Andy Capp: The Game is a 1987 computer game

Personal computer game

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 for the Commodore 64

Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...

 that is all about controlling the main character Andy Capp

Andy Capp

Andy Capp is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe , seen in The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror newspapers since 5 August 1957. Originally a single-panel cartoon, Smyth later expanded it to four panels....

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Summary

He is based on the comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 of the same name. The music used in the game was used in British television commercials in the 1970s to advertise the Hovis

Hovis

Hovis is a UK brand of flour and bread, owned by Premier Foods. The brand, which began in 1886, ended up as part of Rank Hovis McDougall in 1962 after a succession of mergers. RHM, whose bread making division has been known as British Bakeries since 1955, also owns the Mother's Pride and Nimble...

brand of bread products. Specifically released on Christmas of 1987, Andy Capp: The Game was intended to be a holiday blockbuster in both North America and Europe. Andy has to acquire money from various sources while consuming as much alcohol as possible and avoid getting arrested for various crimes (like punching his wife

Domestic violence

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 and beating up police officers). Money is assigned to the player in British pound

Pound sterling

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s and kisses are used to control various non-player character

Non-player character

A non-player character , sometimes known as a non-person character or non-playable character, in a game is any fictional character not controlled by a player. In electronic games, this usually means a character controlled by the computer through artificial intelligence...

s. Running out of kisses or alcohol means that the game instantly ends with a game over

Game over

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. The time is given in the 24-hour clock

24-hour clock

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format (00:00-23:59 and excluding the AM/PM formats) while the days of the weeks are organized from Monday to Friday.

Players can either make him speak or fight. A score is given to reward players for making the right decisions.