Boulder Dash (Wii)
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Published by

Commodore Gaming

Developed by

First Star Software, Inc.

Released

Jun 01, 2009

Also For

Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC Micro, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Electron, Epoch Super Cassette Vision, FM-7, Game Boy, iPhone, MSX, NES, PC-88, PC Booter, ZX Spectrum | Combined View

Genre

Action

Perspective

3rd-Person Perspective

Theme

Arcade, Puzzle-Solving

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MobyRank

100 point score based on reviews from various critics.

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4.5

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Description

You are Rockford, and you have to dig through monster infested caves in search of diamonds. In each level you must collect a certain number of these diamonds, in order to open a portal to the next stage. Enemies can be squashed by falling boulders, which are released when the ground below them is removed or they are pushed onto empty ground, but be careful because these can also squash you. In later levels, difficulty is increased by many puzzle elements and shorter time limits.

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Screenshots

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Alternate Titles

"Boulder Dash Vol. 1" -- iPhone title
"Boulder Dash - Starring: Rockford" -- Prism Leisure distributed title

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Part of the Following Group

Boulder Dash variants

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The Press Says

Jeuxvideo.com	Jan 03, 2011	15 out of 20	75
Nintendo Life	Sep 19, 2008		70
IGN	Jun 23, 2009	7 out of 10	70

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Boulder dash clones	1	Peter Vrenken Jan 07, 2014

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

Boulder Dash appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Amiga

A real Amiga version of Boulder Dash was never released. But Emerald Mine, a close variant for the Amiga, became very popular.

Arcade version

Boulder Dash was so popular on the home computer that it was ported to an arcade version. Usually, it is the other way around; in that a popular arcade game gets ported to the home system.

Atari 2600 port

In 2012 a port to the Atari 2600 was released as homebrew software with support from First Star Software. The programmers Andrew Davie and Thomas Jentzsch worked for almost a decade to port the game completely on the VCS.

Awards

Commodore Format
- January 1991 (Issue 4) - listed in the A to Z of Classic Games article
Retro Gamer
- October 2004 (Issue #9) – #31 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)

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