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Slider

Colourful game like a 2D Q*Bert. Run around the level, painting the background blocks as you go and avoiding enemies. There are many traps, sliding blocks, one-way blocks and teleports - also special items…

31 December 1989

Slider is a puzzle developed by Loriciels, released 31 December 1989 on Sega Game Gear, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Amiga and Amstrad CPC.

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What Slider is

Slider is a puzzle game developed by Loriciels and released in 1989. It is available on Sega Game Gear, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, DOS and Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Colourful game like a 2D Q*Bert. Run around the level, painting the background blocks as you go and avoiding enemies. There are many traps, sliding blocks, one-way blocks and teleports - also special items such as time-stop and extra firepower to zap the baddies with.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Slider launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.

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When did Slider come out?
Slider was released on 31 December 1989 for Sega Game Gear, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, DOS and Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD.

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