Title: Cassette 50 Content: Cassette 50 (Galaxy 50 - 50 Excitantes Juegos in Spain) is a video game compilation created by Cascade Games Ltd in 1983. Its 50 games were almost always written in BASIC. It was advertised a lot in home computer magazines. It came with a free Timex digital calculator watch. The instructions say "the games will provide many hours of entertainment for all the family at a fraction of the cost of other computer games".Cassette 50 inlay text In an interview, Matthew Lewis said he wrote Galaxy Defence in 12 hours at the age of 14. He sent it after seeing a small, anonymous ad in a local newspaper, losing the game's copyright and getting £10. His father, Ernest, drew the graphics.Cassette 50: the interview | pixeltron ==Games== Only some games are on all platforms (e.g. Star Trek and Maze Eater). Some games are ports or clones of older or popular games (e.g. Lunar Lander). Some games are made by independent developers. Some games with the same name between platforms are a different game. Some games have problems that make them harder to play. ===Acorn Electron / Commodore 64 / Dragon 32 / Oric-1 / Oric Atmos / ZX81=== * Attacker * Barrel Jump * Black Hole * Boggles * Cannonball Battle * Derby Dash * Do Your Sums * Dynamite * Exchange * Force Field * Galactic Attack * Galactic Dog Fight * Ghosts * Hangman * High Rise * Inferno * Intruder * Ivasive Action * Jet Flight * Jet Mobile * Lunar Landing * Maze Eater * Motorway * Nim * Noughts and Crosses * Old Bones * Orbitter * Overtake * Parachute * Phaser * Planets * Plasma Bolt * Pontoon * Psion Attack * Radar Landing * Rats * Rocket Launch * Sitting Target * Ski Jump * Smash the Windows * Space Mission * Space Search * Space Ship * Star Trek * Submarines * Tanker * The Force * Thin Ice * Tunnel Escape * Universe Exchange and The Force are not in the Acorn Electron version, but are listed on the inlay. The Dragon 32 version was released again with some updated games. The C64 version of Tunnel Escape is named "Escape or Bust" in-game. ===Amstrad CPC=== * 3-D Maze * Attacker * Backgammon * Colony-9 * Craps * Creepy Crawley * Cylons * Day at the Races * Dragona Maze * Draughts * Dungeon Adventure * Dynamite * Evasive Action * Exchange * Fantasy Land * Fighter Command * Fireman Rescue * Ghosts * Handicap Golf * Hangman * High Rise * Hopping Herbert * Inferno * Intruder * Jet Flight * Lunar Lander * Maze Eater * Motorway * Nemesis IV * Noughts & Crosses * Planets * Play Your Cards Right * Pontoon Bet * Rally 3000 * Rats * Rush Hour Attack * Royal Rescue * Sitting Target * Solit * Space Base * Space Mission * Space Pod Rescue * Space Ship * Star Trek * The Kings Orb * Three Card Brag * Timebomb * Trucking * Whirly * Yamzee ===Atari=== * Attacker * Baby Chase! * Barrel Jump! * Black Hole * Boggles * Cannon Ball Battle * Derby Dash * Defend the Fortress * Do Your Sums * Dynamite * Exchange * Galactic Attack * Ghosts * Hangman * High Rise * Inferno! * Intruder! * Ivasive Action * Jet Fighter * Jetmobile * Lunar Landing * Maze Eater * Motorway * Nim * Noughts and Crosses * Old Bones * Orbitter * Overtake * Parachute * Phaser * Planets * Plasma Bolt * Pontoon * Zion Attack * Rabbit Raid * Radar Lander * Rats * Rocket Launch * Sea Alert * Sitting Target * Ski Jump * Smash the Windows * Space Mission * Space Search * Space Ship * Star Trek * Tanker * The Force * Tunnel Escape * Universe ===BBC Micro=== * Attacker * Barrel Jump * Black Hole * Boggles * Cannon Ball * Derby Dash * Dice Thrower * Dynamite * Exchange * Force Field * Galactic Attack * Galactic Dogfight * Ghosts * Hangman * High Rise * Inferno * Intruder * Ivasive Action * Jet Flight * Jet Mobile * Lunar Landing * Maze Eater * Motorway * Nim * Noughts and Crosses * Old Bones * Orbitter * Overtake * Parachute * Phaser * Planets * Plasma Bolt * Pontoon * Psion Attack * Radar Landing * Rats * Rocket Launch * Sitting Target * Ski Jump * Smash the Windows * Space Mission * Space Search * Space Ship * Star Trek * Submarines * Tanker * The Force * Thin Ice * Tunnel Escape * Universe The inlay names Dice Thrower "Do Your Sums". ===Vic-20=== * Balloon Dodger * Bank Raid * Bomber * Cupid's Arrow * Derby Dash * Do Your Sums * Dustman Dan * Exchange * Flesh Eaters * Force Field * Galactic Dogfight * Golf * Grid Racer * Hangman * Houses * Intruder * Jet Flight * Jet Mobile * Knight Out * Krazy * Lite Bikes * Lunar Lander * Maze Eater * Meteoroids * Minotaur's Treasure * Mole Hole * Motorway * Nim * Noughts & Crosses * One Armed Bandit * Orbitter * PanAttack * Planetoids * Plasma Bolt * Pontoon * Radar Landing * Sentinel-1 * Ski Run * Skull Castle * Soccer * Space Search * Spaceship * Star Falls * Star Trek * Submarines * Super Hi-Low * Super Vaders * Thin Ice * Three Card Brag * Turtle Bridge ===ZX Spectrum=== * Alien #27 * Alien Attack #10 * Attacker #49 * Barrel Jump #48 * Basketball #3 * Blitz #42 * Boggles #9 * Bowls #33 * Breakout #5 * Cargo #28 * Cars #22 * Cavern #25 * Crusher #6 * Cypher #46 * Dragon's Gold #36 * Field #35 * Fishing Mission #43 * Frogger #4 * Galaxy Defence #45 * Inferno #38 * Jet Mobile #47 * Labyrinth #15 * Laser #26 * Lunar Lander #11 * Martian Knock Out #8 * Mazer Eater #12 * Microtrap #13 * Motorway #14 * Munch #32 * Muncher #1 * Mystical Diamonds #44 * Nim #39 * Orbit #31 * Pinball #24 * Race Track #17 * Raiders #34 * Sketch Pad #41 * Ski Jump #2 * Ski Run #18 * Skittles #16 * Solar Ship #20 * Space Mission #50 * Space Search #37 * Star Trek #7 * Stomper #23 * Tanks #19 * Ten Pins #21 * The Race #29 * The Skull #30 * Voyager #40 The number with the '#' symbol shows where the game is on the tape. The booklet names 'Star Trek' 'Startrek' and 'Jet Mobile' 'Jetmobile'. ==Reception== The games are very bad.Rewind Issue 1: Cassette 50 III Blitz 50 TIGSource: Somewhere Beyond Cassette 50 Cassette 50 inspired the yearly Crap Games Competitions (e.g. the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games CompetitionThe CSS Crap Games Competition and the C64 Crap Game CompoC64 Crap Game Compo 2005) and a now-defunct website that reviewed bad games.Collection of links to Internet Archive for now-defunct site Somewhere beyond Cassette 50