The Big Sleaze

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The Big Sleaze is a humorous text adventure which parodies the detective genre. It is set in the late 1930s and the player controls Sam Spillade, a stereotypical and not too bright private detective. The adventure begins when he gets a new assignment: finding the missing father of his pretty, female client.

The situations Spillade has to solve shift between standard problems, e.g. getting money, and absurd situations like an auto bomb placed by the neighbour's children. And why did a dog bring a check and a photograph into his office? Commands have to be typed in with the keyboard, but the parser only understand simple verb + noun combinations. In compensation, Spillard can make conversation to other people.

The game consists of three independent programmes which have to solved in linear order - the save game of the previous part has to be imported into the next. Also included is the satirical electronic magazine Sceptical 3.

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• Game Engine: Quill / PAW

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Crash!	ZX Spectrum	Aug, 1987	93 out of 100	93
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	ZX Spectrum	Jul, 1987	8 out of 10	80
Your Sinclair	ZX Spectrum	Aug, 1987	8 out of 10	80
Your Commodore	Commodore 64	Jul, 1987	30 out of 40	75
Commodore User	Commodore 64	Jun, 1987	7 out of 10	70
Zzap!	Commodore 64	Jul, 1987	70 out of 100	70
Happy Computer	Commodore 64	1986	64 out of 100	64
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	Aug, 1987	6 out of 10	60
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Commodore 64	Sep, 1987	6.4 out of 12	53

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