Twister (video game)

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Twister: Mother of Charlotte
Twister Mother of Charlotte ZX Spectrum Cover Art.jpg
Developer(s) Sensible Software
Publisher(s) System 3
Programmer(s) Chris Yates & Jon Hare
Platform(s) ZX Spectrum
Release1986
Genre(s) Shoot 'em up
Mode(s) Single-player

Twister, also known as Twister: Mother of Charlotte or just Mother of Charlotte, is a shooting game developed by Chris Yates and Jon Hare for Sensible Software and published by System 3 for the ZX Spectrum in 1986. It was originally developed as Mother of Harlots but was renamed after a controversy regarding the title and sexualized promotion with skimpily dressed dancers at an industry event, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] and a planned Commodore 64 version was never released. [7] The game received positive reviews from Aktueller Software Markt , [8] Crash, [9] Sinclair User , [10] and Your Sinclair . [11]

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