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Perestroika (also known as Toppler) is a Soviet video game released in 1990 by a small software developer called Locis (Nikita Skripkin, Aleksander Okrug and Dmitry Chikin, currently - Nikita online[1]) in 1990, and named after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of Perestroika. The music playing on the title screen is a Russian folk song "Dubinushka" from the 19th century.

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Perestroika
Developer(s)	Locis
Platform(s)	DOS Microsoft Windows
Release	1990
Genre(s)	Puzzle game
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

Its splash screen shows Gorbachev, where his character is stylized as his presence breaks the Kremlin, the seat of the Soviet government. The game consists of controlling a small frog-like creature which jumps from one lily pad to another, trying to reach a coin, symbolizing a higher standard of living.

The frog symbolizes a democrat and the lilies, symbolizing the ever-changing laws and acts, constantly shrink and disappear only to appear in other places. Player can collect dots in four colours, blue symbolizing grocery goods, red currency transactions, yellow taxes and brown business ventures. A currency transaction can sometimes add extra life, a tax reduces the score and a company can sometimes sink the figure. From the seventh level, the game also feature one or more evil creatures called "bureaucrats" which follow the frog and try to eat it. The frog dies if the lily pad on which it is standing disappears, if the player moves it to a place where there is no lily pad, or if it is caught by a bureaucrat.

Perestroika runs under DOS, it was written in Borland C++ using the Borland Graphics Interface and has a resolution of 640×350. It can be run on modern PCs with the emulator DOSBox.

Nikita Online released in 1995 a remake of this game for Windows 3.1x Toppler for Windows,[1] all gameplay remains the same, only on the title screen, instead of Gorbachev, a frog is displayed and the coin to advance to the next level has been replaced by a lily flower.

The frog itself and the second game name (which is mentioned in the file name toppler.exe) may be inspired by the Tower Toppler game.

Other versions

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

The game exists also in a version for computers Sinclair ZX Spectrum and compatible. It was programmed by a Czech programmer group GCC under a Czech variant of the name Perestrojka.[2] The producer was a company Proxima - Software, the game was published in 1992 as a part of compilation Mah Jongg.

Windows

In 2005, it was released a remake Toppler for Microsoft Windows by the Czech developer René Puschinger,[3] the coin was turned into a yellow star and black bureaucrats were added, which can be eaten.

Webbased

The game can be played online thanks to Javascript.[4] It also has several look-alikes in Javascript[5] and in Flash.[6]

Mobile based

This games also has few remakes for mobile smartphones, e.g. iPhones Perestroika Revival[7] (now unavailable), and for older Android phones Leap frog Toppler.[8]

References

External links

• Toppler can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive
• Perestroika at MobyGames
• NIKITA Toppler for Windows

На других языках

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[de] Perestroika (Computerspiel)

Perestroika (auch bekannt unter dem Namen Toppler) ist ein Computer-Geschicklichkeitsspiel von LocIS aus dem Jahr 1990 für DOS-PCs.

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- [en] Perestroika (video game)

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[ru] Perestroika

Perestroika (рус. Перестройка[к. 3]) — советская компьютерная игра, написанная Никитой Скрипкиным в 1989 году[5][6] и выпущенная кооперативом Locis в 1990 году[2]. Изначально игра была разработана для MS-DOS, а в 1995 году портирована на Windows[3].

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