Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Review - Another Terrible ZX Spectrum Licensed Game | Kim Justice

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Tynesoft have already featured on here before thanks to the dreadful Super Gran, but their take on Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is even worse. You'd think that they'd make something good from this classic Geordie TV series, but you would be wrong.
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[@RetroSpexx-yt]

Auf Wiedersehen Pet was the first game that I borrowed from another kid at school. Actually it was how I met him, introduced by a friend because he had Speccy games to swap or borrow. . . Somehow, even after this diabolical shock of a lend, he turned out to become my best mate and best man for my wedding, though we still talk about this game in jest to this day! 🤓👍

[@lwaves]

That's cool. As a kid I remember going to a meet up where people would exchange their games for copying. One kid was trying to get something for AWP (Speccy version) but no one was interested. It may have been the only game he had to offer as I never saw him with another. I felt a little sorry for him, so I let him copy a couple of mine for nothing. Unlike you though, I never saw him there again.

[@mrtiff99]

Great story. I remember borrowing this from some kid at school. He didn't become my best friend :o) one of those swaps where you give them a really great game and they give you this.......

[@RetroSpexx-yt]

Yeah I know those kinds deals....all too well!! I can't actually remember what I lent him at the time, I know it must've been okay though because that part doesn't get remembered in the legend! I've often wondered how the friendship started after such a fiendish act, but I'm glad we overcame it and can still laugh about it to this day!!

[@MrLondonGo]

I remember trying to swap this at a games exchange but unsurprisingly I had no takers, it was kind of an adult TV show. Anyway some mug lent me a few games for free, and I never went back. ;-)

[@Horzuhammer]

For some reason Kim trying to emulate a speaking Speccy tickled my funnybone something fierce. :D

[@heyhonpuds]

When you kiss the dames and you don’t ask their names that’s ZX alright.

[@grantd165]

That's ZX alright....

[@av9109]

@@grantd165 stuck in my bedroom with r tape loading errors thats z x alright thats z x alright

[@antster1983]

Their boss in Series 1 was Herr Grunwald, played by the late Scottish actor Michael Sheard. The lads called the German workers "Erics", so that the Germans who understood any English would think they were taking about somebody called Eric. At least that's the explanation Neville gives to Colin (a mysterious character played by Ray Winstone) in the episode "The Fugitive".

[@deluxedjsireland224]

I thought that too! Grunwald, not Eric. How could a Newcastle software company making a game of the most celebrated Geordie TV show of the 80s...get that wrong?

[@grizzlygrizzler8594]

He was also Mr Bronson on Grange Hill! He played disciplinarian bosses very well. There was a nice bit in AWP where he showed he was a good boss after all to one of the lads.

[@antster1983]

​@@grizzlygrizzler8594 Would that be when he allows Dennis to go off site to get help for Neville after he ends up in a police cell after being (wrongfully) accused of assault in the episode "The Accused"?

[@BacktrackerShowRewindssVinylCl]

​@@antster1983and did he not re-hire Nev as a brickie to avoid bringing in some crazy random (you could end up with another McGowan!) I take it you know there's an AWP Facebook fan page? Great memories. Vikki in a swimsuit too... Great mam... Memories! 😂

[@RJRC_105]

The only Tynesoft game I ever had was Summer Olympiad on the Atari ST. It's a collection of minigames also, including joystick masturbation (100m), the actually okay diving game, the interminable clay pigeon shoot, the long jump, and that's about it really. I remember the long jump was in isometric projection and they only animated the player's arms and legs while his body stayed still, and it looked like he was marching on the spot while the stadium moved around him.

[@Arkhan_The_Black]

Perhaps this was the reason Jimmy Nail's "crocodile shoes" were crying.

[@lwaves]

Games Don't Live Here Anymore.

[@RUOK2000]

Loving the northern content of late, looking forward to your Byker Grove review XD

[@leegsy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKDTh5WZnMSIsJY

[@adamphillip5305]

And that Peter Beardsley game lol

[@Whiskeyklone]

SEVERING his spine, Kimmy. Seh-vuh-ring

[@grizzlygrizzler8594]

People rarely sever their spines (I wouldn't like to see it anyway!) - they just break them. I suppose it just caught him out what with it being such a weird description.

[@fatherjack636]

I love telling my kids, tv shows and films that would never ever be thought of as video game potential, ‘that was a c64 game.’ This is one of my favourites.

