Cassette 50 was a compilation of games published by Cascade Games Ltd. The compilation included a Timex digital calculator watch

Calculator watch

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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". The games were universally considered awful.

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

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 to it. Galaxy Defence took 12 hours to code and the graphics were done by his father, Ernest Lewis.

Acorn Electron / Commodore 64 / ZX81

• Attacker
• Barrel Jump
• Black Hole
• Boggles
• Cannonball Battle
• Derby Dash
• Do Your Sums
• Dynamite
• Exchange
• Force Field
• Galactic Attack
• Galactic Dog Fight
• Ghosts

• Hangman
• High Rise
• Inferno
• Intruder
• Ivasive Action
• Jet Flight
• Jet Mobile
• Lunar Landing
• Maze Eater
• Motorway
• Nim
• Noughts and Crosses
• Old Bones

• Orbitter
• Overtake
• Parachute
• Phaser
• Planets
• Plasma Bolt
• Pontoon
• Psion Attack
• Radar Landing
• Rats
• Rocket Launch
• Sitting Target
• Ski Jump

• Smash the Windows
• Space Mission
• Space Search
• Space Ship
• Star Trek
• Submarines
• Tanker
• The Force
• Thin Ice
• Tunnel Escape
• Universe

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.

ZX Spectrum

• Alien
• Alien Attack
• Attacker
• Barrel Jump
• Basketball
• Blitz
• Boggles
• Bowls
• Breakout
• Cargo
• Cars
• Cavern
• Crusher

• Cypher
• Draggold
• Field
• Fishing Mission
• Frogger
• Galaxy Defence
• Inferno
• Jet Mobile
• Labyrinth
• Laser
• Lunar Lander
• Martian Knock Out
• Mazer Eater

• Microtrap
• Motorway
• Munch
• Muncher
• Mystical Diamonds
• Nim
• Orbit
• Pinball
• Race Track
• Raiders
• Sketch Pad
• Ski Jump
• Ski Run

• Skittles
• Solar Ship
• Space Mission
• Space Search
• Star Trek
• Stomper
• Tanks
• Ten Pins
• The Race
• The Skull
• Voyager

Reception

The games, almost without exception written in BASIC

BASIC

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, were deemed to be of poor quality. They have been described as "so bad it caused physical discomfort", "beyond awful", and "a piece of crap collection". The poor quality of the games inspired the annual Crap Games Competitions (for example the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition

Comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition

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and the C64 Crap Game Compo) and a site reviewing bad games.

See Also

• Don't Buy This - Another infamous collection of poor ZX Spectrum titles (though it was purposely released by the publisher as a joke).
• "Action 52
  Action 52
  Action 52 is an unlicensed multicart consisting of 52 individual and original video games, released in September 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System and in May 1993 for the Sega Genesis consoles by Active Enterprises...
  
  " - A collection of 52 games on a single NES cartridge, in a similar spirit to Cassette 50 and with similarly poor reception.
• List of video games notable for negative reception