| Shariki | |
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 Game screen. The Russian счет (sčot) means "score," while the green text at the bottom translates as "Program "Shariki". Author Zhenya Alemzhin. Write letters: [email protected]. Hello everyone!" | |
| Developer(s) | Eugene "Zhenya" Alemzhin |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, Windows |
| Release | 1994 |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Shariki (Russian: Ша́рики, "The Marbles") is a puzzle video game written in 1994 for MS-DOS by Russian developer Eugene Alemzhin. The goal of the game is to gain progressively higher scores by matching three or more balls of the same color in a line (vertical or horizontal), by swapping adjacent balls. Each swap must result in a match. Matched balls are then removed, and new ones drop from the top to fill the gaps. The game is over when no more matches are possible in the game field.