Abstract Games

[TL]

What the goal in that game?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(video_game)

In The Sentinel, the player takes the role of a Synthoid (called just "robot" in the US version), a telepathic robot who has to take control of a number of surreal, checkered landscapes of hills and valleys, by climbing from the lowest spot, where the hunt begins, to the highest platform, over which the Sentinel looms.
The Synthoid itself cannot move across the level; instead it can look around, accumulate energy by absorbing the objects that are scattered across the landscape, create stacks of boulders, generate inert Synthoid shells and transfer its consciousness from one of these clones to another.

[TrekMD]

Doesn't sound very exciting. 

[TL]

Doesn't sound very exciting.

That's what I have always thought, the game was incredibly successful though and very highly acclaimed.

[TrekMD]

Doesn't sound very exciting.

That's what I have always thought, the game was incredibly successful though and very highly acclaimed.

Go figure!

[TrekMD]

Here's another abstract puzzle game....Drelbs.

[align=center:3rct738l]Amiga - Drelbs[/align:3rct738l]

[TL]

I discovered Drelbs fairly recently on the Atari 8-bit and it's a really strange but ultimately very addictive game. It's one of those titles that doesn't look like much in screenshots but when you play it you will be pleasantly surprised!

[TrekMD]

From the video, it does look like it would be an interesting game to play.  It may seem simple, but it really isn't as easy as it appears.

[TL]

From the video, it does look like it would be an interesting game to play.  It may seem simple, but it really isn't as easy as it appears.

I seem to remember that this was one of the A8 games converted to the 5200 recently.

[TrekMD]

From the video, it does look like it would be an interesting game to play.  It may seem simple, but it really isn't as easy as it appears.

I seem to remember that this was one of the A8 games converted to the 5200 recently.

I'll have to check on that. 

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Doesn't sound very exciting.

I had a demo of the sequel on PSOne, can't remember why I never bought it.

My choice would be lemmings, its too often simply labelled a puzzle game but its much more than that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SgDS-16 ... ata_player

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Doesn't sound very exciting.

I had a demo of the sequel on PSOne, can't remember why I never bought it.

My choice would be lemmings, its too often simply labelled a puzzle game but its much more than that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SgDS-16 ... ata_player

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

:4:  Amazing programmer

Any chance RVG can contact him, would love to know how he got from racing games to Sentinel? Its basically his only non racing game.

[TL]

:113:

Just found out Geoff Crammond of F1GP fame did the Sentinel  :113:

Any chance RVG can contact him, would love to know how he got from racing games to Sentinel? Its basically his only non racing game.
[/quote]

There is an interviews suggestion thread somewhere, he would be a good candidate

[WiggyDiggyPoo]

Done cheers

http://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/http://www.retrovideogamer.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=4.0

[TrekMD]

Here is another rather abstract game, this time for the Mattel Intellivision:  Illusions.  The game itself is a bit weird but the music is pretty cool. 

[align=center:33l67xe3]Illusions for the Intellivision[/align:33l67xe3]