Used to love playing Soko-Ban back in the day (in glorious 4-colour CGA). It has held up remarkably well for a game that’s turning 40 next year :)
You can play it online here:
@aral This is exactly the type of game that benefits most from the 160x100 CGA 16-colour pseudo bitmap mode.
@aral Thank you! For decades, my answer to the question of "What was your first computer game" was always "Something with moving crates", but I never knew the actual game.
@aral Oh, the memories. I probably still have the original (pirated) game somewhere on my disk at home.
@aral I think this might be the first boxed game I remember having when I was a kid! and if I recall, the 5.25" floppy was multiplatform, depending on which side was up.
@rajelaran Oh wow, I don’t remember seeing any multi platform floppies, that’s really neat (we never got original games in Malaysia, even the computer stores only sold pirated ones).
@aral I was googling around to try to find an image of an original floppy to confirm my memory, but no dice so far.
I do remember it saying to flip the disc for other systems on the label though, and even as young as I was I thought that was really cool and nifty.
@aral Have you ever played Me & my Shadow? It's a FLOSS game and it has Sokoban crates in it https://acmepjz.github.io/meandmyshadow/
@gunchleoc Hadn’t heard of it. Will check it out, thanks :)
@aral It's a mix of platformer and puzzle game
@aral Is that, like, the original Super Mario?
I'm born in the GDR, why I've never seen this.
@aral Ah, yes. The exact version I ripped the level data from for mine.
I should finish it.
@kawa You should ;)
@aral oh hell yeah, I remember this exact version of Sokoban.
@aral It was one of my first games and CGA was awesome!
@aral I played this for hours many, many years ago...
@aral ooooh I had that with a CGA emulator for the Hercules. Those were the days…
(I’d still take that over the CGA “colour” palette…)
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fun fact: it is still used in neurological rehab facilities today
@aral I had this on a PC that was supposed to drive an expensive medical device ;-)
Admin experiences as a kid :-)
@aral I played it too, but on Hercules monochrome gfx card with a CGA emulator. Along with Elite, Zaxxon, Sopwith, Pacman and Hardhat Mac