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- Yes prime minister! -  
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Yes prime minister! is a
game which is actually based on a British comedy show that aired in the
early eighties. I did not know this at first and thought the game tried
to be a serious simulator in which you are the prime minister of the United
kingdom. When I found out that it was based on a show some of the comments
and events in the game made more sense.
The aim of the game is to survive for one week as the prime minister and
you have to make countless decisions about a whole range of subjects. These
can range from recovering a lost object to keeping the peace when one of
your spies is caught in Russia. All of these decisions are made from a simple
multiple choice menu which is presented to you after the character you are
talking to asks you a question. Make a good choice and the conversation
continues and you get more question, make a bad one and the conversation
usually ends and your popularity drops. You start out at 50 percent popularity
among voters but I managed to end the game with less than 10 percent. There
is no real objective which you must aim for or at least the game doesn't
tell you anything about it.
I don't really get this game, all events are completely based on others
asking you questions and you giving answers. Apparently being a prime minister
is a really boring job because the only thing you can do between questioning
sessions is to stare at the window and wait for any phonecalls or faxes
that come in. Luckily you can click on the clock and time will fastforward
to the next event, too bad the next event is just as boring as the previous
one. I have never seen this television show but if it is anything like the
game I doubt I will ever watch it. I actually read on the net that some
people think the humor of the game fits the show well so if you've seen
it you might enjoy this game but for anyone else it's a boring game that's
not really worth bothering with. The rating is more for originality of it's
concept than actual gameplay.
Ohyeah the game keeps asking for you to insert the correct side of the floppy
disk/tape but I never did and the game kept running without problems on
any of the systems.
Overal rating: 5/10
Erde Kaiser
Yes prime minister! was released for five different systems but apart from some minor
graphic differences on the main screen each of these versions is the same.
| Amstrad
CPC |
Released
in 1988?.
Game has been tested but not completed with winAPE v2.0 A6. |
| BBC
Micro |
Released
in 1988?.
Game has been tested but not completed with BeebEm v2.0. |
| C64 |
Released
in 1987.
Game has been tested but not completed with CCS64 v2.0 win. |
| DOS |
Released
in 1988.
Game has been tested but not completed on a DOS PC. |
| ZX
Spectrum |
Released
in 1987.
Game has been tested but not completed with emuZwin v2.5. |
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Date added |
Dec-15-2004 19:47 |
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Name |
Yes prime minister! |
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Developer |
O.D.E.
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Publisher |
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First released |
1987 |
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Genre |
Misc
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Download |
Amstrad CPC, filesize: 150 Kb
BBC Micro, filesize: 146 Kb
Commodore 64, filesize: 149 Kb
MS-DOS, filesize: 174 Kb
ZX Spectrum, filesize: 139 Kb
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Links |
BBC
site - Some info on the show by BBC the creators. |
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Manual |
Download manual for Yes prime minister!
, filesize: 5 Kb
This is the same as the text manual. |
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
Get text manual here
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