Applejam
Ok... already laughing?. I know I was. The picture on the cassette inlay right? Clearly showing some guy with a huge mouth eating falling apples and drops of apple jam. A rather sinister and clawed stalker-rat hiding behind a wall, obviously plots means ideas with our apples and jam eating guy. And yes, the plot of the game itself is as... manic and outlandish as the cassette inlay clearly shows!. Made in 1984 by DK´Tronics (Ed Hickman). You really need to be a nutcase to think up a game-plot like this, BUT... It actually is hilariously funny in a kind of... well, unique and nihilistic kind of way! ;)
The plot of the game is as follows. You are a guy being inside some sort of apple jam-factory. Standing hungry under the assembly-machine, waiting for apples and jam to fall down. You need to catch these droppings into your big mouth, but watch out! Everytime u catch a dropping, you will become fatter. But luckily the apple jam factory has installed a sauna, makes sense right?. The sauna can make u sweat out your fat, and therefore make you thin again.. and you can eat more!. If you don´t do this (the anti-fat sauna treat), you will then use a pill to keep you from getting a cardiac arrest! BUT! There are big man-eating rats living right under you, so every time u miss a dropping it gets eaten by a big rat. When the rat has eaten the dropping, it will then run up to the very floor where you are... trying to eat you!. BUT! you can actually defend yourself. On the left side of the screen, there is an elevator (of some kind)... rat comes to eat you, you take the elevator up and then let the elevator down again smashing the evil rat into a bloody pulp! There is also a hornet out to sting you, hide in the sauna to avoid it!.......
THERE YOU GO!. I think it resamples something out of Dante´s Inferno more than a ZX computer game. And yes! I could imagine that Pinhead from Hellraiser actually loves this sinister game. You all do remember his famous line ´We have such sighs to show you!´. And yes, I do believe he is very familiar with this devil of a game (Offcourse!). It´s utterly nihilistic, apocalyptic and mindless, but incredibly fun (I tell you!). The sound... Experience the pain experience the pleasure!
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