Die Türme von Hanoi

Die Türme von Hanoi is a 1989 Tower of Hanoi game by Nikolaus Heusler, published in 64'er Sonderheft #42.

This one is pretty good looking, and has quite a different style, with the dark coloration, than the others I've played. The animation is quick, and the pulsing from light to dark of the discs looked rather nice.

I did have one difficulty with it: GB64 lists it as controlled by keyboard, but it is really controlled by joystick in port 2. It took me some time to figure this out--I'd tried every key on the keyboard and used two different emulators before I realized that GB64's metadata was wrong. Let the player beware.

I really prefer using the keyboard to play these games; it's quicker to type the numbers than to select stacks with a joystick. The joystick controls in this one are much better than in Pyramidon, however, so it's not too bad. Die Türme von Hanoi gets points for its unique visual style, too, and I note that it has an automatic solver that can be used at any time to complete the puzzle.

Die Türme von Hanoi ranks along with Pharao's Super Nadeln as one of the best 'pure' (i.e. no plot or anything like that) implementations of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle. Still not something you'll want to spend much time on, but a worthy piece of software, all the same.

Comments

The author left a comment on this review at its old location (March 25, 2014 at 2:17 pm):

Thanks for your positive review of my game, programmed when I was young, in 1988, 26 years ago. Best regards from Munich (Germany), Nikolaus Heusler