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Reviews for The Computer Salesman's Phrase Book (#15746)

Review by Piltdown man on 09 Aug 2010 (Rating: 2)

This loads as a 'cartoon', so what is it like and what do you get?

You get two boxes, one top left with a suited salesman in it, one bottom right with a geek in it. You know he's a geek because he has long hair and a stripy jumper with the words 'Spectrum World' on it.

The salesman says something like 'It's got a 1 year guarantee'. As he does so his mouth and eyebrows move and the words appear beside him in a green box.
There's a pause.
Then the geek translates this into 'Obsolescence will occur in 366 days'.

It's quaint, it's not very funny, it is a tribute to creativity and what can be done with a few lines and blocky graphics.
Watch it cycle round and round for 2 or 3 minutes, then forget.