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ClickBricks Elemenstor Cycle: The Videogame

The formula looked dire - a videogame based on a crappy toy based on a popular book series. It was an insane idea, one that everyone expected to fail. And yet, "ClickBricks Elemenstor Cycle" turned out to be an award-winning videogame, as reviewers noted: "Hey, this isn't crap. In fact, it's pretty good. How the hell did that happen? This isn't right. Black is white and up is down!"

The Game was made inhouse by the DPFMTG Co. for PCs, Macs, Amigas, Altairs, Crays and a proprietory DPFMTG Co. set-top box called the Deep Explorer. Critics claim the the Deep Explorer version is the most true to source material, although there is no way to back this up as the console itself was never released.

Many reviewers, after playing the game for several hours on the Deep Explorer, walked around backwards, tried to eat by vomiting, and were sometimes seen walking into closed doors repeatedly in a sort of daze.

Loosely based on the ClickBricks(TM) Elemenstrator Playset and Novella, the videogame allows 1-4 players to take control of characters in a Battal where everything is made up of brightly-colored toy blocks. Gameplay is simple but engaging, and an insane number of extras (such as unlocking playable block versions of Char Reyarteb or the Four Underdogs) keeps the game from getting stale.

The game loosely follows the plot and characters of the first six and a half books of Tycho Brahe's Elemenstor Cycle, albiet with a good deal of slapstick humor injected into it. A sequel covering the last six and a half (or seven, if they add book 13 and a half) books will follow on the X-Box 360.