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The Official Father Christmas Game (ZX Spectrum)

The Official Father Christmas Game is an okay game where you play as Santa, trying to book it and deliver the presents on time. It's a simple game, and the coder was apparently pretty bored while making it.

Note: All the hex addresses seen below are based on the .tzx dump.

Unused Text#

Starting at 8EF2 are some extra names for items not seen in the game:

 A Model Plane 
 Some Skirt!!
 cor mister!

Hidden after the normal location names is this slightly unusual place at 8F97:

 mars,the universe

Developer Messages#

The developer notes how bored they were at 8AC8:

 I am bored!!!

Another note of boredom is at 8DE8, after the normally-seen menu text:

 i am still bored!!

Still another is at 8F20, after the items text:

 i think i'll nip off and shoot me-self....

One final message is at 903E, after all of the rest of the text:

 is this 'game?' really worth hacking?....  
 try holding 'x,m,a,s' down on the title page....

If the player holds X + M + A + S together on the controls scheme screen, it stops the jingle on the title screen and the game goes really fast.