"Although Infogrames tright to make an action-packed battle for territory out of it, 7 Colors is simply a puzzle game riding along on the Tetris hype. Funnily enough, the game was also invented by a Russian, Dmitry Pashkov. The target is simple: try to gain control over the playing field, by filling all the diamonds with your color, before your opponent does it.
It's a turn-based game which can be played against a computer or against a human player. It can even be played over a LAN or a serial link to another computer (not tested). Each player gets to pick a color out of the available 7 (which is where the game gets its name from naturally) and all diamonds of that color adjacent to you own diamonds become yours. Then, all your diamonds are turned into the color you chose. Sounds confusing? Play it for 3 seconds and you know what I mean. If you manage to create a link between edges of the playing field, you conquer the entire enclosed space and gain lots of territory."
A blast from the ancient past, I only just discovered this little gem
after messing around with Poshu's Gaming Cockroach led me to look at Tetris clones and variants,
when I saw this one that allowed human competition over a LAN.
An example of a great implementation (in 1991) of a good game idea.
The unzipped executable run folder is only 222 KB!
If you can run DOSBOX then you may want to give this one a look.
