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Great Deal

1991 · HectorSoft · Logic Puzzle · 1 player

About

Great Deal combines a pack of cards and Tetris. You must dispose of a 52-card pack(with joker) into a 5x5 well. At the end of the round, you get a bonus if all cards are cleared, and you lose points for each card not cleared. You also get a bonus for stoppage time remaining. Pushing one button shuffles you between four cards, and pushing the other lets you eat up any part of the two minutes' grace period the game awards you per level. You can use it to make sure you drop something in the right place, or to get an idea of what to move next. It's an innovative concept among early Tetris games, trading time for points, and given the potential complexity of the game, it offers a fair amount of relief without spoon feeding the player. Great deal gives you points for 3 suits in a row, or any straight, or 3 of a kind in a row or on a diagonal. You get big points for 4 or 5.

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Great Deal — Box front
Box front
Great Deal — Box back
Box back
Great Deal — Title screen
Title screen
Great Deal — Screenshot
Screenshot

Details

Developer
HectorSoft
Publisher
HectorSoft
Genre
Logic Puzzle
Players
1
Release Date
October 25, 1991
System
NES

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