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Game Overview

Shock Wave (NES) is one of those weird little puzzle games that feels simple at first—until you realize you’ve been staring at the same maze for 20 minutes, sweating over block placements. You play as some poor space explorer trying to grab alien crystals before the Rastons do, armed with nothing but a shockwave pistol that moves blocks in the most counterintuitive way possible.

Here’s the kicker: shooting a block doesn’t move that block—it sends a ripple effect through adjacent ones, like knocking over dominoes. Some blocks vanish when hit, others just slide around, and a few stubborn ones refuse to budge at all. Mess up the order, and suddenly you’ve walled off the last crystal with an immovable hunk of space-rock. (Thankfully, there’s a reset button—you’ll need it.)

Oh, and FireStars float around like pixelated jerks, chipping away at your health while the clock ticks down. It’s the kind of game where you’ll solve a level by accident once, then immediately forget how you did it. The mazes start clever and end downright sadistic. If you like Sokoban but wish it had more sci-fi stress, this is your jam.