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Article #963Re: Old Game
From: F. Hayashi
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 00:00
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Emilio Nava wrote: > john wrote: > > > Can any one remember a game which was around 10-15 years ago and Played on > > the old style arcade machines like space invaders. A character (a penguin I > > think) was in a maze and with your help pushed cubes around to uncover an > > object which he could then collect. > > > > I can not remember any more of this game and would appreciate if anyone > > could provide any more details. I am on a ambitious mission to try and > > recreate this game for my kids as I think they will enjoy it. > > I remember a game named Q-bert > I think the game was Pengo or something like that. You, the penguin, went around, kicking ice blocks to smash badguys, and I think you cleared the level by lining up special blocks. You could also crush blocks too... +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ I Fumitaka Hayashi http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/lab/4315 I I <hayashi@u.washington.edu> http://weber.u.washington.edu/~hayashi I I Aderem Lab - Dept. of Immunology - University of Washington I +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1023e9,c7211b8756cbe4c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1023e9,public X-Google-Thread: 1017b0,c7211b8756cbe4c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1017b0,public X-Google-Thread: 102197,c7211b8756cbe4c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid102197,public From: "F. Hayashi" <hayashi@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Old Game Date: 1997/09/24 Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96a.970924195902.45932A-100000@dante12.u.washington.edu> X-Deja-AN: 275333187 References: <01bcc654$bb1b1cc0$LocalHost@default> <34299B99.8CAEC36B@ollin.igeofcu.unam.mx> X-Complaints-To: help@cac.washington.edu X-Trace: nntp5.u.washington.edu 875156392 6749 (None) 140.142.64.2 Organization: University of Washington NNTP-Posting-User: hayashi Newsgroups: rec.games.design,alt.games.ideas,fj.rec.games.video.oldies