Ishido
"Ishido, the first game Accolade ported to the Sega Genesis, is, despite its name, not an ancient Japanese pastime. Rather, it was developed in 1990 as a type of tile matching game. First released for MS-DOS and Macintosh, Accolade was able to produce a version for the Genesis through reverse-engineering. (If you'd like to know more about how reverse-engineering works, start here).
All versions of the game have now fallen out of print, and the Macintosh version has been made freely available by its programmer."
- Cool Copyright
http://www.coolcopyright.com/cases/chp7/segaaccolade.htm
All versions of the game have now fallen out of print, and the Macintosh version has been made freely available by its programmer."
- Cool Copyright
http://www.coolcopyright.com/cases/chp7/segaaccolade.htm
Publisher: Accolade
Features
"Technically speaking, Ishido is a tile matching games. There are 72 tiles in all that can have six colors and six symbols, so there are two of each. At the beginning of the game, there are six tiles on the board: one in each corner and two, diagonally opposed, in the center. They will have different colors and different symbols but are otherwise random. Now the rest of the tiles appear one after another in the tray at the top right. You try to position these tiles on the board according to the following rules:
1. You can only put a tile next to another one, diagonals don't count.
2. Neighbors must match either by color or by symbol.
3. If you put a tile next to two or more tiles, it must match at least one by color and at least one by symbol.
There is no real score system. If you empty the pouch, you have one. Four-way matches are counted extra. If your main goal is to empty the pouch, the game is not all that difficult. The obvious strategy is to assign rows to symbols and columns to colors (or the other way round) and try to stick to that. Rules 1 and 3 occasionally make this difficult, but you'll empty the pouch every other time. Four-way matches are a mere matter of chance with this strategy; the best I yet got were three. Theoretically, ten are possible."
- from http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/ishido.htm
1. You can only put a tile next to another one, diagonals don't count.
2. Neighbors must match either by color or by symbol.
3. If you put a tile next to two or more tiles, it must match at least one by color and at least one by symbol.
There is no real score system. If you empty the pouch, you have one. Four-way matches are counted extra. If your main goal is to empty the pouch, the game is not all that difficult. The obvious strategy is to assign rows to symbols and columns to colors (or the other way round) and try to stick to that. Rules 1 and 3 occasionally make this difficult, but you'll empty the pouch every other time. Four-way matches are a mere matter of chance with this strategy; the best I yet got were three. Theoretically, ten are possible."
- from http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/ishido.htm
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