You are on the beta version of My Abandonware. The live site is still myabandonware.com. Your favorites and ratings here are copied to the live site. Comments and other changes are not — we delete them every morning at 08:00 Paris time, when this site goes down for about an hour. Leave feedback through this link to Pastel (email required).

Search more than 30000 retro games
/ Genres / Strategy / Super GemZ

Super GemZ

DOS - 1992

Super Gem'Z is a fun puzzle game by Kaiko, a short-lived German developer who released several games for the Amiga before disbanding the company in 1993.

A mixture between Gem'X, Kaiko's previous game, and Bomberman, your goal in Super Gem'Z. Dozens of levels, power-ups, and colorful anime makes this a highly underrated classic. If you like the original Gem'X (on the Amiga only) or Bomberman, you will find Super Gem'Z a fun diversion. An interesting historical anecdote: this DOS version was never officially released, although it was ported in-house by Christoph Winkler (now a manager at VME) and a few friends.

Later on, VME used the idea in a Playstation game called Inspector Gadget: Maze Panic. Big thanks for T.R., webmaster of the Kaiko fansite, for sending us this very rare, unreleased puzzler. Two thumbs up, way up!

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

moonbug 01 Mar. 2015

From http://hol.abime.net/2186 :
"Never released. Amiga master was stolen from Kaiko at a Cologne computer fair in 1992 and Software 2000 refused to still publish it. There also exists a conversion for the PC; yet even this one has never been published.
(Source: Frank Matzke)"

But the Amiga game was "released" anyway (by somebody...) because you can download the ADFs from many places.

Game screenshots here:
http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=2858

0
Videogamer555 30 Jan. 2012

How did T.R. get the game? Stole it? Knew the people who worked there and talked them into giving him a "beta" copy? How did he get it?

0

No comment nor review for this game at the moment.

Comments posted on the beta are not kept. We delete them at 08:00 Paris time and they never reach the live site. Post on myabandonware.com if you want your comment to stay.

Downloads

DOS version
Game file
United Kingdom English
534 KB

Similar games

Mario's Game Gallery
4.5/5 - 445 votes
Mario's Game Gallery
DOS, Mac
1995
Super Nibbly
4.0/5 - 3 votes
Super Nibbly
DOS, Commodore 64, Amiga
1994
Super Password
4.5/5 - 23 votes
Super Password
DOS, Commodore 64
1988
Card Sharks
4.9/5 - 13 votes
Card Sharks
Commodore 64
1988
Archon: The Light and the Dark
4.5/5 - 62 votes
Archon: The Light and the Dark
PC Booter, Commodore 64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Apple II, FM-7, PC-88
1984