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Repton Infinity (1988)

Duration: 5:45

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We move on at last to the second half of Robbo, which begins with a level that really puts the long into longplay. I've split it into two videos to make it easier to skip the boring part: just stop watching at 3:30 when I free up the toilet, and move straight on to the second part, because the rest of this video is just shunting discs and flushing them.

Getting the maximum score on this level is a tough challenge indeed, the main problem being a single square of grass, the one just left of two discs that I cut at 0:52. Cutting this grass requires putting one lawnmower temporarily out of commission instead of using it to free the one below it, so both are trapped until you get a lawnmower to the transporter that goes to the top of the level. The problem is then working out how to reach this transporter as quickly as possible.

I start by going down and pushing a lawnmower into the bottom transporter; this saves time, as it means I have more lawnmowers to hand when tackling this area, but is unessential, as it is possible to move this lawnmower into the transporter at any time.

Two lawnmowers are pushed to the extreme edges of the level. This may seem wasteful, but to reach the maximum score it must be done at some point (there being four squares of grass on each edge) and so it may as well be done as soon as possible, especially as doing so frees other lawnmowers.

At the end of this video, two cola machines remain blocked by grass on their east side, so their cans cannot be released (since Robbo needs to stand to the east to do so). This is not a problem, since I can clear this grass later when I use the last transporter to the top of the level. The cola machine in the top-right corner of the level is always impossible to free up (except by pushing two discs into the grass, but then you cannot get the maximum score) so I am ignoring this one.

The music for this video is the first movement of Beethoven's Fourteenth Piano Sonata.

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