Boxman

                       Reviewed by Sue

Boxman is one of those silly, addictive games which can drive you
crazy. Programmed by Jeng-Long Jang, it's a great little game to
load up when you've got an odd 10 minutes and want a challenge.

The game is simple. You have to make the character on screen move
boxes to cover coloured circles. When all the circles on a
particular level (or "world", as it's called in this game) are
covered, you can progress to the next. The boxes start as yellow
but go red when they cover a circle. When they go red, you can
still move them again, they aren't fixed in place.

The rules are equally simple. You can only push individual boxes.
You can't pull them, or move two at once. So it's important not to
block yourself into a corner or put a box up against a wall so 
that you can no longer get behind it.

The first world is straightforward. You start in the middle with
four short corridors leading off, one in each direction. Each has
a circle and between you and the circles are four boxes.  It's
impossible to go wrong. The second world is a bit more complicated
with only three circles and boxes but this time you have to push
the box so far, move round it, push it in a different direction,
and so forth. Walls or pillars can block your way and it can be
difficult working out the correct route and sequence of moves to
take.

By world 3, things are hotting up with four circles and boxes and
a lot more manoeuvring. And so it continues. Though there's no
save as such, your current world is automatically saved but you
can use the Go To World command and input a number to go back to
any you've previously solved.

Boxman is a small game and I have no idea how many worlds it
contains. I'm currently struggling with world 15. It's so annoying
to ALMOST have it but not quite. Some of the worlds look
impossible to solve but when you know someone is on a higher
world, you just HAVE to keep trying.  It is available for download
from the SynTax website at www.syntax2000.co.uk/downloads.html or
send me 4 first class stamps for a copy on disk.
















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