Arena
Arena is a puzzle game with strong action elements. In each of the about a hundred levels, the player controls a spaceship from a top-down perspective and needs to arrange diamonds in a certain order. Similar…
Arena is a puzzle, released 31 December 1992 on Amiga.
What Arena is
Arena was released in 1992. It was published by Defcom. It is available on Amiga only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Arena is a puzzle game with strong action elements. In each of the about a hundred levels, the player controls a spaceship from a top-down perspective and needs to arrange diamonds in a certain order. Similar to Atomix, once pushed, those diamonds keep going until they meet an obstacle like a wall or a teleporter. Some of the obstacles can be interacted with. This means the player needs to plan ahead in order to avoid getting into an unwinnable situation. However, the level can be restarted up to three times without repercussions. The action part comes into place with various enemies which roam around the screen. It should be avoided to touch them as they can harm the player's life energy…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Arena launched on 31 December 1992, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting and Moto Roader MC.
Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Moto Roader MC.
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