[@TheBeird]

Looks better than the series where Neville becomes a spy in Cuba 😒

[@lummatravel]

Loved this game back in the day. Used to use me ma's lipstick to draw the route on the telly in the final stage before it goes dark

[@pistolpetehurley]

Hahahah! Thats awesome!

[@GoldmineVideoLoot]

God , I love this TV show ! Such warm memories

[@Faktor13]

And I thought youtube was auto translating the title of the video. Nice pronounciation of "Auf wiedersehen". Greetings from germany. And yes, Düsseldorf by night looks exactly like presented in this game :-) :-)

[@jamesalderson6803]

This is fucking incredible. Didn’t even know this game existed. Brilliant video!

[@MrSegAsh]

I absolutely love these Docu type videos. They are a history lesson into vintage gaming and the era it came from.

[@monolalia]

oh, as a former C16er I fear the name Tynesoft to this day...

[@mrtiff99]

Nevermind about the actual game, look at the front cover. That should be enough to keep any potential purchaser away! Of course that's how I bought my games back in the day. Isn't that how a lot of us chose games in the 80s?

[@gwishart]

I particularly like the fact that they've just used a random screen capture from the TV programme, featuring one of the main characters facing away from the camera and the top of an extra's head.

[@mrtiff99]

@@gwishart awful cover. Bloke the background looks like he's having a pee

[@Giantwaspface]

Bloody hell, Auf Wiedersehen Pet got a game? It's a miracle we didn't get one for Prisoner Cell Block H as well.

[@dungeonseeker3087]

Next time Octav1us is doing an awful games stream you know for a fact I'm suggesting Stroker to her LMAO

[@Lucasrainford]

@Darth Wheezius I play it every day!

[@kaitlyn__L]

I hope you'll tell her that it's lewd at the time? Especially if it would break TOS if it were just straight-up shown... wouldn't wanna get her banned if she could.. blur it or censor the middle like Kim did for the stream, but still check it out?

[@dungeonseeker3087]

@@kaitlyn__L Twitch has no rules against nudity in the game, people play Witcher 3 and Mass Effect with no come back but to answer your question, I wouldn't let her play it. If she took the suggestion id tell her it was a joke and say she probably shouldn't play it. I like a laugh but I'm not a monster.

[@scottbreon9448]

That would probably get her stream demonitized™

[@docbloom247]

This has cheered up my Bank Holiday. Always wondered what this game actually was. Now I know, skcollob.

[@jiilaa_with_randomness]

I loved the series as kid! Gladly the game never was sold where I bought my games... Still love the series, watch 'em again and again every now and then. I tried this game. Once. Never again.

[@whengiantmonstersattackbea6462]

Have you ever covered the game 'Everyone's A Wally' on the Speccy? I think that would have made a great template for an 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' game.

[@snoeg]

Hm, looks like they even misspelt the game's name on one of the ads (at about 9:12 into the video)

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

Literally talking to a co worker for half an hour about 'pet and come home to this. Fantastic stuff kim

[@retroguygg]

Stroker-64. Never thought I'd see a screenshot (even a censored one) of that game ever again.

[@RayPurchase321]

Can’t believe there was a game for this show 🤣🤣 Such a good shiw tho !! 🤘🏻

[@lwaves]

It's still very funny, although some elements have obviously dated. I re-watched the first two seasons (the only ones that matter) a couple of years back.

[@scottbreon9448]

Well they made a fucking game for East Enders for fuck sake. East fucking Enders, a god damn soap opera. As horrible as TV show games like Knight Rider were, at least they made sense as a license....but East Enders? give me a break

[@mikemayberry7121]

I'm an American, and I've never heard of this show. But your review was still as hilarious as it was informative. Please do more videos like this.

[@lwaves]

If you like UK humour, it's definitely a show worth checking out, but stick to the first two seasons only. The rest don't get anywhere close IMO.

[@gwishart]

It's an excellent programme, but as an American you may need subtitles.

[@MYEYES-nu9fr]

The only thing I remember about this game was the 'show me the way to go home' music from the last part. For some reason had a flash back to playing a spectrum game that had it as the theme. Had completely forgotten about this but came back to me after wracking my brain and yeah how awful it is!

[@PixelsLtd]

Great video as always Kim, no idea this was even a thing! Boggles the mind.

[@SerBallister]

What a strange show to license. Excellent documentary as usual Kim.

