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Paradise Café

An early open world/sandbox game released only in Portugal in 1985 whose controversial status (involving sex, violence and drugs) and crude humour allowed it to become the most famous game ZX Spectrum game…

31 December 1985

Paradise Café is a simulator developed by Damatta, released 31 December 1985 on ZX Spectrum.

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What Paradise Café is

Paradise Café is a simulator game developed by Damatta and released in 1985. It is available on ZX Spectrum only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The main character moves along a city street where random doors open, leading to different settings. One of them is the titular Paradise Café where our character can spend some time and drink, buy and sell drugs for profit or buy a pistol. Another one opens to reveal a prostitute that invites the character in and asks him to choose from a list of sexual acts. All acts are paid, if the player has no money, he will get r**** by a male character as a punishment. There are also three characters that show up randomly: An old lady shows up at random, if the player has a pistol, they can r*** her, which attributes 10 points to the final score. A thief shows up occasionally, sometimes he asks for a…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, business, erotic and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Paradise Café launched on 31 December 1985, within three weeks of Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter and Mercenary.

Released around the same time: Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter, Mercenary.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Paradise Café come out?
Paradise Café was released on 31 December 1985 for ZX Spectrum.

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