At home in the old days we had a lot of board games to entertain ourselves during the evening, but with the in introduction of the PC and later the smart phones and tabloids you don’t see many people playing those old-fashion board games any more. All the board games that I played with my brothers are now available for PC and tabloids and many more games have been introduced since.
Then came Pacman, Space Invaders and suddenly everybody was playing King Kong or Mario on small terminals that would allow you only to play one game.
My first real experience with “computer mind games” was playing the game Sokoban, although I have seen and played other games but I got easily bored and never tried to pass any level until I played Sokoban which was, and perhaps still is, one of the most popular logic games ever. Sokoban was introduced for the first time in 1982. Sokoban in Japanese terms means a “warehouse man”. Because of the simplicity and sophisticated elegance of the rules and the challenging complexity of the “original” problems, Sokoban quickly became an all-time classic.
The rules of Sokoban are very simple:
– Push one stone at a time to goal squares
– Push and Move actions should be minimized.
Many official versions (Boxxle, Sokoban Perfect, Sokoban Revenge) and unofficial remakes of the game appeared over the years for different computers and platforms, among which are C64, Amiga, Spectrum, PC, Macintosh, CE and Palm versions. Now you can easily find a lot of clones that are using levels and ideas of the original Sokoban game. Unfortunately only a few versions offer new ideas and unique levels. Google’s search request for “Sokoban” shows more than 60,000 web page matches.
What’s Next?
The first one is the Logos quiz game. This is quiz game full of fun that consists of guessing the names of hundreds of logos from different companies. To achieve this you have a lot of clues which you can use to help you complete the game. You can also ask your friends if you don’t know the answer! Challenge them to see who know more logos.
100 Floors
Move the BOX
A logic puzzle about moving boxes around. Clean the dock, do it fast! You can move, drop and swap the boxes. Three or more boxes of the same kind in a line disappear. Watch out for turns, you only have a limited number! 144 exciting levels of different difficulty. Exchange adjacent boxes and eliminate them when three or more identical boxes are in a line. To pass a level, you need to eliminate all boxes.
And on that note I would say keep on playing and keep having fun.