Language. #
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 09:56 GMT
I particularly like the language options: "Language: English (Scouse)"
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 09:56 GMT
Try buying it and see what you get!
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 09:56 GMT
It's available from Virgin too!
http://www.virginmegastores.co.uk/product/818039/Lawnmower_Simulator_2007/s.jsf
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 09:56 GMT
I particularly like the language options: "Language: English (Scouse)"
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 10:01 GMT
http://www.virginmegastores.co.uk/product/818039/Lawnmower_Simulator_2007/s.jsf
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 10:01 GMT
I hope it's better than the (infamous) Spectrum original:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000089
Also, I see that on the Tesco website the language is listed as: 'English (Scouse)'. Maybe that's why it has an 18+ rating?
After all, we wouldn't want our kiddies coming out with stuff like "Dey don't do dat down der doe do dey doe?" !
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 10:06 GMT
Groundskeeper Willie jokes yet.
<gets coat>
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 10:16 GMT
Lady Chatterley's Hover...
....collects gardening overalls from inside of shed....
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 10:35 GMT
From the Simpsons episode where the kids get snowed in at school Groudskeeper Willie rebels against Skinner with the line "Last the last time you slap your Willie around".
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 10:35 GMT
It was also available from (the Google cache of) Woolworths too:
http://tinyurl.com/yp98yp
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 10:47 GMT
"Dispatch them by spraying grass cuttings at them before they make divots with slide tackles or, if close enough, *mow them down*!"
Although, mowing down footballers can't be all that gory in a Wii...
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 10:47 GMT
It's never as much fun playing with a Virgin one...
Just look at the time...
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 10:54 GMT
"Dispatch them by spraying grass cuttings at them before they make divots with slide tackles or, if close enough, mow them down!" may explain the certificate.
Imagine the splatter from being sucked into a ride-on mower.
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 12:05 GMT
Anyone else remember the Commodore 64 classic "Hover Bovver", in which you stole your various neighbours' flymos and trimmed the lawn with them while setting your dog on the irate owner?
</80SNOSTALGIA>
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 13:23 GMT
http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/als/
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 13:26 GMT
Yes, yes I remember Hovver Bovver, with those fantastic renderings of your neighbours houses - and wasn't the dog on it called Rover...?
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 14:30 GMT
Hey, this IS a lawn mower simulator, right? Then you can use it for practice runs during the snowy season for the up-coming 2008 Sta-Bil Cup at the United States Lawn Mower Racing Association!
www.letsmow.com or www.uslmra.com
(Of course there's an official XBox game for this too...see the web site above...)
(I WISH I could make this kind of stuff up...)
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 15:48 GMT
It's nice to see that the legacy of Your Sinclair still permeates British society. I remember the original - was it Professional Lawnmower Simulator, or Advanced Lawnmower Simulator? There was a single key, "M", and periodically your mower hit a stone and conked out. But you could choose several different lawnmowers, all the same. It was a metaphor. For something.
I choose Paris Hilton as my avatar. I would like to hold her hand (very tightly).
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 16:47 GMT
I think you're right about Rover. Remember the internal dialogue representing the three lives of the game:
"Jim won't mind if I borrow his mower."
"I'll just nip and borrow tom's..."
"Good old Alf... He's a decent chap."
Plus "Go on boy! Kill!" and "ARGH! Lay off me you beastly hound!"
(How long before someone fires up an emulator and corrects these quotes?) This is why the Commodore 64 scene was so much cooler than the purgatory of Spectrum ownership.
As this is an IT site shouldn't we have a nostalgia icon? Perhaps Mr T or Adam Ant?
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 18:47 GMT
A fair time ago I went with a mate into town to buy a nice shiny new copy of Final Fantasy VIII and the unhelpful git at woolies refused to sell it to us as he insisted it was an 18+ title. Nevermind the total lack of rating on the cover, just flat out refused.
So how is it news that some monkey keyed in the wrong data on whatever system they're using? Happens all zi time!
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 02:48 GMT
Could this be the first in a string of simulators for other seemingly mundune activities...?
Laying Carpet, Cleaning the Pool...
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 08:45 GMT
Jeff Minter has a Hovver Bovver for PC - there's a demo, so you can get your nostalgia fix for free. :)
http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/hbovver.php
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 08:45 GMT
Reminds me of something one of my mates wrote many years ago...
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 08:55 GMT
Seems that Final Fantasys 1 through 7 weren't actually all that final after all, eh?
And to think people blame video games for the Shocking Decline in Standards of Literacy, Numeracy and the ability to kick a ball...
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 08:55 GMT
OMG!! Whislting Rick Wilson!!
LOL! Have still got that tape somewhere in the loft!
"Hold my hand very tightly, very tightly, very tightly! Hold my hand very tightly, ooooh-ooh-ooooooohoooh!"
Classic "hit"
Run Paris, Run!
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 10:58 GMT
I liked the one from a Haloween episode, Groundskeeper Willie has stuck a note next to the school thermostat..
"Do not touch. Willie."
Homer reads this out aloud (sans punctuation) and declares it "Good advice."
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 20:08 GMT
This must be one of those insider-type dry english humour funnies. Could someone please explain it a bit for us chumps across the pond?
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 04:30 GMT
Hit a stone? Ouchie! no wonder the mower stops... well, if it's one of your own stones anyway...
Posted Monday 3rd December 2007 17:23 GMT
Richard and David Darling, or the little darlings as Amstrad Action labeled them, are to blame.
This lifted from Wikipedia...
"They were famous for releasing a long series of games called "Advanced Something Simulator" or "Professional Something Simulator". This led to the parody "Advanced Lawnmower Simulator" being developed, praised to the skies and then published by Your Sinclair magazine as an April Fool's Day stunt."