1998-04-27 04:48:07 +00:00
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Gem Drop X is an interesting one-player puzzle game for X-Window.
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Gem Drop X is a direct port of Gem Drop, an Atari 8-bit game
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written in Action! (a very fast C and Pascal-like compiled language
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for the Atari). The concept of the game Gem Drop is based directly
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on an arcade game for the NeoGeo system called "Magical Drop III"
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by SNK.
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If you're familiar with games like Jewels, Klax, Bust-A-Move or
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Tetris, this game is similar to them all. I consider it closest to
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Klax. (Jewels is like a combination of Klax and Tetris. Bust-A-Move
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is the least similar, in my opinion, but everyone seems to have
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heard of it more than the others (except Tetris, of course!))
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The game is played with YOU at the bottom of the screen. At the
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top is a random assortment of colored shapes ("gems"). As time goes
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on, more gems appear at the very top of the screen, pushing the
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rest downwards. The game is over when the gems reach the bottom.
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1998-08-10 12:23:08 +00:00
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1999-09-17 19:16:35 +00:00
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WWW: http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/unix/x/gemdropx/
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