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A BASIC type-in from the early days of the Speccy. A very simple language processor, along the lines of Eliza. It will attempt to hold a text conversation with you. It is extremely simple, and intrinsically crap - but I do have a bit of love for this.
As with all of these things, you get the occasional serendipitous spooky moment, or unintentionally hilarious responses from the computer - if you're prepared to plough through a lot of boring, predictable and nonsensical replies.
Reasons I didn't score this 1 or 2 out of 5:
1/ Nostalgia. This sparked my imagination as a child.
2/ As with a lot of type-ins, much fun was had adapting/customising the listing - and a lot was learnt by doing so. This listing was begging to be tinkered with.

1983 Granada Publishing (UK)

After reading pl3z review, I immediately remembered about another game called ID, which was very unusual. I remember being hooked to that program in the 80's so much I started researching about this type of programs and soon discovered about the 60's experiment called Eliza. I didn't know there was a Spectrum version, so my curiosity sky rocketed .

Spectrum Smalltalk is a very basic text based conversational game, using a simple language processor.
Has expected from a computer, answers are very superficial, but in this game you barely get anything from him, I checked the program listing and options are very limited. This, I think, was just an example of what computers could do. So now I'll check Eliza's Spectrum version.

I spent three minutes with this game. First minute, curiousity, second minute, remorse, third minute, reset. Just far too repetitive to get any sense of enjoyment out of it.