[SOLVED] The Boulder Dash clone, that somehow does not exist!?

Forums > Find a game > [SOLVED] The Boulder Dash clone, that somehow does not exist!?

1xWertzui (1135) on 8/8/2017 9:09 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

I remember that it was called "Boul der Star" or something similar, and it was a shareware DOS game, with VGA graphics and beeper sounds. The copyright was dated to 1992. There was a lengthy text at the start in German, I don't know what it said. The main character was a boy wearing green shirt and hosentroger pants. Some of the enemies were pink-ish? colored boxes with very angry faces. Otherwise it was pretty similar to Boulder Dash.

I found it on a used PC. Played it and loved it until the hard drive went bust.

Ever since, when I asked anyone, nobody knew this game. After joining the Internet, searches revealed nothing at all. There is not a single thing about this game anywhere on the Web, except my questioning about it.

It's not a big deal but it's annoying! Did this game just drop out from the time/space continuum or something?

Pseudo_Intellectual (66362) on 8/9/2017 6:59 PM · Permalink · Report

There are hundreds if not thousands of Boulderdash clones.

If anyone would know, it's these folks: http://www.bd-fans.com/FreewareMSDOS.html

D D (48) on 9/25/2017 4:07 PM · Permalink · Report

I did a Gxxgle search and found a reference to a "Boulder Star" game in some archived text from a German computer games magazine called PC Games (the June 1993 issue).

If you go to https://archive.org/details/pcgamesmagazine-1993-06 and download the PDF copy of the magazine you'll see the game on page 78 of the PDF.

I posted about a missing game that I was looking for a couple of weeks ago and that too was a PD/shareware game that was only released on a computer games magazine cover disk, so there are likely to be quite a lot of missing games out there (I found the game I was looking for though).

D D (48) on 9/25/2017 4:14 PM · Permalink · Report

Just found your game - it's shareware so I can link to the download directly:

http://www.dekor.de/Shareware/1993-dos/spiele-ae/spiele-ae.asp

1xWertzui (1135) on 9/28/2017 3:30 PM · Permalink · Report

AHAAA! THAT IS IT! Decades old mystery solved! :D Thanks a lot and apologies for the long delay!

Time to add it to the database, so it cannot run away and hide again.

(I don't know, is there something to be done when a thread gets solved?)

Pseudo_Intellectual (66362) on 9/28/2017 3:35 PM · Permalink · Report

I think you go back to the first message and add [SOLVED] to the subject line.