[{"TitleName":"Trivia","Publisher":"Shades","Author":"","YearOfRelease":"1989","ZxDbId":"0005418","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Your Sinclair Issue 49, Jan 1990","Price":"£1.7","ReleaseDate":"1989-12-18","Editor":"Matt Bielby","TotalPages":108,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editor: Matt Bielby\r\nArt Editor: Catherine Peters\r\nDeputy Editor: David Wilson\r\nProduction Editor: Andy Ide\r\nDesigner: Martin Sharrocks\r\nTechnical Consultant: Jonathan Davies\r\nContributors: Robin Alway, Marcus Berkmann, Phoebe Cresswell-Evans, Jonathan Davies, Mike Gerrard, Sean Kelly, Paul Lakin, Duncan MacDonald, Rich Pelley, Dave Robinson, Jackie Ryan, Phil South, Wag, Louise Willers\r\nGroup Advertisement Manager: Lynda Elliott\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Caroline Day\r\nClassified Advertisement Executive: Chris Skinner\r\nAdvertisement Director: Alistair Ramsay\r\nProduction Manager: Judith Middleton\r\nAdvertisement Production: Claire Baker\r\nMarketing Manager: Bryan Denyer\r\nNewstrade Circulation Manager: Stephen Ward\r\nSubscription Manager: June Smith\r\nPublisher: Teresa Maughan\r\nGroup Publishing Director: Richard Howell\r\nGroup Creative Director: Tony Spalding\r\nFinance Director: Colin Crawford\r\nManaging Director: Stephen England\r\nChairman: Felix Dennis\r\n\r\nPublished by Dennis Publishing Ltd, [redacted] Company registered in England.\r\nTypesetters: Point Five [redacted]\r\nReproduction: Graphic Ideas, London\r\nPrinted By: Riverside Press [redacted]\r\nDistribution: Seymour Press [redacted]\r\n\r\nAll material in Your Sinclair ©1989 Felden Productions, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of the publishers. Your Sinclair is a monthly publication."},"MainText":"Shades (Grandslam)\r\n£6.99 cass/£9.99 disk\r\nReviewer: Rich Pelley\r\n\r\nThe title may give you a little clue to what this one's about. Any idea? Yep - you guessed it - surprisingly enough it's yet another question and answer game. Ooooooh!\r\n\r\nRather than being based on some highly intellectual board game, such as Trivial Pursuit, this one's based on those trivia games that you find in pubs. Y'know - the ones where you have to pick the correct answer, usually from a choice of three, to a completely irrelevant question in a time limit of about ten seconds.\r\n\r\nBut now a Speccy version, eh? Hmmm. The basic idea's the same - pick the correct answers to lots of questions within a time limit. Accidentally get the answer correct and you'll complete a square on the score table - complete 21 squares and you're awarded an extra life. You have two lives to start with, so you can effectively answer two questions incorrectly before your game is over. And that's it really. There's nothing else - you just try to score as much as possible per game.\r\n\r\nI'm not really a big trivia man myself, but I managed to play quite contentedly with this for about the first half hour or so (it's a single player game). I was quite impressed that the questions were not repeated all over the place, but suddenly the thing seemed to run out of inspiration and that was it until I flipped the tape over for a different set of questions. Unfortunately, the memory of the Speccy limits the amount of questions. But all is not lost because the multiple choice answers are given to you in a random order.\r\n\r\nThe graphics are adequate, but the sound is crap - no tunes or anything. In spite of this, though, it's a reasonably good triv game if you like that sort of thing, but there are lots of alternatives I could think of. I mean, I've got piles (ahem). (What is this boy on?! Ed) And whether or not you're going to feel like answering lots of boring questions after completing stacks of homework is up to you.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"Yep - it's a trivia game, nothing bad, nothing special. Really for the more brainy and mature among us. (Like me!)","Page":"92,93","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Rich Pelley","Score":"62","ScoreSuffix":"%"}],"ScreenshotText":[{"Text":"A is for Apple, B is for Boat and Q is for Question, which is what we have here. But what's the answer, I wonder? Hmm. I haven't got the faintest idea, so I think I'll take a random guess. Dip dip dip, let's go for c). Blimey! I was right! I'm just so brainy. (In fact I'm so brainy, I even spotted the 'deliberate' spelling mistake!) Oh, and if you're wondering what the bit on the right is for, it gives you an extra life if you can fill up all the rows with black squares. As you can see I've got two already (without even trying)."}],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Life Expectancy","Score":"62%","Text":""},{"Header":"Instant Appeal","Score":"70%","Text":""},{"Header":"Graphics","Score":"58%","Text":""},{"Header":"Addictiveness","Score":"55%","Text":""},{"Header":"Overall","Score":"62%","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]