3.18 Sliding Faster

Computer Game Evolution

It turns out that lasers, mines, and various bombs can be used for more than just pure mindless action. Also, sliding blocks – you need lots of sliding blocks.

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章

1. The puzzles of old (00:00:00)

2. Just for Qix (00:03:52)

3. This Anteater sucks (00:08:13)

4. Slide #!: Loco-Motion (00:09:29)

5. That's a real Sokoban (00:13:32)

6. Let that Pengo (00:19:02)

7. Dream Shopper in a minefield (00:22:35)

8. How do you say Zzyzzyxx? (00:23:08)

9. Andy Warhol eats a Hamburger (00:23:59)

10. The Pit, the original digging game? (00:25:32)

11. Taskset builds a Pipeline (00:27:08)

12. From the files of Bomb Squad (00:30:00)

13. Making the London Blitz fun (00:31:10)

14. We cloned an anteater and got Oil's Well (00:34:16)

15. Mined-Out before Freescape (00:35:11)

16. Bomberman, or Eric and the Floaters to his mates (00:39:25)

17. From Canada, with Boulder Dash (00:42:35)

18. Shanghai is here! (00:48:22)

19. The third first Bomberman (00:49:07)

20. The Adventures of Lolo through Eggerland Mystery (00:51:40)

21. Chain Shot! It's the Same Game (00:55:13)

22. Tetris exists now (00:56:44)

23. Solomon's Key, a book on blocks and balls (00:57:18)

24. Arkanoid, or how to make a decade-old hit a hit (01:02:32)

25. The Sentinel is watching (01:05:12)

26. The Mystery of the Nile and the creepy Brits (01:13:00)

27. Not a bomber man but a Bomber King (01:16:32)

28. The shine and sparkle of Deflektor (01:17:18)

29. Rebel without a sense of direction (01:20:38)

30. The Fool's Errand of Mr. Johnson (01:21:39)

31. Kickle Cubicle on ice (01:30:18)

32. A Paragon of nothing (01:32:30)

33. Pipe Mania? No, Pipe Dream! (01:34:29)

34. Puzznic gives you exposure (01:38:19)

35. What was Taito Plotting? (01:40:37)

36. Improving Tetris with Klax (01:42:33)

37. When Sega dug up Columns (01:45:29)

38. Go play Catrap (01:47:42)

39. A Vaccine, before it was cool (01:49:56)

40. Oxyd, German puzzle engineering (01:50:55)

41. Minesweeper used to have blood? (01:52:04)

42. Wrap-up (01:54:39)