Surprised Stare Auctioning Fzzzt! for Charity

Surprised Stare Games is auctioning three copies of Fzzt! on eBay, with all proceeds from the auctions being donated to the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development. Since Fzzzt! designer Tony Boydell did such a fantastic job with the press release, I thought I’d run it straight:

Fzzzt! – ASCII and you shall receive!

Christmas is coming and while the goose (and those mechanics at the robot factory) are getting fat, all is not well with McPUD – the supreme artificial intelligence responsible for maintaining production of those lovable Fzzzt! robots.

A recent software upgrade introduced a memory leak in McPUDs distribution matrix and, unfortunately, several copies of Fzzzt! have been misdirected (along with some of his master blueprints) to an internet-based, auction and trading website called eBay (some of you may be aware of this entity).

To make matters even worse, these copies are the VERY LAST COPIES available in the 1644 unit “first production run” for the Surprised Stare Games client – there are no more in the warehouse, the conveyor is being hosed down and sterilized as we speak, and even the Mechanics have had their pockets frisked on “clocking out”.

The final digitized nail in the vector-graphics coffin for McPUD is that the receipting and invoicing parameters accompanying the delivery have been corrupted: instead of payment filling the Factory coffers the funds shall be diverted to a charitable organisation.

If you would like to get yourself one of these very rare items (along with some original artwork from the game), then please interface with the eBay system forthwith and engage in some on-line transactional processing ASAP:

• Lot 1 – Fzzzt! Card Game with original Art
• Lot 2 – Fzzzt! Card Game with original Art
• Lot 3 – Fzzzt! Card Game with original Art

A Very Merry Fzzzt!mas To You All!

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