Powerplay: The Game of the Gods

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As one of the four great Gods Apollo, Hermes, Hecate and Aphrodite, choose a team of four mighty warriors to fight for you in the Powerplay tournament to prove who is the greatest. This battle will be fought out not using swords or knives, but with knowledge - gameplay takes the form of a complex quiz on a chess-like board.

You have four playing pieces, which start off arranged as a cross in one corner of the isometrically-viewed board. The squares are split into four different colours, which each represent a particular broad Trivial Pursuit-style subject area. The question has four possible answers, and a correct answer allows you to move your piece one space, perhaps onto one of the four white teleport squares (which randomly places it on one of those four squares).

When a piece lands on the same square as an opposition piece, a challenge ensues, which plays out like a quiz show, with questions asks in quick fire and the first player to answer gaining a point if right and losing one if wrong. The losing piece drops down a skill level.

Once a piece reaches 25 Wisdom Points, it can mutate up a skill level - this makes it harder to beat, but makes the questions it faces harder.

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ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Amiga	Mar, 1988	955 out of 1000	96
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Amiga	Oct, 1988	955 out of 1000	96
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Atari ST	Mar, 1988	955 out of 1000	96
The Games Machine (UK)	Atari ST	Mar, 1988	76 out of 100	76
Computer Gamer	Commodore 64	Sep, 1986	15 out of 20	75
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Amiga	Jan, 1988	8.4 out of 12	70
The Games Machine (UK)	Amiga	Nov, 1988	62 out of 100	62
ST/Amiga Format	Amiga	Nov, 1988	55 out of 100	55
Power Play	Atari ST	Feb, 1988	5 out of 10	50
Power Play	Amiga	Feb, 1988	5 out of 10	50

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• ACE
  • October 1988 (issue #13) - Included in the Top-100 list of 1987/1988 (editorial staff selection)
• Commodore Format
  • May 1991 (Issue 8) - listed in the A to Z of Classic Games article (Great)