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SameGame

Author:Kevin Bracey
Genre:Abuses>Non-IF game
Released:1998
Review:

Another non-IF game ported to the Z-machine. This one is something like Tetris Attack, or the Japanese Sailormoon games on the Super Nintendo; you are presented with a screen of randomly sorted colored balls. You choose a ball, and it and all balls of the same color connected to it vanish; the more that go at once, the higher your score.

This is a fun diversion, but it's not IF and it apparently won't work with all interpreters. For once, though, the game itself seems like it could be worked into a legitimate puzzle, and that alone makes it more interesting than most Z-machine abuses.

Rating: Not rated

Reviewed by R. Serena Wakefield (12 Jul 2000)

Downloads:
SameGame.inf (13.95 KB)
Inform source code (version: Release 1)
SameGame.z5 (7.00 KB)
Z-code 5 executable (version: 1)


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