The best Speccy game by Rossware: discussion

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The best Speccy game by Rossware: discussion

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We've hit the dregs here as I'm now into the classifieds section of YS #19, starting at page 93. It's the kind of mail order software labels that don't really get their stuff in shops. Quite a few of these are obscure and so we begin with Essex-based Rossware. They specialist in a certain type of gambling simulator. See if you can guess what it is from the subtle clues in their names, in this shortlist:

Fruit 2000
Fruit 2010
Fruity

Yeah, their entire output from 1985 to 1987 appears to be compiled BASIC games that simulate fruit machines. These three, in fact. Let me know if I've got the shortlist right. Also I've a feeling, just from screenshots alone, which is objectively the best game. You may well agree with me.
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