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The Wall and Yammy Yammy
April 21, 2004
The Wall
The Wall isn’t a CD by Pink Floyd in this case, but a clever arcade puzzle game from CrazySoft. Three modes of play are included, Easy, Hard, and Arcade. The object here is to carefully build a wall with three different kinds of bricks. Sounds easy, but there’s plenty of strategy involved. Place your bricks carefully, keeping each kind of brick in a certain spot, so that when you earn dynomite, you can destroy a large portion of the wall all at once and get a large bonus. Dynomite works on only one kind of brick at a time, so it’s to your advantage to have uniform sections of brick. Be careful though because if the play area fills completely, or if you run out of time, the game is over.
The graphics are great, with support for hi res (320x320) and hi res plus (320x480) screens. The sound effects are good, with a small sound when each brick is put in place, and a short little tune when you earn a bonus like the dynomite. Vibration on the Zodiac is supported, as well as the special key layout on this device, or you can use your stylus. Palm oS 3.0 or higher is required, which means that this game will play on almost any modern device.
Yammy Yammy
Yammy Yammy is a game of a different sort, a pattern matching game in which you have to think fast in order to feed a hungry cannibal. Various fruits and vegetables drop into two pots full of boiling water, and it’s up to you to match each line of items exactly in both pots by switching them around. It’s fun and quite challenging, as sometimes you just can’t seem to get the right item. In my last game I ended up with several cucumbers in the left-hand pot, but none in the right, so it was tricky to make any matches. As the pot fills up, the water and the heat get higher— if the pot boils over and burns the cannibal’s toe, it’s game over.
The graphics are superb, and the sound effects are good as well— every time the water rises you hear the bubbles, and I love it when the cannibal says “OW” when his toe gets burned, even though that means the end of the game. I also like the hint of humor, as the cannibal looks on and goads you into working faster because he’s hungry. He stands there tapping his foot and holding his fork while his shifty eyes look from one pot of food to the other. There are three difficulty levels here, and even Easy mode is quite challenging. Yammy Mode is especially tough, since it requires you to alternate your moves between both pots, instead of allowing you to move the pieces of food as you see fit in order to make a match.
Conclusion
Both of these games are fun, and are challenging without being frustrating. Either one would make a fine choice for the slightly younger gamer, in case you let your kids play games on your Palm OS device. That doesn’t mean that they’re too easy though, as most adults will find them to be challenging as well. The Wall and Yammy Yammy are available for $12.95 each at the CrazySoft web site.
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