1991 · Loriciels · Puzzle · Strategy

Skweek

Super Skweek is a game inspired by the wide success of Chip's Challenge, and shares some elements of that puzzler while combining other elements from games such as Pengo.

Released: 1991
Platforms: Amiga Amstrad CPC Atari Lynx Atari ST/STE Game Gear MS-DOS PC-9800 Series TurboGrafx-16 iOS
Genres: Puzzle Strategy
Developers: Loriciels
Publishers: —
Series: Skweek
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action
Country: France

About

Super Skweek is a puzzle video game developed and published by Loriciel. The game was released on multiple platforms in the early 1990s as a follow-up to 1989's Skweek (released as Slider in 1991 in the United States). Atari Corporation released the Lynx version in North America.

Media

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Gameplay

The player plays the Super Skweek, an orange-furred creature of unknown origin. Under the command of the King, the player has to move over blue tiles in order to repaint them pink, fighting off the monster invasion in doing so. There are five islands, each consisting of 50 levels.

Some levels contain various monsters roaming around, and certain special tiles such as slippery tiles, explosive tiles, floating tiles and tiles which move the player in a certain direction. There are also coins to collect in order to buy prizes at the shop such as bombs or other improved powers.

Reception

For the Atari Lynx version of the game French magazine, Consoles Plus gave a score of 97%. On atariarchives.org Robert Jung gave the game a score of 7.5 out of 10. For the Amiga version Amiga Action gave Super Skweek 82%.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Atari ST/STE	31 December 1990	Europe
Amiga	31 December 1990	Europe
Amstrad CPC	1 February 1991	Worldwide
Atari Lynx	31 December 1991	North America
PC-9800 Series	31 December 1991	Japan
Game Gear	31 December 1991	North America
MS-DOS	31 December 1991	North America
iOS	31 December 2013	Worldwide