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Find your favorite puppets in this 1995 game. You are a newly hired journalist hired by WCITV (World Company Incorporated Television), the channel directed by Mr. Sylvestre. You start in the basement in a shabby office, and have to climb into the Gigamat to succeed in taking the place of the greatest journalist: PPD. To succeed it will have to carry out reports bringing you Credibility and Popularity. The subject of your report having a great importance in the points earned or lost: help a powerful to rise in notoriety and you will be rewarded, to lower a loser also allows you to gain points, to destabilize a powerful can lead to a return of crank. You will have to make reports (at the beginning one imposes you a subject, the more you climb in the Gigamat and the more you have of choice) on personalities, all in a given time. To do your reporting, you go to the mission site, and click on anything you can find, select your camera to record what you think is important, but be careful, the battery of the camera is limited. Once the report is ready, you return to WCITV for broadcast. If you do not have any interesting items, you get banged up and get down a lot in Gigamat. You can also choose not to broadcast if you know you have planted, you lose a few points but you do not get demoted. At times, a promotional offer allows you to take the place of another presenter / journalist, you are imposed a mission that you must succeed under penalty of making yourself demote. Sometimes, some missions change a little: you will have to ask the Cerberus computer system for information, the tests to access it are not always obvious. Humor is of course ubiquitous in this game, including in the texts you can read.