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Kasparov Beaten At Repton, Game Recreated?

Posted by simoniker on from the push-those-boulders dept.

migstradamus writes "Anyone out there remember the BBC microcomputer? If so you probably remember the puzzle game Repton, too. ChessBase.com has a charming story about how a 3-year-old was clearly better at any computer game than the newly crowned World Chess Champion, including Repton, back in 1985. This defeat led Garry Kasparov to import Atari computers to Russia! The kid who beat him is now a 21-year-old programmer and has recreated the legendary game for free download. There's been plenty of feedback for the officially-sanctioned mini-remake, and on Jan. 21 they will release a super-hard level as part of a contest." It's worth noting that Repton has also been commercially re-released for Pocket PC and Java-enabled phones, as well as a full PC version from the original makers, Superior Software.

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  1. My favourite game! by alyosha1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Woohoo! That was the first computer game I ever played. I Had the whole series, Repton, Repton2 (a pain to finish, but I managed it....) Repton3 and Repton Infinity (ahead of it's time - it had a complete game editor/designer built in, including an entire language for modifying the behavior of game elements, but ran way to slow...)

    Anyone else play the other greats of that era - things like Ravenskull, Striker's Run, Exile etc...? Did anyone ever finish Exile? Even with the cheats I couldn't figure it out.

    Truly awesome games. Amazing how addictive they could be, and running in just 32kb of memory. (We had 128 kb in our BBC master, which alas was thrown out last month.)

  2. If you're on Gnome... by chendo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... then you already have a clone of Repton. GNOME Stones is very similar to Repton, if I RFTA correctly. Maze, diamonds, stones... same concept.

    --
    Founder of Mirror Moon - Tsukihime Game Trans
  3. Repton for Windows and Unix by grrussel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are various reimplementations of Repton for Unix and Windows. This includes a version for the Linux console via SVGALib, for generic Unix / X11 through KDE (both 1.x and 3.x) and for both Windows, X11 and possibly OSX throught FX Repton using the FOX toolkit.

    This is the site, at http://www.keelhaul.demon.co.uk/krepton/ and also of interest may be the Repton appreciation society.