Pudding on a show

Jonathan 'Joffa' Smith's first published game introduces us to a winged Pacman-like creature known as Pud Pud and the Weird World in which he inhabits, yet would rather escape from. This he achieves by eating 10 bowls of non-descript pudding whilst walking or flapping throughout a series of surreal mazes stalked by Mrs Pud armed with her toxic kiss. A unique game from the delightfully disordered mind of a sadly missed one-of-a-kind coder.

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Angel of the City

Sylvester Stallone's maverick cop vs deranged Night Slasher flopbuster, Cobra, turned out to be one of the worst of his career. Ironically, the off-kilter platform game developed by Joffa Smith, published by Ocean, was considered one of the most technically brilliant for the underpowered ZX Spectrum upon release in 1986.

I give them both the once over, obviously through the lenses of my celebrity Ray-Ban 3030 Outdoorsman sunglasses, for good measure taking a quick sideways glance at the divergent, less loosely licenced ports for the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64.

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