[@Mviews-hb4ib]

God I miss Amos Pro .. watching this video hits so many memories. even supergrans huge bike reminded me when i discovred how to rewrite the alphabet and make them into sprite looking characters and backgrounds .. then learning to join them to make supergran sized sprites. happy years being 10 . thats nowt these days, you gt roblox scripters younger

[@xraystan]

I went to school with the kid who's dad owned Tynesoft. Even visited the studio one time. It was very underwhelming even for a ten year old me. Had most of their game and they were all crap. :)

[@PenguinDT]

I don't think I've ever seen a license less suited for a game forcefully turned into one. Hell, even Finland's first movie tie-in title 'Uuno muuttaa maalle' for C64 was more apt than this.

[@TheIndulged1]

Exactly what I was thinking!, Hello Finland from Norway.

[@PenguinDT]

@@TheIndulged1 Hello Norway! You guys have the most epic armed forces ever, all hail Brigadier General Sir Nils Olav!

[@TheIndulged1]

@@PenguinDT Ah the mighty Brigadier Olav may he only eats the finest sushi, I was MJK myself never got to meet the flappy one himself... Hang do I know you?, You didn't make T.A.G.A.P The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins did you?...

[@PenguinDT]

@@TheIndulged1 Guilty as charged :D

[@TheIndulged1]

@@PenguinDT Cool man, I love that game, I used to be in the forum's a lot and upload custom levels.

[@channelzero2252]

You know what they say about rolling a turd in glitter? The glitter jumped off this one.

[@timwald2498]

Time for a remake in 4k then!

[@Horzuhammer]

Four kilobytes?

[@TheIndulged1]

Ubisoft will only fill it with bug's and glitches...

[@Harp00nX]

One of the best comedy drama's ever made but absolutely nothing that could be made into a game.

[@WeirdWonderful]

I wonder, would you consider doing a video on the best games done in Basic ? If there are any that could be called "good" that is.

[@craigcharlesworth1538]

Tynesoft did the not-at-all-bad Acorn conversion of Jet Set Willy, didn't they? How did they get from there to here?

[@duhmez]

Stroker 64 is brilliant! As a kid it was so fun showing it to all my friends! I even BEAT IT

[@lwaves]

I bet you 'beat it'. ;-)

[@duhmez]

@@lwaves Check out the remixed music video of Stroker 64 I made! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWmvpKB7hMeef7s

[@YukaTakeuchiFan]

Ah, did you go for some speedrun strats? :3

[@duhmez]

@@YukaTakeuchiFan NO way! Gotta hold out for tha big score!

[@charlieburnside5586]

Will we be getting anymore bass playing videos??? I did a cover of blink 182 DAMMIT with an old friend the song means so much to us and would love for you to check it out on my KZbin channel and tell me what you think 😘

[@realmchat6665]

No way, this all loops back around to Stroker! Amazing how many people don't know what that game is...

[@gavinpeters949]

What was that beginning music from originally? (Tv show)

[@iestyndavies7287]

Gavin Peters - I’ve been racking my brains trying to remember. It’s driving me crazy!

[@jiilaa_with_randomness]

Joe Fagin - Breakin Away kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3LCkp1-pceke6s

[@grizzlygrizzler8594]

Joe Fagin - That's Livin' Alright

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Hiding a slong with a pic Jimmy Nail, bit on the nose :D

[@TheIndulged1]

I thought he looked like Cyril Snear from the cartoon The Racoons...

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

@@TheIndulged1 xD Yeah give him a cigar and Voila Cyril Snear.

[@Phendrena]

That's livin alright, or not in this case. I had this back in the day, I didn't buy it, I borrowed it off my mate. Utter tosh, it didn't last long on my Boots C15 before something else took its place 👍

[@tomkrawec]

This review is so great even my wife loved it.

[@alexstokoe2542]

What's Auf Wiedersehn Pet? I have a feeling of pride that I was responsible for the count of the uses of the word 'Geordie' being higher by one.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Placed this in my "Sh*t Game Time" section as it was requested for me to review it, like most tv shows, the games that follow them are sh*t,...The Trap Door on the spectrum is an exception, fantastic game.

[@scottbreon9448]

Oh, it wasn't just crap on the Spectrum. This was shit on every computer it was released on

[@Henrik_Holst]

Actually I think that you are on to something Kim because Stroker on C64 is also written in BASIC so it's not a far stretch to believe that it's the same developer.

[@pablot5809]

Aaaah, the good ol’ days...

[@Vlad-bu3mr]

for a second there I read Auf Wiedersehen Monty and I was getting all sad faced

[@RetroSpexx-yt]

Well hello there! Auf Monty??? Really???

