Hexagonia

Revelation, A scorpion production - later relased by Persona

Pakrik Rak, Milan Matousek

Frantisek Fuka

If puzzle games are your cup of tea then Hexagonia will give your brain a good bashing! There are 70 levels of atomic mayhem to solve. Your task is to move the atoms into the correct position to create a molecule. It sounds easy - but I assure you it isn’t!

Each level has cunningly placed walls dotted around it and you move the atoms using a pointer. When you move one it zooms across the screen until it hits a wall. Depending on the type of wall it will either stop dead in its tracks, bounce back again or cause the wall to slowly crumble away. Just to make things more difficult there are also invisible walls in later levels and time is never on your side!

Your Sinclair review, courtesy of The YS Rock ‘n’ Roll Years.

Crash review, courtesy of worldofspectrum.org

Review by Steven Pick from the Sam Coupé Scrapbook

YIPPEE! This is the game to buy if you want to see my lovely artwork on the front cover of the game! It should be out now, so go out and buy it-because it’s fab! Now onto the review…

In this game, you have to join atoms together to make compounds, which you can see in full by pressing ENTER. You then have to place these pieces to form that structure. If any of you have actually done GCSE Chemistry, and have played around with those plastic models, it’s just like that! You control a hand, which zooms around the screen. You then have to ‘pull’ pieces together. One problem is that they can only move in 4 directions, on that axis! Adding to the problems, there are bouncers which give you your pieces back, blocks which an only be hit a certain number of times before disintegrating, and even invisible dangers! There are also double bonds, so you chemists will love this, and won’t have to revert back to the INFO screen!!

The graphics are pretty good, if a little Spectrumy (though the game is coming out on the Speccy soon!), but the actual music which accompanies the title and info screens is nothing short of fantastic! It’s done by the guys at FUXOFT (Yes, from the SCPDSA demo!!) and it really is a tune to toe tap to!

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