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Subject: Re: Looking for an old game
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Here's an on-line version of Boulderdash.....not exactly the same graphics
but gameplay is the same...
http://www.nirvanaclub.com/games/boulderdash/
"Paul Carr" <paul.carr@iol.ie> wrote in message
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> "Rookie_NO" <yeah@right.com> wrote in message
> news:cVV5b.20103$os2.277938@news2.e.nsc.no...
> > Try "boulderdash", remember the "u" in boulder...
> > That was one game I spent an obscene amount of my sparetime trying to
> > "beat".
> > Anyone ever thought about why we would sit around trying to beat games
> that
> > never ended??
>
> Couldn't find boulderdash in pcgameworld. Though, I found a demo of
> "Greenface" which is rather similar. Again, it brought back the memories
of
> feelings of frustration and despair I had trying to solve the logistical
> problems of getting though a particular level. I played Boulderdash back
at
> the end of the 1980s, start of the 1990s. Our family had a 1982-1984
> Toshiba computer and the game was basically a tape, an MSX tape, if I
recall
> correctly.
>
> The game could be brutally addictive and a time-killer.
>
> Paul Carr
>
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