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There’s a kind of puzzle that’s pretty common in games. You have a bunch of squares, and you can move along them squares. How do you fill in all those squares without stepping back over a square? What path do you take? It’s a puzzle I personally associate with the Zelda Oracle games, but it’s pretty common elsewhere too. Like here!

This is Pyramids of Ra, a 2018 homebrew Apple II game by Naspite Labs. Seems like a pretty simple homebrew, at least in gameplay. For music, they ported like, a lot of hard techno and keygen jams to Apple II. And considering the computer’s limited musical capabilities, it’s very crunchy and hurts the ears.

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Later on, it introduces different color tiles, which require you to clear them twice, or even three times. Simple progression. After 12-ish stages, the game is done. It’s pretty easy, even considering the concept, but I like a puzzle like this, and it doesn’t HAVE to be complex or wild to be enjoyable for 20 minutes.