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==Gameplay== The game has no win conditions, and one setting: a sideways view of the inside of a three-story house.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.retrogamer.net/retro_games80/little-computer-people/|title = Little Computer People | Retro Gamer| date=16 October 2008 }}</ref> After a short time, an animated character will move in and occupy the house. He goes about a daily routine, doing everyday things like cooking, watching television or reading the newspaper. Players are able to interact with this person in various ways, including entering simple commands for the character to perform, playing a game of [[poker]] with him and offering presents. On occasion, the character initiates contact on his own, inviting the player to a game or writing a letter explaining his feelings and needs. Each copy of the game generates its own unique character, so no two copies play exactly the same.<ref name="UnsungHeroes"/> The character's name is randomly selected from a list of 256 names.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/LittleComputerPeople4amCrack 4AM's list of Little Computer People names]</ref> The documentation accompanying the game fully keeps up the pretense of the "little people" being real, and living inside one's computer (the [[software]] merely "bringing them out"), with the player as their caretaker. Two versions of the game exist for the Commodore 64: the disk version, which plays as described above, and the [[cassette tape|cassette]] version, which omits several features.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/little-computer-people-review|title=Little Computer People|newspaper=Eurogamer.net |date=26 October 2007}}</ref> On tape versions, the Little Computer Person is generated from scratch every time the game is started up (not only on the first boot, as with other versions), and thus does not go through the "moving in" sequence seen on other versions. Also, on cassette versions the Computer Person has no memory, and does not communicate meaningfully with the user, and the [[card game]]s, such as poker, cannot be played.
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