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New! From Turkey-Farm and Innovative Rubber Products Games, Inc!, it's
the hit computer that has EVERYBODY talking, and talking, and talking!
It's....
 
                       PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE!
 
 
Using the most advanced artificial intelligence software ever to be
developed for a game, PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE! allows YOU! the user
to take part in endless hours of debate on HUNDREDS of issues ranging
from U.S.-Canadian tariffs to the color of the Senate bathroom walls!
PALIAMENTARY PROCEDURE! comes with everything YOU need to debate,
discourse, and discuss! Actual adaptations of famous politicians!
An easy-to-use, arcade-style interface! A pitcher and glass of water!
A microphone!
 
Just listen to this excerpt from a sample play session!:
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Player: I'd like to remind the honorable member who spoke last that
this trade bill is not just an sop to specialized interests, but is
rather intended to help get this great country moving again. I yield
the remainder of my time to the Senator from Ohio.
 
Ohio: I thank the honorable Senator, and I would just like to make the
following points:...
 
North Dakota: Point of order, Mr. Chairman.
 
the Chair: Would the Senator from North Dakota please explain his point?
 
North Dakota: Certainly. The honorable member from Ohio has clearly
forgotten that the Senator from Virginia's time (which he accepted)
was given in order that the Senator from Virginia would be able to rebut
a previous point. Further exposition by the Senator from Ohio on this
subject without reference to the previous point should be disallowed until
he has full control of the floor.
 
the Chair: Let me consider this for a moment. The Senator from Ohio will
be reassured to know that this time I am taking for consideration will
not be deducted from his time.
 
Ohio: I thank the Chair.
 
(pause.)
 
the Chair: the honorable Senator from North Dakota is indeed correct.
I therefore ask the Senator from Ohio to restrict his comments to the
rebuttal of the point made by the honorable Senator from Hawaii.
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As impressive as that may be, there's still much more fun to be had
from PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE! The Optional Expansion Sets add whole
new worlds to PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE!
 
PPEX1: Farm Policy!
 
Debate farm subsidy bills! Get kickbacks and bribes from farmer's PACs!
Eat more cheese than you know what to do with! Actual topics and actual
members of the House Committee on Agriculture make this a must-have for
any PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE! buff!
 
PPEX2: Filibuster!
 
The Longest-Playing Game in our history! Comes complete with the Huey
Long Cookbook and Anectode Treasury! (What's Carmen Miranda got that Huey
doesn't, huh?) Try and prevent bills from being reported out of committee!
Stall for hours of delightful amusement!
 
PPEX3-PPEX11: The Tax Code.
 
What more need be said?
 
and coming soon:
 
PPEX12: The British System of Government!
PPEX13: Point of Order: The First Historical Supplement to PARLIAMENTARY
        PROCEDURE! (Covers the House Un-American Activities Committee!)
PPEX14: Red Star, Red Ink: The Soviet Union
and
PPEX15: Scandal! The U.S. Supreme Court Justice Nomination Procedure!
 
 
All this (And more!) from Turkey-Farm and Innovative Rubber Products Games, Inc.
(The Black Plague People)
 
We're working hard, so you can play hard!