My Name is Uncle Groucho You Win a Fat Cigar

My Name is Uncle Groucho You Win a Fat Cigar

Automata UK · 2023 · Retro, Text-Based, Exploration, RPG, Funny

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7 user reviews71% · 7
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About My Name is Uncle Groucho You Win a Fat Cigar

Uncle Groucho is your guide in a wacky alternative Hollywood where cigars are currency and you are as likely to travel in a space shuttle as in a covered wagon. Designed in 1983 by Mel Croucher, the British videogame pioneer, this bizarre graphically-augmented text-adventure for the ZX Spectrum showcased Mel's unique brand of humour. Now, relive those days in this remastered emulated version.

Gameplay


Using simple text commands, move around Hollywood searching for Groucho and his friend the Piman. Fat cigars are your currency, and can be won by doing things like gambling at a casino or betting on horses. Finding Groucho gives you chances to have hints revealed to you about a certain celebrity figure. When this game was originally released, players could send in their mystery celebrity name guesses to the game's publisher, Automata UK, to be entered into a prize draw for a trip to Hollywood on Concorde! Unfortunately, players of this version will be a little late to the party, as the prize was already won back in 1984 by Phil Daley from Stoke-on-Trent.

This enhanced version introduces a number of modern features to this retro classic, including:
  • Saving/loading the game at any point
  • Support for most modern game controllers
  • Full control remapping
  • Image scaling and smoothing options

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Aug 19, 2025
I appreciate that Pixel Games makes obscure stuff like this available to play on modern systems. However, this game is absolutely impenetrable without some kind of manual, and no manual of any sort seems to be included here. This is a text-parser, and it is impossible to figure out what text commands the game wants you to give it, making it virtually unplayable.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 8, 2024
It just shows me a city and sometimes Groucho shows up and tells a joke that I don't understand
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 7, 2024
I would rather have all my teeth pulled out while watching A Day at the Races. 10/10
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 14, 2024
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1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 5, 2024
Fart Cigar
Recommended Sep 5, 2024
videp ...... gmae,........

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