| Cassette 50 | |
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| Developer(s) | Various |
| Publisher(s) | Cascade Games Ltd |
| Platform(s) | Acorn Electron, Apple II, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, Oric 1, Oric Atmos, Vic 20, ZX81, ZX Spectrum |
| Release date(s) | 1983 |
| Genre(s) | Compilation |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Media/distribution | Cassette |
Cassette 50 (in Spain released as "Galaxy 50 - 50 Excitantes Juegos") was a compilation of games published by Cascade Games Ltd. The compilation included a Timex digital calculator watch.
According to the instructions, "the games will provide many hours of entertainment for all the family at a fraction of the cost of other computer games".[1] The games were universally considered awful.[2]
In an interview, Matthew Lewis, the author of Galaxy Defence, said he wrote the game when he was 14 and submitted it in response to a small, anonymous ad in a local newspaper. He was paid £10 for his game, but he had to give up all rights to it. Galaxy Defence took 12 hours to code and the graphics were done by his father, Ernest Lewis.[3]
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The games featured differed depending on platform.
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The games Exchange and The Force, although listed on the inlay, are missing from the Acorn Electron version meaning only 48 games actually appeared on the cassette.
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The games, almost without exception written in BASIC, were deemed to be of poor quality. They have been described as "so bad it caused physical discomfort",[4] "beyond awful",[5] and "a piece of crap collection".[6] The poor quality of the games inspired the annual Crap Games Competitions (for example the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition[7] and the C64 Crap Game Compo[8]) and a site reviewing bad games.[9]