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Summary

Shockwave feels like a brain‑teaser wrapped in a sci‑fi suit. You’re dropped into maze‑like chambers littered with movable blocks, and the only tool at your disposal is a shockwave pistol that pushes the last block in a line rather than the one you hit. The trick is to chain the shockwave through adjacent blocks until a path opens, all while avoiding indestructible obstacles and timing your moves before the suit’s power drains. Fire‑ball enemies and wandering FireStars gnaw at your suit’s integrity, so each level becomes a race against a ticking clock that literally weakens your armor.

The game hides 50 crystal caches left by the extinct Tarian race, and a rival faction called the Rastons is constantly on your tail, adding pressure to solve each puzzle quickly. Bonus items like hourglasses, extra lives, and enemy‑freezers pop up, and you can even restart a maze if you dead‑end yourself. A three‑character password, seeded by the name you enter at the start, lets you pick up where you left off, and there’s a two‑player mode that swaps the single‑player challenge for an alternate set of levels. Though it never saw an official license, Shockwave’s quirky block‑pushing mechanics and relentless time pressure still make it a memorable, if imperfect, NES puzzle experience.

Storyline

In the NES title Shockwave, the player's goal is to collect every crystal scattered across the world, each one a relic of the long‑gone alien civilization known as the Tarians.