Welcome to Chump Town!!

You are an "Un-named Protagonist". You could be anyone. You probably are anyone.

You've lived in Chump Town for many years, but things have been getting worse. Attitudes are changing. Sense is becoming less common. Logic seems illogical. It feels like there is an uprising coming; the general unrest in the unsatisfied and displeased population grows day by day. It's as if you cannot even buy an egg without taking out a bank loan any more.

But you feel there is more to it than simple political malpractice. You've heard the rumours of a secret, shadowy race who work behind the scenes. Their name, "the Poodan", is whispered in hushed tones. Like weavers of fate they control the world, their fingers deep in the pies of decision making. Their influence know no bounds. And their influence emanates from right here in the heart of Chump Town.

You know this sounds crazy, right? Like some big conspiracy invented by people with far too much time on their hands?

Maybe it is just that? But you have noticed the trends. It's all a negative spiral of unhappiness and disapointment that has been blossuming like a cherry tree on a golf course.

It cannot just be coincidence, can it? It cannot just be a paranoid conspiracy, right?

One day though, you realise that you have had enough.

You sneak into the secret lair of multi-billionaire industrialist, Leon Husk; a man with all the influence money can buy. Once you go through those doors into his base of operations you find plans for a Mobile Autonomous Numpty Golem Army, or M.A.N.G.A. for short. These clay clones of a great and respected leader (in his own mind) from Chump Town's past will patrol the streets and make things good again. They'll sort things out.

You doubt it all. It seems like the machinations of a madman.

Seeing these clones... everywhere makes the decision an easy one for you. No-one is safe. No-where is safe! You have to leave the planet and go somewhere untouched by the Poodan, Chumps and Leon.

You'll steal a rocket. You might have to assemble it yourself, but it should be easier than Swedish flatpack furniture.

And then you'll leave. But you'd better expect a fight. It never is as easy as you'd like...

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, with surreal elements of parody and satire. The conspiracy within the game is simply a fictional one, and the actions and representation of the characters within this game should not be taken to be indicative of any real world personalities, people or events. It is just a game.

Loading the game:

This game is supplied as a virtual tape file (.tap). In most ZX Spectrum emulators you are able to attach this as media, type LOAD "" and start the virtual tape.

There may be ways to get this onto a physical tape, or to be loaded into an
actual ZX Spectrum (or the new THE Spectrum by Retro Games) but I've not tried this, and google is probably your friend there.

Controls:

O = LEFT, P = RIGHT, M = JUMP / FIRE, H = PAUSE

This game has been created using MPAGD which was created by Jonathan Cauldwell. Tunes have been added (128K version) using MPAGD Musicizer which was created by David Saphier.  48K jingle tune added via Beepola which was created by Chris Cowley. 128K music was created using Vortex Tracker II which was created by S.V.Bulba. Loading screen and tape edits were done using ZX-Paintbrush, ZX-Editor and ZX-Blockeditor created by Claus Jahn.

Enterprise version (coming soon as part of a collection of my games for the Enterprise 8-bit computer) was facilitated by Noel Persa who has been improving the MPAGD engine code for the Enterprise and adding additional support for things such as the Beepola Engines often used in Spectrum MPAGD games. I cannot underplay how much work Noel has done to assist, find and fix bugs in the engine and assembler code (and my AGD code). Without their input, assistance and support, the Enterprise version would not have been possible.

Game design, story, sound and graphics are copyright 2025 KTB 
Retro Computing Productions.