#hal-laboratory

Adventures of Lolo (1989) — The Emerald Framer and the Single Solution

In 1989 HAL Laboratory released Adventures of Lolo on the NES, distilled from the 1985 MSX title Eggerland Mystery. On an 11x11 board, pushable framers and moving enemies converge on a single solution. I read this Sokoban-descended single-screen logic puzzle as a node in a long genealogy, one that codified its ideas well before the modern grid-puzzle wave.