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    Yolanda: The Ultimate Challenge

    Game » consists of 2 releases. Released 1990

    A notoriously difficult platformer for Amiga and Atari ST.

    mindsump's Yolanda: The Ultimate Challenge (3.5" disk release) (Atari ST) review

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    Agonising Addiction

    Yolanda is an updated version of Hercules on the Commodore 64. In fact, it's identical in every way except for the female lead and the far superior graphics. The game itself is massively difficult, and relies on you memorising the levels and recognising each of them instantly in order to make the correct move to escape your starting possition bursting into flames. If you hesitate, you are dead. This is made more difficult because each level is selected at random, so you don't get a chance to retry until the next time the level is randomly selected.

    It's hard. Very hard. Once you have learnt the level, you'll still die, but it will be entirely your fault. It weirdly fair like that; even though your first attempts at each level will be a mystery of disappearing platforms, platforms that burst into flames, and leaps of faith onto platforms that will appear when you touch them.

    it may be mild Stockholm Syndrome, but this is one of my favorite games which I had for the Atari ST, as Hercules was one of my favorite games on the Commodore 64. It hurt me bad, but I love it anyway.

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