ZX Spectrum's Biggest Joke of a Game!

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Your Sinclair took an April Fools joke to the next level with Advanced Lawn Mowing Simulation. No.. they really did.....
Thanks to RMC Neil ‪@RMCRetro‬ for his shopkeeper acting skills. If you want to know more about his fantastic 80's mock up computer software shop and the hands on museum it belongs to, head to: www.retrocollective.co.uk/ind...
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00:00 Picture The Scene
03:04 Off to the Shops!
07:04 We Get the Game!
08:13 Playthrough
13:25 Summary

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@RMCRetro 5 ай бұрын

£28 sounds like a bargain, we're now fully stocked

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

😂 I'll check on my next visit!

@SmoMo_ 5 ай бұрын

Thankyou for making this video, I was most impressed by the production values, and Neil pretending to be a shopkeeper. I thought he was very good, and didn’t ham up his role at all. He was authentic and understated. I don’t like lawn mowers myself.

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

😄😄 cheers mate, was a fun one 😊

@doctorcrankyflaps1724 4 ай бұрын

Nice to have RMC Neil featured in your video.

@SebsPlaceYT 4 ай бұрын

Yes it was! 🥰

@MatScope 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for remembering the great Climie Fisher with their excellent song Love Changes Everything.

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Love that song! 🥰

@Simon-xc5oy 5 ай бұрын

Urgh....It was like an avalanche in a sugar factory. So 80s, so wet, so cheesy. Hearing it again is nostalgic though. Sort of. For me it was one of those soppy, sappy songs always played on Radio stations, that you had to sit through in the hope of them playing something that you actually liked or was good. I know they had fans, I was not one of them. Having said that, it really is a part of the decade now looking back. Along with groups like Ah Ha and the Thompson Twins etc....

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Haha - I dunno, I really liked it for some reason. I used to buy some random music back then, including this one. I was looking at what was in the charts in April 1988 and was drawn to it straight away. 😁

@AbooSulaymaan 5 ай бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this...I know I may very well be in a minority here but I actually think Advanced Lawnmower Simulator is a good game. Not because of its superior "graphics" or scintillating "sound" but because it embodies many of the ingredients that made many of those 8 bit era classics so idiosyncratically good: take a mundanely simplistic activity - mowing the lawn - and transform it into a game of skill and dexterity. Consider Trashman, Cookie, Poster Plaster, Super Pipeline...the list goes on!

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Very True!! 😊

@kins749 5 ай бұрын

Another fine video. I used to love the Your Sinclair humour, the overall quality was a step down from crash but it was much funnier

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Thank you, totally agree!

@SeanONeill-ef5vb 9 күн бұрын

Love it. Laughed a lot at this one 😂 I had an Acme Lawn-Ace. Did a good job of the garden for me.

@SebsPlaceYT 9 күн бұрын

😂😂

@WhatHoSnorkers 5 ай бұрын

Glorious work, sir! Much less bovver with a hover!

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Thank you and very true!!

@stuartdavidson162 5 ай бұрын

Your Sinclair was my go to mag and I remember this as a giveaway - Awesome. Batty was the GOAT of giveaways and I didn't even mind the "Hold my hand (Vey tightly)" song :D

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Haha - I had forgotten about that till recently. It's erm... interesting 😁

@wisteela 5 ай бұрын

It's great that you did a video about this.

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Cheers!

@DingKong 3 ай бұрын

Firefly! An awesome game from Jof. Very unique and also very slick.

@SebsPlaceYT 3 ай бұрын

I made a video about it awhile ago. Brilliant game!

@johnabbitt690 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for this Seb. Your Sinclair wasn't my regular magazine, but I remember the review and that it later appeared for free. I wasn't aware of the "hilarious" legal letters, though. That was quite funny. That shopkeeper has a nice cave of retro gear, has he thought of starting a KZfaq channel?

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

😂😂 cheers! I'll ask him, might be on to something there 😆😆

@DavidB-rx3km 5 ай бұрын

That shop looks great!

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Check out his channel- RMC the Cave. Honestly, it's one of my favourites! The shop is brilliant

@kilobytedump 5 ай бұрын

Great stuff. !:) I remember this game well

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the visit

@damoncleall3315 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant video I was pissing myself! 😂 oh and up the spurs👌💯

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Cheers mate! COYS!

@thenodfather 9 күн бұрын

I'm just sad we didn't get the 'de-skidmarking the toilet bowl' simulator.

@SebsPlaceYT 8 күн бұрын

😂

@tonyp3824 5 ай бұрын

Great video!

