''Super Skweek'' is a

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developed and published by the French company

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. 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).

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%.

Legacy

''Super Skweek'' was rereleased in 2013 for

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References

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External links

''Skweek''
for iOS

at Atari Mania
''Super Skweek''
at Lemon Amiga
Laurent Arditi's web page
1991 video games Amiga games Amstrad CPC games Atari Lynx games Atari ST games Game Gear games IOS games Multiplayer and single-player video games Puzzle video games TurboGrafx-16 games U.S. Gold games Video games developed in France Virtual Studio games