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Mushroom Man
AuthorHajo Spuunup
FilenameMushroom.zip
Year2008
Position60
FormatZX Spectrum 128K/+2
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DescriptionHere's a real Christmas time treat for all of you puzzle fans and with 175 levels to trawl through - it may end up keeping you occupied well past new year too!

Hajo Spuunup has ported Paul E Collins' Mushroom Man for Windows to the Spectrum. This program uses the silicon disk which is why it requires a 128K system. I should point out this looks like another "good" entry and not actually crap! I'll be playing it a bit more though just to be sure.

Imagine my glee as I heroically made my way out of level one thanks to picking the correct route through a sequence of locked doors. It appears that the player is guided through a series of introductory levels, serving to gradually bring the various in-game elements into play, as is often the case with puzzle games.

I can only guess that the difficulty level increases as you progress through the game and with there being such a vast number of levels in the game I shudder to think how cerebrally taxing it might get towards the end!

Hajo tells me that this version has a proper ending and everything, should you make it that far. There's also a docfile with further info supplied in the downloadable zipfile.

CommentsThis game is based on a Windows puzzle game of the same name, by Paul E Collins. It is absolutely not crap. Even during the judging of this game I got carried away and ended up completing the first twenty levels or so. If a game is this addictive to a puzzle freak like myself and also has charming UDG colour characters then it will forever be remembered as a good game and fondly so. If logic dictated the scoring system of this compo, then I'd give it a really low crapness score. However I instead chose to give this higher score out of respect for the effort involved that must have gone into this. The speccy scene needs more games like this and I not really talking about the CGC!


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