Aargon Deluxe is a logical game with simple rules, but it's damn interesting. To solve the level, you have to make all coins spin by illuminating them with laser beams of corresponding colors. You can use mirrors, prisms, reflectors etc to do that - something like The Incredible Machine, but with colors and lights (see the attachment). There are 120 levels in total, divided into four categories - Normal, Caution, Danger and Overload, 30 levels each. Again, the game is very interesting, I believe Lisa would like it.

I liked this game a lot, and some time ago have finished it. Thankfully, some very nice people sent me the additional level packs, so I'm playing them now but the original game is complete, and I'm kinda proud of it. I kept making the screenshots of the solved levels, and now uploaded them all - like some kind of a completion guide. Here it is.

If you want to play this game
www.simps.net.ru/games/aargon.zip (7 Mb)

There are two files in the archive - Demo and Full. Install Demo first, then Full over it.

Casper
Whoa, a reply in my nerd-thread!
The whole game is there. Just find the "Deluxe" banner in the main menu, and click it twice.

About 2-3 years ago it was my favorite game
Now I play it sometimes when i've nothing to do...
But i've still passed only 2 levels (normal and caution)
Everyone should try it =)

Yay, somebody liked it!
No worries Matias, I'm glad Aargon "caught" you. It is a good game, after all.

*Bump*

Oh my, Deep Space Facility level pack seems to be very complex to me.
I solved two more levels from the "Engineering" section yesterday - was happy like a kid - but I still didn't complete neither Recreation nor Engineering (still have several levels to complete each). And I'm starting to give up because I spent about a week on each of them, and have to idea how to deal with them... sad...

mmaavv
Well, maybe I should, but I'm not... it's fun when you spend a week on each level and solve it after all, but when you don't, the game becomes very frustrating. So no, it appears to be above my skills. I'm not throwing it away yet though

Current DSF status: Training - 30/30, Recreation - 29/30, Engineering - 28/30, Intelligence - 1/30...

A month passed, but I didn't solve a single Aargon level since then... :/
Oh well. One friend suggested me another game with similar rules, and I quite liked it. It's called "Armadillo Run", and is interesting in it's own way. Basically, you also have to build a certain structure to lead a basketball (called Armadillo) to the exit point, but you aren't restricted with board cells anymore, and after starting the machine, it behaves very natural, like a real-life construction.
I can upload it somewhere, if anyone's interested.

Sure! Here's a link to the game: www.simps.net.ru/games/armadillorun.zip (2 Mb)
BTW, The Incredible Machine rules, too... I remember playing it several years ago - fun time

... I'm too busy playing the game to blame him 


(Seriously, thanks for uploading it Serge )

When I was a little kid, I used to play an old game about laser beams and mirrors installed on an old prehistoric computer, not even an IBM-compatible one. That game allowed to rotate the mirrrors more freely - in any of 360 degrees. It was fun, because you had to be careful not to burn something important on the map while adjusting the mirrors.
I've seen many mirror-and-beam logic games since then, but none of them alowed to rotate the mirrors in more than eight directions. Unfortunately, this one is no exception.
I guess I'll just have to wait a little longer:-)

Fulbert
I'm curious now... it wasn't easy to emulate free-rotated beams and mirrors on the old computers - especially non-8x86, because there wasn't any built-in floating point arithmetic. If you remember the name of the platform (i.e. Spectrum, Commodore) and the name of that game... it's quite possible to find both the game and the platform emulator, so maybe it's possible to play it again! I personally like playing old games on emulators from time to time. Right now my choice is Supaplex

Well, Korvet and ZXS aren't compatible... (I still remember Korvettes in the computer class in my school! Let's hope they have replaced them with something more decent during past years. ) But the game might be easily ported from one platform to another. After all, all personal computers worked the similar way those days.

Fulbert
Me?! Well, I can try to, but imho it's easier to find something more decent... Lightspeed, for instance
(Big thanks to SamuS for telling me about this game.)

Fulbert
It is definitely an interesting game, but it's shareware. That reduced my interest almost to zero - I completed all the demo levels, and what I'm supposed to do now? I'm not going to spend $20 on a game like that, it's a pure robbery imho. And from all the cracks I've managed to find around, nothing worked - which is weird keeping in mind that the last release of the game came out in 2004...

Update: Woohoo, just found a valid keygen! *feels like a Homer stealing the cable* :-)
Update 2: ...and completed it all in half an hour, d'oh! :/ Tell me about easy games...

I take my words back. "Hotter Than The Sun" isn't the easiest pack to play, some of its levels are damn complex!
Anyway, I'm proud to say that I completed several more levels from two latest packs.

Current DSF status: Training - 30/30, Recreation - 30/30, Engineering - 30/30, Intelligence - 16/30
Current HTTS status: 22/30

Just looking at the solutions makes my head hurt.... But i'll give it a try during one of these evenings!

Few days ago, I was browsing internet (wow ) and found something interesting... a brand new official level pack for Aargon:
http://www.twilightgames.com/lp3/lp3_info.htm
Unfortunately, it's not free. And I failed to find any "free analogues" across the net
Looks like the only way is to buy it. But the problem is, I still don't have a credit card and all payment ways allowed there aren't acceptable for me :/