Supaplex

Supaplex description

I think that no matter how many decades may count the history of computer games - some of them will never be forgotten. One of these games is becoming legendary Boulder Dash (hereinafter - BD), released in 1984 bearded-Ohm ported to every conceivable platform and spawned a whole galaxy of conceptual series of games. The latter is called a “clone” BD. However, at least one of them is so brilliant that definitely deserves to be equivalent with the “parent” of space on Old-Games.RU our Museum masterpieces igrostroeniya. On the plate under the printed exhibit: “Supaplex”; please feel free to copy and touch (especially since the authors have given to his creation freeware status).

I'm sure the developers (two students-Swiss, Michael Stopp and Philip Jespersen) originally only wanted to do a kind of Hochma for "their" transferring BD from the dark dungeon into the unknown world of the software. The main character was very similar to Pac-Man and charming computer virus Murphy, seeking to destroy the required number of so-called “infotrons” obviously represents some information, and go to the exit. Left stones, symbolizing here, it seems, different firewalls. The role of soil began to play faceless tiles of printed circuit boards. Enemies are moving scissors antivirus and some “electrons” are also potential carriers of information. Still, the falling ball (the firewall) with your help, can destroy the explosion of your enemy instead of you, and may, for example, and path blocking.

Very happy that the guys didn't stop with copying. The first thing was removed the timer. But do not think that it was easier to play! Supaplex just tortures the player does not need to rush and carefully think. The solution to many puzzles is really a strategic task. No, sometimes the hand will have to test the agility levels are often quieter, but overall, Supaplex is focused on a much stronger logic than its predecessor. Over levels you will see many items that have no analogues in BD. In boards here and there may occur with a certain periodicity dangerous to the life cycle of the virus-circuit. Some areas have an analogue of gravity, pulling Murphy down: to climb up in such areas is possible only by PCBs. Many of the split ports: unilateral, bilateral, cross; normal and reverse gravity. There were various colors of a floppy disk capable of detonation: some, like the stones, falling, exploding upon contact with anything, while others can consume and put in the right place, others move in the direction of any free tile, like the boxes in Sokoban'e, and explode with the help of special terminal.

Created tools the authors proved sufficient for the creation of the 111 (one hundred eleven!) hardest levels. Sometimes the ingenuity of the builders of the levels is simply amazing – hurriedly definitely not pass. In this, perhaps, lies the only drawback of Supaplex... It is very complicated, and not everyone is able to successfully play it, devoting only a little free time. However, most likely, because of its complexity and ingenuity of Supaplex won an army of fans.

The execution is flawless. Beautiful (of course, annoying when listening for tens of hours) the music, very neat and eye-pleasing graphics, smooth animations.

A clear contender for the title of best game in the genre of puzzles. I repeat: brilliant, almost perfect game, rightly considered a cult classic!

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com