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<DOS> Puzzle game with portraits [Facetrex]

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 6:33 am
by Guest
Hi! I'm searching for a dos-based puzzle game. Some things I remember:

- It has movable portraits or faces. The goal, if I recall correctly, is to gather the faces into their appropriate slots in the grid.
- The background is a magenta grid (approximately 8x12). The faces slide on the grid as far as they can, until some kind of special block in the grid blocks them.
- Making the moves in the right order is crucial. There are some special blocks on the board, such as turning blocks, and if I remember correctly, some of them could only be used once.
- There were at least 20 different levels to the game, each harder than the previous.
- I played this game between the years 1997-2000 (I know, not very helpful). There was a demo of it on a CD called '100 Kids' Games'.

I would love to find this game or at least find out what it is called, it has been bugging my mind for so long. Thank you for any help! :bday:

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 7:28 am
by dosraider
Ouch, won't be easy to find the exact puzzle game,
there were tons of them on compil CDs as http://www.answers.com/topic/100-amazing-kids-games ....

One example:
Mix 'n' Match 1.19 (scroll down a bit...)
http://cd.textfiles.com/psl/pslv5nv12/HTML/2GA.HTM

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:35 pm
by Quadko
Might start checking out a guess of FaceTris / Faces: http://www.mobygames.com/game/faces

Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 8:55 am
by wardrich
Soleausoft had a game sort of like this I think. It was called Facetrex:

<img src="http://img.squakenet.com/snapshot/14211 ... ceTrex.jpg">

Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 5:21 pm
by Wally
Ah Soleausoft.

<3

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 3:38 pm
by Guest
Oh thank you! That looks like the right game! I totally remembered the color scheme wrong. :P