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Force 21 - out now in the shops
Force21 - Out now in the shops
Issue 44 - September 9, 1999
 
Great Videogames Through The Ages
Daleks

A bit of a cheeky one this because the game was never released commercially, but anyone who had a Mac in the early '90s would have come across this and become addicted to the little time waster.

Imagine a blank white screen with a tiny stick man in the middle. Scatter some crudely drawn dustbin-like Daleks around the screen and that's the entirety of the game's graphics. Play involved stepping your man in one of eight directions and then waiting while the Daleks all took one step towards your position. If they caught you it was game over, but you could escape by making cunning steps that would cause two to crash into each other and create a pile of rubbish. If other Daleks stumbled into the piles of rubbish, they too were reduced to rubble. Progress continued in this fashion until the screen was cleared of Daleks, when a fresh set would then appear.

Simple, crude but one of the most maddeningly addictive games to ever appear. Various public-domain clones appeared on various formats and Future Gamer are sure you can track down a PC version of the game. We'd strongly suggest you do because Daleks was a classic and fully deserves its place in Great Videogames Through The Ages.

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