Soukoban (MSX)
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| Soukoban | ||||||||||
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| System(s): Sega Master System | ||||||||||
| Original system(s): MSX | ||||||||||
| Developer(s) of original games: Thinking Rabbit | ||||||||||
| Genre: Puzzle | ||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||
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Soukoban (倉庫番) is a puzzle game, originally developed by Thinking Rabbit and published by ASCII for the MSX personal computers, only in Japan. This version is notable to include data recorder support in order to save the player's progress into a cassette tape from Stage 11 and ownard. A dual-side cassette tape called Soukoban Tool Kit was created and includes additional 41 stages plus a stage creator, but it was sold separately.
The MSX version of Soukoban received an unlicensed port for the Sega Master System in South Korea, appearing in several multicarts. Due to hardware differences from the MSX to Master System, there's no cassette tape support, which means all 60 stages must be done in a single playthrough.
Multicart appearances
- Super Game World 75 Hap (as 아이큐게임)
- Super Multi Game: Super 125 in 1 (as I.Q.)
In both versions, the title screen is hacked with hangul text, which means I.Q. (아이큐). The status bar at the bottom of screen is either invisible or completly eliminated, due to the graphical arrangements. Often, I.Q. is also the name for the SG-1000 version of Soukoban in other multicarts. The SG-1000 version also does appear as a more common pick-up choice in multicarts over the MSX version.