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J A X
Program and Text
by T. L. Flynn
Just about everybody has played
Tetris or Tetris-like games, the ones
that involve play pieces dropping
down from above to affect a play
situation below. You manipulate the
dropping piece somewhere between to
get the best fit and ultimately the
best score.
JAX is similar to these games,
but with some interesting twists. In
JAX, play pieces are dropped from
above into a playfield containing a
number of rotating shapes (stars,
dollar signs, or happy faces). The
objective is to maneuver the play
pieces so that you have at least four
of the same color in a row either
vertically or horizontally. This will
dissolve all the pieces in that row
and remove them from the playfield.
While fun, this avails no points. The
only way to gain points is to include
one of the rotating shapes (of the
same color) in the row. It too will
dissolve and you get 100 points for
it. Eventually knocking out all the
rotating shapes will get you to the
next level, which of course, has a
larger number of rotating shapes and
plays a little faster than the last
level.
The dropping play pieces are
actually two units connected to each
other. Push the joystick left or
right to move them or rotate them to
a flat or upright orientation by
pressing the fire button. You can
stack them, set them beside each
other, tuck a piece into a row of
other pieces. Of course, if the
touching pieces do not match, it all
becomes garbage that gets in the way
an eventually ends your game.
You can pause the game by
pressing the SPACE BAR, but only
during the time the play piece is
actually dropping. The screen goes
monochrome. Sorry, necessary evil. We
can't have you studying the playfield
at your leisure now can we? Press
SPACE again to continue play.
As always, I hope this game keeps
your brain cells hopping, active, and
happy. Enjoy...
TLF
[Note from Jeff:] I surely had a
time with this program. It is indeed
addictive. Note from the above
paragraph that the only way to exit
the game is to clutter up the play
field, which takes about 15 seconds
of inactivity.
JLJ
[DAVE SLIDES IN]: Addiction is my
middle name -- and of the T-type games
out there, JAX is my greatest
downfall. Someday, we might have to
start a JAX Anonymous Twelve-Step
group.
DMM