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Requiem of Azalin
If you are reading this, I have crawled under the house and died!
Wikipedia: part 8 to hell and Ohio
Bonecruncher is a computer game for the BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and Acorn Electron.

The game is similar to the well-known game Boulder Dash in that it mostly involves digging through a cave displayed as a rectangular grid of squares. However the mechanism of the game play is slightly different.

The player controls a character called Bono, who operates a soap business for sea-monsters. He collects bones from goblins wandering around the screen: normally goblins walk around the cave tunnels in a pre-set pattern, but if a goblin is trapped by earth, walls or rocks so that it can't move anywhere, it dies and becomes a skeleton. Bono can then collect this skeleton and take it to his home. Once he has collected enough skeletons, he can make soap from them and take it to a monster awaiting a bath.

At this point Bono returns to the cave to collect more skeletons, but with an important difference: the heavy but inoffensive soap-loving Glooks, which live in the cave and perform a similar role to the boulders in Boulder Dash, will start to head in the direction of the most recent bath: up the screen, down, left or right depending on which staircase Bono delivered the soap to.

After a predetermined number of successful soap deliveries Bono advances to another cave.

A popular puzzle game from later in the BBC B and Electron's life, many cited Bonecrusher to be similar to the Repton series of games, also produced by Superior Software.


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  • User Comments: [4]
    What...? That did not make a lot of sense....

    comment Evanescent Wraith · Community Member · Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 11:16pm
    Monsters need soap?

    comment Azalin · Community Member · Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 11:24pm
    You must need a Hell of a lot of soap then! blaugh

    comment Evanescent Wraith · Community Member · Fri Jan 26, 2007 @ 12:45am
    I guess so

    comment Azalin · Community Member · Sat Jan 27, 2007 @ 05:38am
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