PicrossST

Posted by The Caffeine Kid on May 3, 2008 · Lovingly Filed Under Retro Remakes News 
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I am teh fail :(

It’s time to dust of your Atari ST, or if you can be arsed to do that then get your emulators out for the lads, because here is a “remake” for that glorious machine and all its fans, released only a couple of days ago on May 1st. The name of the game might be familiar to DS or other Nintendo console owners but don’t be fooled, they didn’t invent this.

This kind of picture puzzle was actually invented (not on computers) by Non Ishida, a Japanese graphics editor, who won a competition in Tokyo by designing grid pictures using skyscraper lights which are turned on or off. That was in 1997, over a decade after the release of the Atari ST, which makes this pretty retro for a remake.

Can you tell what it is yet?

The technical limits of the Atari ST haven’t stopped this game looking and playing fantastically, with some really great 16 colour artwork throughout giving it a lot of polish. There is no denying that a lot of love and work has gone into this so make sure you give it a go even if you were an Amiga fan, because it’s not every day we get such a cool 16bit remake coming out.

There are exits leading East and West. What now?

Go to the site and download the game and/or puzzle editor.

Visit Wikipedia to learn more about nonograms/picross and how to solve them.

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4 Responses to “PicrossST”

  1. Olaf on May 3rd, 2008 8:05 am

    I think you may have the decade wrong. 1995 is pretty late for the ST ;)

  2. Mug UK(tm) on May 3rd, 2008 8:58 am

    Oops! Major faux pas there Caffeine Kid .. especially when you post on the Atari Forum :)

  3. The Caffeine Kid on May 3rd, 2008 3:46 pm

    Buggering heck, that’s what I get for posting news in the middle of the night. LOL

    Will fix it now. :D

    I was just testing you - and you passed! ;)

  4. Marskilla on May 4th, 2008 3:49 pm

    Thanks for your great comment about PicrossST.

    We hope people will like playing it -anybody has finished the 99 puzzles already ?- .

    The team worked on this for 8 months and it’s a fact, our graphists (Castanea and Zapier) did a great work (even if .PSD files are quite difficult to be converted in 320X200X16 ;) )!

    It was a really good experience to code a game today on a machine from 1985 !

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