Tile: The Revenge

Tile: The Revenge title screen.   Tile: The Revenge gameplay screenshot.

What is it?
An Ishido clone for the Commodore 64, 1995. This game is from Germany.
What computer or emulator will it run on?
Don't know. In Frodo, I didn't get past the menu.
Similar Games
Ashido, Ishido by Arkos, Zador.

There are three versions of this game which probably differ only in the title screen. There is Tile and Magic Tile, both of which credit Peter Kaul as the programmer and D. Steinmetz as the musician bear a Kingsoft copyright notice. Then there is this variant that is subtitled "The Revenge" and credits an otherwise unknown M. Bonner as programmer, with a E. Design (Explosive Design) copyright notice. I chose this version simply because it is the only one that shows a year.

I got interested in this game because it is an Ishido clone, of which there are not many, but mostly because it runs completely in hi-res, which on the C64 is even rarer. And it has the most impressive hi-res graphics I have ever seen on that platform; compare, for example, Andrew Colin & Mike Masters' Kalah, which is simply monochrome. I don't quite understand how it was done, but there were a good many graphic modes on the C64, and while many of them usually were not fast enough for games, it would be different on a game like this that has practically no animation at all.

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Related changelog entries: 2007-12-04