Not so much in a game, and especially not one originally written for platforms like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.Įvery decision is a tree of bad decisions to make, often impossible choices, and a frustrating lack of moderate options-which actually fits the show pretty well. HUMPHREY: How very paternalist of you, Prime Minister! It would probably cancel out whatever advantage you might have gained from the whole affair.Īnd so on, for. HUMPHREY: But that's sexist, Prime Minister! Pure anti-male discrimination. Should this new ministry be run by a woman or a man? If you say a woman, Humphrey immediately fires back with: Here for example, faced with the problem of 'raising gender consciousness', you have to pick which Hacker immediately frets about:Īnd of course, from there, you get a classic no-win choice-at least politically speaking. well, less than politically correct, pushed by Humphrey being more than a little elitist, misogynistic and greedy and Hacker being much shallower and less noble than he likes to think. I suppose we should appeal toĪnd so on, with political decisions that are often.

HACKER: Humphrey, you can't pigeon-hole women like that! For the sake of convenience let us accept your stereotypes. Select 'Mothers and housewives' for instance gets Hacker's back up. The same conversation then goes on to figuring out exactly who you're trying to appeal to. HUMPHREY: Are they ever pleased, Prime Minister? Depriving them of one of their favourite complaints would probably make them even more annoyed. Not a lot of wiggle-room in those options, are there? If you go with 1, you get: HACKER: (Blow me, it was my idea, wasn't it?) I was just about to phone you about your idea for setting up a Ministry for Women's Affairs. Much like the show, everything is against you and more or less every decision you can make has some hidden trap that the game is only too happy to rub into your face or explain the problem with.

It's a real-time Choose Your Own Adventure type affair that runs in real-time, and gives you a week full of tricky political challenges to navigate. The game version is quite interesting for 1988, at a time when it wouldn't have been too surprising to see someone get hold of the license and quickly knock out a platform game about Hacker jumping over flying red boxes or something.

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