Title: Masyu
Genre: Puzzle
Author(s): TwoGuysFromVA
Medium: Disk 360KB
Hardware requirements: MSX1, 64KB, FDD
If you like the type of games that force you to think, this entry is for you. Masyu is a classic example of easy rules, simple to grasp and diabolically complicated to solve. Get ready for a brain teaser as this is a puzzle game on the purest sense of the word.
Picture this: You are faced with a challenge that makes you scratch your head and nod in disbelief, while devoting serious mental energy to slowly figuring out how to make the right choices and combinations to solve the problem. Well, we tried to describe a challenging puzzle in the most general way, and don’t be fooled by the simple design of this game.
Behind the schematic white over blue icons, this puzzle game is anything but simple. Appearances can be deceiving. The idea is so simple that there it no need for a manual and all you need to know is explained in the game: just connect all the dots in a loop, turn when passing the full ones, turn one space after(or before) the hollow ones.
Sounds simple, Right? How complex can it get? Go check for yourself.
For more information of the original puzzler, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masyu. The author has written Masyu in H-Forth, and the source is at https://github.com/mk2s/msx_masyu
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