MSXdev'11 - #9 Alter Ego

Entry nine comes from The New Image. It's a conversion from a NES conversion of a ZX Spectrum game. But all that is mere trivia, the fact that puzzle fans can put their brains to the test is truly the important bit here. Alter Ego is a platform game in which the player needs to collect small objects, or 'pixels' as the manual states. It's one of those games where the exact definition of objects complete doesn't matter. Using ladders and falling down from platforms will move you from platform to platform, both of you in fact. You have an alter ego walking around too, going where you go, but then mirrored across the screen. In a way comparable to the old MSX game Binary Land, except that your alter ego can move through walls and enemies, it just can't pick up 'pixels'. You can switch locations between your alter ego for a limited amount of times. That's the game; find out a path how to collect all these 'pixels'. Naturally, the enemies are there to make things more difficult than they need to be.. but that's the challenge, isn't it? An 48KB ROM for hours worth o' puzzle pleasure.

Relevant link: MSXdev'11 - Alter Ego