Xonix
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Xonix | |
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Programmer(s) | Ilan Raab Dani Katz |
Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
Release | 1984 |
Genre(s) | Action |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Xonix is a video game written for MS-DOS compatible operating systems by Israeli programmers Ilan Raab and Dani Katz. It is similar in concept to Taito's 1982 arcade video game Qix. The objective is to fence off sections of a playfield while avoiding bouncing balls.
Legacy[edit]
Xonix was popular at the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, where Dmitry Pavlovsky, one of the original developers of Tetris, was a computer engineer. Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov wrote their own version of Xonix called Antix.[1] It was first developed for the Electronika 60 and then ported to MS-DOS by Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov.
In 2001, Russian studio Delico Games released AirXonix, a PC game based on Xonix.
References[edit]
- ^ Gerasimov, Vadim. Tetris Story.