Swing (computer game)

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Swing is a puzzle genre video game . It was published for PlayStation and PC and developed in Germany by the now insolvent company Software 2000 . In the US, a similar game was released under the name Marble Master . A stripped-down version of this game was released for the Game Boy Color .

The object of the game is to collect points by throwing balls at a number of scales to place three or more balls of the same color in a row. The difficulty is that each ball has its own weight, recognizable by the number that is written on the front of the ball. The higher the number, the heavier the ball. That is, if a ball is thrown and one side of the scale becomes heavier than the sum of the weights of the balls on the other side, the scale becomes unbalanced, causing the ball to slide the whole playing field is catapulted onto another pile. If too many balls land on the scales, that is, over the top, the game is lost. There are a number of special balls: for example, a bomb detonates balls in a 3 × 3 radius and a joker replaces any ball of any color.

A successor was published in 1999: Swing Plus: Total Mind Control . This game was never released outside of Germany.

In 2008 a remake was written in Java called XSwing Plus .

In 2015 a remake for Android was published in Unity3D as Color-X-Plode . A year later, the remake was also released for iOS.

reception

In the UK, the Official UK PlayStation Magazine gave the game 6 out of 10. In their opinion, the game was just an additional variant of Tetris. The difficulty was rated as difficult to brutal.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TheLegacy: Game :: Swing Plus: Total Mind Control . Thelegacy.de. Archived from the original on September 2, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 30, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thelegacy.de
  2. ↑ XSwing Plus | Free Games software downloads at . Sourceforge.net. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  3. ↑ Color-X-Plode for Android .
  4. ↑ Color-X-Plode for iPhone / iPad .
  5. ↑ Official PlayStation Magazine , Future Publishing issue 44, page 111, (April 1999)