Pengi
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Pengi is a game for the Acorn Electron personal computer.
Pengi is based on a video game called Pengo. A penguin (the player) is moving around in a maze made up of ice cubes and diamonds, and inhabited by bees. The penguin must collect all the diamonds while avoiding being stung by a bee or crushed by a cube. It can kill bees by kicking cubes at them. Bees can also kill the penguin by kicking cubes at it or stinging it. They move around in semi-random way: a bee may sometimes choose to get away from the penguin instead of chasing it. An ice cube can be pushed unless there is another cube adjacent to it in the direction it is pushed. Then it slips along until it hits a cube, a diamond or the border of the screen. Any animal met during its movement is crushed.
Therefore, the strategy usually followed by the player is clearly twofold: try to collect as many diamonds as possible while avoiding to be crushed by an ice cube or stung by a bee.
