Hodj 'n' Podj

Hodj 'n' Podj (1995)

by Boffo Games, Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Genres:Puzzle, Card & Board Game
Themes:Fantasy
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user avatar@Hakeshuuser avatar@Hakeshu
January 30, 2025
One of my favorites, had a magazine CD with the shareware version and played the hell outr of it. Years later I got a physical and complete version, loved it even more. A hidden gem that deserves more love.
user avatar@sapholiauser avatar@sapholia
February 05, 2025
I have fond memories of playing this game with my siblings. It's a hotseat two-player board game of sorts, in which you play twin princes Hodj and Podj, attempting to find and rescue the princesses Mish and Mosh. Each player searches for clues by traveling around the board on their turn and playing various minigames. I remember that a couple of the minigames taught me to play versions of mancala and Conway's Game of Life. Once a player found a clue, they had to look it up in the accompanying booklet (each prince had his own section with different clues, in order to keep the info from the other player), and could then go rescue the princesses and return for their reward -- unless the other player caught up to them and managed to wrest the princesses away in a head-to-head minigame, at which point the winning prince kicked the other prince in the shins* and scarpered. *according to the voiced narration... very important detail for my brain to remember, I'm sure
I loved playing this game as a kid. If I remember correctly there were 2 ways you could play the game. You could play a main mission of sorts, to where you had to save the princess, and it played like a board game, and to progress you had to win the games. A game within a game within a game. The other way to play was a free mode and you could select whatever game you wanted to play. There were 19 mini games total. There was Battleship, Mancala, and Cryptograms to name a couple. All the games were really fun and were based off themes. For example, the game of Simon Says is portrayed as an orchestra playing in an outside amphitheater, or Centipede, but you're an archer fighting off an army. I spent the most time on the scrambled image game putting the image back together, and I would try to go smaller and smaller. I would really like to be able to play this game again share it with my boys. They always ask about the games I played growing up and to have them be able to play them, and to have some amazing nostalgia, it would be nice to get this one up on GOG!
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