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Bush Tucker Man
By Chris Young, inspired by the TV programme (although I must admit to not actually having seen it myself) of the same name.

The title says it all really: you take the role of the Bush Tucker Man (who, according to Duncan MacDonald, is the only person able to make a helicoptor out of koala droppings).

This is a sort of "pre-release demo" of the full Bush Tucker Man game out later this week (if I can be bothered to start it - I'm writing this on a Thursday night, by the way, so that gives me about 2 days to write it. Should be long enough. It'll be crap anyway. On purpose, of course. I'll probably write it in Hisoft BASIC, which automatically makes it rubbish - well, version 1 does anyway [I don't want to slag version 2 off, having not actually used it].). Anyway, this game involves the bit where Les crosses a river full of crocs. All you have to do is repeatedly hit EXE to cross the river - WILL YOU SURVIVE? OR DIE A NASTY DEATH IN THE TEETH OF A CROCODILE?

The full game will be a bit like "Frogger", where you have to cross a river full of crocs (instead of a busy road. I never understood why a frog would want to cross a busy road anyway). Instead of using logs to cross a river, you will, erm, actually, I haven't got a clue what the rest of the game will be, but it'll be good anyway (in a crap sort of way).

LISTING «368 or so bytes»

"BUSH TUCKER MAN"
"HIT EXE TO"
"CROSS RIVER "/ 'Please note the spaces at the end of this line are actually there to keep the screen looking pretty.
"O"
"-"
"^"
"- - - - - - - - - - - - -"/
" "
"O"
"-"
"^ - - - - - - - - - - - -"/
" "
" "
"O"
"- - - - - - -^- - - - - -"/
Int (Ran#×2)=1 => Goto 1
" "
"O - - - - - --- - - - - - ^"
" "/
"- - - - - - -O- - - - - - -"
"^"/
"WELL DONE,"
"COBBER. THAT RIVER WAS"
"FULL OF CROCSSCORE:"
Int (Ran#×1001)
Goto 2
Lbl 1
"YOU MADE GOODTUCKER FOR"
"THAT CROC"
Lbl 2