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@mikeynma 5 ай бұрын

ALS is still a classic to this day. Its up there with Hold My Hand Very Tightly...both back in the day would be classic memes

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@davidmylchreest3306 5 ай бұрын

I got the Amiga conversion free with a copy of Amiga Power. They didn't do much to improve the graphics though...

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

What's to improve? 🙃

@davidmylchreest3306 5 ай бұрын

Still no yellow sun. @@SebsPlaceYT

@atom_zero5413 5 ай бұрын

What kills you? Does the lawnmower turns around and ravages you?!

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

That's what is so cool about the game. Let your imagination decide 😁

@stewsretroreviews 5 ай бұрын

Lol Seb, classic lawn mower sim, and a corn beef sarnie too,give me the job please 👍 See through house eh, interesting 😂 Great content mate 👍 😊

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

😁 What more could you want lol. Cheers Stew!

@neillees2115 2 ай бұрын

"They changed Line 10!"

@SebsPlaceYT 2 ай бұрын

😲

@arostwocents 2 ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYTyou should have highlighted the actual joke on that bit that all they edited to make it their game was the copyright line 😂

@i67x 3 ай бұрын

Hover Bover on the C64 is a work of art in comparison!

@SebsPlaceYT 3 ай бұрын

😂😂

@nelsonhibbert5267 3 ай бұрын

Christ I remember that copy of YS with Indiana Jones on the front. They had a competition for the best sketch of Indiana and the prize was getting it printed on the cover. Some kid won, and. 3 days later I picked up a copy of the Raiders novel in a charity shop, and that exact picture was on the front. The little shit that won didn't do an original work, he just copied a picture from a book.

@SebsPlaceYT 3 ай бұрын

😂😂 little shit. Brilliant. It's probably my favourite cover just because it's a bit crap but it works at the same time.

@Collect-Retro 5 ай бұрын

Great video

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@leadingauctions8440 5 ай бұрын

I have wanted this for years!!!!!! Did you find it on eBay? Any tips on obtaining it please?

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

Try your local garden centre 😉

@williamfoster9978 5 ай бұрын

What's Corinne Russell from the Vixen cover art doing there!?!

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

😂 no idea mate....gardening I think...

@retrorobbins 5 ай бұрын

Set another good video really enjoyed watching this you may be interested in the Game of the Year award which I have posted on Facebook which is run by load ZX and don't quote me on this but I believe is in Belarus categories will be announced in English as well as Portuguese and French you might find it a fascinating watch

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

😎 send me a link matey

@retrorobbins 5 ай бұрын

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@frankowalker4662 3 ай бұрын

That Neil character looks a bit dodgy at the RMC shop. He looks like one of those people who would hire someone called Mark. (they probebly claim to fix computers, too)

@SebsPlaceYT 3 ай бұрын

😂😂 did you see Marks' last video about a missing Atari key? Comedy gold!

@frankowalker4662 3 ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT OMG, he pulled out all the acting stops for that one. 🤣

@SebsPlaceYT 3 ай бұрын

Lol. Yep. Brilliant

@steve050867 5 ай бұрын

Still more entertaining than cutting the Actual grass.

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

100% 😄

@OperationPhantom 5 ай бұрын

A parody then, now it's an actual game! Only 20 bob on Steam! And there's DLC! The cover is really for the "oo-er" game Vixen innit? I shouldn't know that.

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

😁😁 yeah, I didn't know if I should mention its modern-day versions or just leave it to the story back then. Is indeed Vixen, well done 😄😄😄

@OperationPhantom 5 ай бұрын

@@SebsPlaceYT I even own the game, as it was in Humble Choice! TBH the Spectrum game seems more exciting with the random insults and getting killed for no reason.

@arostwocents 2 ай бұрын

@@OperationPhantomthere's dozens or hundreds of ALS variations from crap game compos over the years too

@davidretrogamesplayedbadly3533 5 ай бұрын

I can top your flymo story, I was rushing about last year attempting to do 5 jobs at once. Managed to spin around with the mower and run over a bag of dog poo, I'm fairly sure you can imagine the mess 💩🤮. Still a better game than renegade 3

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 I can imagine. Brilliant!

@OlliePer 2 ай бұрын

I seem to recall the lawnmower simulator game won the worst game awards one year. Isn’t this the point I’m probably missing about this game?

@SebsPlaceYT 2 ай бұрын

Lol yeah it's supposed to be shit 😁

@dennyhaynes3 5 ай бұрын

Why so for-lawn, surely there are worse games?…..........im still thinking 🤣 Amazing what was past off as entertainment back then lol. Must say, i never found a copy in the wild either 😎😉

@SebsPlaceYT 5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣 was a difficult find!!