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Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar Origin1988
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Puffy's Saga  Ubi Soft (Butterfly Software)1989 labelimageminimize
Cloud Kingdoms Millennium (Electralyte)1990Baron von Bansai has stolen Terry's precious collection of crystals, and dropped them onto 32 different kingdoms, so Terry sets off to retrieve them. Viewed from above, his challenge sees him having to progress through these worlds, collecting keys to gain access to different sections, and avoiding enemy balls and bugs by jumping them where possible. There are no 'lives' as such, but there's a strict time limit of around 400 seconds for the whole game, and death puts you back to the start of the level, with time lost as well. You get an extra 80 seconds for completing each level though.

The levels feature all manner of further hazards - there are holes in the ground to avoid falling through (some visible, some hidden), arrows which force the ball in a particular direction, slippery squares making any movement's effect exaggerated, magneted squares making it impossible to jump from, and many more. Fortunately lots of power-ups, time boosts and bonus fruits are dropped onto the levels at random intervals as well.

To complete the game you must clear 8 levels, and the structure is non-linear - initially you have a choice of 4 levels, and after completing one of those you have a choice of 4 more levels (which are different depending on which level you completed first). The third and fourth levels you take on as you go through the game are chosen from a choice of 3, the fifth and sixth from a choice of two, and only those final two levels are perscribed (although they do vary depending on which levels you've already done).

Each of the 32 worlds has its own twist - Arrow Kingdom has a large amount of arrows directing you, Ice Kingdom is especially slippery, Unseen Kingdom leaves you to work out the route for yourself (other than the holes, which are all you can see), Box Kingdom involves a lot of flying over some trapped squares to grab the keys they contain before making the main jumps onto the sections which contain crystals, and so on.***
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Fuzzball System 3 (Scangames Norway)1991 labelimageminimize
Blob Core Design1993Imagine a universe of a different dimension - a dimension of height of ground, of gravity and time. Here life is but a bounce away from oblivion for Blob.

Blob's spaceship has broken down whilst transporting a cargo of baby Blobettes. Parts of the ship have been lost and some of the Blobettes have wondered off in all the confusion.

Guide Blob through 50 taxing levels of bouncy crazy puzzles, find all the spaceship parts and rescue any Blobettes that have become lost or trapped.

Live life on the edge - experience Blob.***
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Bob's Bad Day Psygnosis (The Dome)1993Bob was just minding his own business when it happened. All it needed was a Wizard with a poor sense of humour, a few angry words and Bob found himself rolling around - not in laughter, but like a ball! Now Bob's got to spin through the craziest lands the wizard could create in search of his legs. It's one of the fastest and funniest adventures around with the kind of mad challenge that'll keep you up all night searching and spinning in your quest to find Bob's lost legs.

And you thought you've had bad days!***
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Fury of the Furries Mindscape (Kalisto)1993The game was re-branded by Namco as Pac-In-Time for [game=#8913]GB[/game], [game=#6897]SNES[/game], Genesis and DOS. (also [game=#2488]Arcade[/game]?)***One of the best platform games ever! Nice graphix and the atmosfear is unbeliveable. You play with four different characters in different colors, The yellow one thows fireballs, the red one eats stone, the blue one is a good swimer and the green one has a rope witch he can use in different ways. labelimageminimize
Globdule Psygnosis (Ex Animo Designs)1993 labelimageminimize
Morph Millennium Interactive1993 labelimageminimize
Happy Monster H. Mueller;Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe1994 labelimageminimize
Puggsy Psygnosis (Traveller's Tales)1994 labelimageminimize
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