Weekends are usually boring and sleepy, so what do you do for some fun, well you can play computer games for timepass. So from now on whenever I find a good game I will be doing a write up on some of the small and simple games which offer awesome playability. This week I will be writing about Classic Clickomania developed by Matthias Schussler.
Clickomania (Classic) has a very simple objective, as the author puts it:
“Your goal is to remove as many stones as possible by clicking on groups of stones with the same color. Sounds easy? I can tell you that it is harder than you might think… “
The game looks simple and you might ask what is so challenging in this game. Well it all comes down to the purpose you want to play it for, if you are playing for time-pass and fun then just go on clicking and try you luck and get best scores. But if you really want to clear all the blocks then you will have to be very clever calculating the impact of each removal, this is where it gets a bit tricky, complex and very challenging. This game can be played by all age groups, which is a big plus point.
The playability of the game is also good, one can set the rows and cols required in the playing field, the height of each stone, the no of stone patterns and various other configuration settings. Since the stone layout pattern is randomly generated, each game is different from the previous one, hence achieving good scores consistently is quite a difficult job and gives a boost to the playability of the game.
To test the game I played it five times, my worst score was 35 blocks and the best was 1 blocks. So that makes me a good player huh 
Here are the plus points of the game:
- High playability (do not get bored of playing it even after playing it many times)
- Small download size (450+ KB)
- Minimal system requirements, hence will run on any PC.
- No installation is required, one just has to unzip it.
- Available for multiple platforms, right from mobile phones to Linux and Unix variants using java technology.
- Many configuration options provided.
- It’s a freeware!
The only minus point of the game which i found was that, I did not like the interface of the new version of the game, the old interface (classic) was much better and easier to use.
Links:
URL: http://www.clickomania.ch/click/ClassicClick.html
Size: 483 KBytes
System Requirements: Windows NT/2000/ XP/95/98/ME
License: Freeware
What do you feel about the game, did you like it? Let me know by leaving the comments below.
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March 20th, 2007 at 7:33 am
I remember we played it too, During our college days. Getting the score below 10 is luck isnt it ? Unless you use special stones which can clear all the remaining at once.
March 21st, 2007 at 7:35 am
@Bachodi:
Getting score below 10 is not always luck, if you know what you are doing and clicking right, one can manage scores of below 10 easily, but mostly it comes down to the layout of the stones.