Penguin Land and Solomon's Key

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Originally Posted by dog$

As far as I'm concerned, if the point of the game is to move a character from A to B, it's a platformer.

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The point of Penguin Land is not to move a character from Point A to Point B, it's to use a character to move an egg from point A to point B. If you dispute that it's a puzzle game, I'd be shocked if you played it. It's more puzzle than it is platformer, really.

Also, according to your definition, Doom is a platformer.

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Originally Posted by dog$

Plus there's the common tendency to refer to a game as a puzzle game when it can't be easily fit into a pre-existing genre, despite how unlike Tetris or Puyo it might be.

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Similarity to Tetris is irrelevant. Puzzle games are much older and broader than just well games.

It's true that people do use the genre to describe games that aren't easily defined even if they don't have a real puzzle aspect, though.

Thanks for the excellent read. I want to check these games out now... and when I get the free time, I will do just that.

It reminds me somewhat of Lolo on the NES. You had to get him from Point A to Point B. Sometimes, it was downright puzzling...

"NeoZeedeater's Retro Cabin" - Excellent. It's almost like CVG magazine never went shit and died.

Though I think I only played Penguin Land once when trying out some Master System games through emulation.

I have been a huge fan of Solomon's Key since it came out on the NES. I bought the Tecmo arcade release because it is supposed to be backwards compatible on the 360 but it just gives me an error and won't run. Oh well, It's on my PSP and my Wii so I can still get my fix.

I loved Fire & Ice and Solomon's Greenscreen Gameboy Adventure. I think I need to track down a couple others listed here, I've always had a great time with puzzle/platformers.

Never did beat one of the last bonus level of Fire & Ice, possibly even the last one. There was an evil little trick to it I just couldn't unravel. It still bugs me.

James

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Originally Posted by Glass Joe

II bought the Tecmo arcade release because it is supposed to be backwards compatible on the 360 but it just gives me an error and won't run.

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Maybe your copy's defective. I just tried it in my 360 and it works. It's a skimpy compilation but it has some underrated stuff I never thought would be re-released like Pleiads.

I wonder if they fixed it then. Tecmo Classic Arcade was in the list and it didn't work for me either, but I haven't tried it for a long time. Unless they reprinted the game, hmm

The same thing happened to me with Panzer Dragoon Orta.

I played the shit out of Solomon's Key growing up. Good game.

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

I wonder if they fixed it then. Tecmo Classic Arcade was in the list and it didn't work for me either, but I haven't tried it for a long time. Unless they reprinted the game, hmm

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I'd be curious to know if yours works now. I recently tried mine again and it still didn't work. I bought 2 copies of it when they were still around for 10 bucks because my son loves Solomon's Key too and neither one worked.