#49
'Step-On-It!'
for the Macintosh personal computer released in 1996.
I bet no one here will have this game in their list. Better yet, I'd be surprised if anyone here even knows this game! It's not included in VGC's database and I couldn't even find the box-art anywhere on the internet (aside from the tumbnail-sized one on Wikipedia), so I had to make a picture of my own box. 'Step-On-It' is an obscure puzzle-platformer, where the objective is to get the key, and exit the level.
The player must do this by building and removing large blocks, on which they can jump and walk or with which they can trap hazards or block enemies. While the player's at it, he or she must also get as many coins, power-ups and other items as possible to the highest possible score. The game is the definition of niche, but it is based on a much more famous game on Nintendo's NES. That game was 'Solomon's Key'. The gameplay is the same, but 'Step-On-It!' sports a toy-box look instead of 'Solomon Key's' much darker dungeon-style look.
Contrary to it's toy-like exterior, the game is very challenging. I think it includes about a hundred different levels, but they get so hard that I've never even finished this game once. I even doubt I got close, as the farthest I got was somewhere between the 20th and 30th level. The player begins with three lives, and extra lives are rare, but when those lives are gone, it's "Game Over". Since the game is arcade-style high-score based, there's no saving, and no fooling around. Personally, while this wasn't nearly my first video-game ever, being released in 1996, this game was my first addiction. We'd spend hours upon hours trying to beat each other's high-scores.
#48 Hint
A little better known than my #50 and #49, this game from a famous franchise is one from the early series. Back when this franchise didn't yet have a spin-off that went on to become the best sold game on it's platform and back when they'd have a game involving pretty much everything. The game I'm looking for was actually not made by the developer itself, but by someone else. The developer of this famous franchise licenced this game at the request of that someone, and released it under it's own banner. Later, the lone-wolf went on to create a sequel to the game I'm looking for, which the new owners of the developers of that famous franchise, didn't want to licence anymore to instead focus on numerous editions of that spin-off.
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