Last Call BBS (Game)

Last Call BBS

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Zachtronics' self-described last game, a collection of puzzle games themed around a fictional retro computing system.

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Overview

Released in early access on July 4, 2022 (soon followed by a full release on August 3, 2022), Last Call BBS is the self-described "last game" from puzzle game developer Zachtronics (although not long after they released a remastered solitaire collection.) The game presents players with the operating system of a "Z5 Powerlance", a fictional computer line from the 1990s. By default it contains a standard solitaire application, though players are able to dial into Last Call BBS to "download" additional games, with a 15-minute limit between downloading each game. As the player explores, they are presented with text files describing the hobbyist computing scene of the era.

Games

20th Century Food Court

Set in the far future, players are tasked with automating production of various 20th-century foods for a themed restaurant. Two views are shown, a wiring view and a building view. In the building view, players position machine parts and connect them via conveyor belts. In the wiring view, the player connects various input and output wires to determine the line's functionalities.

STEED FORCE Hobby Studio

A digital recreation of real-life plastic model building, themed around 1990s mecha anime. Players are presented with runners containing the necessary parts, and a construction manual with minimal, Japanese text, diagrams, and two potential color palettes. From there, pieces can be broken off with nippers, put together, painted with spray paint, and given decals.

X'BPGH: The Forbidden Path

A puzzle game centered around giving instruction to a flesh-seed in order to make different patterns of flesh and bone.

Sawayama Solitaire

A standard variant of klondike solitaire.

Dungeons & Diagrams

A dungeon-themed logic puzzle game. Players are presented with an 8x8 board containing monsters and treasure chests, and must determine where walls go in a given map. Numbers around the board indicate how many walls are in a row or column. Additionally, all monsters must have walls on all but one side, all open tiles must be connected by hallways, no dead ends can be made without monsters at the end, and treasure chests are always contained in 3x3 rooms with a single opening.

ChipWizard™ Professional

Presented as an actual chip-designing software, ChipWizard tasks the player with processing electrical input from one end of a chip to another using metal, transistors, and two different types of silicon (which can be combined into various logic gates.

HACK*MATCH

A pastiche of 1990s arcade games, and an expanded version of a minigame from Exapunks. HACK*MATCH is centered around creating groups of four or more like-colored tiles. Damage is dealt by creating a group with more than four tiles (in which case every extra tile deals damage) or creating a chain (in which case every match after the first deals damage.) Bombs will sometimes spawn in place of a normal tile. When two similar-colored bombs are combined, all tiles of that color are cleared from the board. Periodically, opponents will use a special move turning some of the player's board into junk tiles, which must be broken by creating a match adjacent to them. There are four enemies in total:

Blankaister - Turns random tiles into trash.
Ivy S++ - Turns a random column of tiles into trash.
Engineedler - Pushes the board forward a few tiles, generating a wall of trash in place of the upcoming tiles.
9-Exa Nina - Replaces the entire board with trash (with the exception of bombs.)

Kabufuda Solitaire

A modified version of solitaire. Instead of using a traditional poker deck, kabufuda cards are used. The object of the game is to stack four like-cards in a pile, and place them at the bottom of a slot.

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