1987 · Asmik Ace Entertainment · Action-adventure · Adventure

Super Boy Allan

Nintendo exclusive

Super Boy Allan is a block-pushing puzzle game with arithmetic puzzle elements. It is the 2nd entry in Sunsoft and Asmik's Chinou Game Series.

Released: 27 March 1987
Platforms: Famicom Disk System Family Computer Disk System
Genres: Action-adventure Adventure Puzzle
Developers: Asmik Ace Entertainment
Publishers: Sunsoft
Series: Chinō Game series
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action Educational
Country: Japan
Entry: #2 in Chinō Game series

About

Super Boy Allan (スーパーボーイ・アラン, Sūpā Bōi Aran) is an educational video game developed by ASK Kodansha for the Family Computer Disk System, and published by Sunsoft in 1987.

Super Boy Allan is the second installment in Sunsoft and Asmik's Intelligence Game trilogy. It is preceded by Adian no Tsue (1986), and followed by Chitei Tairiku Orudora (1987).

›Story

Super Boy Allan Colada journeys from his home in the foothills into the mountains to retrieve a remedy for his sister Leela's fever.

Keywords

math
abstract
usa
block puzzle
sokoban

Media

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Gameplay

To progress through most game screens, the player must push, kick, or pull logs to clear a path to the exit, as well as to solve arithmetic equations and inequality statements involving fractions.

The mechanics of the log-pushing puzzles are comparable to those in the Eggerland video game franchise, which in turn derive from Sokoban (1982). However, by using a rope (which are in limited supply), Allan can also pull a log away. Kicking a log toward an enemy defeats the enemy.