[@Vlad-bu3mr]

@@RetroSpexx-yt i know :(

[@jasoncreighton5140]

KIm: Sqij should have been compiled, but I couldnt be arsed

[@kins749]

Worse than Cassette 50 for sure, imagine splashing your pocket money on that. Yay! The intro is back!

[@pbarratt73]

Brilliant video... I remember the game it was God awful lol. Thanks for uploading 🕹

[@dependencyonlove8751]

3:45 Herr Eric Fuhrer? Stay classy ancient Spectrum games :P Also "Fuhrer" should be "Führer" can't tell if it's a spelling mistake or that these ol computers don't support the umlaut font!

[@gwishart]

To be fair, there was the same level of anti-German xenophobia in the TV series; mainly from Jimmy Nail's character. The Spectrum didn't have umlauts in the default character set, but you can easily add or redefine existing characters to support them.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Good fun! I just read about this game in Ashens' book... it looks proper shite! I pity you for having to play it!

[@adamphillip5305]

Funny how Oz is black in the first level, one of his lines in the show was something like "ey I've been working like a black man me like"

[@DODGETHISLUCAS8BIT]

Auf Wiedersehen Pet 2 Bombers revenge!

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

Someone should have made a game based on Rising Damp. I would have played the SHIT out of that.

[@orbitsnoogslaghouse1188]

Back then you had to use your imagination and believe the stick figure was Oz.

[@nathanpollard1980]

Cracking video-great research.

[@RetroComputingwithMike]

Are you kidding me??? That's an awesome game :p

[@terriblecoughing4767]

What's the title of the song playing in the background?

[@michaelkitchin9665]

The Blaydon Races. It's a geordie folk song about a bus crash. Tynesoft were based in Blaydon.

[@terriblecoughing4767]

@@michaelkitchin9665 Thank you ever so much.

[@graemewillis1413]

@@terriblecoughing4767 it's not about a bus crash, it's about a race that used to happen up here. In fact, there is a bus that services the Blaydon area of Gateshead named 'the Blaydon racer', so that would be awkward...lol.

[@amigoamiga9254]

Came in to defend Monty.................Close one.

[@speakertreatz]

'(sighh) Jesus!' lolol

[@deluxedjsireland224]

cos we're GONNNNA get it wrong

[@martinhowser4094]

Brexit fans always seem to forget, that it used to be the Brits going into Europe taking their jobs..

[@michaelmartin9022]

See, we've done them another favour. If the enlightened, bendy-bus-riding, outside-eating continent doesn't need our impoverished, uncultured, windswept, miserable little island anyway, we're basically helping the great European project by leaving ;)

[@bastardtubeuser]

The yanks dont know what they are missing, they will be so jealous seeing this.

[@TheIndulged1]

Most Americans will think that they are talking Latvian!.

[@gwishart]

@@TheIndulged1 It was shown on BBC America at one point, the Geordies were subtitled, the Germans weren't!

[@TheIndulged1]

@@gwishart good about right.

[@marsiozo]

Awesome intro...

[@tractorfan7655]

Bought this crap for 50p. Still feel ripped off.

[@JepMasta]

That’s gaming, alright.

[@sydneymeanstreet]

Kim, I share your amazement that Crash gave this a score in the mid-fifties. That's thirty years before the Spectrum was even released!

[@TFOOS]

So ... You're not keen on it then Kim? 😂

[@krissymarklewis1793]

can't be worse than Neighbours or Supergran.

[@stuartpearson2993]

I haven't laughed this much in ages

[@beatbonjon1384]

Greatest place in the world the toon yes I am a Geordie

[@terrytickler]

Classic

[@JomasterTheSecond]

"Auf Wiedersehen Pet" is German for "God Awful Game".

[@mysteriotube1233]

helmut was the boss erics what they call the germans

[@evilspeak5702]

I wanted a video game of Minder or Dempsey and Makepeace. And they do this shite?

[@Kim_Justice]

Both of those exist...

[@evilspeak5702]

@@Kim_Justice Seriously? I randomly picked those from my 80's teenage memory. I will have search KZbin for footage now. Minder the video game? WTF

[@KenPurchase]

I like how even the graphic of Jimmy Nail on the title screen looks embarrassed to be appearing in this pathetic excuse for a game

[@dylbob9000]

so that 68k build....

[@WulfyIsCrystal]

Game looks like a reet load of skitters, pet.

[@wisteela]

I never knew how bad this was.

