version the player owned.

Why It Wasn't Fantastic

 * 1) The majority of the games are inane and unplayable due to fidgety controls, or poor command inputs.
 * 2) The fact that the game was written in BASIC meant that the game's visuals would be occasionally hard to decipher, and is of generally poor quality.
 * 3) It was advertised to hell and back, and didn't meet its intended expectations.
 * 4) As stated above, the games varied depending on the version. In this case, this means that not all 50 games are available on a given system (for instance, the Acorn Electron version cuts two of the games out for no given reason (specifically Exchange and The Force), reducing the number to 48 and making the title a lie).
 * 5) To rub salt in the wound, the ZX Spectrum version adds in new games that replaced some of the old ones!

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It inspired present day "crap game" competitions where players struggle to finish a bad game to the end.
 * 2) It led to a (now defunct) website reviewing bad games called Somewhere Over Cassette 50 to be launched.
 * 3) If you have the slightest interest in playing Cassette 50, the Spectrum version is very cheap on eBay.

Trivia

 * A parody of it, a joke game called Don't Buy This, was released two years later on ZX Spectrum, though it only had five games.

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