HISTORY How did this mediocre game come into existence, you may be asking yourself. If you are, there's an interesting story behind it. If you're not, tough cheds, I shall tell it anyway. On 23rd March 2002, I walked past a privet hedgerow which had discarded in it a length of tape. You often see bits of tape in hedgerows and by the side of the road. Well, I've always been curious as to what is actually on those tapes which have been abandoned. (And judging by the type of print media which is normally left there, I had my fingers triple x'd for something good.) So I collected this tape and wound it through an empty cassette spool. Playing the tape on my VHS recorder, the following footage appeared. The tape then went on to cut to a professor of genetic science giving a lecture to an illegal eco-extremist party on how to create an indistructible 40 foot long Rory McGrath faced spider for terrorist use. Anyway, inspired by the footage and the idea of this spider, I came up with this game as my kind of misguided attempt at reinventing the rubix cube. The tape with it's lecture on, meanwhile, I buried in a time capsule behind the sea lion enclosure at Flamingo Land, with instructions not to open until we have become a utopian society (ie all over, and not just with the occasional 'party island' for the guilt free) whom I thought would probably be bored of the hedonism and could do with something interesting to happen - such as the appearance of a fuck off Rory McGrath faced spider to fight to the death - give the kids a bit of direction in life. You have to do your bit, don't you? back to game