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THINK! Supaplex

Posted on January 26, 2012 by | 1 Comment

Supaplex is an old skool puzle game that was released in 1991, then in somewhere in the mid 90s (my closest estimate is somewhere between 1994 to 1997) Digital integration, the publishers of Supaplex, agreed to release it for free and thus Supaplex became freeware. It’s the first game that I know that went from commercial to free. Now it’s a lot more common for games to go from commercial to free or even to be completely open sourced, but that’s a story for another time.

I enjoy Supaplex so much that I wrote what turned out to be a long, and I think, pretty comprehensive history of Suaplex because there was a bit of misinformation about the history of Supaplex and how it came to be.

While I was researching for the article I came across a bunch of interesting Supaplex information scattered across the internet in it’s dark corners and an odd number of Supaplex websites.

I can count the amount of decent Supaplex websites on one hand and have digits leftover. There is only two decent Supaplex website on the internet that I came across. Maarten Egmond’s Supaplex Home Page was the best dedicated Supaplex website. Maartins website is only a fan site, it’s not official. The only official Supaplex web was launched by Michael Stopp (one of the original authors of Supaplex) Children of Supaplex web site which is more about the personal stories of people who enjoyed playing Supaplex rather than technical details, level solutions, or support.

The only other decent website with any decent amount of Supaplex information is bd-fans.com, it’s dedicated to Boulder Dash rather than Supaplex, the site pays tribute to Supaplex as the best Boulder Dash clone and has a good amount of Supaplex information.

So if there are already Supaplex websites on the internet why create another one? There are a number of reasons, three of them actually, why I launched THINK! Supaplex:

I think that I can build a Supaplex website that’s better, in every way, than any existing Supaplex website. A website that has lots of good information but is hard to navigate and read is nearly as useless as a web site that looks pretty but doesn’t have information, content is still the king of the internet which segues nicely into my other reasons for launching THINK! Supaplex.

But both the Supaplex Homepage and the bd-fans.com websites were incredibly out of date, they weren’t even remotely current. Each site had some good information about Supaplex that the other site didn’t have. Neither web site was comprehensive. I want to offer a comprehensive amount of Supaplex information in one place on one site, not have it scattered around the internet.

The third reason for starting THINK! Supaplex was because I have some original content that can’t be found on any Supaplex website or web page anywhere, like my list of Supaplex clones. And I have some more original content ideas for THINK! Supaplexx.

So I launched THINK! Supaplex. It’s still fairly new and a work in progress but I’m busy writing content and updating the site regularly.

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One Response to “THINK! Supaplex”

  1. radarek
    January 30th, 2012 @ 2:25 am

    Good to know that there are still players which love this game! I'm big fan of this game (my personal best game ever). I want also say that I'm in the middle of development totally new supaplex remake. Stay tuned :) .

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