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Gem Drop X is an interesting one-player puzzle game for X-Window.
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It's been written in C under Unix and requires you to compile the
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source code to produce the executable program itself. You'll also
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of course need an X display terminal or software to actually see
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the game. (Although a curses version may be released at one point!)
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Gem Drop X is a direct port of Gem Drop, an Atari 8-bit game
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written in Action! (a very fast C- and Pascal-like compiled language
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for the Atari). The concept of the game Gem Drop is based directly
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on an arcade game for the NeoGeo system called "Magical Drop III"
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by SNK.
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If you're familiar with games like Jewels, Klax, Bust-A-Move or Tetris,
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this game is similar to them all. I consider it closest to Klax.
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(Jewels is like a combination of Klax and Tetris. Bust-A-Move is the
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least similar, in my opinion, but everyone seems to have heard of it
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more than the others (except Tetris, of course!))
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