Imogen for PC

Merkaba

<div class="IPBDescription">Classic!</div>If anyone here used to own a BBC B Microcomputer, they might remember playing a puzzle-platform game called Imogen. And if you're anything like me, you loved it! Well I stumbled across a PC version of the game a few months ago and bookmarked it, and here it is:

<a href="http://imogen.ovine.net/index.php" target="_blank">http://imogen.ovine.net/index.php</a>

You play a wizard who is trapped in a series of puzzles. You are able to morph into a cat or monkey, allowing you to jump long distances or climb ropes respectively. In your normal form you can also pick up items and use them. The catch is, you only have limited number of times you can morph into a different shape across the whole game - once you run out, you're stuck and have to start the game again.

It's incredibly fun and the puzzles are in no particular order, except I think the last puzzle is always the same. Usually each puzzle revolves around some theme or another, such as 'hamster jam' where you have to turn a hamster into jam...or 'Gnu problem' which involves a gun and a gnu head.

It's fun, and an extremely faithful reconstruction of the original (basically the only real difference is that it has colour now). Try it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

Hellbilly

I didn't own a BBC, but i did own a Sinclair Spectrum and C64 so i do enjoy these old classics.

Nice find <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

BobTheJanitor

I keep getting to random points where it seems I'm expcted to jump some crazy distance and the cat won't make it. Aggravation. Also, as much as I know they were being faithful to an ancient game that was programmed on stone punch cards in sanskrit, the play controls are ugly and make me want to cry. But it's still a cute game, and I'd probably still give it a few more playthroughs if I wasn't expected to jump impossible gaps with a jump that will actually <i>get there</i> and then slip backwards and fall down in that horrible frozen in midair falling animation.

DY357LX

Gotta agree with Bob here.

The game itself has great potential, there's some great elements and it's very rewarding to play.

But the chunky controls and the frustration they caused just isn't worth it. Surely they can update
and smooth this kind of thing out.


Otherwise... good find, would love to download and play more like it.

Merkaba

Yeah, I remember those horrible jumps when I played it as a kid...

Hint: Only the cats hind legs have to be on the ground for you to jump!