Those who forget the past...

Welcome to the 27th year of this contest! 

Advanced Lawnmower Simulator (or ALS) was quite simply the best game to appear on the Spectrum. It was written by (at the time) well-known Your Sinclair writer Duncan MacDonald. In April 1990, it was reviewed in YS and was promptly awarded a YS 'Megagame'. The following month, it was 'featured' on the Covertape. Yes, - the whole thing was an elaborate April Fool's joke.

A number of months later, YS started a 'Crap Games Corner' for reader's games. This then evolved into the C.S.S.C.G.C you know and love today.

So this competition has a rich history, spanning back many years. I can't pretend to be an expert, but I understand  that this has also inspired may a crap game over the decades...

Talk about hubris, look at those bold claims - "incredibly frustrating". This Cassette 50 must really be something. Well, err, no. Actually it was pretty awful. But somehow charming too. I did think 'Spectrum Cross', one of the games on C50 was rather interesting, and I even made a compiled and updated version called Frogger50, which you can play at the link below if you wish...

Frogger-50

For the previous years entries, see Andy Jenkinson's site crapgamescompetition2022  

And this csscgc2020 and this csscgc2021 And if you wanna go way back to 1996, then check this out....

The Crap finder General

How to write a crap game

If you're wondering where to start, then YOUR SINCLAIR's guide to writing a crap game isn't a bad place to visit yoursinclair