You thought running a government was hard? Try doing it with a smug civil servant and a budget crisis every five minutes. In Yes, Prime Minister, you play as Jim Hacker, the PM himself, in a game based on the cult British sitcom. It's all about navigating bureaucracy, spin, and outright manipulation—with delightful sarcasm baked into every menu. Don’t expect explosions or car chases. Do expect to be scolded by Sir Humphrey for trying to raise teacher salaries. It’s like SimCity, but instead of bulldozers, you have committee meetings.
ACE Magazine Issue 03 (1987): "The trouble arises when you have played the game about five times (and it doesn't take long to finish, either). Despite the fact that new scenarios occasionally crop up, the variety steadily grows stale, and the bulk of the game becomes depressingly familiar. What you end up with is an initially enjoyable game, that turns out to be a disappointment. Mosaic reckon you'll want to return to it in much the same way as you would return to a book you've already read. The Pilg is not convinced, and I suspect that this sort of game needs a massive text-database, a 20meg hard disc, and more intelligence to succeed."
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Status: abandonware Also published for: Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro Abandonware DOS views: 7710
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