16th June 2006, 2:16 PM
So I'm perusing my stack of 500+ floppy disks for reasons unknown and on one of the few that hasn't completely lost it's data I find a little shareware gem for dos called "Hexxagon".
I can't believe I forgot about this game. It was one of my favorite puzzle games, if "underrealized", and it is surprisingly addictive. Basically it's chinese checkers meets othello. You can either have any piece you control on a board made of hexagons generate into a nearby square, or make it jump a few more squares (up to a distance of 4). Land a piece next to an enemy piece and you turn it to your side. Basically it's a competitive puzzle game but it is very addictive. It also has a level editor so you can design your own boards. Further, the thing is fully playable on XP on my hardware. I was even able to activate sound blaster mode no problem. Sad to say not every DOS game has this level of future compatibility. Only issue is a small amount of sound crackling when the game first starts.
If only it was more than 2 players... Anyway, fun stuff and if it weren't for that company fading into nonexistance (Software Developers inc or something like that), I would fully expect this to be yet another awesome puzzle game for the DS.
I can't believe I forgot about this game. It was one of my favorite puzzle games, if "underrealized", and it is surprisingly addictive. Basically it's chinese checkers meets othello. You can either have any piece you control on a board made of hexagons generate into a nearby square, or make it jump a few more squares (up to a distance of 4). Land a piece next to an enemy piece and you turn it to your side. Basically it's a competitive puzzle game but it is very addictive. It also has a level editor so you can design your own boards. Further, the thing is fully playable on XP on my hardware. I was even able to activate sound blaster mode no problem. Sad to say not every DOS game has this level of future compatibility. Only issue is a small amount of sound crackling when the game first starts.
If only it was more than 2 players... Anyway, fun stuff and if it weren't for that company fading into nonexistance (Software Developers inc or something like that), I would fully expect this to be yet another awesome puzzle game for the DS.
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