[@dextrodemon]

Bit harsh on basic there's plenty of fine games coded in it

[@hv1225]

You said at play expo that you didnt understand people making vids about bad games. 2 days later a vid about a bad game.

[@adamhenry6793]

German ZX Spectrum?

[@yoshimansxl]

Lmao a Dutch backcover. Using the formal you lmao. That sounds so overly formal.

[@doodemog]

Virtually everything Tynesoft made were shite

[@scottbreon9448]

When Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is the BEST game they made, you know you've got problems, LOL

[@gwishart]

@@scottbreon9448 Their BBC Micro and Acorn Electron versions of Jet Set Willy were excellent. I suppose it helps that they licensed the game from Software Projects and so had access to all the original graphics, level data and machine code.

[@lokiskywalker]

So a show about disadvantaged British people becoming migrant laborers and facing hardship and adversity in a strange land was really popular, eh? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[@jasejj]

Never accuse a Brit of not being a hypocrite lol.

[@jmp01a24]

The name thing with Stroker is just a coincidence - two people with similar names. One American and one from Scotland or UK.

[@medes5597]

Scotland is in the UK, and Scottish Bob and American Bob seem to be the same person based on research done over on the WOS forums. Which actually makes sense, a lot of Scots went over to America in the 80s. The proclaimers even wrote a song about it. Theres multiple things that have lead to people thinking they're the same person.

[@jmp01a24]

@@medes5597 Magic Carpet Software's Robert Carr was from Phoenix, Arizona. The other dude, Bob Carr, who developed Auf Wiedersehen Pet for numerous systems was from UK, working at Tynesoft. A UK company that was known for only using English programmers, never hire outside help. Also this claim has been debunked by researcher(s) that knows the full story behind Magic Carpet Software.

[@jmp01a24]

@@medes5597 It's also questioned if it was Robert Carr who actually made Stroker for the C64. Robert was originally a PET programmer, but he converted some of his PET games to C64. Stroker is suggested was made by someone jokingly used his name to obscure their true identity.

[@medes5597]

@@jmp01a24 but there's a at least 4 or 5 porn games all credited to Robert Carr? All coded in basic, all containing some very unique ways of doing things - at least one of which is replicated in Auf Wiedersen, Pet hence the link.

[@jmp01a24]

@@medes5597 I doubt Robert Carr made any porn games, incl. stroker with the credits to the company, that his wife started. As said Magic Carpet started out on PET in the late 70s. Most of their C64 games (all) were ported from PET to C64, written in basic, with the odd machine code routine. I lean towards that someone made Stroker about 2-3 years later and "borrowed" the hallmark game company as publisher, to get a certain respect. Basic programs listings is easy to duplicate and Magic Carpet always had a lot of REM statements with credits on the top. As for Tynesoft, a UK based company, there is no relation between the two developers but having similar name. Robert/Bob Carr was a US resident. Also you got the UK Bob Carr credited for Oric, ZX and BBC versions of the mentioned game. Americans did not develop for the Spectrum, nor any other EU systems. They were Atari/TRS80/PET/Commmodore64/Apple II/Texas Instruments developers.

[@TheIndulged1]

One asks what kind of game could you make about the source material?, What ever you could possibly think of would be still shit...

[@michaelkitchin9665]

Building cheap affordable houses for Germans. Minecraft but more Geordie. Worcraft.

[@KuraIthys]

most things are workable as adventure games... Though that genre is a bit thin on the ground on the 8 bit systems...

[@michaelmartin9022]

They could have a "collect and drop" type game with time limits. First collect bricks and put them on foundations, then collect windows and doors to put in, then roof supports and finally the roof tiles. One guy building an entire house in minutes might be a bit silly but it'd be a proper game. You could have more houses to finish and tougher time limits as the levels went up, as well as obstacles to prevent you taking the most direct path to the place to collect the supplies.

[@satan3959]

This was bad on EVERY 8-bit micro, not just the Spectrum. Trust me, I had the C64 verison, It was EQUALLY shit

[@BastetFurry]

Was zum Henker war das den für ein Schrott? Die haben dafür Geld genommen? Wirklich? o.O

[@mickthomas8983]

I think 'queer-looking' meant odd, rather than a homosexual-slur. I agree, though, shite game!

[@speedyreidy575]

reines Scheißspiel

[@forresg500]

Total waste of licence

[@Highlander1518]

Terrible game.

[@chriscraven9335]

Total crap

[@blondman69xxx]

Any chance of a New Wheels John? review? Another Basic game that I found addictive.