Illustrating dreams since 1992
GAMBYS - 1993/95
Many puzzle games have appeared before and after, but I never found anything similar to what we´ve achieved here with GAMBYS over the many years of gaming around.
Also by reading the many emails I still get about this project to this day
( a few dozen a year sometimes ,) it seems the opinion remains a generalised one among those who have played and to this day people still blog about it (Pt).
It´s difficult to explain what this game is about. Here are the main characters:
What is GAMBYS?
©GAMBYS, looks like a puzzle video game at first glance, but it´s really an arcade game where the puzzle bit is just what makes things move in the gameplay.
GAMBY WIZARD
Can be considered the leader of the Gambys as its the character wich can give you the most effective help when you need to uncover all the puzzle pieces in the game.
Depending on the color combination of magic potions you can grab with your mouse and give to him, this Gamby Wizard will cast a different spell wich will help you to complete each stage.
GAMBY MOVER
This guy is probably the Gamby you want to keep around all the time.
Once you get a piece of a puzzle by clicking on your right mouse button, you can click on Gamby Mover with the left one and he will take your puzzle piece, and he´ll place it at the exact right spot for you.
GAMBY FINDER
This one is very useful because once you click on him after getting a piece of the puzzle keep your eyes on his path because Gamby Finder will point to the exact location of where each piece of the puzzle is located.
It´s not as easy as it seems because, remember you still have to deal with all the other stuff that happens in the same time in the game, but it helps.
GAMBY DEFUSER
Some evil creatures sometimes leave lots of bombs around wich when they explode, will cover all the pieces of the puzzle you´ve worked so hard to clear in the
first place. So this Gamby, defuses these bombs when point him to one of those.
GAMBY KNIGHT
The first of the warrior Gambys.
This fighter will help you to remove the evil characters from the screen. Each warrior Gamby has its own strenght and fighting skill.
Gamby Knight is the strong one and the one who causes more damage to the evil dudes.
You use this Gambys to defend the life of those who help you to solve the puzzle.
GAMBY ROCKY
Probably my favourite fighting Gamby.
Not too strong, but enough to prevent the evil dudes from attacking the other Gambys that are there to help you with the puzzle pieces. Click on Gamby Rocky and then click on a bad guy, and this dude will punch it away.
GAMBY ROBIN
Can be considered the leader of the Gambys as its the character wich can give you the most effective help when you need to uncover all the puzzle pieces in the game.
Depending on the color combination of magic potions you can grab with your mouse and give to him, this Gamby Wizard will cast a different spell wich will help you to complete each stage.
GAMBY GIRL
This gamby female is considered a sort of a neutral character in the game ,It won´t help you in solving the puzzles or attack the evil character, but each time she passes by, and a male Gamby sees her, he might forget what he was doing for you in the first place and go crazy for a couple of seconds which usually ends up in him forgetting the last command.
The programmers and I were convinced that GAMBYS was technically a dead old DOS used video game and was never to be seen moving on the screen ever again. But then…
In this little “secluded Gambys fan club” that generated spontaneously over the years, there were people who actually put together “new” old 486 just to play ©GAMBYS again if you can believe that because up until now no DOS Box (or similar video game emulators) could run GAMBYS on modern computers. Among those, there were a couple of computer video games Gamby fans who didn´t gave up on trying to bring the game back to life on new machines and so now, thanks to “Haruka Tavares“, with the use of “Virtual Machine” I can announce that today GAMBYS, can still be played on your laptop if you´re searching to download old video games.
Many thanks also to Nelson/”Chaos” (who designed the game levels), for providing me with all the stuff to be able to run the video game alternately based on the technical original info sent to us by Haruka.
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