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Sign in to saveSupaplex is a video game created by Philip Jespersen and Michael Stopp, two Swiss students, and published by Digital Integration in 1991. It is an extended clone of Boulder Dash.
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Supaplex is the first Boulder Dash-like game that is not fully grid-based: while the playing field is an obvious grid, the objects do not "snap" from one grid position to another, but can be halfway or "in between" grid positions. Supaplex introduces a number of new elements that were not present in Boulder Dash, including bugs, pieces of base that randomly cause a life threatening electrostatic discharges, Ports, which limit Murphy's movement to specific directions, and terminals, which set off yellow Utility Disks. Utility Disks are explosive floppy disks and come in three different colo…
- Released
- 1991
- Genres
- Puzzle, Strategy, Indie, Arcade
- Platforms
- DOS, Amiga
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Think!Ware Development
- Publisher
- Digital Integration
Key facts
- Video game.title
- Supaplex
- Video game.image
- Supaplex cover.jpg
- Video game.developer
- Think!Ware Development
- Video game.publisher
- Dream Factory (Digital Integration)
- Video game.designer
- Philip JespersenMichael Stopp
- Video game.platforms
- Amiga, MS-DOS
- Video game.released
- 1991
- Video game.genre
- Puzzle
- Video game.modes
- Single-player
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Supaplex is a video game created by Philip Jespersen and Michael Stopp, two Swiss students, and published by Digital Integration in 1991. It is an extended clone of Boulder Dash.
==History== Aiming to develop a version of Boulder Dash that could fit onto a floppy disk, the designers had a hard time developing better graphics under said constraint. The original Amiga Supaplex version had to fit on a standard 880 kB floppy disk and needed to run on a standard 512 kB Amiga like the original A500 or A2000. In fact, the Amiga version could not be copied onto the hard drive due to copy protection and its custom disk format.
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